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Using Natural Drums in FL Studio

 

Please use the VST3 of Natural Drums in FL Studio as the AU version has an issue with looping.

Using Natural Drums as a Virtual Instrument

Add N-Drums as a new instrument track by either dragging it from the plugin browser onto your channel rack, or via the Add > Other plugins… menu at the top of the window.

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Using Natural Drums as a MIDI FX

FL Studio does not host MIDI FX plugins in a conventional way, but a workaround can be applied. 

1. Once you have rescanned your plugin list, find N-Drums MIDIFX and change its type to Effect

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2. Create a new track using your 3rd party plugin of choice, and insert N-Drums MIDIFX as an effect insert on that channel by dragging and dropping 

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3. Go to the settings (the cog icon on the top left) of this instance of N-Drums

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4. Change the MIDI Output port to a value of your choice 

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5. In the same settings page of your 3rd party instrument plugin, change the Input port to the same value as the N-Drums Output port

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6. Natural Drums will now stream midi into this plugin when FL Studio is playing