FL Studio
digital audio workstation
FL Studio (previously known both as FrootyLoops and FruityLoops) is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by the Belgian company Image-Line. It features a graphical user interface with a pattern-based music sequencer.
This program is often used as a 'gamified' alternative to less accessible industry-standard DAWs such as Logic or Ableton. It is also seen as more cost-effective, and after the initial purchase, lifetime updates of the software are free to registered users.
It is available in five different editions (including FL Mobile) for Microsoft Windows and macOS. Image-Line also develops FL Studio Mobile for Android, iOS, macOS, and Universal Windows Platform devices.
FL Studio can be used either as an Audio Unit (AU) [macOS only] or a Virtual Studio Technology (VST) instrument in other audio workstation programs, and as a ReWire client. Image-Line offers its own AU and VST instruments and audio applications.
Overview
FL Studio comes in several editions with different levels of functionality. The free trial version includes all of the program's features, all plugins, and allows users to render project audio to WAV, MIDI, MP3, FLAC and OGG. Projects saved while in demo mode, however, can only be opened once FL Studio and its plugins have been registered. Also, instrument presets cannot be saved and the audio output of some instruments is cut out momentarily every few minutes until the program and its plugins have been registered.
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