How To Create an Orchestral Template in FL Studio - The Definitive Guide 

DOWNLOAD MY TEMPLATES ON PATREON: -> www.patreon.com/posts/16916572 Timestamps: - 00:49 - When To Use Templates - 03:06 - Routing Kontakt - 17:08 - Organizing the Mixer - 20:01 - Setting up Reverb - 27:13 - Managing The Playlist

From the bottom of my heart I’d like to thank you for sharing this knowledge. Now I have just got a whole lot of hours to meticulously program every library I have to compose classical music. This was eye opening! Wish you a successful and productive new year! Keep up the good tutorials! Chris.

took 15 hours to make a template but now im ready to go!

Thank you so much, Alex. You have no idea how much that means for fairly new composers like me. I really, really appreciate it and love your passion about this whole genre. You're a great person.

I know you gave up on this channel but this is the most important video on the internet for music composers. Even today... Thank you

words fail to adequately describe how fucking incredible you are for making this

After years, your videos are still changing lifes! Thank you for your work Sir!

Guys, in case you as well were not able to connect each channel to separate Mixer track, you might want to check the article from native instruments, their explanation helped me! Just search in the search engine: "How to Create Multiple Outputs in KONTAKT and Route Them to a DAW", worked for me immediately!

Could never figure how to send individual midi out channels to their own mix channel. Now I know Thanks mate. Great channel

Kontact has a dropdown menu in the mixer that will automatically route all loaded instruments into their own channel. dont know if this is a new feature since i just downloaded kontact but just an FYI for everyone. Thanks Alex for this very helpful video.

9:17 I'm studying orchestras while watching videos. Do i have to bring in all the instruments and use the BBC orchestra symphony? Can only Kontak save RAM and cpu like this?

Briliant tutorial (as always). Quick question to you (or anyone) - I am routing all my instruments to BRSO articulate as instructed. But my mod wheel does not automatically set up for each instrument. I have to individual link to controller for every instant. And as soon as I do that, it cancels the link to all the other instruments. Trying everything to fix it (sure there is an easy fix) - anyone have any ideas so that the mod wheel will automatically be selected for all instruments ?

Dear Alex Moukala, I dont know how to create the kontakt 16out Would appreciate if you could help me.

lmao is that the usual Memory usage for orchesral thing? 😂 and I though 2 GB i reached once were ptoof i was bad

Can someone explain to me how I get the «kontakt 6 16out» to appear in the dropdown menu? I only get «kontakt 6» to appear. Thanks in advance!

Why did you double up your instruments?

ALEX MOUKALA for president !

Is it possible to control the dynamics of different articulations played at the same time while using a multi articulation instrument? Suppose I'm playing Sustain and Temolo on high strings multi instrument, will I be able to control the dynamics of both these articulations separately? Can mod wheel be used distinctively for each articulation?

EXTREMELY HELPFUL! Very glad I took the time to follow this and make the template. Will make my work flow 10x faster for my orchestral music!

Thank you so much for this video, I'm getting into orchestration in FL Studio and I've been looking on how to articulate the velocity of single notes. I found much more useful information than I hoped by going from one of your videos to another. It's a good thing that you mention your other videos and have link to them in the description. Thanks again and, keep rocking in the free world \m/

Hi again, there's a way to add more than 103 faders on FL STUDIO?

Hi, malwarebyte telles me there's a trojan on your website when I want to head over there...

Thanks bro. This really helped!

Hey Alex I recently starting composing music again and I knew I had to create a template and found this video instantly as I had watched this in the past but didn't really make the effort to make an orchestral template. I finally made it and wanted to give you a huge thanks! Not only for this video but countless other tutorials you have made for aspiring composers :)

It took me about 6 hours to make my template but now I'm really comfortable with it.

Ive been literally kiling myself trying to link my keyboard modewheel to BRSO articulation, but there is no way I am manage to do that. PLease anyone help me haha

I needed this tutorial so much, thanks a lot !

As someone who's been working with FL studio for a while now, This is like super useful. For a beginner maybe a little confusing but if you have worked for a few months you have come across at least a few of these problems. For me personally 90 percent of what you said here was brand new and practical. Thanks!

Thank you for this video man, love how much you share of your knowledge. but jesus you talk so fast, haha.. if you can, slow down a bit so we don't have to pause and rewind the video 100 times :D haha. Great stuff

Thank you so much, Alex! I just discovered you after Image-Line's Facebook page shared your "Pirates of the Caribbean" medley. You're so talented, and I'm going to binge watch all of your videos and learn! Thanks, Alex!

How did he clone the channel do you know?? He clicked something on his keyboard then it cloned it. I am new to fl studio ): I have been looking everywhere Alex do you have a shortcuts video like key shortcuts

Hi, do you know how to do this in 2024? FL Studio 21, KONTAKT 7 and BRSO Articulate look very different, almost beyond recognition... Great organization tho! I'm hoping to get this setup to work somehow.

Incredible video man thanks a ton 😄 keep up with your amazing work!

Does somebody know why cant I control more than 1 kontakt patch using my mod wheel? It only controls the first one...

I've got to ask dude, what are the benefits of doubling up each instrument? Is it just for composing multiple lines/melodies using the same instrument but keeping them seperate?

Too much work. If it were Cubase it'd've taken 5 minutes just to setup the template basics.

Where was this tutorial 5 years ago? THANK YOU so much!!!

Thanks for your work and guide, I just wish the kontakt channels and some of the rest would be in a Cubase tutorial. In Cubase I can't find the way to make in Kontakt the channels like you did.

I actually can't believe I've been doing music for like 12 years and it took this video to explain to me why the fuck my reverb always sounds wrong. What a fucking epiphany.

Thanks man. Absolute legend. doing gods work.

Man I watch so much stuff on a multi outputs and east west and native Instruments and trying to get multiple instruments in one instance. Let's say I got three instances of opus open, and I have 10 patches in each. Doesn't really matter what... If I'm using the mod wheel to control the expression/dynamics, how do I get it to only control the third patch in the second instance while I'm messing around with that while the other music is playing? Because it seems to me like every time I start setting up one instance with a bunch of midi channels patches. Or I can't get anything but the first midi channel to work.

what keyboard model do you recommend with fl studio? are the studiologic sl88 studio a good choice ? Is a hammer action keybed mandatory ? thanks

Hey Alex, Why do you have a Wet Signal next to your master ? Are all the effects routed here ? And where in the mixer section do you have all your effects I can't see them :p Thanks !

in case someone is using a newer version of Kontakt and needs help with the 16 outputs part, i found a video that covers it up : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2QOZpiOynMo.html

Alex how can i record the Mod Wheel in real time with my piano midi keyboard, the BRSO articulate dont recognise the mod in the piano only the keys

Kontakt 16 out is not showing up for me. This video is quite old now so is there another way? I'm using Kontakt 6 free version i believe. I think i found a way to add more outputs but i dont know if it is correct.

your kontakt says 5 and 5 16out but mine is just kontakt. what does this mean? I downloaded kontakt a few months ago and I'm not sure why it is needed for this. Can someone explain these two questions or provide me with the resources to learn? thanks

Thank you! You taught me a lot more than paid courses!

How to install kontakt 5 16out?? Can someone help with tis!!

I come back a lot to your tutorials. Thank you very much :D

Great video, got a lot of stuff with you, just thanks dude.

How am I going to use my template if it takes 12gb of RAM without a single note and every sample purged? How du you guys manage it? I got 16 gigs of RAM.

Hey alex do you usally turn off reverb in the libraries since you have already have a reverb send ?

Hi, have u made a video about what you are talking about at 33:15? and so yes, could u direct me to that one? Thank u!

thanks a lot for your vidéos , any of you guys know how to download kontakt 5 16out ? do you know if there is 16out on kontakt 6 ?

i didnt have any kontakt lib. i have only ew hollywood orchestra with play. is it possible to make the same template with ew libs??? and Best service Engine. sry for my bad english

alex you are savior my man god bless you and your familly

Can I load EastWood instruments to Kontakt?

Alex can you do a tutorial about buildups and transitioning in the future? My transitions sound weak and don't really bring the track forward so a tutorial from you would help alot.

The good news is I can get all of this set up in Kontakt 7, but the mixer has sent all of the strings volumes all over the place. One was sitting on 12 (from the same starting point Track 5) and then the other is 54. I've only sent them out one number apart. Why would it jump that far? My Mixer doesn't condense everything stereo into the same track after mixing assigning them to each track. I'm not sure what happened. I'm using the same steps he's taking.

Alex, I have made a template like this, however, I removed all the instruments so that it's just 9 empty instances of Kontakt that have all the midi routing set up so I can just quickly drag and drop instruments I want to use. However, everytime I drag an instrument into the kontakt instances, my FL Studio crashes. I'm only using 2000mb of memory and hardly any of my CPU is being used according to task manager. Any ideas what might be the problem?

What kind of king are you! xD

Thank you!!!!! You helped me a lot!

I plan to watch ITCH video. ;)

PERFECT TIMING! HOLY GUACAMOLE! THANK U SO MUCH!

thank you for sharing

dude, you have changed my life with these videos, especially this one! I've copied your template verbatim. I've had a problem with my midi keyboard freaking out with all the instances of BRS, Kontakt etc.. and it makes the notes hang when i play the keyboard, its like there's too much midi information and the whole combination makes freaks out. Anyways, i'm sure you may have had this question a lot, but i haven't been able to map the pitch wheel in BRS, its not a CC, the only way i can get the pitch wheel to work is if i have one instance of kontakt open and just have one patch. but at soon as i had BRS as the midi output/input, no mod wheel. I've heard there is a common problem with pitch wheel and Fruity loops/midi keyboards, but FL havent addressed it. has this happened to you? I have a cheap 100 dollar 61key midi keyboard, it might be the problem interfacing with FL. but i have no idea, theres not much information out. I thought maybe you would have come across this issue. Peace to you my friend, thank you so much for your content, you truly are inspiring

Do you have a template of Opus?

can we use this in kontakt 7

What channels do u dock to the left?

Thank you Alex!

This video is beautiful.

Hello, when i set up BRSO Articulate with my kontakt library without any controller, i hear fl keys layered sound with kontakt library sound. Why it's happening ? Please help me!

your channel saved meee

Awesome! Thanks Alex!!!!!!

Alex ti amo. Sei il mio salvatore!

THE Saving Ram thing is dope bro!

There was a horrible memory leak with windows 10 using 39% of my memory of 32GB of ram (which was shitty because none of background stuff that's on windows dosen't add to that much like wtf i found a way to fix) then compared loading kontakt in bitwig and fl studio 20 and theres a big difference (i find it weird) that fl studio it takes much less ram to have kontakt than bitwig so looks like i'll be scoring in Fl Studio :P so finding this video really useful! Thanks for all your videos i always had a interest in making fantasy music, i can have more freedom with melodies, using real instruments and not force to use synths etc making electronic music D:

dude. thank you so much.

please help, i cant add more than 16 channel on midi out, but i have more than 16 instrument, what do i do? please help

YOU ARE GOD!!!!!!!!!

Thank you sir

Very helpful!!

Hi, don't you know, how can i automate modulation/dynamics in ableton? I am using Berlin Orchestra Inspire.

Just did this for Session Stings but the last two outputs spit into TWO mixer tracks for some reason. Any ideas?

Many thanks

Could you give me a list of all the plugins used in this video, including the ones in kontakt player please.

Thank you for the video!!! Really EPIC tutorial! By the way BRSO Articulate can make you a lot of articulations, but FL Studio Piano Roll can handle only 16 colors. Is there a way to use more colors in Piano Roll?

Scusa ti posso fare una domanda cretina, io uso per ogni suono una diversa istanza di kontakt piuttosto che usare un unico kontakt multitimbrico x per più suoni, non riesco a vedere la convenienza di questo modo di gestire i suoni

Alex, I've been following your videos for years through like 3 youtube accounts. Your a great teacher, so much so that I've been able to sell some of my music. Just wanted to show appreciation. Thanks

Olá como vai ? uma pergunta que pode parecer besta, mas como que vc mudou vários canais selecionados no minuto 17:09 ? desde já agradeço !

Awesome. It is a very practical tutorial. Thank you for upload this tutorial video.

Your videos help a lot...thanx😊😊

Hey! Noob Question. How can I dock the "Channel Rack" to the left of the screen?

Do you still purge all the articulations or do you use different midi channels in BRSO articulate?

And why do you need like 4 different basses? Because you don‘t play like chords with them or something? Just curious :D

this is awesome thanks! I would like to use my M32 and Maschine Mikro with Maschine 2 and Kontakt, recording in FL studio. Should I launch an instance of Kontakt inside Maschine 2 inside FL studio, or should I record everything in Maschine standalone (with kontakt instance in for VSTs) and then send the whole thing to FL studio for proper editing? thx in advace.

This was so fucking helpful! Thank you very much. Now I have my own structured Template! You are inspiring me every day! :)

Hello Alex, How are you? I decided to try the VST plugin BRSO Articulate, but faced a problem when trying to run the plugin error "Something went wrong loading the vst plugin", please tell me, maybe you have already encountered such a problem, and if so, how did you solve it, I use the 11 version of FL Studio. Thank you!

Very well and through explanation , m soo glad to find this tutorial. Thank you!