FL Studio & Ableton Workshop – DAC

The Digital Audio Collective hosted its first workshop at WSU — a hands-on intro to the two most-used DAWs in the club: FL Studio and Ableton Live. Everett Weeks and Mikey Grund led the FL Studio session, walking through the workflow, piano roll, and mixer fundamentals. Gabe Heinrichs led the Ableton Live session, covering session view, arrangement view, and how to start building a track from scratch. Workshops like this are part of what DAC is about — building a space at WSU where students who love music production can learn from each other, share ideas, and grow as artists. We'll be running more of these throughout the semester covering different DAWs, techniques, and gear. If you're a WSU student interested in music production, audio engineering, or sound design, come say hi. We meet Thursdays at 4:15 PM in the Dimensions Lab (Holland Library, Room 120). Chapters: 00:00 Workshop Introduction 02:05 Introduction to FL Studio 03:18 FL Studio Basics 06:48 Playback Controls 07:25 Window Controls 08:11 Playlist 08:39 Piano Roll 09:09 Channel Rack 10:23 Mixer 10:48 Browser 11:14 Building Out a Track 32:50 Questions 33:34 Beat Making Process Speedrun 53:20 Questions 56:17 The Last Show Plug 56:59 Introduction to Ableton Live 57:54 Session View 58:13 Arrangement View 58:34 Playback Controls 58:56 Tools 1:00:00 Menu Bar 1:01:24 Browser 1:02:20 Beat Making Basics 1:27:11 Beat Preview 1:30:00 Beat Breakdown 1:49:35 Free Sample Pack 1:51:38 Outro #musicproduction #flstudio #ableton #wsu #digitalaudiocollective