FL Studio: As Easy As Instrument
About FL Studio:
FL Studio is a digital music production software where we can play any instrument tune or make music and do recording's of song's. FL Studio is made by Image Line Company, in Belgium founded in 1994 By Jean-Marie Cannie and Frank Van Biesen. If you thought Belgium was all Beer and Chocolates, then you may be surprised to learn Belgium is also the home of one of the world's most successful music production applications FL Studio.
The company firstly named the software as a fruity loop for four years. And then they changed it to FL studio because of few issue by other company like Kelloggs. But today. The FL Studio demo is now downloaded over 30,000 times Per Day and is used by some of the biggest names in the industry.
Software Overview:
FL Studio is an shareware software but we can use it life time with some basic features. If we want pro features of it we have to buy the software.
FL Studio comes in five editions: Signature With All Plugin Bundle, Signature, Producer, Fruity, and Free Demo. The Fruity Edition share common features, but Signature and Producer have additional features, Instruments, Packs and Effects. All Plugins Bundle is Signature edition with All plugins included.
Free Demo edition is use for trial bases.
1. Fruity Edition - (99.00 USD / 6640.01 INR)
The Fruity Edition allows users to access the playlist, piano roll, and event automation features, which allow for complex and lengthy arranging and sequencing. There is also VST/ReWire support so that FL Studio can be used as an instrument in other hosts such as Cubase, Sonic Solutions, Logic, and other software. As of version 10.0, this edition includes the Simsynth Live synthesizer instrument, the DrumSynth live percussion synthesizer, the DX10FM synthesizer, and the Wasp/Wasp XT synthesizers. There is no audio recording feature. In FL Studio 12, this was given (spline-based) automation.
2. Producer Edition - (199.00 USD / 13347.09 INR)
The Producer Edition includes all of the features of the Fruity Edition, as well as full recording for internal and external audio and post-production tools. It allows for hand-drawing point and curves based splines (referred to as "Automation Clips"). Plugins include Edison, Slicex (loop slicer and re-arranger), Sytrus, Maximus, Vocodex, and Synthmaker. It also allows for waveform viewing of audio clips and the ability to add cue points.
3. Signature Edition - (299.00 USD / 20054.17 INR)
This edition includes the Producer Edition as well as a series of plugins such as the Fruity Video player, DirectWave Sampler, Harmless, NewTone, Pitcher, Gross Beat and the Hardcore Guitar Effects Suite.
4. Signature With All Plugins Bundle Edition - (899.00 USD / 60296.65 INR)
The signature edition with all plugin content the producer as well as signature edition with all plugins and effects included.
5. Free Demo Edition - (Free)
The free demo version includes all of the program's features and most plugins and allows users to render project audio to WAV, MIDI, MP3, and OGG. However, there are several drawbacks to this limitation as projects saved in demo mode will only open fully once FL Studio and plugins have been registered. Also, instrument presets cannot be saved and the audio output of some instruments will cut out momentarily every few minutes until the programme and its plugins have been registered.
System requirements:
2Ghz Intel Pentium 4 / AMD Athlon 64 (or later) compatible CPU with full SSE2 support. The faster your CPU and more cores it has the more you will be able to do simultaneously. Download and test the trial/demo!
32 or 64 Bit versions of Windows 10/8.0/8.1/7, Vista, XP (service pack 3) (or) Intel Mac with Boot Camp / Windows.
Running 32 or 64 Bit versions of Windows 10/8.0/8.1/7, Vista, XP (service pack 3)
(or) Intel Mac with OS X 10.10 for the FL Studio for Native OS X (ALPHA) Attention: Only available after purchase of a program registration (no demo).
1 Gb minimum, 2 or 4 Gb RAM recommended
2 Gb free disk space
Soundcard with DirectSound drivers. ASIO/ASIO2 compatible required for audio recording (FL Studio installs with generic ASIO4ALL drivers)
Review About FL Studio:
I am using Producer Edition of FL Studio 12 for about 2 years in my music production and had a great experience with it. It also comes in different version but the latest version is 12.1.4. It is very easy to use and cheap but highly feature program We can play any Instrument tune in the FL Studio with the given plugins in the program.
Now lets talk about the edition's in detail:
1. Fruity Edition:
This edition is used for making tune and music. This is really helpful to you if you are in DJ Field and making some EDM (Electronic Dance Music) or remixing song. It comes with basic plugin's but you can buy and install external plugins in it. Fruity edition does not support recording feature you have to take help of Cubase or any other recording software for voice as well as instrument recording. If you don't want to spend more many just want basic start up in music production this is the best edition for you.
If You Want To Buy It Click The Below Link:
http://www.image-line.com/flstudio-feature-comparison/?k&ord=321
2. Producer Edition:
This edition is used at the professional level like in Music Production Studio. If you want to make music or do recordings of the song. Then this is a perfect edition for you. Producer edition supports recording features and comes with professional plugins.
If You Want To Buy It Click The Below Link: http://www.image-line.com/flstudio-feature-comparison/?k&ord=321
3. Signature Edition AND Signature with All Plugin Bundle:
Both the edition are same, signature edition comes with producer edition and with some extra plugins and signature with all plugin bundle comes with all plugin's. in short, it is a full version of FL Studio. No extra plugins have to purchased. this type of edition are mainly used in huge recording studio.
If You Want To Buy It Click The Below Link: http://www.image-line.com/flstudio-feature-comparison/?k&ord=321
4. Free Demo Edition:
Free demo edition is use to learn the FL Studio who are new and beginner in music production they can use it. its comes with limited use of plugins and effects. but you can render the music in any format of audio.
You Can Download It From The Given Link Below:
http://www.image-line.com/downloads/flstudiodownload.html
Pros And Cons Of FL Studio:
Pros:
Everything is automatize with everything. Want to map your master tempo clock to the peak of a snare? You're one right-click away. When you realize the scope of this, it becomes a bit of an experimental playground. But more than anything, that kind of unique freedom makes working easier.
Amazing MIDI controller integration. I've plugged stuff in mid-session and it just started working. If I did that in any other DAW I fear my computer would catch fire.
Deeply featured piano roll, there's nothing else like it. The strum, arpeggios, custom quantification really makes sequences in plugins nearly useless features, since you can edit and humanize the input data to your liking.
Surprisingly lightweight, stable software for the amount of power it has.
Highly customization and almost entirely vector. You can resize anything and keep it wherever you like on your screen, and it uses far fewer resources than most other DAW's, which still use bitmaps.
Cons:
Workflow is very different from traditional DAWs. Someone coming from the world of Pro Tools is going to have a rough transition.
Poor console integration. FL and my automated board work together with a lot of tinkering, but it still does not feel like they are meant to.
Plugin management is confusing. As a 10+-year user of the software, I had to watch a number of tutorial videos to organize my plugins when 12 was released. I do believe that in future updates the chaotic niggles will be swept up into a plugin management system that makes every other DAW look bad. It is hard to call this a "con" since there really is not a good plugin management interface in any software to my knowledge.
Odd ASIO performance. Many times, it is trial and error. For example, my "decent" Focusrite 18i20 gets better latency than my "exceptional" RME Fireface UFX+. In any other software, the RME gets 2-3x better performance than the Focusrite. In FL, for some reason, it buffers out under 10ms.
No audio quantization. Cubase, Logic, Pro Tools, Nuendo, Presonus Studio, etc can all detect transients and "time correct" recorded audio. Newton is a step in the right direction, but it's certainly not usable for time correction on a quality level.
Ratings:
According to me i will rate it 4.3 stars.