Looping step channels will only loop the channels that use the step sequencer. When you right-click the arrow, it will now give you the option to loop step channels, loop all channels, or switch to advanced looping.
It will turn green when you switch it on. To turn channel looping on, click the arrow at the top left of the channel rack toolbar. Well, now that it’s back in version 20.1, it has been upgraded with a few new features that will allow the previous functionality, plus the ability to create polyrhythms inside of a single pattern. Typically, this was a faster workflow because you could quickly make 4 or 8 bar drums loops and in addition, add your 8 or 16 bar chord progressions, melodies and basslines inside the same pattern without switching to a new pattern and adjusting the pattern length or creating an arrangement in the Playlist to loop the shorter patterns with the longer ones. With channel looping, you could make an entire project inside of a single pattern and later use “Split By Channels” to separate them at the end to arrange in the Playlist.
This left a lot of users wanting to stick with version 11, mainly because of the style of workflow this allowed for inside of the channel rack. Channel looping was unfortunately taken away when the new GUI from version 12 was introduced. One of the most important features added to FL Studio 20.1, was actually a previous feature in FL Studio 11.
