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 26.1.6.5406

Changes:

Export Dialog – Added checkboxes to enable rendering of Master and Current when splitting mixer tracks.
Plugin Performance Monitor – Percent values now display fractional precision for more accurate performance readings.
MIDI Controllers – FL Studio now shows a notification when a new controller is connected with the option to enable it.
Tuner – Adjusted the UI to improve readability at a distance.
Akai Fire Controller – The device now uses the dedicated script by default.

Fixes:

(common):

22606 Burn MIDI To doesn't work well when channel looping is on.
22575 Clips loading FL Cloud samples show an animation when "Do not distract me" is selected.
22599 Consolidated samples are deleted without warning when the project is closed.
22619 Changing to a pattern sometimes clears its contents.
22613 Crash loading a Loop Starter sample when it's been downloaded.
22620 Crash loading a project from file.
22626 Crash when a key is pressed in the Chord Progression Tool.
22579 Crash when a voice is triggered.
22625 Crash when calculating loop points.
22614 Crash when displaying a hint message from the plugin window.
22627 Crash when scrolling in the piano roll window.
22622 Crash when the ASIO control panel button is clicked.
22636 Crash when tweaking knobs while multi-link to controller is active.
22639 Gopher can't interact with the master mixer track.
22595 Error when refreshing the browser cache.
22661 It takes longer to open the More plugins list a second time.
22669 Memory leak in the browser's cache.
22605 Cursor goes out of the playlist window when selected tracks are moved with Shift + mouse wheel.
22577 Plugin performance monitor shows negative values after a long time.
22653 Potential crash in the picker panel.
22655 Project info shows an incorrect "last saved version" sometimes.
22630 "Saved in a new version" message shows "project" when it should say "preset".
22651 Slowdown when recording to 24 bit sample files.
22663 Type in value doesn't work for plugins on the Current mixer track.
22658 Edison: crash while recording.
22647 FLEX: confusing message when the logo is clicked.
22646 FLEX: wrong label for the favorites button.
22675 Plugin Manager: starting to drag a plugin with an error instead drags the first valid plugin.
22596 "Patcherize all" doesn't create a connection for the bypass signal when a slot's mix level is not 100%
22612 Sytrus: crash in the reverb.
11125 Transistor Bass: shortcuts in the built-in piano roll don't work.
22593 VFX Sequencer: memory leak.
22665 Wave Candy: double-click on mini oscilloscope window also clicks controls behind it.
22607 MIDI scripting: changes to duplication of patterns.
22656 Piano roll scripting: ProgressMsg message is not cleared when the preview window is visible.

(macOS):

22660 Copy/paste shortcuts don't work in Gopher.
22649 Crash when any audio device disappears while an audio input is selected.
22624 Crash when saving browser cache data.
22628 Crash when the audio device is closed and reopened.
22610 Error parsing JSON strings in some cases.
22674 Memory corruption in audio processing.

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