Unfortunately I haven't found a way to turn off midi input when a channel is selected, so this is the workaround which means that none of the channels will be selected while playing. The input port is '-' by default, meaning that it'll only be played when selected.įinally, create a new 'blank' channel (FL Studio by default makes this a sampler it doesn't matter at all) and select it. Then, for each instrument, go into the central settings menu and select the port you want the instrument to be controlled by.

I chose 1, 2 and 3 for my two keyboards (bass and piano) and drumpad (studio drum kit) respectively. The first thing to do is to make sure each MIDI input device is mapped to a different port. The docs are a little confusing and (while they did set me on the right track) didn't tell me the full story. It's pretty easy to do in Reason - 'lock controller to device' or something equally intuitive - but FL Studio didn't make it quite as easy. Jean-Michelle Jarre would feel at home here.

I have a couple of keyboard controllers (Panorama P4, Yamaha P35) and a mini drumpad (Korg Nanopad2), and today I wanted to map each controller to different instruments in FL Studio for a live session.

Midi controller fl studio