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You even get big options to adjust the screen colour and project hue which could aid your workflow more (although the white version is not really for us). And, really, a lot of v21 is about the workflow improvements.

While the plugin enhancements are great, they are not included in every version so it feels a little over the top to base all of our concluding thoughts on them. Other existing plugins have also had some significant facelifts. And VFX Sequencer is a great plugin to get your filtered arpeggiations going. Vintage Phaser (Signature upwards) is modelled on a 1970s guitar pedal, so delivers everything from disco wah to synth Jarre. It’s only with the All Plugins edition but it will make you consider the upgrade. LuxeVERB is a beautiful reverb with a visualiser to help add envelopes to your reverb for a variety of effects (’80s snare for example). New plugins include Multiband Delay (in Producer Edition upwards) that splits delays across bandwidth with ease. You can very quickly add fades and volume changes on individual clips, again not requiring you to jump into another window as with some DAWs. The ability to crossfade and blend individual audio files is another addition that works better in practice than it sounds, largely down to how easy Image-Line has made the processes. The DAW and plugin still acts like a rack but has an easy and fast workflow like FL Studio.

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We’d probably still opt for Producer option though.Ī solid update to another DAW that has been with us for a surprising length of time. You’re paying a lot extra for these – over £150 – but they’re some of the best titles, including the Drumaxx, Toxic Biohazard and Morphine instruments and marvellous LuxeVERB reverb. The Signature edition adds a video player, extra Newtone audio editor and eight plugins for a not insignificant £255.įinally, top of the pile is the All Plugins edition which has all 111 plugins. We can see why it’s said to be the ‘most popular’ version, as it delivers a great balance of everything for the cash.

The Producer version (£164) adds this audio recording, a couple of editors and seven plugins. It’s a significant omission but, at just £85, it’s a decently-priced intro. The headlines are that the cheapest Fruity edition delivers a lot of instruments and effects – some 84 of the total of 111 – but has no audio recording. Like most DAWs, there are different levels that you can buy into when it comes to FL Studio. (Image credit: Image-Line ) Comparing FL Studio editions Version 21 has several workflow additions that actually help bring the overall composition targets together they make it perhaps a little more traditional in terms of DAW structure, but still retain the excellent and unique feel that the many (many) FL fans love.

Still, the core looping side is excellent, intuitive, and inspiring – maintaining the ‘instant creation’ ethos that stems from those early days. FL Studio has always placed the main compositional features within their own environments – mixing, arranging, and looping, for example – meaning the overall feel can be more disjointed.

The original FruityLoops was all about loop creation and then putting together songs from those, and that more modular way of composing has stayed with the software.

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v21 has significant updates to workflow, plus some lovely extra plugins, but let’s have an overview first.

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Five years on and the latest version 21 should therefore be called FL Studio 25? But, whatever, the main headline is that the DAW remains a free update, no matter what version you bought into (yes, even for those lucky v1 risk takers back in 1998 when it was called FruityLoops v1.0!).

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