FL Studio overview

FL Studio is a complete software music production environment or Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).
Representing more than 20 years of innovative development it has everything you need in one package to compose, arrange, record, edit, mix and master professional quality music.

FL Studio have powerful tools:

Advanced Audio

Multi-track audio recording Time-stretching and pitch shifting pristine audio editing.

Sequencing

Industry leading Piano roll editor MIDI recording and control Pattern or Linear workflow.

Mixing & Effects

Multi-track mixer Automation control VST plugin support.

The Mixer

Mix and master music to the highest professional standards. All the features you need to create today's most complex productions including, effects chains, audio sends, sidechain control, advanced automation, plugin delay compensation and more...

Piano Roll

FL Studio's Piano roll has the well deserved reputation as the best Piano roll in the business. The Piano roll is used to send note and automation data to plugin instruments (sequencing). It includes a wide range of tools to aid complex score editing and manipulation.

Browser and Playlist

No other DAW matches the flexibility of FL Studio’s Playlist. Sequence all elements of the project to make the final song. Tracks can hold notes, audio and automation. Place any data type anywhere and even overlay them. Use the Browser to organize all the data in your project. Free your workflow and your mind!

Over 80 plugins included

FL Studio Producer Edition includes over 80 instrument and effect plugins covering automation, sample playback/manipulation, synthesis, compression, delay, equalization filtering, flanging, phasing, chorus, reverb, distortion, bit-crushing and more. With FL Studio you will be ready to create just about any style.

Instruments & FX

If the huge array of native instruments and effects are not enough for you, FL Studio supports all VST standards 1, 2 and 3. VST gives you access to the wisest range of 3rd party plugins currently available. You can even use FL Studio itself as a VST plugin in another VST host.

What's new in version 26.1.4.5356

Changes:

Channel Rack - Added 'More plugins' and 'Plugin database' items to the Channel Window's 'Replace' menu.
FLEX - Added visual analysis modes to the settings menu.
Gopher - Some control-related requests now execute faster.
Visualizer - Faster video export speed. Updated Spout library to latest version on Windows.
Chord detection - Don't show the floating detected chord text 'forever'.
MIDI scripting - Add function to identify if a pad in FPC is empty or not. Stepsequencer added a function, duplicateMidiPatternData(), to duplicate note data.
Diagnostics - Crash log now detects if Windows ARM was used.

Fixes:

(common):

22364 New FL version hint message keeps showing up again when "Cancel" is clicked.
22370 Browser: error when calling SetLostFocus when closing app.
22378 Flex 2: Scaling change glitch.
22379 Flex 2: Wrong pack name saved to undo history.
22380 Flex 2: token error displayed for wrong reason.
22383 Patcher: window doesn't resize correctly when switching tabs.
22384 Crash in downbeat detection for Remix feature.
22385 Delay 3: missing offset caption when opened from patcher.
22386 Harmor: copying an envelope to the other Part doesn't create an undo entry.
22390 Midi scripting: plugins.getPluginName can't return name with unicode characters.
22399 Crash when using chop into regions.
22403 Remove Mackie Control Universal from the legacy list of supported MIDI devices.
22404 Flex 2: Unexpected preset change after switching to the store and back.
22405 Crash in SetTiedCrossfade/InvalidatePLEvent.
22406 Browser: expanding node from outside the browser do not load samples.
22408 Routing arrow is not removed when a track is no longer routed to another one.
22409 Hang after saving and clicking on wrapper window using cmd+Q
22411 Akai Fire legacy code - Scrolling in Browser works only in one direction.
22412 Flex 2: Wrong position of controls on Reverb panel.
22414 MIDI scripting: crash when processing sysex messages from a script.
22415 FL Key 2: crash with plugin picker.
22416 Midi scripting: mixer functions don't work correctly with "current" track.
22417 Piano roll scripting: ShowMessage text should be cleared when script finishes.
22418 Flex 2: Improvements to search system.
22422 Python scripting: form.addInputText does not store empty values.
22424 DirectWave: reading zone properties from an imported sample file name doesn't work.
22427 Flex 2 : Crash when focusing presets grid when FLEX is hidden.
22428 Crash in GetVoiceEngineVersion.
22429 Update the check for the company name when verifying code signatures.
22434 Browser preview: Access violation when loading corrupt image in preview.
22436 Browser, Library: Bundle should not show download icon.
22437 Midi sync drifts over time.
22441 Issues when recording automation when precount is enabled.

(macOS):

22413 FL Cloud Sounds and Gopher open in the default web browser on macOS 26.6
22438 Crash when scanning midi devices.
22433 Crash: OpenOutputStreamingBuffer.
22432 Crash: TMidiOutput.Open
22382 Wrapper: crash when changing a preset on the JE8086 AudioUnit plugin.

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