Surprised FL doesn’t have its own dedicated thread on here - picked up a cheap license on a whim recently and (subjectively) find its unique workflow super intuitive. Any other users?
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My 2018 Razer laptop came with a license that I’ve never used. I ended up getting the full upgrade when the last major release came out but I have still yet to use it. I should really install it and give it a go.
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I started with Fruity Loops. And although I quickly moved to other DAWs, I’ll admit I still miss some of its options
- free life updates
- MIDI glide note in the piano roll
- GrossBeat (although Logic’s recent BeatBreaker is a take on this one)
- Boobass (and some its synths)
- its sequencer for quick beats
I recently stopped working into FL for good. But for a long time, I always kept it around to spice things up, design 808bass slides and create bare bones demos I’d rework in Logic Pro.
It sure has evolved a lot.
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Started with FL over 15 years ago, and I can’t switch to anything else. I tried Ableton since everyone and their grandma is using it, but the UI looks too alien to me, so I am staying with FL and hope they extend the playlist workflow cause I love to drag stuff into the arrangement window more than using the channel rack.
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I definitely did not have a cracked copy of fruity loops version xx?? with the interface looking like a dark gray excel spreadsheet of some sort in like 2003 before the kellogs lawsuit. Definitely not.
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…yeah…i must admit, i’m also one of those everlasting fl haters…
nope, i never gave it a try…but whenever i saw somebody’s workflow on screen with it, i could not see any slightest thing u could call a decent workflow…
to me, it always looks like a mess in squareroot thinking around too many click the brick corners…and endless preset doom scrolling on endless on board devices, looking all totally different, but who needs a decent pianoroll editor, or god forbid, a decent audio editor if all it needs, is just another click on another candycoloured brick…
and all results that were made with it, sounded like click me trick me, mom, look, it’s trap…on one end or avicis stadium cheasecake hyper hyper melody speedy bump tekkno pop on the other…
but hey, chapeau, it remains THE just give it a go for starters punk daw for many many kids out there, with nothing but another crack version of it at hand, running it the very first time on some windows laptop to discover bedroom producing…
many started their sonic safari with it, not that many stick with it, once it’s getting real for them…even biggest name of all it’s users ever, avici, would have switched his patterns at some point, if life had given him the time to catch up with all the madness he was tapping into right from his very first fruity getgo…life goes in cycles, not loops…
I tried it once. Looked and felt like a toy. This was around 2002-ish, mind you, though I still can’t help but think of it as a toy. I was straight up team Reason and there was no way to convince me fruity loops was anything but a toy.
I know it’s grown massively ever since, and not only trap or cheesy edm producers use it, in fact one of my favourite modern day underground house producers works with it.
I still deep down can’t shake my bias against it, but offering lifetime free upgrades does sound fucking nice, ngl. Too bad I’m not in the mood to try it again. Maybe someday 
Same. I switched to Ableton in 2014 and didn’t look back. I like to support them though and kept upgrading until Reason 13. I can’t justify the dollars for something I just don’t use anymore.
I upgraded to the full version of FL after seeing this Ben Jordan video:
But, I also had to remind myself that this is someone who has used FL studio extensively for a very long time. It was worth upgrading to the full version because of the lifetime updates. I’m sure I’ll give it a go some day just do get a different perspective from a new workflow.
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Exactly this
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I am, indeed, but I’m a bit out of touch with it as I’ve been focusing on mostly hardware. I’m probably years behind in terms of knowing what’s new! haha.
With that said, I’ve loved it for 25 years.
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I did some of my best (ie least bad) work on a cracked copy of Fruityloops. Then did other things for two decades. Got back into it last year (paid for it this time). It’s much more complicated than it was, of course, but at heart it’s still a sampler with a step sequencer (or a very good piano roll). I like that.
If GAS wasn’t a thing, FL Studio and a controller of some sort (I use a launchpad mini) is all you need. I’m especially fond of the FPC 4x4 grid thing - it makes FL Studio into an MPC with a full blown DAW bolted on. Nice.
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Hi! FL studio All Plugins Buyer and user!
I’m thinking about switching to ableton with students license even just for the plugins, as the one from FL are not so enjoyable for me.
Do you have any plugins suggestion looking like Ableton ones?
I do really like Fors FM plugins and Bloops plugins
fl user here since 2003. i love it, because it is the best toy on the market.
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Im not an avid fl user as i once was but ive always been a fan of the sound of the beats that are made with it. I understand the consensus is that daws dont have a sound, so it could just be the workflow of it and/or the stock plugins (the soft clipper is goated) — whatever the magic is, i have found a sliver of truth in the popular sentiment that ‘fl beats hit harder’. They do seem to, to a degree, hit in a way that takes a bit more work when creating in other daws. I don’t think that means it’s a novice/beginner daw either — i say that moreso as a complement. I can understand why people gravitate to it as a starting point and stick with it throughout
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I made beats for a decade on FL Studio.
Now that I produce on hardware, I only use it for mixing, but it’s a great and complete DAW.
And it’s not a toy, damn it !!
so, thanks for this thread @joeykaram
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FL Studio has the best piano roll, which other companies can’t seem to compete with. It also has a unique clipper, which gives it a signature sound.
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