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# FL Studio acceptance test (Windows)
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Record the FL Studio version, Windows version, plugin build revision, sample
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rate, and audio buffer size with each test. These steps have not yet been run
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against FL Studio in this environment.
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## Install
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1. Build with `python scripts/build-plugin.py` on Windows, or obtain a matching
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Windows artifact from the configured CI workflow.
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2. Copy `Motif Storyboard.clap` to
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`C:\Program Files\Common Files\CLAP`, or a CLAP location scanned by your
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FL Studio version. Close existing instances before replacing the binary.
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3. In FL Studio's Plugin Manager, rescan plugins and locate Motif Storyboard.
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Use an FL Studio version with CLAP support. Insert it as a generator.
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## Creative workflow
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- Open and close the editor repeatedly; verify keyboard input and controls work
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at 100%, 150%, and 200% Windows display scaling, with no clipped content.
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- Load the demo, generate three continuations, and audition each. The opening
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must match the source; candidates should be audibly related and differ later.
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- Lock a source note, regenerate, and verify pitch, velocity, start, and duration
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are unchanged at each repeated position. Locks may override register/scale.
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- Try four/eight bars, all scales, different seeds, and rhythm preservation.
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- Accept candidate A; accept B; undo/redo. Regenerate with a different seed and
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confirm accepted work remains available.
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- Export selected and accepted MIDI separately. Import each into the piano roll
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of an existing synth and compare note timing, duration, velocity, and length.
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## Import and files
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- Import a monophonic MIDI file exported from FL Studio at 96/480/960 PPQ.
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- Import multitrack MIDI and select the intended note track.
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- Verify useful errors for chords/overlaps, motifs longer than two bars,
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unsupported meters, malformed files, and inaccessible paths.
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- Cancel native dialogs. Try Unicode paths and the manual file-path controls.
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- Export to an existing filename; confirm it is refused and the file is intact.
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## Playback and state
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- Confirm opening the editor and loading a project are silent until Preview.
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- Preview, press Stop, and switch phrases rapidly; no stuck or overlapping voice.
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- Preview while FL Studio's transport runs, then stop the host; audition stops.
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- Enable host tempo following and change project tempo. Disable it and verify
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local tempo controls audition speed. Host start must never trigger audition.
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- At 44.1/48/96 kHz and several buffer sizes, confirm stable timing and no clicks
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at ordinary note boundaries, dropouts, or non-finite output.
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- Save a project containing locks, candidates, an accepted result, and history.
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Reopen it, confirm all state is restored and preview remains stopped.
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- Save/load a JSON session; reject unsupported versions without changing the
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current session. Test multiple plugin instances for independent state.
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Use MIDI output mode to audition production synths, or export MIDI into the
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piano roll. Native MIDI drag-out is outside this release.
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## Version 0.2: contextual audition and composition
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- Select MIDI output in Motif Storyboard. Where FL Studio exposes wrapper MIDI
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ports, set its Output port to an unused port and the target synth's Input port
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to the same value; receive notes on channel 1. These are FL Studio's documented
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[wrapper input/output port controls](https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio-learning/fl-studio-online-manual/html/plugins/wrapper.htm).
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This specific CLAP routing path is still unverified here; check it in the
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installed FL Studio version. Keep the MIDI-file export path as fallback.
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- Audition through the actual production patch with the surrounding project loop.
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Host tempo follows BPM only; start audition at the desired point manually.
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Switching a running audition waits for the next local two-bar boundary or end.
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- Test Loop on/off, same-pitch repeated notes, changing Internal/MIDI mode while
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playing, rapid queued selections, Stop before a queued switch, host transport
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stop, and project reload. There must be no hanging external notes.
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- Import polyphonic harmony, verify gaps/changes/repetition, then compare open
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and settled endings. Context is a pitch guide and does not itself emit chords.
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- Test whole-note, pitch-only, and rhythm-only locks. Keep groove must retain
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onset/duration; keep contour must prevent direction reversals except that a
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register limit can flatten a step. Locks override other targets.
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- Pin bars 3–4 from proposal A, select B, and preview/export the combined phrase.
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Regenerate with another seed: pinned notes must remain exact. Change the motif
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or phrase length: pins clear. Restore a version-1 session and a version-2
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project with harmony, pins, and kept history.
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- Evaluate artistic usefulness through the real patch: can the producer choose
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a meaningful alternative, retain just its useful section, and make it his own?
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Automated diversity metrics do not replace that evaluation.
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## Version 0.3: gestures, branches, roles, and controllers
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- Save a named source gesture and a developed two-bar gesture. Export the library
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and import it into another instance: notes, locks, and performance choices
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should survive; recalling keeps the destination harmony.
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- Save a branch, apply Subtract to bars 3–4, restore the parent, and try Longer
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gates instead. Both children should remain available. Restore each after
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saving/reopening the host project. Remove leaves without losing their parent.
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- Try each role mode. Route channels 1 and 2 to separate patch parts (or choose
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other distinct channels). Verify every original note belongs to one role.
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A host configuration must preserve channels; MIDI file export provides named
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role tracks when live routing cannot do this.
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- Map CC20/21 explicitly to suitable macros in the target synths. Enable each
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curve, edit points, compare Rise/Arch/Pulse, and verify the actual mapped
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sound follows it. A curve describes controller values, not a guaranteed
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timbral or emotional result. Imported MIDI controller automation is not read.
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- While MIDI plays, stop, replace the profile/controller mapping, toggle audition
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mode, and reload the project. Old notes must release and old controllers must
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return to their specified stop values. Opening a project remains silent.
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- Estimate patch attack/release by ear. Compare 0 ms and 40–100 ms attack,
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including a same-pitch loop seam and a queued selection. Warmup occurs before
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the local first beat. Re-audition after BPM changes.
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- Export normally and confirm notes retain musical onset positions. Enable
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compensated export: confirm one bar of lead-in, early MIDI triggers, separate
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named tracks, and controller reset events. Compare through the same patch.
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- Locks protect musical note attributes; attack/release compensation adjusts
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MIDI trigger scheduling for the patch. Judge the audible onset against the
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surrounding groove rather than expecting every trigger to stay on the grid.
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- Evaluate whether a saved gesture still feels like the same idea with another
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patch, and whether branching makes it easy to retain useful exceptions.
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The internal voices and the automated checks cannot establish artistic quality.
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