In FL Studio Piano Roll, there’s this very handy little feature called Stretch Handle. With it you can quickly ‘stretch’ your notes to make them fit to time. It comes very useful when you have a group of notes and you want to make them longer or shorter. For eg. if you have a group or sequence of notes and you want to make them all eg. twice as long (or shorter), just drag them with the Stretch Handle – no need to edit the notes one-by-one.

I’ve also found it very useful with live recordings as sometimes I want to record melodies to Piano Roll live with my MIDI keyboard without metronome or drum beat (just to detach myself from that 4-to-the-floor-machine-like-playing) and it’s a real savior when I want to make the recorded notes fit to time afterwards.

This is how you use the Stretch Handle:

Time Stretching In Fl Studio

Fl Studio 20 Time Stretching

FL Studio Pitch Automation. FL Studio has a very versatile and intuitive automation system. Almost any knob, slider, button, or fader available in the user interface can be controlled and programmed to do things automatically without the user actively engaged. An instrument’s pitch is one of the more commonly used parameters for automation. Time-stretching your sample to your project Time-stretching the samples you have used in Edison is arguably the most enjoyable and rewarding process, especially for remixers and mash-up producers. This doesn't - Selection from FL Studio Cookbook Book. Time Stretch FL Studio 20 Get Your Samples to Fit the Tempo in your track, Il show you how to time stretch and detect the tempo of samples your unsure of.

In the Piano Roll, select some notes and when you do that, a little ‘circle’ appears after the selected notes. Left click and drag to stretch the selection. If you hold ALT while dragging, they notes will automatically snap to grid according to your snap-to-grid -settings.

That’s it. Very handy indeed 🙂

Fl Studio Disable Time Stretching

Here’s a video: