Jim Aikin has long been one of my favorite writers in this field you can find his work in Electronic Musician, Keyboard, and others, including the lesser-known but superb Virtual Instruments.
There are lots of additional videos on the FL forum, though true to form, I find this isn’t necessarily how everyone uses the program:įL Studio Guru Tips for Getting Started, with Jim Aikin Ah, I think I know what I’m doing with my Saturday night now.) There’s also a real-time convolution plug-in, which sounds like a fun feature to abuse. (It’d even go nicely with that aforementioned Riff Machine, for some complex, generative patterns. There’s a brand-new drum modeling engine called Drumpad, which should couple perfectly with FL’s sequencing features. (Yes, Reason, Live, and FL Studio now all have vocoders what’s interesting to me is that they’re each quite different, true to the personalities of the three developers.)įL Studio 9.1 adds still more, as you can see in the video above. Perhaps more importantly, the upgrade also delivers more intelligent routing and MIDI control, and a really gorgeous vocoder. Riff Machine could be used to make some awful music, but with some creative adjustments, it could also be a way to spark new ideas when you need something fresh.įL Studio 9 introduces a number of improvements, including a Riff Machine (pictured above), which can dynamically generate musical ideas if you’re stuck for inspiration. But when we talk about music, we use the word “play.” FL Studio is nothing if not a toybox. Apparently, we want our music tools to be big and powerful, like a chainsaw, ideally emitting manly gasoline fumes. It’s a strange thing that the word “toy” has come to have negative connotations in music tech. You can read my review of FL Studio 9 for Keyboard Magazine: So, when we talk about everything that’s new in FL Studio 9, or FL Studio 9.1, released last week, those improvements are free to existing users. FL Studio is a program you buy once that keeps getting better, without the usual upgrade purchase treadmill. Image-Line has a unique way of encouraging loyalty: while the company still peddles new add-ons to its existing customer base, the expansive functionality of the FL Studio program and all its major instruments and effects are included in lifetime free upgrades. And that has made FL Studio a kind of subculture all its own. Computer producers are passionate as always about what works. Like well-stocked studios of hardware, software has become personal, idiosyncratic, and stuffed with functionality.
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