2011/12/27

Fl Studio




FL Studio

Image-Line FL Studio
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FL Studio10 Signature Edition on Microsoft Windows 7
Developer(s) Image-Line Software (International)
Initial release December 18, 1997
Stable release 10.0.9 / November 20, 2011
Written in Delphi
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Type Digital Audio Workstation
License Proprietary
Website www.FLstudio.com

FL Studio (formerly known as FruityLoops) is a digital audio workstation developed by the Belgian company Image-Line. FL Studio features a graphical user interface based on a pattern-based music sequencer. The program is available in four different editions for Microsoft Windows, including FL Studio Express, Fruity Edition, Producer Edition, and the Signature Bundle. Image-Line differentiates FL Studio from competing software by offering lifetime free updates to the program, meaning customers receive for free all future updates of the version they purchase. Image-Line released FL Studio Mobile on June 21, 2011 so the program can be used on iPods, iPhones, and iPads.

FL Studio can be used as an instrument in other audio workstation programs such as Cubase, Sonic Solutions, and Sonar and is also compatible with dozens of Image-Line and third-party plug-ins, such as the DJ mixing program Deckadance and the synthesizer Sytrus. FL Studio is used by electronic musicians and DJs such as Afrojack and 9th Wonder.

History

The first version of Fruity Loops (1.0.0) was developed by Didier Dambrin for the Belgian company Image-Line and was partially released in December 1997. Its official launch was in early 1998, when it was still a four-channel MIDI drum machine. Dambrin became Chief Software Architect for the program, and it quickly underwent a series of large upgrades that made it into a popular and complex digital audio workstation. FL Studio has undergone ten major updates since its inception, and FL Studio 10 was released in March 2011. Noted programmer Arguru contributed to various editions of FL Studio.

Software overview

Editions

System requirements

FL Studio 10.0 works on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 (32-bit or 64-bit versions) or on Intel Macs with Boot Camp. It requires a 2GHz AMD or Intel Pentium 3 CPU with full SSE1 support. It requires 1 GB of free disk space and at least 1 GB of RAM is recommended.

FL Studio processes audio using an internal 32-bit floating point engine. It supports sampling rates up to 192 kHz using either WDM or ASIO enabled drivers.

Program features

Version 11 is currently under development.

Version 10, introduced on March 29th, 2011, included a new project browser, fixed some bugs, and smoothed envelope points. It also introduced a patcher.

Version 9 introduced support for multi-core effects processing and improved support for multi-core instrument processing.

The mixer interface allows for any number of channel configurations. This allows mixing in 2.1, 5.1, or 7.1 surround sound, as long as the output hardware interface has an equivalent number of outputs. The mixer also supports audio-in, enabling FL Studio to record multitrack audio.

FL Studio supports time streching/pitch shifting, beat slicing, chopping, and editing of audio, and as of version 8 it can record up to 64 simultaneous audio tracks. Other key features include a digital piano roll. Audio can be imported or exported as WAV, MP3, OGG, MIDI, ZIP, or the native project format with an .FLP filename extension.

Plug-ins

FL Studio comes with a variety of plugins and generators (software synthesizers) written in the program’s own native plugin architecture. FL Studio also has support for third-party VST and DirectX plugins. The API has a built in wrapper for full VST, VST2, VST3, DX, and ReWire compatibility. Many of the plugins also function independently as standalone programs.

Virtual effects

FL Studio is bundled with a variety of sound processing effects, including common audio effects such as chorus, compression, delay, flanger, phaser, reverb, equalization, vocoding, maximization, and limiting.

Samplers

Synthesizers

Version history

Support

Support for the software is provided through extensive HTML help documents. Users may also register for the official Image-Line forums, which are commonly recognized as a focal-point for the FL Studio community. After buying the initial software, all future updates are free for life.

Notable users

See also

References

External links

Reviews


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