Has anyone had any success routing an ext audio input into A2600 via FL Studio? I’ve tried using both patcher and sidechain and for whatever reason, no joy at all… the 2600 manual seems to assume this ‘just works’ but is baffling me. No online searching seems to wield an answer. This is v3 BTW… no tag seems to match this.
Many thanks,
Peter
Hi @musicbox ,
I don’t use FL Studio.
Not many info to go about. Some images might help.
Do you use VST3 format?
Do you route the audio input signal inside ARP 2600?
Yes, VST3… the routing is the issue: in theory with FL Studio’s patcher (essentially a virtual modular system) I am daisychaining the 2600 between an audio input and routing back through to the mixer, but the 2600 is not seeing the input.
Having watched the following video i’m not sure FL Studio support to send Audio to instruments.
EDIT: This Arturia FAQ seem to support that FL STudio can sidechain audio to instruments.
https://support.arturia.com/hc/en-us/articles/4405748097554-Vocoder-V-DAW-compatibility - EDIT END
Yes, it’s not looking good - thank you LBH for your tangential thinking on this and going down the Vocoder route. Sadly in that link, FL Studio is included in Arturia’s non-compatible list so I am not hopeful I can route audio in the way I was hoping, but I will explore further this weekend.
I know I can route audio into Cherry Audio’s CA2600 in FL (my guitar, for a Who cover).
In that case, I used the CA2600 FX plugin (i.e. not the instrument/‘generator’ plugin) in an fx slot in the FL mixer, and simply routed the input to that mixer track.
I’m away from home at the moment but I’ll try the Arturia 2600 with external audio when I get back.
Thanks - I did try routing the 2600 via the FX slots, but FL Studio only seems to see it as an Instrument, so seemingly non-routable that way. I’m far from an FL Studio guru however, so there may be some incredibly obvious means of achieving this I’m not quite seeing.
I’m on Producer Edition v25.1.3.
Hello Pierre @musicbox ,
I regularly follow the Rc in FL Studio and there’s been a lot of feedback.
I have the latest version 21.1.5.4975, but I’m starting to abandon FL Studio to focus on Cubase Pro, more geared towards cinematic music (although I remain loyal to Image Line).
Have you highlighted your problem on the FL Forum?
It’s true that using Arturia virtual instruments on this DAW is fairly recent for me, at least, so this causes some configuration issues for some people when the instruments are a little more complex to use (hoping I’m not mistaken about the instrument you’re referring to, ARP2600 V).
I think this is related to the DAW, and the Image Line team will be very attentive to your problem.
Keep us informed; it will certainly help us if we encounter this type of problem.
Good luck. .
Musical Friendship.
Yes, I have to say I have come to much the same conclusions and I too have begun to slide over to Cubase Pro which for me ‘just works’ with the Arturia kit (both hardware and software) whereas FL Studio is an ongoing battle. As an instance, directly controlling any of my Arturia VSTs from my Keylab 61 mk3 in FL Studio is essentially impossible (this is after some backwards and forwards with Arturia tech support), whereas in Cubase it all works flawlessly as it should.
Crucially, I’ve also been playing around properly with Cubase 14 and I’m hugely impressed - the modulators alone feel a bit of a gamechanger. FL Studio definitely has its place and its pattern/rack-based workflow does make you think a little differently, but it all feels much more intuitive within Cubase - sidechaining the ARP to an audio source took probably three clicks.
I couldn’t see a way to get audio input into ARP2600V in FL Studio either. At least not without sending it out to the standalone instrument.
As you say, FL Studio is great at quite a few things but routing isn’t one of its strong points. That’s why I also have Cubase and Reaper.
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