How To Fix FL Studio Crashes

[@inthemix]

▶Get My Sound Bank Here (On sale for one more week only!): bit.ly/inthemixstore 1:45 - Let projects load without clicking anything 2:15 - Watch the CPU Meter! 2:45 - Set a Project Folder for each new track or song 3:55 - Save zipped backups every day 4:30 - Clear your drives 5:40 - Disable mastering effects 6:15 - Prioritise your Channel rack 6:45 - More audio and fewer plugins 9:08 - Use stock plugins and troubleshoot 3rd party plugins 10:40 - Fixing buggy plugins 11:25 - Sound card settings 12:50 - Stop playback before loading anything 13:18 - Join LoopTalk forum (official FL Studio Forum): forum.image-line.com

[@cbspydoge]

Thx

[@cosmicghost07]

you are absolutely awesome bro.!!

[@alexandrua5596]

This is one of the reasons I swiched to another DAW! I have been working for more than ten years in FL Studio and I was forced to make Even 3 copies of my projects to be sure! I swiched to a much stable DAW and for over more than 2 years I didn’t have one crash! I will never go back! Bless you for what you are doing! Cheers!

[@SKMPMusic]

Hey, When I close a big project file it says-Not Responding(Nothing happens tho). just after I click on close, it closes(no damages on project file). But why and how to fix it?

[@mariabr8954]

I know this is not relevant to this video; but could you make a video on making drum patterns?

[@KVBA]

Fun fact: if you are new to FL Studio and it crashes, you're considered a true FL Studio user.

[@heliumsession7461]

This guy is in the illuminati

[@thecannyking8906]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@DiscoRaven16]

Coool

[@SweeperFilms]

i literally just started today and it crashed, yay

[@dxsirxvlogs189]

Amen

[@ZapR21]

Bruhh no joke I had Fl-studio crash, I open KZbin and I see this video hahaha

Same here :-D lol

[@Skizodubz]

wtf :| same

[@user-lt2rw5nr9s]

6:38 Tools>Macros>Select Unused Channels There are some good macros in there for optimization.

[@orchidmind]

Mac and cheese?

[@Taurex]

Why am I watching a video on how to fix FL Studio crashes when I don’t even use FL? I guess I just really like your videos...

[@Low_violin]

Aaagh!! I have a client coming to my (home) studio today to record vocals and my FL studio was crashing just when you uploaded!!! You've just saved my life (again) saludos desde Guatemala!!! 🇬🇹

[@cumulocris6629]

Words can't even express how useful this is to all FL users, thank you! 😂🧡

[@jordankoiner353]

I cant tell you how hard I relate to that thumbnail

[@dinosaur_monkey]

So hard

[@EPsoundsEst2K17]

accurate

[@JTFuller]

This young man is extremely on it. Great job young man. I use Logic but I love the way you explain things and I have learned some techniques from you too.. Excellent work.

[@LIROELQBREGA]

Even with crashes, Fruity is the best software of all time PERIOD!

[@tredfxman]

Really? The most illogical also? Try Bitwig 3 & well see what takes the cake on best interface on ANY DAW on this planet! Best because its the fastest & smartest to work in. 👍

[@trollingisasport]

@@tredfxman I am Bitwig and I approve this message.

[@NupoorMaharaj]

Dirk Diggler is it free?

[@seankelly816]

I have been a fan and faithful watcher of your videos and tonight this one saved me with Analog Lab V crashing on any automations. Disabling the automation track showed this was the cause and the "Make Bridged" trick solved the problem perfectly. Keep up the amazing work, music and channel!

[@RosieSapphireMusic]

I've noticed that for a lot of your videos, whenever you speak, there's this weird rattling noise. I noticed it for a long time, but only now have I zoned in on it and it's really weird. Do you know what's causing that issue?

[@inthemix]

KZbin compression. I can only export at 16 bit dithered output from Davinci resolve unfortunately. I believe it's a KZbin issue because I don't hear it on my system until I'm listening on my phone on KZbin. It's very frustrating. Even all the colour grading and editing I do doesn't look good when uploaded to KZbin. Being totally honest KZbin have not treated me well as a creator and I can't even talk to one real human about any issues I have with the platform!

[@RosieSapphireMusic]

@@inthemix You and everybody else on this platform, my dude... For my Snow Halation remix video, the video took 3 days to render, but by the time it gets on KZbin, there's all these artifacts and stuff.

[@inthemix]

@@RosieSapphireMusic man I relate to that so much! Some songs I've uploaded sound so different on KZbin! It's got it's own sound that's for sure :(

[@awoltv6499]

Ita because hes actually an ai bot or an alien

[@RosieSapphireMusic]

@@awoltv6499 That's actually funny to think, but he explained the reason to me pretty well. uwu

[@GeeFunktion]

At the moment Fabfilter Plugins cause Crashes to my FL Studio. Don't know why. These were always stable in the Past.

[@flipsergio2985]

Check this out I run Logic Pro on a 2012 MacBook Pro 💻 i7 and can run well over 40 different plugins at once with no crash ever, I can leave it on the entire day and come home at night and works perfect. I got tired of fl’s crashes and got something better and more reliable 💯

[@derrickwayne4627]

This is why I love you lol all the tutorials were saying the same thing “dur dur use the diagnostic tool” but someone having alot of crashes already figured that out just to save their projects but it doesn’t fix the actual issue, I will try to adjust the plugin settings because unfortunately several of my favorite plugins are crashing FL constantly after updating to FL 21

[@joshuagiles808]

The timing for this is perfect! I definitely needed a video like this! I've tried some of these tips, but there's a few I haven't tried yet! Thanks!

[@AbhayRajan]

I was mixing a track while watching this video and my fl crashed 😂

[@xr_xharprazoraxtra5428]

just in time ~

[@JENi-vx3yn]

I had cracked version of FL Studio 11 like 6 years and it didn't crash. 2 months ago i got FL Studio 20.5 real version as a birthday present and it has already crashed 5 or 6 times. smh. (edit: version)

[@awoltv6499]

Yeah wtf is 13

[@awoltv6499]

A virus?

[@AshishSharma-021]

Lmao

[@JENi-vx3yn]

@Anand Shah sry, my bad. it was 11.

[@syntheticklang]

But I think the „real“ crashes cam with the 20-version!

[@biged3175]

It was your tip at 12:04 onwards that helped me. It was the reason I'm here. The audio interface driver is great for the least latency but it crashes everytime I go to mix or master a big hefty track even with the buffer set up to max. After your tip I switched over to the ASIO4ALL driver with a high buffer and there are no more crashes where they once used to be. Edit: I used the FL Asio driver and there's no more crashes or lagging what-so-ever. I can finally somewhat rely on it from now on! Thanking you so much bro!

[@1GStain]

Yoo.. I can't thank you enough.. all your posts that I've watched, I'm more than grateful..

[@danioxel]

FL Studio is a unstable crash circus. Moved on to Ableton and Studio One, never looked back.

[@LIROELQBREGA]

Yesterday I had a crash thankfully I press Command S every time I lay down something worth saving which is like every 5 min. Fruity Loops is the most amazing software of all time PERIOD!

[@djstapler]

I am by no means a computer expert, but some of the advice he gave in the beginning applies to almost anything. When something's loading up, the cpu is doing it's best to figure everything out. Clicking around, typing on the keyboard, and moving your mouse is giving your computer more stuff to sift through, and can sometimes overload it.

[@quariusmusic]

Holy SHit Most of these are the things i already do and that is why I *feel* that I have a *Strange connection with this YT channel* also it gives me satisfaction that im/was/is on a Right Path.

[@arulraj6897]

Its crashing when i'm trying to convert my audio into midi - like you said in this video "How To Convert Audio To MIDI in FL Studio 20"

[@Packogualandrisofficial]

The "Project Folder" tip is great, thanks! 🎶🙂

[@DavidSJ_DAP]

In one year of using REAPER I've had exactly one crash, and that was caused by a corrupted plug-in...

[@inthemix]

Wow that's amazing, I'm probably getting a crash once a month or so in FL, but I do use it almost every day. It's usually a corrupted plugin too. From what I've heard Reaper is one of the most stable DAWs

[@DavidSJ_DAP]

@@inthemix Stability is why I went with it after having massive issues with Mixcraft 8...I'm on it for probably 10-15 hours a week...

[@eman0828]

Been using Presonus Studio Pro for the last 8 years and it's never crashed since the earlier versions back in the day as it had matured over the years. It's rock solid stable written by the same developers of Cubase and Nuendo. I also have Pro-Tools and if crashes quit often. Using cracked software can cause alot of crashes too which is why I advise people to stop pirating software and just buy the software as there is no excuse given how affordable software is these days.

[@heliumsession7461]

More like once a day

[@espertempo]

@@DavidSJ_DAP I had mixcraft 8 freeze on me often, been on mixcraft 9 for a few weeks and so far it's rock solid. Nifty little daw.

[@ourladypeace3]

This just happened, and to add insult to injury, someone on discord sent me the most horrifying cursed image

[@nanogon7767]

Re_ixx - the musics maker I can relate to both

[@MedMouha]

my favorite channel '' IN THE MIX ''

[@Weaverbeats]

I fixed my FL crashes my installing ableton instead 😩😩

[@aniruddhamagar1947]

plz help me everytime i open my mixer it just frozes or says "flengine.dll violation" how to fix it plz someone

[@redoemusic]

The biggest fear of post production ✌😎 FL Crashing

[@redoemusic]

@Darren Hirst 😂😂😂....so the solution is add to FL a notification before crashing 😎

[@FabioRaitz]

A save before loading plugins is a good practice too, even more if are third party plugins that might cause some trouble.

[@smaklilu90]

A useful point that is not mentioned in this video. set the auto save feature to regularly every 5 min. if something unexpected happens, at least most of your progress is saved. Options>AudioSettings> File(tab)>AutoSave>regularly every 5 min

[@anissteevan6676]

That bridging and fixed size buffer worked wonders

[@justhazza3068]

im legit FL user but the software is unstable asf, i pay the rent 2 own plan for Studio One 4 and really a big difference, pretty solid

[@briankingart]

S1 is AMAZING!

[@yasmeenkitchen2560]

Studio One 4 Crashes a lot in my pc

[@LucyJuicyStardust]

Thank you so much! Your videos are some of the best on KZbin. Super helpful, informational, and professionally presented. Really appreciate you!

[@easylisteningdave]

I agree

[@samuelwillcox5920]

Just hit save easy video done

[@inthemix]

I wish it was that simple....

[@samuelwillcox5920]

😂

[@yungdnny]

I had auto key, edison, and fruity soft clipper on my master channel, disabled everything but soft clipper and it fixed it! thank you!

[@jehaert]

A slight addition on the CPU Meter Tip. I would sometimes have the issue, that the display for that was lagging behind; Meaning it was at 0 for a couple of seconds at the start, endorsing me to click something which would lead to the crash, same goes for a static display of usage. So you might wanna keep an extra eye out, even though your meter is not red.

[@so.beats.]

Thanks bruh. I fixed my sound card settings as you have suggested, works perfectly now.

[@GrimReaper..]

But deep down we all know, this happens only when you don't pray to FL Studio God....

[@inthemix]

We all do!

[@GrimReaper..]

@@inthemix bdw I love your videos Mike...watching your channel for four years and can't express how much it helped me improve as a producer, thank you.

[@cbspydoge]

Do you watch EDWAN?

[@Prod_D]

Karatos the FLS Beat God 😆

[@johnwright4147]

I call them the beat God's when I'm on a run I'll stay up in the software until he goes away forever

[@dinosaur_monkey]

Switching from FL to Ableton will prevent those crashes 😆

[@cableman9484]

best method!

[@dmn2273]

Logic*

[@klinn666]

Well i pirated fruity loops should i watch the rest of the video?

[@apeksh3063]

No don't watch...if you are using pirated softwares then you have to suffer from crashes!

[@Cosmin_TheMusicGuy]

Bro,I have pirated FL Studio,and I have a shit PC with a 1.6 gHz processor,so this tutorial is very useful for me

[@apeksh3063]

@@Cosmin_TheMusicGuy people don't understand...but I can tell you that pirated softwares are prone to crashes..they are available on the net with a lot of bugs and viruses! So if you have a powerful PC and a pirated FL STUDIO it will still crash.. more than the normal FL STUDIO crashes

[@klinn666]

@@Cosmin_TheMusicGuy well me too bro but my fl studio doesn't crashes not kidding it's been 4 months

[@apeksh3063]

@M A T E R I A L but i still don't encourage the use of pirated software. Lemme tell you why. Through your comment you said that there are legit websites for downloading cracked softwares which are very stable , without bugs and shit . And after you Brought a new computer guy still have no problem with FL. Good. Yes you are right. It all depends on the cpu specs and not on the kind of software. If you are using a cracked software and have a good PC..there will be very less problems or no problems. So why I made those comments above? I don't encourage the use of using cracked software. People should purchase these softwares and use them. Some ppl first use cracked softwares and then go with the actual one. You would understand only if you had your own fuckin company and selling such softwares and shit. At the end you want all for free .... right? Yeah all my above theories false and as a computer student I have failed. Thanks for the advice tho. You people learn to invest in something... Everyone can hack, go search for proper pirated software and use it. But only some can save money and purchase a software. I want to produce muisic..but from the past 2 years I am watching tutorials and other a on KZbin. I'm saving money for the software where as my parents are saving money for a computer. Grow up. Everyone can accumulate information like you and have knowledge of legit websites cracked but proper softwares. But very few think in a decent and legal way. And when someone wants to bring some change why do people like you interfere? Huh? Go ..... Pay for the software you have and get a legal one.!

[@djvidual8288]

To 04:30. Always remember, if you are using an HDD it will begin to slow down, if more than 50% of it is full. Try to prevent situation by either using an SSD or moving your stuff to another drive that is not used by your OS and FL Studio.

[@BenPotts]

I Would suggest NOT saving zipped folders, and instead saving new project alternatives as .flp files (song, song_1, song_2 etc), and regularly exporting the project data files to the same folder instead, this ensures that the zip files won't all be filled with the exact same samples, loops, stems etc, each time, because that can very quickly fill up your hard drive space, additionally, opening zip files directly into FL studio takes far longer, since it has to read the entire file first before it can do anything, the bigger the file size = the longer this will take, same thing applies when saving, you'll have to wait quite some time for it to repack the flp and all the samples into the zip file. also, a bonus tip; if you use edison alot, and save flps with audio files open in numerous instances of edison, then those audio files will actually be stored INSIDE the actual flp file, futher increasing the load time and chance of crashes, make sure to save a new alternative version (Ctrl + N) and remove all the edison instances, or drag the files into the playlist first before doing so, i've often had flp files over and beyond 3GB, that then shrink to around 80MB after doing this, great video as always

[@EnejJohhem]

But zipped projects rarely get corrupted

[@BenPotts]

@@RaghuRoxx keep exporting the data files to the folder, just as often as you would export a new zip file

[@syntheticklang]

Woow man. I am always very happy when you release a new video. There are always great and USEFUL things in there - I have learned a lot from these awesome tutorials! Sometimes it is mess when FL crushes - mainly when I load several instances of Omnisphere (which is so awesome!) - after crushing FL (sometimes immediately after opening Omni - sometimes never in project) my soundcard will stop working and I have to reinstall this. Should not be normal! But great information according to this topic - maybe I try to use the advanced pluing‘s settings! Thanks!

[@Frizzle1981]

Mine doesn't crash, it freezes.Oh well, at least I never see a runtime error popup window lol

[@briankingart]

Thanks Michael. You're real. You forgot one point... Production studios should be OFFLINE! No internet, only essential background processes (check admin services), no A/V Update, no Windows updating, no browsers open, no software update checks, no unnecessary stuff running like Acro tray, etc. no bonjour. I am a PC builder with 30+ yrs. experience. My computer doesn't crash. (Ever so rarely, only on beta plugins.) It does however take an expert configurator to setup a lean offline machine. So study, learn how to stop unnecessary processes, forge ahead. LOL. Do you really need those background services like fax polling? Really... just learn. And make miraculous music. And buy big hard drives, I have 40Tb. Always leave 10-20% free on EVERY drive! Thank you Michael.

[@SuperSunshine321]

10:40 This fixed the problem with my favorite reverb, the Exponential Audio R4, which kept giving me the error "The component state could not be restored" when saving and loading more than two instances of the plug. Thank you so much!

[@Sketler]

I have an 10 year old Imac with Fl Studio 20. No crash in all those years 👌🏻

[@dsurge8758]

7:45 Is there a reason you select extra space at the end and choose Cut reminder as opposed to select only what you need and Leave reminder? Edit: I mean is there a difference in quality or just convenience?

[@thedarkpill3590]

About clearing your drives... SSD drives are known to lag when full. We should keep them at no more than about 75% full. Great tips, thanks.

[@Johnnytrades-LTE]

Lol I like the part where.... no spoilers here. Watched until the end. Thanks for sharing.

[@mindofsinclair]

Great video man this helps a lot!

[@mannysinghsingercomposer3]

vow so helpful God bless u Man

[@SHOCMUSIC]

I recently switched from FL Studio to Ableton Live after using FL for 7 years. While I appreciate the lifetime updates from Image Line, FL crashing became a major frustration for me. Ableton has been much more stable, and I'm really enjoying the workflow.

[@ahom_ahom_ahom]

Damn. I never even gnew about project folder settings. That really makes life easy.

[@pradeepmusic37]

This is the most wanted video of all time!!!

[@MTR_Sonic2015]

I went to this video because my project crashed while making a Type Beat... This really helped

[@mikesaintjulesmusic]

3:45 - It's funny, FL has a difficult time finding files if you place them in sub folders under the parent directory. I like to sort my MIDIs and Audio files for example. If the Parent folder is renamed or something else is renamed, then FL can't locate the files in said subfolders. It's really weird. Ultimately I make zips of projects as they contain more and more data over time. Just recalls all the files that way.

[@inthemix]

Mike you're right about that, I find the only sure-fire way is to save the zips and work from there when you need to :)

[@STRM1106]

another amazing video ! great video !

[@dietechnikthaddeus]

no offense, just for your information since you said you don't know it exactly. The fact that pcs get slower if your drives are fuller is only valid for HDD-drives, that haven't been defragmented. if you keep your HDD defragmented, it stays just as fast as when it was new. For SSD-drives it's completely irrelevant. (don't try do defrag SSDs, it just shortens their lifetime since they have a limited read/write-operations-amount) Anyway great Video, keep up the good work !

[@inthemix]

Thanks for the info but it gets slower with SSDs too, from personal experience. I think it's best practice to just keep within a good memory limit and not push it too far

[@funguy8801]

In The Mix is correct. SSDs slow down significantly when they have less free space. File fragmentation may not be a factor like with HDDs but try comparing the performance of an SSD with about 70% free space to the exact same SSD with only about 20% free space and then back again (once you free space up on it) ... you will see a big speed difference for certain.

[@SebastianMlax]

Bro! You are real genius! Some of this tips are brilliant! Thank you!

[@BouchayBeats]

Knowledge is power, thanks for all these inputs

[@jk541beatz]

I really apreciate you bro. For real for real!

[@traearmand539]

The diagnostic tool is just beautiful 😊

[@Solarelectron]

how to solve FL studio VST cant open for UNKNOWN reason but i install it all correctly HELP

[@stanislauskangurashimangom2208]

You are a every every good teacher to me .

[@BrendanPark07]

Thank you man! I also had a lot of problems with 3rd party plugins. It seemed to be whenever they were (bridge). To fix this you can try using only the 'AU' plugins in the MANAGE PLUGINS section and make sure AU is checked and not VST or VST3. Also the annoying bridged box doesn't pop up.

[@tomaszjankowski9522]

Back up option in Ableton 10 is a blessing...;)

[@saintsergio5592]

Thanks, switching the sounds cars did the trick

[@KruellaDeRelle]

They been crashing a lot lately🤔, still love em tho💖

[@AceMuziq]

Thank you very much! Just got outputs thermal and it didn’t work. Remembered this video and selected the buffer size button and not it works!

[@BraveHeartOriginals]

Thanks for info it's really helpful

[@karnadharboro]

You are the God of FL studio! Man

[@chaimlubotsky6387]

DUDE Your Awesome 👍😃 I also can't type without looking at the keyboard 😉

[@danquay9504]

Thanks for your help.. I will try some other suggestions as tried re booting as that didn’t work..I try this when I get home tonight

[@mache3984]

Great info. Dope studio. Hope to have my own one day soon!

[@AnymMusic]

I actually rarely have FLstudio crash. and if I do, I have my backup timer set to 5 minutes and before risky operations

[@vishalpazzo]

Thnx bro... Always help

[@Zenroemusiekmusic2000]

I bought the Nicky Romero Kickstart and all a sudden my screen sometimes freeze crash but it seems when I tried one of your tips it worked but then I lost the hole project but luckily I had backup

[@shoeengine1161]

when im creating, my new thing is to resample EVERYTHING into a new project with ZERO plugins except the ones that are used to trigger the resamples. from this session is where I play my patterns and make the beat. its a game changer... completely removes CPU and latency from the equation. basically mixing first.

[@lildhvb997]

Thank for Every Thing You saved My LIFE You are really Good Person

[@penutbutterhelpme1357]

Excellent Video, regarding FL Studio. Thank you SO MUCH.

[@BranhamPaul]

Thank u so much brother... It's very useful for music directors... From India

[@aaronleung8809]

Hey dude you’re a god send . Would you like make a in-depth eq tutorial on why and how we eq and how to hear muffleness and clear it with eq

[@ternitamas]

Great tips! saved to favorite videos

[@Quafff]

I have a problem whenever I try to change my audio driver on audio settings, the program just closes. (FL STUDIO 21.1) Kindly Help.. Any tips

[@kdjbeatzz349]

Really good 😊😊 I was looking for this tutorial. thanks

[@RafaelAvonce]

my project keeps stopping at a certain point at the start of the song. Then the "mac loading circle" (you know what i mean) appears and loads forever. This is only on one project and i have tried everything. Please help.

[@JeylinRocksOut]

I wanted to go back to 20.6 cause it worked better for me and ever since I deleted 20.7 and re installed 20.6....Superior drummer gets all "Lo-fi" and whatever I click next crashes my whole DAW

[@Mr_NavinChandraJoshi]

Really nice information but not solved my problem. Thanks dear.

[@KeyzConClase]

Really good video, you are the best!

[@mirandazohran]

Thank for the info , do you find version 20.7.1 way too buggy than 20.6??

[@watcher203]

How do you know that i need this video😲 Seriously it crashed three times today

[@Nask]

hey man, I got this problem: It says plugging missing on old files that I send from one computer to another even though I already download all plugins and ca even open, but the ones that are already on the track with set parameters are "missing".

[@ahmedyadam7240]

You r joking I am still learning the last tutorial u made Give me till tomorrow to finish Keep up your videos

[@MokusGreen]

Thank you very much. I restarted the computer and it works. Good Video, good Content. :-)

[@Chef_PC]

CTRL-Shift-Esc will also open up the task manager.

[@trollingisasport]

Alt f4 fixes 100% of crashes

[@M4Mallu]

Love you sir.... You are awesome.. 🤩🤩🌹🌹🌹