Steps for using Live as a ReWire host to FL Studio (Fruity Loops) slave.

1. If open, close both Live and FL Studio
2. Open Live
3. From the View menu make sure “In / Out” is checked.
4. In Session View (the one that looks like a mixer) select FL Studio from the Input Type drop down. (View sceen image.)
5. Turn monitoring on, it’s the little headphone icon.(View screen image)
6. Call up FL Studio
7. Load a project (or if you are just testing get any instrument into the Step Sequencer and tick off a couple of notes).
8. Hit “Play” in Live.
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If you have external MIDI controller(s) you should use a software MIDI router. We recommend MIDI OX/Yoke. Do the following:

1. In MIDI-OX: From the “Options” menu select “MIDI Devices…”
2. Select two output devices (view image) and your keyboard/controller device as Input. The result should look something like this.
3. In Live: From the “Options” menu select “Preferences…” and select the “MIDISync” tab.
4. Select the “Yoke NT: 1″ device as input (view image).
5. In FL Studio: From the “Options” menu select “MIDI Settings”
6. Under “Remote control input’ select the “Yoke NT: 2″ device (view image) and close that dialog.
7. From the “Options” menu select “Enable MIDI remote control.”

This last step is required because FL Studio defaults to factory settings when in slave mode. (Why????)

Eventually you will want to route FL mixer channels into Live channels. For that you want to align the “Input Channel” setting in Live to the “Out” field in FL studio. (Massive image here.) Make sure not to confuse FX 3 with FL 3 when selecting an out in FL’s mixer.

Also remember that you are working in two separate projects. You need to save your Live work to a Set and your FL project to a .flp file. When you reload the Set, you’ll have to manually reload the .flp file.