Stop sleeping on those hidden patcher presets
Bro... I'm just discovering all these patcher presets that come with fl studio, it's insane that I've been missing out on this, and the cpu usage is incredible.
If you didn't know, fl studio comes with hundreds of patcher presets for everything from mixing to effects work, lots of them are one knob effects, not always but they always try to be very simple and the quality is crazy good.
I've been really trying to learn and utilize all the stock stuff in FL studio instead of automatically reaching for the fancy third party stuff right away. The reason I generally used third party stuff was because of lack of knowledge on how to actually use these tools, lots of the patcher presets drastically simplify things and give you easy ways to do new York style compression etc.
I'll eventually run things through the fancier plugins but while I'm making my beats and doing simple mixing on the way, the cpu cost of those plugins is just too high when you factor in having synth plugins eating up lots of cpu, if you know what you're doing the stock fl plugins can give you stellar results.