FL Studio Review

FL Studio:  The #1 Ranked DAW

Review

A recent 2012 article at the Synthopia website on the top 10 DAWs in the world ranked FL Studio as #1 among the best DAWs according to 10,252 user votes.

Many users share stories with fond memories of starting out making music with the entry level Fruity Loops version of FL Studio, only to move up to the upgraded versions with more features.  FL Studio has a unique interface and many users find it easier to use compared to other best DAW’s.

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The FL Studio program is available in three levels, offering feature bundles of increasing complexity.  The program options are summarized as follows:

• Fruity Loops – Entry level version with music composing and arranging features.
• Producer – Full music production features including recording and post production ability.
• Signature – A bundle with a limited collection of signature plugins as well as the producer version features.

Description 

After more than 12 years of continuous concentrated development, FL Studio 10 is now a turn-key software music production system and could very well become the fastest way for routing music from your brain to your sound system.

FL Studio 10 contains everything you need for composing, arranging, recording, editing, mixing, and mastering your own professional quality music.  The addition of audio plugins like Slicex, Edison, and Vocodex will help you loop, chop, and manage your audio in creative ways.

The producer version includes Synthmaker, which is a modular effects and synth creation environment with boundless potential.  The producer version also includes all features in the Fruity Edition plus the ability to record audio from external sources direct to disk with offline rendering and mixing abilities.  Editing and post production of clips and envelopes for internal and external audio is the frosting on the cake.

Features

FL Studio version 10 is currently sold at nice discounts, and the good news is that users who buy version 10 and higher are offered free upgrades to new version releases for a lifetime.

Notable functions in FL Studio 10:

• Audio manipulation and editing,
• pitch shifting,
• pitch correction,
• beat-detection,
• time-stretching,
• slicing,
• harmonization,
• cut and paste audio manipulation,
• audio warping,
• capability to automate many interface and all plug-in parameters by drawing or recording spline-based curves, or use of formula based links,
• and capability to e-hosted in other DAWs through ReWire or as as a VST.

FL Studio version 11 offers many improvements over version 10, but some users are waiting until it has been released for a little while incase bug fixes are required.

Notable New Features of FL Studio 11

• Options – Version 11 allows you to play truncated notes in clips and it restores the notes by overlapping slice points in Pattern Clips. Click and hold functions are improved to allow selection of the GUI animation levels from sober to entertaining.
• Mixer – The Page Up/Page Down keyboard keys now cycle through the windows for the current mixer track’s plugins.
• Piano roll – New tools allow users to glue notes, adjust the mouse wheel velocity.  There is also a chop cords tool and a monophonic step entry mode.
• Playlist & Piano roll – Vertical and horizontal movement locking is now possible via the shift key and dragging items.
• Right-click data entry – A right click option is now available for most controls for typing in values.
• Multi-touch support – Some FL Studio plugins will now respond to Multi-touch with Microsoft gesture functions supported.
• Linking includes MIDI input port – To avoid conflict between MIDI controllers, links now remember which MIDI input port is used .
• Plugin Picker – Right-clicking will open a plugin and its presets in the browser Typing plugin names will highlight entries.
• Playlist – Playlist tracks were increased from 99 to 199.
• Performance mode – Playlist clips may now be triggered using a touch screen, mouse, MIDI controller, or by typing on the keyboard. Launchpad, Block, Lemur, APC20/40, Kontrol, Traktor, Maschine/Mikro, and others are now supported.

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Disadvantages

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