# FL Studio Reviews **Vendor:** Image LIne **Category:** [Audio Editing Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/audio-editing) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 102 ## About FL Studio FL Studio is a comprehensive digital audio workstation (DAW) designed for music production, offering a complete suite of tools for composing, recording, editing, mixing, and mastering professional-quality music. With over 25 years of continuous development, it has become a preferred choice for producers worldwide, providing an intuitive interface and a vast array of features suitable for both beginners and seasoned professionals. Key Features and Functionality: - Channel Rack: Quickly build beats and patterns step by step, serving as the starting point for every track. - Piano Roll: Sketch ideas and arrange complex melodies, chords, and patterns with ease. - Playlist: Arrange and organize your song by dropping clips, patterns, and loops onto a flexible canvas. - Mixer: Balance levels, add effects, and polish your track with a full-featured mixer supporting up to 500 tracks. - Instruments and Effects: Access over 100 instruments and effects, including synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines, to craft unique sounds. - FL Cloud: Integrate a vast library of royalty-free samples directly into your projects, enhancing creativity and workflow. Primary Value and Solutions: FL Studio streamlines the music production process, enabling users to transform ideas into finished tracks efficiently. Its user-friendly design and extensive feature set cater to various music genres, making it a versatile tool for creators. The inclusion of Lifetime Free Updates ensures that users continually benefit from the latest enhancements without additional costs, providing long-term value and keeping the software up-to-date with industry standards. ## FL Studio Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **simple and friendly interface** of FL Studio, which enhances creativity for all skill levels. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of FL Studio, enhancing creativity with its accessible and friendly interface. (2 reviews) - Users love the **quality audio features** of FL Studio, ensuring seamless compatibility across different versions. (1 reviews) - Users love the **simplicity of the interface** in FL Studio, enabling limitless creative freedom in music production. (1 reviews) - Users love the **intuitive piano roll and drag-and-drop workflow** of FL Studio, enhancing their music composition experience. (1 reviews) - Users love the **intuitive piano roll and drag-and-drop workflow** in FL Studio, enhancing creativity and efficiency in music creation. (1 reviews) - Users love the **intuitive local recording** feature in FL Studio, enabling fast and creative music composition and arrangement. (1 reviews) - Users enjoy the **wide variety of options** in FL Studio, catering to both beginners and advanced producers. (1 reviews) - Plugin Compatibility (1 reviews) - User-Friendly (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **audio issues** with FL Studio, including stuttering sound and unintuitive editing capabilities during production. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate many aspects, but face **compatibility issues** that hinder their overall experience with FL Studio. (1 reviews) - Users find **audio editing capabilities limited** in FL Studio, lacking the intuitiveness and robustness of other DAWs. (1 reviews) - Users dislike the **high CPU usage** of FL Studio, which can lead to lag or crashes with demanding projects. (1 reviews) - Users note **high CPU usage** with FL Studio on heavy projects, leading to lag or crashes on weaker computers. (1 reviews) - Users report that **high CPU usage** in FL Studio can lead to lag and crashes, especially with demanding projects. (1 reviews) ## FL Studio Reviews ### 1. Powerful but falls short **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2021 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** The sequencer is very useful, it allows easy access to midi arrangements. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** Not enough industry standard plugins. That’s it really. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** Use ableton instead. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sound design. ### 2. FL Studio is the best thing that ever happen to me **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Malcolm L. | Music Producer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2019 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** The ease of use, user interface, and free lifetime updates. The way the UI is set up makes it easy for me to pump out my ideas fast. This for me is crucial because I have to produce at least 5 beats a day. FL Studio also gives all of its licensed users lifetime updates for FREE. For example, say you buy FL Studio 11 (an older version of the program). They will automatically update you to FL Studio 20 at no extra cost and continuously update your DAW when an update or new version is released. This is unheard of for software companies to continue to update their customer's software for no cost. You have to love and respect any company that does that. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** I dislike how certain changes can’t be undone. For example, You can undo a change if you change the gain of anything or delete a note in the piano roll but if you change out a plug-in in the step sequencer or accidentally link the wrong sound to a track on the mixer it’s permanent. You can’t undo those kinds of changes so if you make a mistake you have to reload the project you’re working on before you did that change. This is solely why I never use the autosave feature. In the event I make a mistake, I don't want a change that can't be undone to be saved. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** I recommend using FL Studio for music production purposes and not so much for recording, engineering etc. If you've never used a DAW before it might seem a little challenging at first. It's not hard to use but there is a learning curb. If you're just getting started in music production I recommend getting a mentor to teach you how to use the program as well as the ins and outs/do's and donts of music production. If you don't have a mentor the next best thing you can do is watch tutorials from established, accomplished music producers on Youtube. Trying to learn how to use the program by yourself completely from scratch will be painful and is not recommended. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It’s the #1 tool I use to create music. Artists need music production. By using FL Studio I can create the necessary beats they need to create songs. They can use those songs to express themselves musically to accumulate fans & exploit the song for monetary value, including but limited, to sync licensing, streaming revenue, selling the song as a single, live performances etc. ### 3. The Most User Friendly DAW on the market. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jevon W. | Content Writer, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2019 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I love how easy it is to use, and that a lot of industry players in the hip hop scene uses this product. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** I wish most of the premium vst’s were free to use after so many years after the release. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** If you want to get into music production, start off using FL Studio. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I’m able to produce music faster with the ease of use and I’m able to mix and master properly with this beautifully made DAW ### 4. FL Studio is a great software for music production **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Music | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2019 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** FL Studio's best characteristics are due to its popularity and use. Because of this, it is extremely easy to collaborate with other producers strictly because of its popularity among producers. It is very simple to grasp for a beginner and does not have as much of a learning curve as some of the other music software out there. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** FL Studio seems to add features much later than its competitors. It is seemingly slow to catch up to other softwares within the industry including Logic and Ableton. For example, the audio warping feature took a while to add, while it was already available on Ableton and later available with Logic Flex. Also, the software was not available on Mac for a very long time, while Ableton has always been both available on Windows and Mac. I also think that the stock plugins are not as quality as those in other music production softwares including both Abelton and Logic. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** It is a great software to start out on, but it may not be available if you are not using Windows. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to produce great music and integrating with a number of wonderful plugins. FL Studio is great for putting together quick songs and being able to be creative without having to learn the details of a complicated software. ### 5. FLstudio is my favorite software for making music. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oluwatobi F. | Customer Support Representative, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2019 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** FL studio is an easy software to use and it allows me to make the kind of sounds I want. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** Majorly I dislike the fact that I have to buy presets frequently to be able to carry out some certain tasks. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** If you have just started creating music and you need a software to work with. FL studio is it. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I just started learning to make sounds and I really find it interesting. So it helps me kill boredom and I hope someday when I get better at my craft I can make money creating beats for people. ### 6. For DJ's and professional producers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas J. | Business & eCommerce Consulting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2019 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** FL Studio is a program for professional audio editing and production that has a simple interface but with a large number of tools for editing and producing audio, recognizing all kinds of formats. In addition, with time it becomes easy to make professional finishes because it has quick access tools that facilitate the creation of live content. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** The interface is simple but it is not very attractive to the view so the DJs do not show it in live presentations. This, in addition, is a program that consumes a lot of RAM, although it is to be expected of this type of software. On the other hand, the addition of many add-ons on a track can cause a delay in the playback of the track in the 32bit version, which is detrimental to live music playback. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** It is advisable to buy the 64 Bit version if you want to produce at a high level, but if the user is a beginner you should start with the basics since the program alone does not create professional tracks, however, it is a good option to start. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** FL Studio has made it easy to record and produce with great professionalism. ### 7. Insane Workflow **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James M. | Junior Graphic Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2019 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** Wow where to start I like absolutely everything about this program! The native plugins are are amazing, the layout is amazing, the color coding and organizational techniques provided are incredible, the workspace customization is perfect, the graphics are crisp and clean, the whole program is so pleasing to the eye, and the native sound kits are very nice. I have tried using other music production software and I always come back to FL. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** There is nothing that I have disliked that hasn't been updated in the most recent revamp. I used to not like how grey and boring everything was but now it looks so spectacular. I will say that it can be sort of a pain to use running bootcamp Windows 10 as the output device for audio get's a little wonky but besides that I have no complaints. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** I would say go big or go home because it is worth every penny, everything is beautiful and high quality and I will be using this program for the foreseeable future. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits of using FL Studio is the ease of use and how much it influences and enhances my own creative drive. I can work with a goal and a task in mind or just play around with combination of things for hours until I am inspired. I completely self taught myself how to use FL around 6 years ago as a complete beginner and I caught on very quickly. ### 8. Excellent software to create music **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michal Adam S. | Translation Specialist, Higher Education, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** It has an excellent versatility for any VST. It is very easy to be used by anyone, plus it has intuitive functions. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** All the major VST are to be purchased and sometimes it gives problems with MacOS compatibility. Even if you buy the VAT, there is the risk you won’t be able to use them until compatibility is available. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** It’s the easiest way to create music **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped me a lot to shorten the time of music creation. It is easy to use, so I prefer it instead of other softwares. ### 9. Very good for making produced tracks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason D. | Producer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2019 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I love the ease of use and how good it is to learn how to make songs on it **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** I am not a huge fan of the price and some of the default synths on there **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using it to make beats and various other promotions. ### 10. FL studio is a good software for producing music **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chika Melvin O. | Shop Consultant, Telecommunications, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2019 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** For those new to making music, FL studio is a great software to start with as it is easy to learn. It also gives me variety of sound options to work with. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** I don't get enough plugins from fl studio, I frequently have to buy and for an amateur who just started to use the software. It's a turn off. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** If you're budding music producer. FL studio is a good option to start with **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me improve my skills in music production and also helps me create my own special style. ### 11. My FL Studio Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Music | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2019 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** Fl is extremely user friendly. One of the best and most versatile DAWs on the market. It’s ease of use is unparalleled to any existing DAW. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** Fl Studio has a stigma associated with it. People say it’s unprofessional, but some of the best music in the industry has been arranged, mixed and mastered with Fl Studio **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** One of the best and inexpensive DAWs you can get. It’s easy to use and support from Image Line is amazing. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes it crashes, very rarely. ### 12. FL Studio 20 Producer's Edition **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cleniq D. | Freelance Audio Engineer, Music, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2018 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I like the improvement of shortcuts (compared to FL Studio 12): clip automation, pattern display, and arrangement). FL Studio has some of the most useful stock plugins (Parametric EQ 2, Fruity Compressor, Fruity Delay 2). Compared to other DAWs, FL Studio is easier to learn even for the novice audio engineer, producer, or musician. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** Higher processor usage can sometimes cause the program to close unexpectedly. Some minor issues with setting up/using third-party VSTs (i.e. Kontakt 11) within FL Studio occurs. FL sometimes has a problem recognizing the software or properly displaying the "activation" screens for that software. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** For someone who hasn't used FL Studio before, I would recommend purchasing the FL Studio beginner's version priced at $99. This version includes the basic programs for a novice user and allows one to focus on the more general programs. If you decide after testing the beginner's version that you want more, you can always upgrade vs having to purchase the entire program again. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** From a business point of view, FL Studio has saved me a lot of time. As a music producer, it's important for me to produce as much high quality music as possible. Within FL Studio, I'm able to create any format of a song (with or without effects) and export numerous formats within a few minutes. FL Studio has helped our business become more organized and productive. ### 13. FL Studio **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Beth M. | Beth McPherson, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** FL Studio makes it easy to create and edit MIDI tracks and create high quality, realistic sounding MIDI recordings with an excellent selection of professional samples. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** FL Studio is best used for MIDI editing and not recording. Its recording functions are very limiting, though it excels in MIDI editing and creation. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** FL Studio is an excellent tool for those who will create electronic music and MIDI mockups. It will produce a very high quality audio recording with some of the bests samples available in the industry. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** FL Studio allows users to create extremely realistic sounding MIDI recordings and has some of the best and highest quality samples available for use. It also is best at editing MIDI tracks, so a user can have a MIDI instrument perform anything they wish. ### 14. FL for Life! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Music | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2019 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I love the classic sequencer that allows for easy placement of kick, snare, hi-hats, 808 and so forth. It allows for easy automation and placement. Mixing in Fl Studios is a breeze. it comes packed full of Eqs, Reverbs, and Compressors. as well as a few tricks up the sleeve. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** Its probably more my computer than Fl however the buffer size determines what I can utilize at once. such as Dune, Nexus, and Spire! **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** Be sure not to get caught up in the Hype that other programs, and allow it to steal the glow of its ability to deliver great production assistance. Explore not only what you can add to the program but what comes in the box as well, become affiliated with the program as a whole! **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to create great compositions for commercials and videos for my church. ### 15. Highly capable, easy to use and fun music production for all **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erdem B. | Senior Industrial Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2018 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** - Friendly user interface - Ease of use - Variety of built-in tools, and also plugins (beginning with producer edition) - VST Support - Soundfont support - Overall quality of generators and effects - Great sound quality **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** - Sometimes It does not recognize a few obscure VST plugins. Very rare but can be annoying. - My PC is 5 years old, and it has difficulty running new versions. But I am satisfied with an old version too. - Piano roll is great. except it needs improvements. For example; I want to be able stretch up/down or equalize the velocity of multiple key strokes simultaniously **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** FL studio is amazing for beginners and amateurs. There is a learning curve, but it is very negligible. It has a great value for money. As you get more comfortable and experienced, you can get into details and professional level. Some musicians and producers say that FL is more of a hobbyist software rather than a professional solution... I disagree. But I am not a professional musician; I just heard awesome music made with it and saw videos of a few musicians create wonders with it. I was stingy so I began with Fruity Edition but it turns out that Producer Edition was the better option for me. That's why I recommend people to carefully examine what edition they need, **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am not a professional musician or a producer. I use it primarily as a hobby; but for business, I use it to make background music for design animations and presentation videos. It is cheaper than using stock music considering the number of videos to be created and it is better than using corny free music intended for YouTube. I can make the song as long as I need rather than editing someone else's music. By making my own music with FL Studio, I can easily put emphasis on something, give a break or build up anticipation in my videos. I have great fun while making music in FL studio, that's why it is not a drag to make music for our presentations. ### 16. Great software for beginner to intermediate producers. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Music | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2018 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I have worked in music production for the past five years and currently study Audio Production and Middle Tennessee State University. One of the first programs I ever used to start producing my own music was FL studio. FL Studio is a stellar software for all level of production. The software offers easy workflow, and all the tools needed to create a decent track. Fl also accommodates your plugins and now works for Mac OS as well as Windows. There are an abundance of online sources teaching you every inch of this software. If you have a question on how to do something in the software, simply look up how to proceed on google or youtube. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** I have recently moved away from FL Studio as my main software. I now use Pro Tools and Logic Pro. Reason being that they are more standard in the industry and for professional work. I also enjoy the workflow and cohesiveness of logic pro. Fl can improve in a lot of ways. First of all, stock plugins can be updated. There have been many of the same plugins in FL, often with little to no change in sounds or controls. Adding filter patches or something similar as well as new mechanics and modern sounding keys can help this program. Absolutely, you can still produce a high-quality product with stock plugins and I have many times, but this will help the user remain engaged and inspired. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** Look up tutorials online. It is very easy to get familiar with this software. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** For business, a lot of younger artist and producers use FL studio as their main daw in production. The ability to quickly communicate ideas and information based on a common DAW is helpful. Then again, I moved away from FL because I felt it was lacking more advanced components. ### 17. My best friend when we're talking about audio editing. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victor Daniel V. | Programador Musical, Entertainment, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2018 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I have so much empaty with FL Studio, this becomes to me like a classic tool to produce, generate, mix, equalice. Being honest im always more in comfort with this software. You can add some VST plugins to manage with your own laptop or desktop keyboard. I started to use just as a beatmaker tool but with the time, just become more familiar with his function and now i can even mix and apply some mastering. Works with a nice list of features, plugins, instruments, samplers, loops and you always going to be learning more and more how to do all your music job on this software. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** Actually i don't have like official reasons to dislike FL Studio, but that depends on your computer requeriments, and also the version that you get of this software, you must be carefull and contact the sellers deparment of Image-Line, to evoid being scammed with a non official version. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** I have to recommend FL Studio because you will work with one of the most used softwares on audio edition, and have a nice features, great compatibilty, very friendly interface and its totally unexpensive comparing with another software of this type. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before FL i had to work with a list of softwares to manage the whole piece together and that was the moment when my full audio it was ready to be share. But now that i become absolutely more familiar with it, i can say that helps me a lot with the time, and also because has a nice compatibility and its totally easy to use. ### 18. Best DAW **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Quinten C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I like the fact that you're able to control sounds of instruments separately on the mixer. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** The FL sample packs are not really a variety of sounds and I think this should be improved. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** My experience has been great. Just started tho. ### 19. It is undoubtedly the most comfortable and accessible of the audio software. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marbelys Z. | Direct Assistent, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2018 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** What I enjoy most about FL Studio is the number of sound generators that come included. Also, its futuristic-looking interface (in this case in version 12 that I use). When it comes to creating a high-quality OST with a good default sound library, this software offers a wide range of options. It also complements very well with other audio software, whether plugins or even with MIDI controllers, it tends to be the best management option thanks to its high performance and compatibility with peripherals and alternative programs. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** I would like the simplification of certain actions in the software that can create completely avoidable difficulties for the user. It should also be noted that sometimes it tends to be slow due to the use of programs aligned with FL that can even cause the software to stop during use. This problem I mention can be clearly noticed in a bug of the metronome that this program has. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** For those who are interested in good results and quality audio editing, I highly recommend using this software. It can greatly facilitate your work by providing not only professional benefits but also academic ones, whether it be to impart knowledge about its use or simply to improve the skill level of your coworkers. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** With FL Studio, I have been able to create and edit a large part of the audio with which we work on the audiovisual material of our company. Considering that audio is obviously a fundamental factor in our work, we spare no effort in pushing and pushing until we obtain the product we need, and in that, we have always been able to rely on this software. ### 20. FL Studio is a Classic. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francisco V. | Director fundador, Music, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2018 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** It has professional features. It allows me to make my own beats with a very fun and easy workflow, providing me with a lot of options to manipulate the sounds at my preference. It has a friendly and goodlooking interface to start creating tracks quickly. FL Studio 12 is the best version that i have used. I like the fact that FL Studio is always keeps updating to provide a great variety of pluggins that improve my creative capacity. I love the way that i can handle the elements on the channel rack just dragging and clicking, putting all at my disposal to have a better manipulation to make experiments with the sounds, allowing me to mix every type of melodies and genres with a real good sound quality. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** I wouldn`t complain about his functionality. But it would be awesome some upgrades for the audio record and mastering tasks, to make it a more complete DAW. For example to audio recording i better like tha quality that Cubase offers and to mastering and all the producing process i rather prefer Adobe Audition when it comes to the features that it offers me to do the task, it's a matter of tastes. I use FL to make my beats; sequence and mixing the sounds, it is a perfect DAW for these tasks. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** I highly recommend it, because it allows you to develop your own tracks, instrumentals or beats and mix the sounds in a profesional way depending of how much you handle the elements. But you don`t have to be a musician or know the musician language to create your own melodies and vibes, you just have to familiarize yourself with the features and start to create. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I started to use FL Studio for fun creating electronic music tracks and i got hooked immediately .Once i improved my level i started to experiment with the sounds using samples and creating some awesome beats, but i just did it for fun. One day a friend of mine asked me for a hip hop beat and it like to him so much that i ended making all the beats for his mixtape, since then i becoming a beatmaker. I create beats for upcoming artists, always trying to give them a special type of vibe. Right now i am preparing a pack of beats to share it on youtube to make myself know as a beatmaker and hopefully sell some and get some extra money. ### 21. FL Studio is an excellent program for working in music production. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos Eduardo V. | General Manager, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2018 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I like the freedom it offers me to create tracks and radio jingles. FL Studio has always been and continues to be one of the best tools for manipulating loops and combining them with MIDI clips. It also features a wide range of default plugins and the ability to manage and combine them to generate a hybrid sound. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** Particularly with FL Studio, I have some format incompatibilities. I also consider that in complex composition processes, it tends to generate unnecessary load on the processor card. However, the software presents very few inconveniences. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** I can recommend that you nourish yourselves with information by accessing tutorials to create different sounds and personalize your digital composition as much as possible. FL Studio is a good option for beginners and beatmakers. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a solo musician and producer of varied auditory content, FL gives me the opportunity to learn to generate complete sounds without the need for so many external plugins, and it also provides me with a wide range of results regardless of the genre I want to venture into. ### 22. This gets your music ideas from your mind to sound the fastest way possible. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael L. | Founder & Music Producer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2018 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** Workflow, UI, Sequencer, Mixers, Amazing VSTs that come FREE, Image-Line software in generally is all amazing. THANK you for creating this DAW. It is the best out there for creating Hip-Hop and R&B. It has brought soo many of my ideas to life because you've given me the best platform to bring out my ideas. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** I don't really dislike anything about the software - I just don't like how the whole music industry has built such bad outlook on FL because of how they started as just a sequencer and nothing else. The only dislike is the bad vides you get from Music Indsutry vets who have unedcuated ideas about the DAW. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** Complete the MAC version and Image line WILL take over the music industry and enhance the world! **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's given the best possible option to create my music ideas. I love every moment using this because it makes my eyes glisten and makes my ears happy when I create something that I love to hear! ### 23. This its my OST maker for excelence. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diana s. | Executive Creative Director, Telecommunications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2018 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** With FL Studio i work on my soundtracks, wich i add to my audiovisual art. Theres a complete world of FX sounds, plugins with a lot of sounds and the capacity of hybrid everyone. I actually use it for work and for personal audio edit, means that you can work really well on a beat or instrumental to grow on a beatmaker career. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** Sometimes i think the ram use of FL its too much for his functionality, but that depends the hardware you have to get on it. There's others issues with the rendering time that i don't get so comfort about it. But its a great option for low requirements. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** Take a shot on FL studio and become a beatmaker and soundtrack professional very easy and fast, there's a lot of tutorials and guides to get it fast to the top with this software. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being especific, with FL i can do my all ost work myself, and can learn how to edit the plugins and get the needed sound for the film or the singer. Also if you have a Low requirements pc you'll be very greatfull with his function and results. ### 24. This is my preciated work piece, highly recommended **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andres T. | General Manager, Telecommunications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** The best part of using FL Studio is, versatility of plugins, and compatibility with MIDI and VST controlers, also you cand find that its very practical to make songs, OST, soundtracks and ambienting audio. I like the version FL Studio 12 espificicly because i found very easy and professional, all the libraries and effects that provides you to find the best option to make your own music. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** To be honest there's some moments when the general set get stuck for few minutes and i was woundering if was a problem of my computer but doing in different place when you have a long piece, then take a little breakdown and come along again just normal. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** I think that just with try one time FL Studio you'll have a lot of time to spend using it, because you try with the rythm and them with the melody, and have a lot of samplers and even sequences of drums, guitars and keyboards, including special audio effects and even some other utilitys. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Especially for bussines i took this program and have hours and hours of work, making music for theater trails, movies, and my own professional music career. Im beeing using for years and actually i don't think will ever stop use it, because i took the time of make comparations and even try another programs like FL but there's no better choice. ### 25. Fun way to create music **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aris G. | Graphic Designer, Graphic Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2017 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** FL studio is easy to work with software with simple and beautiful user interface. It's easy for a person with musical education or with plain understating of music and rhythm to start creating in FL Studio in a matter of couple minutes of introduction. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** What I don't like about it is that the sound while playing on standard PC or notebook keyboard is not synced properly. There's a delay between pressing a button and hearing a sound which makes it very difficult to play on simple keyboards **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** If you're into music FL studio is a great tool for you to get started in composing music. It's very simple to set it up and start composing using multiple instruments. It has a lot of great plugins and tools that can help you to achieve desired sound. Even if you're not composing it's still a powerful tool to create sound effects remove noise from audio sources, etc. You don't need to have external sound imitating keyboard or synthesizer to connect to your device to use it. You can compose and play just by using your average keyboard of your laptop or PC. Plus one of the greatest thing you can do is to buy additional instruments which will make your program act as a full synthesizer with all the effects and instruments within. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use FL studio to create sounds for my video presentations. I also use it to compose music. It's really beneficial to have custom sounds for your brand and those sound could become a part of your brand's identity ### 26. Best music software for anyone **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Junayd K. | Global Travel Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2018 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I've used FL for the past ten years since I started in the industry. For me it is easy to manipulate your music and edit everything. Sound and midi input is great, design is super modern. Good for beginners or extreme pros. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** I dont like that the driver sometimes has faults and glitches although recent updates have amended this significantly **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating music that is sellable on all digital platforms. ### 27. The Best DAW for Sequencing & Automation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** João d. | Co-Founder, Music, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2017 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** FL Studio is an amazing DAW still overlooked by the majority of audio professionals due to its legacy. Yes, it has become a staple with hiphop and EDM producers, but outside that realm it's still pretty much frowned upon. This leads to a vast majority of professionals not realizing two of FL strengths: An incredible sequencer and arranger/playlist and a great mixing platform. Mixing is a breeze in FL, and the mixer hides many incredible tools that a lot of engineers would kill for. The new vector GUI is a great add as well. Macros are also on point. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** But FL has its downfalls too, of course: Recording directly introduces a clicks and blips in the audio (I have tried it with many different interfaces and this happens with all of them, to more or less extent) and the included effects sometimes don't have the best GUI or are up to par with the similar effects from other DAW's like Logic. GUI could also look a bit less "toyish". **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** Go for it. Even if you end up using Rewire or something else, the flexibility and swiftness of your ideas will reach new levels. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Each DAW has its own weaknesses. But as a one stop shop for every major component in audio (recoring, sequencing, arranging, mixing) FL is still my go-to choice. ### 28. My thought on FL Studio **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Music | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** As a professional Audio Engineer, I think this is great tool for which you don't really need that much training. Its a Daw that allows you to create great beats. Its great for for Hip-Hop, R&B, Reggaeton, Latin Music, etc. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** The Mac version is still on a Beta stage. I think they should release a full version just like for Windows. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** If you're new to Music Production, this is a great starting program. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its a great platform to create music ideas in a fast and easy way. ### 29. "FL studio is for amateur's" This isn't true, although it's said alot. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** andi w. | Game dev, Computer Games, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** FL studio has been a part of my life for several years, what I like best is how accessible and customizable it is. Not only have you have a nice, clean user interface, but the fact you can change whatever you want ( even down to the background) to benefit you and your production pipeline makes it even better. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** There are not many things I dislike about FL studio, the only real thing I can think of is the apparent Input lag when using a MIDI keyboard, but that could just be down to my own device. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** If you are...."New" to producing music, then I would say go for it. It's easy to learn, nice to look at and you can get very technical very fast (If you want to). I myself have found other DAW's confusing. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits I have realized using this software are that of, Speed and accuracy. we know what we want, and using FL studio we can quickly produce that. ### 30. Production Needs Met **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I learnt sound/music production with the demo version of FLstudio, It took me some time anyways but the process was relatively easy and interesting. FL studio is an outstanding software if you are interested in making beats, music or recording. Although, there are more advanced softwares, this one is professional enough for quality production that can compete anywhere in the world. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** The software had some problems with my soundcard for a while, I would have prefered if there was an automatic response to show what the prioblem was,it saves time. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** All your music production needs in one software. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Audio recording. ### 31. Music and Sound editing made easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charlie B. | Digital and Traditional Media Artist, Fine Art, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2017 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** The layout and design makes it easy to see your projects coming together and where work needs to be done. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** At times the sound clip editor can be inarticulate. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Adding music to projects, films, powerpoint presentations and various video projects is quickly done with fl studio. ### 32. Has come a long way since "FruityLoops!" **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew G. | Director of Customer Experience, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** Very easy to pick up and start creating electronic music and backing tracks. Can be used to mix as well as compose, which is great. The ability to quickly create your own tracks for youtube videos, etc. so you don't have to worry about royalty and DMCA is awesome. Heck, even Soulja Boy created his only hit song using FL Studio, so there's that. As well, there are a TON of tutorials which is super helpful for any piece of software, but especially products in the creative space like FL Studio. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** As it is for any composition software, the learning curve can seem steep at first and quite daunting. Bringing anyone up to speed takes a while and there's no guarantee they'll make something usable/decent. The company has been adding more and more (just looked it up, it's 18 years old!!) and getting going is a lot more scary now than it used to be. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** I think there's a free demo so give it a try! It's good stuff and you'll pick it up quickly if you've used audio software in the past. If you are confused, try some youtube tutorials! **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this so we don't have to pay royalities for our video/audio bumpers and things like hold music. Several of our employees have musical backgrounds and enjoy the ability to use some of that to help the company. It's almost a perk at this point, plus we get to use the music for free and unlimited. ### 33. The art of music **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2017 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** Its new version, FL Studio 12, features a much more modern and elegant design. "Enabled Image Line Remote" connects to your tablet and uses it as a MIDI controller. "FL Studio ASIO" ensures better sound quality, even if your audio card is very old or has limited resources. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** It does not fully support generators with more than one kernel It is not possible to place two automation clips in a single control **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working on improving my skills in mixing, editing, and production. The great advantage that has solved my problems has been FL Studio due to its cost. ### 34. Excellent Platform To Start And Grow **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Billy L. | Director of Information Technology, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** You buy it and the updates are free forever. It installs very easily with very little questions and configuration. On the music creation side, there are many tools included to get you going. Multiple versions are available at great prices in my opinion. The quality of the output is professional level. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** The interface can be a bit overwhelming at first, and seem very busy. In order to efficiently use this product you will need a LCD no smaller than 17". It is very possible to go smaller, but it will seem cramped. You need to be at least a semi-organized person to use this product. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** If you need commercial quality mastering you "may" want to demo it first. That said, MANY people use FL to create & mix and then use a stand alone mastering program in the end. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** The only real business issue is when it comes to ### 35. Fantastic, Powerful, Expandable Software with Long-Term Value **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael H. | Freelance Designer, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** Lifetime free updates. I bought FL Studio in 2002 (back then it was called Fruityloops...the name change was probably a good move). That was version 3. Fourteen years later, I'm using FL Studio 12. I have purchased some upgrades along the way to get additional plugins, features, and samples, but updating to the newest version is always free (and usually includes updates to plugins, too). FL Studio is a powerful sequencer and creative tool, and you don't need any additional hardware to make great music (aside from a pair of headphones). I sometimes use a MIDI controller, but I have built complex songs on my laptop using nothing but the integrated touchpad mouse and computer keyboard. My next laptop will have a touchscreen, and I look forward to exploring the many features they've built into recent versions for touchscreens. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** The last time I checked, FL Studio did not support the AAC file format (although it supports just about everything else). The video player plugin is very limited and difficult to work with. It's only designed for syncing purposes (you cannot export a video, only audio) but for my workflow I usually just make some notes about when I need soft hits, hard hits, transitions, etc. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** FL Studio is an amazing program with lasting value through lifetime free updates. It shines in sequencing and loop-based music creation, and that functionality is quick and easy to learn. There is incredible depth available to more experienced users. I make extensive use of the well-designed piano roll in all my projects, and always use a number of automation clips, which can be linked to any parameter. An experienced user can produce highly complex, nuanced, professional music with FL Studio. FL Studio does allow you to record through a mic or line input, but it doesn't support multiple takes (you have to manually save each take) and recorded audio has a time limit (default is five minutes, although you can increase it to whatever value you want). If you are looking for a workhorse studio recording program, FL Studio is probably not the best choice—although it very well might be the best value. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used FL Studio to create music for both audio and video projects. It plays a crucial role in my creative process. ### 36. Best overall DAW with genuine free updates always keeping you up to trend with features and demands. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leroy F. | Owner / Lead Developer, Computer Games, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** The lifetime free updates have to be the best feature because it allows you to come back to it whenever you're ready and still be using cutting edge technology capable of doing all modern concepts and ideas. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** Learning curve (although not unique to FL Studio), since its able to do all things it can be overwhelming especially to newcomers especially if one wants to get good. Music theory alone is a big subject however so its more of a general criticism than one aimed squarely at FL Studio. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** If you want the best overall Digital Audio Workstation capable of doing all the things you could want to do with music, production, recording and sound work (out the box or via plugins) this is your best bet, especially if you want to stay updated to the latest enhancements in the sector without having to pay a yearly fee like most / all other offerings. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It enables me to create music / sound effects for my game / product creations and to keep in tap with the latest advancements and features in the sector. The interface is pleasing and the plugin compatibly and free core updates to the base product make it a best in class in my opinion. ### 37. One of the best beat software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matteo M. | Art Director digitale, Design, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** Fruity Loops is both simple to use and powerful, without an hard learning curve. There is a great community on the web that make really easy to find informations on many tasks that you may find necessary for making beats and producing, or techniques that you want to incorporate into your beats. You will also find a lot of stock samples that every "first time producer" will be happy to use. Also, you can request hints from the program when in certain windows, trough the hint bar. There are 3 different version of the software: the Fruity Edition is for Basic melody & loops creation, The Producer Edition is for full song creation & mic recording, and the Signature Edition offers full song creation & extra plugins not included within the Signature Edition. I think that you’ll be greatly satisfied should you decide to give it a run. It’s all good. Excellent price and quality. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** I honestly can’t find anything that’s not to like about FL Studio 12. From the UI to the advanced controls, everythings works really fine. This is the best production software I've ever worked with. If your focus is audio then this is probably not for you but for the electronic musician, songwriter, experimental producer or live performer then you really should give it some of your time. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** I recommend going with the Producer Edition, as the Fruity Edition is not a functional version. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** FL Studio is for aspiring producers and beat makers. While typically frequented by hip hop and house music producers, producers within other genres of music can benefit from FL Studios suite of music production tools. ### 38. FL Studio, make music with basic knowledge. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Enmanuel D. | Front-End Developer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I've been using FL Studio for several years now, I started using it a couple of years ago when I was interested in video/audio editing to make short clips or intros. It was a really nice experience, it wasn't that hard to understand,after a few days using it I was already making my first track. I studied music for about seven years, and to use this software I only needed the basic knowledge, nothing complicated, if you know something about rhythm and melodies, it will be easy. What I like the most is the fact that you can actually create any kind of music with a nice interface and a couple of clicks, it's easier to learn than others I've used and there is a big community behind it, you'll always find something about fl studio on youtube or google. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** I think FL Studio is great for creating music from scratch but not so awesome when it refers to editing audio that already exist, the spectrum of edition and the interface is not the best to edit audio, it could be better, There are other options like Adobe Audition or wavepad that let you edit meticulously all the audio properties. Important! If the audio you are going to edit comes in .flp format then it'll be great because it's the default edition format for fl studio. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** If you are going to create tracks from scratch it's great, also if you don't have a lot of knowledge about music and need to create something, it's the one that can help you definitely. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've used FL studio to create my own intros and presentations for my projects, it's by far the best software to create short tracks. ### 39. Excellent introduction to audio production with advanced features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh R. | eLearning Developer, E-Learning, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** FL Studio makes it so easy for anyone to pick up and learn how to make music in a matter of minutes. The pattern beat sequencer makes creating loops a breeze and the pattern system in general makes creating interesting songs simple. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** The interface is not too customizable, I would like to be able to rearrange interface elements similar to the way you can have multiple workspaces in Adobe programs. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** I highly recommend not giving up until you have spent a least 1 month with the product. Use Youtube tutorials and download free sounds, as the beginner sounds provided are weak. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** FL Studio is really easy to slow down audio, remove noise, and clip audio into multiple sections and batch export. ### 40. The one man orchestra **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin a. | Design Lead for a Non-Profit, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** The ability to create your own composition just by playing around with random options is very fun. Ever music lover , thinks about creating his/her own music . But what if you don't know how to play and live music. There's where electronic softwares come in. Fl studio offers various VTS plugins , which are easily accessible by all. You have all types of sounds including different types of synths, percussion sounds and tones which are not that good in most softwares. Once you learn a little about music and the software you are good to go. Fl Stuidios wide range of tones and sounds help every noobie in the business. You have a built in Vocoder , voice auto tuner which is very useful when recording your own voice. You have audio mixers and effects , like Echo , Phaser which you can add it to your final touch . **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** Music is not like any other software , you need to understand how things tempo's scales and chord work before you can work with it. The software experiences some lag or in this term Latency occurs. Latency is basically a gap or lap which happens. SO if you hit the not C , the sound is played a second later. Which is hard for live players. The playlist is alright to use , But could be better. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** I would really recommend that you learn the basic of music. You can start with the different types of beats and styles and slowly progress to chords,scales and lead instruments. Once you get the hang of how things work you can start to make your own composition within hours. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Latency was a big problem which I faced during my days with this software. Which can be solved by buying a soundcard for your device. Get a MIDI keyboard if you can. Trust me it will make your work much more easier. Just like the term to you don't have to write code to own a computer store . You just need to know how things work around. You can create your own composition in hours. I would recommend to export all your sounds as a uncompressed format and put into a audio editing software to equalize and sequence better. ### 41. A Must For Any Producer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I really enjoy the ease of use and the ability to use virtually an endless amount of plugins (VSTs). The User Interface is incredible. Once you get use to it you can do virtually whatever you want inside the program. The ability to move part of the GUI around allow for a customized look for you and only you! **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** The one problem I seem to consistently run into memory issues. Whenever I have to much happening at once the program will run out of memory and freeze. However there are versions that allow for more than 2GB of RAM usage so I will be upgrading to that very soon! **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** If you are going to be a heavy user and intend on production on a heavy level, be sure to purchase the x64 Bit Version as you will run into memory issues otherwise. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using FL Studio my entire music production career, which was FL 7. I have accomplished much in my time using it and the ease of use and ability to support nearly all of the VST's on the market, I consider FL to be a staple for any producer, whether they are new to the scene or a veteran! ### 42. FL Studio is more than just a DAW for beginners **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lewis W. | Web Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I can quickly setup a project in seconds. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** Some components aren't well connected and need hardwired by a user who understands what they are doing. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** FL Studio is working on a mac version of their software. It is much anticipated and I cannot wait to try it. If you're a windows user looking to get into audio production, then FL Studio is a great start. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I love how quickly I can get a project started with FL Studio. I have been using this product for 5+ years now, it is great for beginners to get their head around how DAW's operate, but even when you are producing audio professional it is still a great tool to get create music. I recommend this software to everyone who asks and I proud to say it. ### 43. A great first DAW **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** The best thing about fruity loops is without hesitation the lifetime free updates. It's a simple but powerful DAW. and you can easily find help and tutorials online. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** The user interface looks a bit dated compared to its competitors and it's not appropriate to perform live. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** It was my first music production software and I recommend it to other beginners who want to get into music production. There are plenty of free VST and samples available online. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm not in the music industry and only used FL Studio to produce electronic music on my spare time. It's the first DAW I tried and it's simplicity really stimulated my music creativity. ### 44. Best music tracker and production software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adriano M. | Software Developer, Computer & Network Security, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** Graphics interface is modular, colorful and fast. It is easy to use even from the novice. Demo songs is a good start point **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** Not well documented, maybe too much cpu requirements **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** Try it, rapid learning curve and best results **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not for business in my case, only for my personal project ### 45. Best music software! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** FL Studio is my first and I think the best software to making music. It has great library of sound and plugins. And there are also many thirdparty plugins (thanks to VST). I use piano and orchestral plusing for my work. At first look FL Studio seems to have very weird interface but if you use it for some time it is great and simple. At the same time FL Studio is very advanced. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** I don't use FL Studio now but I remember that 2-3 years ago I had few problems with newer versions. But problems are probably gone. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** I recommend FL Studio for begginners and more advenced users. It has everything you probably need to make great music. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using FL Studio for my own hobby. From rock music I turns into orchestral music and starts creating my own music. I don't use FL Studio now but if I had to create my own music now I will definitely use FL Studio. Here are my few videos with my music created in FL Studio + EWQL plugin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3w1KlGaxO8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0epltXwU1E4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72VHfZbcdKA ### 46. Amazing Audio Program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** FL Studios was the first program I utilized as a Professional DJ to remix and edit tracks. The interface is simple and easy to use. Additionally, FL Studios has several plugins that let you further enhance your productions. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** FL Studios tends to be resource heavy and slows down overall computing performance. On occasion plugins and samples take a bit long to load. But don't let that deter you, I seriously enjoy using this program. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** Give it a try, it truly is a great product, especially if you're just beginning to learn. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I primarily use FL Studio for Audio Editing. It is an intuitive tool that provides you with the quality of professional production. ### 47. A Beginner's Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Professional Training & Coaching | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** Fl Studio is quite simple to use, and its popular enough that you can find whatever you need online. Pretty versatile, and like any program, the UI may be pretty complicated but you soon learn what tools you'll need to get what you're looking for. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** The Fruity version is fairly limited, but the price to access some of the features in the Studio version is not likely something a Beginner would commit to. Namely features such as the ability to properly automate the songs and to record/import music. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** Audacity is still a viable tool for sound editing for those short of cash. **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** For people using this program for fun, there's a lot to learn from it. The potential to take it from a hobby to a more serious level isnt difficult though, and should serve the users well for any of their future endeavours. ### 48. I love this program!!! Seriously. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert P. | Owner/Designer, Media Production, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I love the ease of use. I just sit down, and can immediately start making music. There's a ton of plugins that you can use, and there is a depth that you can continue to explore. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** Honestly, it can be a little resource heavy, but it should be expected from a DAW. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** Keep exploring the software. Go search for VSTs online to get fun new sounds. You can pretty much make any type of music you want with it. ### 49. It looks like a toy but it has nothing to envy to some professional Digital Audio Workstations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Riccardo I. | Graphic designer, Graphic Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** I like the easy of use of the piano roll, the automations layers, integrated effects and instruments and mainly the sequencer. Overall the interface it's very easy to use and the speed of production in very high. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** The overall sound quality does not sound as good as others **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** Fl Studio is just as powerful a tool as any other DAW out. You can create great songs and great mixes in it anyone that tells you otherwise is just bias or really haven't used it to it's full potential **What problems is FL Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes it really easy to make good enough music to keep someone who lacks talent going ### 50. Great Product for all musicians **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2016 **What do you like best about FL Studio?** The indepth control of the sounds,pitch and frequency. Also there are a lot of vst plugins which makes the workflow a lot faster. **What do you dislike about FL Studio?** The UI can be improved a bit. Logic Pro have a great UI which is easier and well designed. **Recommendations to others considering FL Studio:** If you are starting in this industry , i recommend FL Studio as you will get a lot of learning materials,forums and plugins as per your requirement. After getting a hang of it then you can decide if you like to carry on with the product , upgrade it or move to different alternatives. 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