FL Studio
FL Studio (formerly Fruityloops) is a music production software package created by Image-Line Software. FL Studio is a pattern based music sequencer and software synthesizer, which allows internal mixing of sounds and advanced MIDI support. It comes with the option of rendering a track into several different audio formats such as WAV and mp3. Instrumental effects include reverb, chorus, flanger and the like. It uses internal 32 bit floating point audio mixing, at 44 or 48 KHz stereo sampling frequency. The original name "Fruityloops" was a take-off on a commercial brand of breakfast cereal, Froot Loops. This was abandoned in favor of "FL Studio" in order to promote a more professional image and to remove the possibility of a trademark infringement lawsuit from Kellogg's. FL Studio has become widely used by both amateur musicians and professionals alike, because of its easy-to-use step sequencer and piano roll, its good monetary value, its wide support of industry standards, its extensive automation abilities, and its quality effects. One progressive feature of FL Studio (of the online version) is that all upgrades are free. The step sequencer includes a graph editor and keyboard editor while the Piano roll includes a Chopper and LFO tool. These tools are intended to make it simple for a user to create a track, and assist in the creation of musical notation. The play list is a sequencer window where you can arrange sets of patterns to assemble a complete song. The demonstration version of FL Studio includes quite a number of generators (software synthesizers). Some of these must be purchased separately. Generally, these additional plugins are inexpensive. The "Producer Edition" includes a mixer and multi-track audio recording capabilities for sound hardware with ASIO drivers. The "FL Studio XXL" offer includes all optional components witha 40% price reduction. FL Studio uses its own plugin API but it can use VST, Buzz, ReWire and DirectX plugins via adapter plugins, allowing it to work with a gigantic amount of synthesizers and effects processors. As of version 5.00, FL Studio supports integrated time stretching and pitch shifting utilizing the 'Elastique' set of algorithms. Shifted audio is pre-rendered and then dynamically managed, being restretched only when necessary (for example, after a song's tempo has been changed).
Features
Included generators 3x OSC - a flexible 3 oscillator virtual analog synth with custom wave-shapes, a tempo-synced DAHDSR envelope and LFO for Volume, Filter, Resonance, and Pitch, an LFO for panning, a pitched MIDI delay for unison effects BeepMap - generates unusual sounds based on an image BooBass - a realistic bass guitar simulation Buzz Generator Adapter - used to run most Buzz plugins Dashboard - customizable interface for controlling external MIDI hardware FL Slayer - an electric guitar simulator FL Keys - a multi-sampled synth for various piano sounds Keyboard controller - internal controller for patterned based filter applications, trance-gates, etc. Fruit Kick - for generating synthesized kick-drum sounds Fruity Granulizer - for applying granular synthesis effects to a sample Fruity Slicer WaveTraveller - spline-based playback of samples, useful for record-scratch effects MIDI Out - provides MIDI control of external hardware Plucked - a Karplus-Strong plucked string generator Sampler - a simple but flexible sampler than has the same envelopes, LFOs, and MIDI delay as the 3x OSC described above
Optional generators (require additional purchase) Sytrus - a powerful and versatile FM synthesizer featuring 6 customizable operators for FM and RM synthesis, plucked strings synthesis, 3 SVF (filter) & distortion modules, a unique programmable unison mode, and an effects module with chorus and 3 delay lines. Slayer II - an improved guitar simulation SimSynth Live - 3 oscillator MiniMoog simulation combined with Oberheim style SVF filters Wasp - a broad analog emulation synth with an aggressive distortion effect DX10 - FM sound with a simpler, more intuitive interface Soundfont Player - gives the ability to load, play and render soundfonts (.sf2 files) DrumSynth Live - a complex drum synthesizer BeatSlicer - easily 'slice' any wav file (not only loops) into its specific parts and edit those slices EZ-Editor - An audio editing program (not needed if you have Producer Edition) SimSynth Standalone - a free-standing program that is used to generate synth sounds in wav format
FL Studio supported standardsDirectX PluginsVST PluginsVST22 PluginsBuzz PluginsRewire host and client
Driver supportASIO DriverDirectSound Driver
External links FL Studio home pageFeature Comparison for Fl Studio versionsPluginspot.com VST pluginsCoagula
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