FL Studio (formerly Fruity Loops) is a digital audio workstation, developed by Belgian company Image-Line Software. Didier Dambrin, the lead programmer of Image-Line, is responsible for the development of the program. Image File history File links Flfruit. ... “Software development” redirects here. ... Image-Line Software is a Belgian software company. ... Code complete redirects here. ... An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... Windows redirects here. ... Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function, type, or field of use. ... For other uses, see Digital (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... A digital audio workstation (DAW) is a system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. ... Image-Line Software is a Belgian software company. ...

FL Studio features a fully automatable workflow centered on a pattern-based music sequencer. The environment includes extensiveMIDI support and incorporates numerous features for the editing, mixing, and recording of audio. Completed songs or clips may be exported to Microsoft WAV or MP3 formats. In version 7, FL Studio began to support the popular open source Ogg Vorbis format for some of the internal plugins. FL Studio saves work in a native *.FLP format. In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was traditionally a device or piece of software that allows the user to record, play back and edit musical patterns. ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ... Audio mixing is used in sound recording, audio editing and sound systems to balance the relative volume and frequency content of a number of sound sources. ... Historical records of events have been made for thousands of years in one form or another. ... WAV (or WAVE), short for Waveform audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. ... For other uses, see MP3 (disambiguation). ... Ogg is an open standard for a free container format for digital multimedia, unrestricted by software patents and designed for efficient streaming and manipulation. ...

The program is well known among hobbyist and amateur artists for professional DAW features at an attractive price point. The pattern-based sequencer in FL Studio is especially sympathetic to creating music in electronic genres, but artists have successfully adapted the program to produce everything from classical to country music. Scoring to video is possible using the video-player plugin, but there is no support for traditional music notation. For other uses, see Electronic music (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Because FL Studio is written in Borland Delphi, there are no known plans to develop a native Linux or OSX port. Delphi has been released in many versions, including older versions which have been released in magazines for non-profit application use For the language Borland Delphi is programmed in, see Object Pascal. ... This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ...

Editions

FL Studio comes in multiple versions. Each edition is available for download or as a boxed set (with the exception of the express addition). Unlike many commercial DAWs, online purchasers of the FL Studio package receive free lifetime upgrades and updates when new versions are released.

User interface

The FL Studio user interface comprises 5 main screens: The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ...

• 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).

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Features

As of version 6.0, all of the mixer tracks can be used as Send tracks and multiple MIDI devices can be used.

Effects that can be routed in the mixer include reverb, chorus, flanger, delay, parametric EQ, and others. It uses internal 32 bit floating point audio mixing at sampling frequencies of up to 192kHz. This article is about audio effect. ... The chorus effect is a condition in the way people perceive nearly the same sound coming from more than one source. ... Flanging is a time-based audio effect that occurs when two identical signals are mixed together, but with one signal time-delayed by a small and gradually changing amount, usually smaller than 20 ms (milliseconds). ... In its general sense, delay refers to a lapse of time. ... Equalizer can mean: Equalizer, an audio processing tool. ...

Using Piano Roll techniques (such as Quick Chop) and built-in plug-ins such as the Fruity Slicer, drum sequences and loops can be "sliced" and re-arranged to create breakbeat-style rhythms, as well as complex IDM and DnB patterns. This article is about breakbeat, the electronic dance music genre. ... Intelligent dance music (commonly IDM) is a genre of electronic music derived from dance music of the 1980s and early 1990s which puts an emphasis on novel processing and sequencing. ... DNB is short for: Drum and Bass, an electronic music style. ...

The standard version of FL Studio includes a number of generators (software synthesizers). Some of these must be purchased separately. 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 extended internal plugin API but it can use VST, Buzz, ReWire and DirectX plugins via special adapter plugins, making it compatible with the vast majority of software synthesizers and effects processors. The demo version is fully functional, with the restriction of not being able to save projects for later work; it does, however allow projects to be exported to MIDI,WAV or MP3 format. Also, not being able to access full versions of some plug-ins in the program is another restriction when using the demo product. A software synthesizer, also known as a softsynth or virtual instrument is a computer program for digital audio generation. ... ASIO (Audio Stream Input Output) is a protocol for low-latency digital audio specified by Steinberg. ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ... WAV (or WAVE), short for Waveform audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. ... For other uses, see MP3 (disambiguation). ...

As of version 7, FL Studio now supports multithreading and multiple-core processors.

Optional generators (require additional purchase)

• Sytrus A Hybrid-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 An FM 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.
• PoiZone An easy to program synthesizer capable of producing a wide variety of trancy sounds
• Morphine A complex, fully-featured additive synthesizer with harmonic editing, morphing, waveform analysis, frequency modulation, and various other features designed for creating sounds that cannot be created using other traditional means
• 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 one has the Producer Edition)
• SimSynth Standalone - A free-standing program that is used to generate synth sounds in WAV or SYN (SymSynth native file format) format.
• DirectWave - A multisampler that can sample VSTi instruments directly
• Deckadance - A powerful DJing tool similar to Traktor DJ

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FL Studio supported standards

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

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Driver support

• ASIO driver (a generic driver ASIO4ALL is also included for cards without native ASIO support)
• DirectSound driver

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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 - Is 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 in parallel 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 Flanger - 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 - A multi-mode, multilevel all-encompassing filter.
• Fruity NoteBook - An internal scratchpad.
• 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 Parametric EQ 2 - An expanded parametric equalizer with realtime visual spectrum feedback, as well as oversampling and a quick state recall function.
• 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 Low-pass filter
• Fruity Filter - A filter plugin with knobs to adjust the level of the cutoff frequency and resonance, with low pass, band pass, and high pass modes.
• 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 - A simple legacy channel phase inverter
• 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

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Musicians using FL studio

• Özgür Can
• Akron/Family
• Jón Þór Birgisson
• Luny Tunes
• Tainy
• Nely "el arma secreta"
• 9th Wonder
• Cosmic Gate
• Hadouken!
• Basshunter
• Leland
• Hezekiah
• Paradigm
• Blanket the Ghost
• Idiot Pilot
• BT
• Aphex Twin
• Nickelback (used in "Side Of A Bullet" to sample Dimebag Darrell's guitar solos for the background)
• PBR (Presidential Backrub)
• FLeat
• BrainX
• Raphael Ascanio
• Soulja Boy

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Sources

• Image-Line's FL Studio site
• The FL Studio Online Store
• Unofficial Dutch site about FLstudio, including forums / Tutorials

External links

• Feature Comparison of the different FL Studio editions available
• KVR User Reviews of FL Studio
• SectionZ - 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.
• FL Studio Tutorials - Providing community-driven tutorials and live online help for new artists.
• FL Studio Video Tutorials - Home of the alternative video tutorials for FL Studio.
• FL Studio Resource - FL blog with tips, tutorials, samples, etc, to enhance your Fruity Loops projects
• /FL Studio Wiki - The Wiki for everything on FL Studio
• Download Fruity Loops and Free Loops - Thousands of free audio bits for Fruity Loops. Preview then download.