FL Studio
A complete digital audio workstation featuring professional music creation tools for mixing, mastering, editing, and sequencing. It includes a responsive piano roll sequencer, lifetime license updates, visualizer plugins for video creation, and multi-touch support for advanced graphical interface navigation.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- iPad
- Online
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Support for VST Plugins
- Audio Recording
- Digital Audio Workstation
- Voice Recording
- Piano Roll
- Synth rack
- MIDI Keyboard Input
- Drum matrix editing
- Visualize Music
- Context-aware help
- FFMPEG support
- Works Offline
- MultiTouch
- Great Opus codec support
- Live Performance
- Scalable UI
- Noise Reduction
- Beat slicer
- Track everything
- Non linear editor
- Mix Music
- Live recording
Tags
- step-editing
- MIDI Composer
- mp3-maker
- wave-editor
- vst-plugin
- bars
FL Studio News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about FL Studio
FL Studio announces a browser-based DAW version with full desktop compatibility in betaImage Line has announced FL Studio Web, a browser based version of its popular digital audio workst...
- Maoholguin published news article about FL Studio
FL Studio 2025.2 adds Fruity Slicer 2, Emphasizer, new genres, and smarter toolsFL Studio 2025.2 introduces Fruity Slicer 2 and Emphasizer in every edition, expanding the core too...
- POX published news article about FL Studio
FL Studio 2025 introduces Gopher, an AI-powered assistant for answering all your questionsFL Studio 2025 arrives as a major release for music producers, introducing several workflow and cre...
Recent activities
makeabeat added FL Studio as alternative to Make A Beat- ChristinaP rated FL Studio
- ChristinaP liked FL Studio
- Maoholguin updated FL Studio
POX added FL Studio as alternative to Melodic Mind
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What is FL Studio?
FL Studio, formerly FruityLoops, is a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) with professional tools for tasks like audio editing, beat generation, arrangement, composition, mixing, and mastering. The user interface is fast and advanced, starting with a basic drum pattern sequencing interface and offering more complex features at a click or keypress.
FL Studio offers a lifetime license, which includes continuous updates after a one-time purchase. It comes in several editions, each with more bundled plugins. The mid-range tiers provide everything needed for professional music, while the top tier includes high-end synthesizers and effects by Image-line.
Notable features of FL Studio include a responsive piano roll sequencer, a vector-based user interface with multi-touch support, and the ability to adjust multiple track levels simultaneously during mixing and mastering. The DAW also has a visualizer plugin for creating high-resolution music videos using a template-based system. This system is powered by a configurable, modular visual system for any visualization.
FL Studio Videos
FL Studio information
Developed by
Image Line Licensing
Proprietary and Commercial product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $99 and $899.Rating
Average rating of 4.7Alternatives
94 alternatives listedNews
8 news article related to FL StudioSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Categories
Audio & Music, Photos & GraphicsApple AppStore
- Updated
- 3.7 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
Lifetime upgrades. No other DAW has that. Pay once, get awesome new features as they're released for years to come. It's worth the price even for those who use other DAWs because of the sheer number of tools included from the vocoder and seriously overpowered audio editor with top notch noise removal, to the variety of highly configurable delays and distortions. Plus you get excellent MIDI and outboard gear support and this best-in-class music visualizer called ZGameEditor that easily compares with high quality After Effects templates while being far simpler and able to export any resolution at 60fps.
That all stands apart from the fact that FLStudio is a world class DAW. With its vector-based interface, it looks beautiful on massive displays or even tiny ones. And it still works across multiple monitors too. The mixer is gorgeous and can be stretched to fit full-screen for getting those levels just right. And that piano roll, I've never used a more responsive, accessible and capable one. It's probably the biggest reason I always return to FLStudio, everything about that piano roll is just fast.
On a personal note, I would prefer the channel section didn't exist at all. The song editor is now fully capable for arranging patterns and configuring the respective sound sources. The channel section seems out of place and in the way. This is just a personal qualm though.
Altogether, this is just an amazing piece of software at an unbelievable price. I purchased a license years ago and continue to get stunning new tools without fail.
FL Studio is a powerful software that enables us to create professional music in various genres. It has been used by many famous artists and producers for over 20 years. It offers us a versatile keyboard controller that can adjust the envelope, filter and modulation of any sound. It also allows us to edit and arrange MIDI patterns with ease. FL Studio is a user-friendly and intuitive app that lets us mix and master our tracks in real time.
It is very intuitive and performant ! Critical audio algorithms are written in Assembly and the rest in Delphi (an optimized Object Pascal LowCode solution).
The best DAO on the market !
My favorite digital audio workstation. Has a Waifu and the creators from Image-Line are very cool guys.
What's a Waifu?
A very lovable fictional character, in this case the mascot FL Chan
Very powerful. Excelent sound quality. Most featureful.
Really great, easy-to-use DAW to start music production with.
Good application