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FL Studio Image:Flfruit.png
<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"> FL Studio 6</td></tr><tr><th>Developer:</th><td>Image-Line Software</td></tr><tr><th>Latest release:</th><td>6.0.8 (Normal)/ 6.4.1 (Update 3d) (Beta) / 13th January 2006 / 30th November 2006</td></tr><tr><th>OS:</th><td>Microsoft Windows</td></tr>
Use:	Digital music workstation <tr><th>License:</th><td>Proprietary</td></tr>
Website:	http://www.flstudio.com

FL Studio (formerly Fruityloops) is a music production software package, also known as a digital audio workstation, created by Image-Line Software. Music is created by recording and mixing audio and/or MIDI data together to create a song, which can then be saved to the program's native .FLP (Fruity Loops Project) format. Songs can be exported to a Microsoft WAV or MPEG-3 file compatible with most media players.

FL Studio is a pattern based music sequencer, which allows the artist to create songs in pieces (patterns) using the Step Sequencer and the Piano Roll view, then merge those pieces together using the Playlist window. The Effects Panel provides access to a wide range of software effects that can be automated for dynamic sweeps, rolling bass lines and texture changes.

The program is especially well known within the hobbyist music community as a low-cost platform for the creation of dance music as well as electronica, although the complete version contains a sufficient amount of features for handling the production of songs in many different genres.

Contents 1 User Interface 2 Features 2.1 Included generators 2.2 Optional generators (require additional purchase) 2.3 FL Studio supported standards 2.4 Driver support 2.5 Effects Plugins 3 Editions of FL Studio 4 FLP filename problems 5 See also 6 Sources 7 External links

[edit] User Interface

The FL Studio user interface comprises of 5 main screens:

• Step Sequencer - enables quick assembly of drum patterns and short melodic parts.
• Piano Roll - a two dimensional grid for composing purposes. The vertical axis represents pitch, and the horizontal axis represents time.
• Playlist - allows the arrangement of sets of patterns and audio files for assembling a complete song.
• Mixer - used for balancing audio levels, adding effects processors (VST plugins, etc.), and recording audio input.
• Sample Browser - allows for quick access of audio samples, plugins, presets, and other FL Studio song files (FLPs).

[edit] Features

FL Studio has become widely used by both amateur and professional musicians 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 capabilities, and its high-quality effects. One particularly alluring feature of (the online version of) FL Studio is that all upgrades are free.

As of version 6.0, FL Studio is now compiled in Delphi 2005, all of the mixer tracks can be used as Send tracks, multiple MIDI devices can be used, a new popup engine has been added, and much more.

Instrumental effects include reverb, chorus, flanger and the like. It uses internal 32 bit floating point audio mixing, at one of the six available sampling frequencies (default: 44.1 kHz).

The demo 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 with a 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.

[edit] 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 as well as controlling specific internal parameters.
• 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/bass sounds.
• Fruity Granulizer - for applying granular synthesis effects to a sample.
• Fruity Slicer - A tool which slices and enables the rearrangement of audio files with well-defined transients (akin to ReCycle).
• FPC - Software drum machine modelled after the Akai MPC series.
• 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 that has the same envelopes, LFOs, and MIDI delay as the 3x OSC described above.

Lots of people use FL Studio because of the ease of the program but rivals (i.e. Reason) do not sound as cheap

[edit] Optional generators (require additional purchase)

• Sytrus - a powerful FM synthesizer featuring 6 customizable operators for FM, RM, VA and plucked-string synthesis, numerous multi-point, tempo-syncable envelopes and LFOs, 12 filter types & 3 waveshapers, a unique programmable unison mode, and an effects module consisting of chorus, 3 delay lines, and reverb.
• Toxic III - a powerful synthesizer that combines additive and subtractive synthesis, producing a "softer" or more ambient sound than Sytrus. Includes more than the standard number of waveforms, low, high and band-pass filters, and numerous programmable modulation windows.
• Slayer II - a guitar simulation that improves upon the included FL Slayer (VSTi plugin by reFX)
• SimSynth Live - 3 oscillator MiniMoog simulation combined with Oberheim style SVF filters
• Wasp - a broad analog emulation synth with an aggressive distortion effect (after the EDP Wasp)
• Wasp XT - an updated version of Wasp
• DX10 - FM sound with a simple, 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 or SYN format.
• DirectWave - A multisampler that can sample VSTi instruments directly

[edit] FL Studio supported standards

• DirectX plugins
• VST plugins
• VST2 plugins
• Buzz plugins
• Rewire host and client

[edit] Driver support

• ASIO driver
• DirectSound driver

[edit] Effects Plugins

• Buzz Effect Adapter - is a wrapper for Buzz effect machines. You can find a huge collection of Buzz machines at BuzzMachines.com
• EQUO - Equalizer that can be automated to morph different aspects sound
• Fruity 7 Band EQ - 7 band equalizer
• Fruity Big Clock - Displays songtime in various formats
• Fruity Balance - A stereo balance plugin to create a panning effect
• Fruity dB Meter - Shows the Decibel level of sound sent to the dB Meters' specific FX track
• Fruity Bass Boost - Bass enhancing effect
• Fruity Center - Removes DC offset in real-time
• Fruity Delay - Adds delay (echo)
• Fruity Delay 2 - An enhanced version of Fruity Delay
• Fruity Delay Bank - Allows complex delay effects by having 8 identical banks where each bank can be fed to another
• Fruity Fast Dist - A simple distortion effect
• Fruity Blood Overdrive - A distortion effect suitable for guitar sounds
• Fruity Flangus - Allows you to enrich the stereo panorama of your mix, add complex flange effects and simulate unison mode synthesis via a set of controllable "stacked" flangers
• Fruity Formula Controller - Allows you to write a formula returning a value which is then used to control an internal parameter.
• Fruity HTML NoteBook - The same as the Fruity Notebook but with the ability to use HTML.
• Fruity LSD - Wraps the functionality of the DirectMusic software synthesizer to FL Studio and provides 16 MIDI instruments with an option to import DLS level 1 banks.
• Fruity Love Philter - Gigantic all-encompassing filter (Currently only available in the 6.1 Beta version)
• Fruity NoteBook - It's basically wordpad, but in fruity loops.
• Fruity PanOMatic - Pans and controls volume of sounds sent to its FX track.
• Fruity Parametric EQ - A parametric Equalizer for sounds traveling through its FX track. Each band can act as high shelf, low shelf, peaking, band pass, notch, high pass or low pass filter. The plugin also contains global gain wheel to adjust the overall volume
• Fruity Peak Controller - An internal controller which returns a value based on the peak level of sound sent to the controllers specific FX track. By default, it mutes the sound being sent to it. The returned value is used to control any internal parameter.
• Fruity Fast LP - A lowpass filter
• Fruity Filter - A filter plugin with knobs to adjust the level of the cutoff frequency, resonance, low pass, band pass and high pass
• Fruity Free Filter - A simple filter plugin
• Fruity Flanger - Applies flanging effect to audio
• Fruity Chorus - Creates chorus effect
• Fruity Scratcher - Simulates a turntable. Load a .wav file and play with it like it's a record.
• Fruity Send - Sends its input to one of the 4 send Mixer tracks. This allows you to include effects in the insert track after the signal is sent to a sent track
• Fruity Soft Clipper - Very similar to the compressor, except it is more CPU friendly.
• Fruity Spectroman - Monitors the spectrum of its specific FX track
• Fruity Stereo Enhancer - A filter and processor for sound being sent to the FX track
• Fruity Vocoder - Takes left and right channels of sound being sent to its specific FX track and combines them in such a way where one channel modulates the other.
• Fruity Wrapper - Brings compatibility with Steinberg's VST2/VSTi plugins and DXi2 plugins
• Fruity X-Y Controller - An internal controller using a coordinate plane to return an X value and Y value which can both be used to control any internal parameter.
• Fruity Mute - Automates mute
• Fruity Compressor - Scales the output volume, making quiet parts louder without causing loud parts to clip
• Fruity Multiband Compressor - A 3 band stereo compressor
• Fruity Phase Inverter - Creates surround-like effect
• Fruity Phaser - Creates effect similar to flanging, but with a wider 'sweep' effect
• Fruity Reverb - Simulates sound reflecting in enclosed space, creating a 'live' feel
• Fruity Reverb 2 - A more sophisticated version of Fruity Reverb
• Fruity Wave Shaper - A wave distortion effect which maps input to output values in a graph
• Fruity Squeeze - A distortion effect that adds a gritty feel to sounds such as drumloops

[edit] Editions of FL Studio

FL Studio is available in four editions, each one having a different set and amount of features.

• Express Edition - This is the smallest version, and with the most limited selection of features. It is meant to be used more as a drum machine rather than a full-fledged audio production program.

• Fruityloops Edition - This is the second version, and is meant to be an "entry level virtual studio", according to the Image-Line store. It is more or less a stripped down version of the Producer Edition. It is included with more plug-ins than Express, but not as many as the Producer Edition.

• Producer Edition - The highest, and fully-featured version.

• XXL Edition - A bundle including the Producer Edition, as well as most of the optional plug-ins and generators that are not included in it. Most noteworthy is the popular Sytrus generator, which includes options for FM synthesis, ring modulation synthesis, and a wide assortment of integrated effects.

[edit] FLP filename problems

FL studio projects use the file extension .flp, which is also used by Adobe Flash projects. This can cause problems with file association for users running both Flash and FL studio.

[edit] See also

• Image-Line
• Steinberg Cubase - a similar program
• LMMS, a Linux alternative

[edit] Sources

• Image-Line's FL Studio site
• The FL Studio Online Store

[edit] External links

• FL Studio home page
• [1] Feature Comparison of the different FL Studio editions available
• [2] KVR User Reviews of FL Studio
• FLipside - FL Studio users forum
• SectionZ - Premier FL users community founded in 1997 currently home to over 4000 FL Studio projects
• WarBeats.com - Free video tutorials instruction on FL Studio usage and general music production. Over 100 free FL Studio project files for study.cs:FL Studio

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