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FL Studio 9 Producer Edition

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Overview

Fully modular environment for creating music in any genre, including the instruments its played on.

FL Studio 9 Producer Edition is the mid-range version of FL9, a complete software music production environment, representing the culmination of more than 10 years of sustained & focused development. FL9 is designed to be one of the fastest ways to get music from your brain to your speakers. It also comes with a few extra features the Fruity Edition doesn't, including full audiotracks with WAV form display, the Edison Wave Editor, ASIO-in recording, Pattern (MIDI) clips in the playlist, as well as plug-ins like the FL SynthMaker Full, Slicex, and Vocodex.

What is FL9?
FL Studio is a full-featured, open architecture, music production software capable of audio recording, composing, sequencing, and mixing, for the creation of professional quality music. The Fruity Loops Studio philosophy is creative freedom, allowing you to route any instrument to any mixer track. Each mixer track can receive audio from any number of instruments, any number of other mixer tracks and a soundcard input. Mixer tracks, in turn, can send audio to any number of other mixer tracks and a soundcard output. You can create sub-mixes, effects chains, or complex mixes. With FL Studio's flexible architecture audio is set free.

The music software also assists your creative flow with your choice of preferred workflow, compose using the step-sequencer or piano roll. Create in pattern or track mode, then arrange your ideas in the free palette Playlist. The Playlist presents timeline as a virtual canvas where each Playlist track can simultaneously hold any number of score, audio, and automation events.

Instruments
Make virtually any sound ” FL9 includes over 30 software synthesizers covering acoustic/synthetic bass, electric guitar, multi-sampler tools including piano & strings, general sample playback, and beatslicing (with Rex 1 & 2 support).

Synthesis techniques ” span subtractive, modeling, FM, RM, granular, and additive. With the addition of FL SynthMaker you can further create & share your own FL instruments, effects & MIDI control dashboards without the need to write basic code.

Open plug-in standards ” the music production software supports all PC industry plug-in instrument standards including VSTi (1/2), DXi(1/2), Buzz, and Rewire. This means you can sequence with your favorite plug-ins and applications.

Audio Recording & Editing
Multi-channel audio inputs ” With the ability to simultaneously capture all the inputs on your audio interface, FL Studio has the flexibility to record a single vocalist, guitar, or a full symphony orchestra.

Arranging audio ” Audio can be arranged, with complete freedom in the Playlist. Features include the ability to host an unlimited number of audio recordings, time-stretching, pitch-shifting, beat-slicing, cropping, editing, and the rearranging of audio with only a few mouse clicks.

Edison ” FL9's audio capabilities are further enhanced with Edison, the recording wave editor. Edison is an integrated audio editing and recording tool with spectral analysis, convolution reverb, noise reduction, loop-recording, loop-construction tools and more.

FL Studio supports WAV, MP3, OGG, WavPack, AIFF, and REX audio formats.

Sequencing
Compose and record your musical performances and ideas in a very logical way.

Pattern or track sequencing ” You choose, record your musical performances and ideas in the most logical way. FL Studio 9 can simultaneously function as a pattern and track-based sequencer. Reuse patterns as Pattern Clips in the Playlist or record song-length sequences, as desired.

Step sequencer or Piano roll ” Scoring tools include FL Studio's legendary Step-sequencer, one of the most advanced Piano roll's in any software studio, event and multipoint automation envelopes. FL Studio supports MIDI input, standard controller compatibility, and the ability to simultaneously control multiple instrument channels from separate controllers.

Arranging
FL Studio allows you to do what you want where and when you want.

Determine your own project design ” In FL Studio 9, you decide how your project will be laid out. Unlike the competition, FL9's Playlist is a totally flexible and virtually unbounded workspace where Note Pattern, Audio and Automation data can be arranged and edited to suit your creative ideas and preferred workflow.

Mixing & Mastering
FL Studio provides all the tools you need to produce your tracks to high professional standards.

The mixer ” Image Line FL9 includes a superb 104-track stereo track mixer that is about precision, control, and flexibility. The mixer's tracks each hold up to 8 effects (VST, DX, or FL's proprietary format). To create sub-mixes or mixing chains of almost unlimited complexity, each mixer track can be routed to any other mixer track, one of 4 dedicated send channels and/or the Master track. Sends provide the ability to sidechain inputs to multi-input effects plug-ins. Finally, each of the mixer tracks can be routed to any output on your audio interface.

Effects ” What about effects? FL Studio includes more than 40 effects spanning maximization, limiting, compression, delay, distortion, equalization (graphic & parametric), filtering, phasing, flanging, chorus, vocoding, and reverb. These have you covered for the creative broad-brush effects, through to the minutia of the mastering process.

Open plug-in standards ” FL Studio supports all PC industry plug-in effect standards including VST (1/2), DX(1/2), Buzz, and Rewire. This means you can mix with your favorite plug-ins and applications.

Features

Key features and changes to version 9:

Over 370 additions, changes & bugfixes featuring:
Sidechaining: The FL Studio Mixer Track Send now has an additional Sidechain mode to support multiple-input mixer plug-ins
Multi-core CPU (Hyperthreading): Improved multithreaded generator & added multithreaded effects processing
Multiple controllers: can now control multiple independent instrument channels, assigned by MIDI number
New volatile linking feature
Wrapper: Aligned tick lengths checkbox for greater plug-in compatibility
Revised Playlist
Playlist track naming & icon: tools for better song organization
Playlist track mute controls
Piano roll
Riff machine: Automatic sequence generator tool.
Note Grouping: New feature (works on selecting, moving, resizing, deletion, muting, shifting using mouse-wheel)
Mixer
More tracks: Now has 99 Insert tracks (up from 64)
Multi-core CPU support: Added 'multithreaded mixer' tracks processing for improved multi-core performance

New plug-ins:

Autogun (free): Sonic adventure, Based on Ogun.
Sakura (demo): String physical modelling instrument
Ogun (demo): Additive metal simulation synthesizer
Gross Beat (demo): Realtime, audio-stream playback, pitch, position and volume manipulation effect
Stereo Shaper (free): Mid / Side stereo processing
Vocodex: The last word in vocoders

Revised plug-ins:

SimSynth Live, DrumSynth Live, DX-10, WASP and WASP XT are now included in FL Studio
Fruity Reeverb 2: Added Mid vs Side input signal processing
Fruity Wrapper: Now supports multiple inputs/outputs (free)
Wavecandy: Visualization & analysis tools (free)
Fruity Limiter: Compressor section now has sidechaining (free)

Browser

Presets: Drop effect presets onto mixer tracks & channels, mixer track presets onto effect slots and channels, channel & generator presets onto mixer tracks & effect slots
Windows file shell menu: Available from Browser (right-click) item menu

Demo Limitations:

All FL Studio demo versions are fully featured, giving you access to features associated with the highest level of the program (Producer Edition). Compose new songs and export them to WAV, MP3 or OGG. The only limitation is that projects saved in demo mode will only open fully once FL Studio and plug-ins have been registered. This gives you the ability to save recover your original projects post-purchase.

Supported Formats

FL9 will fit easily within your current software supporting VST/VSTi/VST2, DXi, DXi2, MP3, WAV, OGG, MIDI, ASIO, ASIO 2, REWIRE, REX 1 & 2
Additionally supported through DirectWave Editor: AKAI AKP (S5/6K,Z4,Z8), Battery (version 1), MPC, Reason, Kurzweil, EXS24, KONTAKT (version 1 & 2), Recycle, SFZ+, and SoundFont2
FL Studio not only supports VST, DX, & ReWire plug-ins and includes Image Line's own advanced FL Studio 'native plug-in' architecture. The FL native format overcomes several major limitations of the VST & VST2 format and allows:
Quick linking of controls and automation. Simply right click any knob or slider to link it to a (MIDI or internal) controller and automate it.
Full expressive control per note control (pitch, volume & panning), and multiple independent note slides which are color-coded in the Piano roll.

Open Architecture

FL Studio is one of the most open virtual music studios currently available. It (natively) hosts:
¢FL Studio plug-ins
¢VST Effects & VSTi Instruments
¢ReWire clients
¢DX Effects & DXi Instruments
¢Buzz Effects & Instruments
If you want to use your existing sequencer, just plug FL Studio into any host you can find. It works as a multi-out client, including as a VSTi client, ReWire client, and DXi client.
FL Studio can be loaded and used as a VSTi or DXi2 instrument in a compatible host application. In this mode the output is sent to the host and the play/stop events and tempo are synchronized. Control of FL Studio channels and parameters using MIDI messages is supported, and you can also send each plug-in's output to a separate output if the host supports VSTi/DXi plug-ins with multiple outputs.

Plug-in support

Multi-out VSTi, Rewire & DXi softsynths
VST & DX effects
FPC: Fruity Pad Controller
FL Studio Generators & FX
Usable as multi-out VSTi client in hosts like Cubase
Usable as multi-out ReWire client in hosts like Sonar
Usable as multi-out DXi client in hosts like Sonar

MIDI support

Use external MIDI keyboards & MIDI controllers
Import & export MIDI files
MIDI SysEx input and basic MMC functions

Audio support

Full audiotracks with WAV form display
Reads .WAV, .MP3, .SYN, .DS, .Speech files
Edison Wave Editor included
ASIO-in recording

Music creation

Step sequencer with integrated Piano keyboard
Pianoroll (allowing chords)
Full, realtime recording & automation of all parameters
Internal controllers
Arpeggiator
Automatic slicer (that reads .REX files)
More than 15 generators (softsynths) included
Over 40 HQ FX (effects) included
Pattern (MIDI) clips in the playlist

Automation

Pattern-based event automation
Envelope automation of all parameters in playlist

Mixer & FX rack

99 Insert & 4 Send Tracks with 8 FX channels each
Post FX Parametric EQ, Volume, Pan, VU meter
Full FX (re)routing

Updates & Online features

Lifetime Free updates available
Download more than 2GB of HQ samples on SampleFusion
Watch dozens of online Video Tutorials
Exchange songs & tips with users & developers in our forums

Output support

Directsound
Multi-out ASIO
MIDI out
Render to .WAV (16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit)
Render to .MP3 (32K-bit up to 320K-bit)
Render to .OGG (32K-bit up to 450K-bit)
Render separate 'stems' for each mixer track

Generators/Softsynths/FX

FL versions of SimSynth Live, DX-10, DrumSynth, WASP, WASP XT, SynthMaker Player
Delay, Delay Bank, Equo, Flangus, Love Philter, Vocoder, Parametric EQ & EQ2, Multiband Compressor, Spectroman, Stereo Enhancer, Wave Candy, Wave Shaper, Soundgoodizer
FL SynthMaker Full, Slicex, Vocodex
3xOsc, Sampler, BooBass, Beepmap, Plucked, Fruit Kick, Chrome, FPC, WaveTraveller, Dashboard, KB Controller, Fruity Vibrator, MIDI Out, FL Slayer, FL Keys, Granuliser
DirectWave Player

Included content

+1900 presets using 600 WAV files
Generic Sample CD

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