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FL Studio

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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.

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Country of Origin

  • BE flagBelgium
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
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4.7 / 5 Avg rating (20)
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  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Support for VST Plugins
  2.  Audio Recording
  3.  Digital Audio Workstation
  4.  Voice Recording
  5.  Piano Roll
  6.  Synth rack
  7.  MIDI Keyboard Input
  8.  Visualize Music
  9.  Drum matrix editing
  10.  Noise Reduction
  11.  Great Opus codec support
  12.  Scalable UI
  13.  MultiTouch
  14.  Works Offline
  15.  Live Performance
  16.  FFMPEG support
  17.  Context-aware help
  18.  Beat slicer
  19.  Live recording
  20.  Mix Music
  21.  Track everything
  22.  Non linear editor

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Comment summary: FL Studio is praised for its powerful capabilities and intuitive user interface, making it ideal for creating professional music across various genres. Users value its expansive toolset, which includes a highly responsive piano roll and lifetime upgrades. However, the cost of the full version is a concern, with some suggesting cheaper alternatives. Its versatility and performance are highlighted, especially in electronic music, but some find it less convenient for orchestral compositions.
Top Positive Comment
David
May 5, 2019
6

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.

Félix Gomaye
Feb 29, 2024
1

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.

mercibacishoge12
Feb 14, 2024
2

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 !

Ney Khax
Jun 30, 2023
1

My favorite digital audio workstation. Has a Waifu and the creators from Image-Line are very cool guys.

hced
Aug 24, 2024

What's a Waifu?

Ney Khax
Aug 28, 2024

A very lovable fictional character, in this case the mascot FL Chan

alelondon
Oct 3, 2022
1

Very powerful. Excelent sound quality. Most featureful.

Hedreon
Apr 2, 2022
0

Really great, easy-to-use DAW to start music production with.

Guest
Mar 15, 2022
0

Good application

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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.

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FL Studio information

  • Developed by

    BE flagImage Line
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $99 and $899.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.7 (20 ratings)
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  • News

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 22 comments and reviews about FL Studio, and it has gotten 483 likes

FL Studio was added to AlternativeTo by Pj on Apr 17, 2009 and this page was last updated Feb 19, 2025. FL Studio is sometimes referred to as Fruity Loops, FruityLoops.