Fruity Loops Studio 8.0 Full Producers Edition
FL Studio, formerly known as FruityLoops, is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by Belgian company Image-Line Software. FL Studio was originally the creation of Didier Dambrin who is the lead programmer at Image-Line responsible for its core development.
FL Studio features a fully automatable workflow centred around a pattern-based music sequencer. The environment includes MIDI support and incorporates a number of features for the editing, mixing, recording, and mastering of audio. Completed songs or clips may be exported to Microsoft WAV, MP3, and the OGG Vorbis format using various high-quality sampling interpolation algorithms. FL Studio saves work in a proprietary *.flp format, inadvertently sharing the same extension as a filetype created by Adobe Flash.
Unlike other major Digital Audio Workstation developers, Image-Line provides users of FLStudio with lifetime free updates to the software. Scoring to video is possible using the video-player plugin, but there is no support for traditional music notation.
Features
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FL Studio processes audio using an internal 32-bit floating-point engine. It can support sampling rates up to 192 kHz using either WDM or ASIO enabled drivers. The audio engine in version 7 introduced limited multi-threading and multi-core support for some generators. The current retail version of FL Studio (9.1) added support for multi-threaded effects processing, with a noticeable performance increase.
The mixer interface allows for any number of channel configurations. This makes mixing in 2.1, 5.1, 7.1 surround sound possible, granted the output hardware interface has an equal number of outputs. The mixer permits audio-in, enabling FL Studio to act as a multi-track audio recording solution.
FL Studio comes with a variety plugins and generators (software synthesizers) written in the program’s own native plugin architecture. This API has a built in wrapper for full VST, VST2, VST3, DX, and ReWire compatibility.
An included plugin called Dashboard allows users to create full automation-enabled interfaces for their hardware MIDI devices. This allows FL Studio to control hardware from within the program. As of version 9.0 it also supports multiple controllers for different generators/effects.
FL Studio 8 Producer Edition includes a version of SynthMaker, the popular graphical programming environment for synthesizers. Support for the software is found in the extensive guides that are provided as 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.
FL Studio also comes with a variety of sound effects, some of which include:
- Chorus
- Compression
- Delay
- Flanger
- Phaser
- Reverb
- Equalization
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