The software started life as a traditional pattern-based sequencer environment in which arrangements could be created by chaining various patterns and triggering samples. What's It All About, Fruity?įor those unfamiliar with the name FL Studio, FL is short for Fruity Loops, hence the jolly logo depicting an anonymous bit of fruit enclosed in a circle. The new Edison sample editor can be used almost anywhere in FL Studio's signal path to capture and process audio. FL Studio was last featured in these pages in March 2005, so this review also notes the main changes introduced at version 6. To ensure that the software's advancements are relatively easy to follow, in the last few years version numbers have been aligned to match release years, and so we are now looking at version 7 in 2007, although the busy company put out numerous intermediate updates and bug fixes along the way. The latest version of Image Line's affordable FL Studio music software adds a powerful resampling editor and processor, plus some neat plug-ins.Įvery year Image Line release a new version of FL Studio, adding features, improving old ones, and generally tweaking the interface in various ways to make the whole package that little bit better.
