Would you like to sell your license of FL Studio if you could???

[Russell Grand]

What keeps me with FL Studio alongside Pro Tools is the piano roll, mapping formulas and extensive modulation/automation options. Mapping formulas probably being the most useful feature.

Yep, FL has the best piano roll, bar none. Other DAWs should take notes.

[Russell Grand]

I've had it forever and I have never wanted to sell it. While I don't consider it
my main DAW, I do enjoy using it and do so quite a lot. I've always found it
interesting and enjoyable to use for the most part.

[Russell Grand]

@dermichi:

That's ridiculous, Image Line has done nothing to deserve that. Please stop posting here if you plan on continuing to be so vindictive to a company for no reason.

[Russell Grand]

Go look at what FL was 20/15/10/5 years ago. They are consistently making major improvements to the software.

+1

[learnkeys]

YES!!!

I would sell mine!

I'm very good in Studio One and Cubase.
I'm pretty good in Reason.
I'm fairly competent in Live and Tracktion.

However, I've owned FL for years, and can't wrap my head around how it works. Why can't I just draw midi clips into the tracks? Why do I have to go into a little pop-up window and all? Everything feels convoluted and weird. I find it to be infuriatingly different from every other DAW. I've owned it for years and have never even made so much as a simple drum beat in it. Every time I try to use it, I get frustrated and just go make something in another DAW.

I can't believe it when I read things touting how easy FL is? I don't get that at all.

I think it's cool, and I'd like to use it, but it just frustrates me to no end, and I don't care enough about it to go watch hours of tutorials and figure out how to use it.

I'm also rather amazed that they haven't really updated the GUI. It looks the same as when I first bought it years ago.

Yeah, I guess if it was your first DAW and you stuck with it like some do, you would get familiar with it's workarounds and shortcomings and learn to adapt. It's a lot different then your typical linear multi-track recording software. It's geared towards paint by numbers or draw by grid "musicians". I prefer actually playing the keyboard by performing and recording it, which the software was never really designed for. We won't even get into the hassles of recording vocals with it.

[Russell Grand]

I prefer actually playing the keyboard by performing and recording it, which the software was never really designed for. We won't even get into the hassles of recording vocals with it.

I've seen this argument numerous times here on KVR and I have to laugh every time. I don't do "paint-by-numbers" music. I play and record my keyboards, I sing and record my vocals, and in the past I've played and recorded guitar (both acoustic and electric), and I've never had any issues doing so in FL Studio. I freely admit that the worflow is odd, being nothing like doing so in Studio One, Sonar, or Cubase. But with that said, it's possible and easy to do once you figure how to do it. And dare I say it? I love recording MIDI and vocals in FL. With tools like Edison and the far-superior-to any-other-DAW piano roll, it's amazing how quickly I can record what I need and edit the f*ck out of it! I shudder at the thought of how annoying and time-consuming it would be to try to do the same things in Sonar or Studio One. I've been there before and don't want to go back there again.

I feel spoiled having a DAW like FL. And while I understand that others feel the complete opposite way about Fruity, I still have to laugh. The idea that FL is only for copy-and-paste musicians is ludicrous.

To each his own as they say.

[learnkeys]

I prefer actually playing the keyboard by performing and recording it, which the software was never really designed for. We won't even get into the hassles of recording vocals with it.

I've seen this argument numerous times here on KVR and I have to laugh every time. I don't do "paint-by-numbers" music. I play and record my keyboards, I sing and record my vocals, and in the past I've played and recorded guitar (both acoustic and electric), and I've never had any issues doing so in FL Studio. I freely admit that the worflow is odd, being nothing like doing so in Studio One, Sonar, or Cubase. But with that said, it's possible and easy to do once you figure how to do it. And dare I say it? I love recording MIDI and vocals in FL. With tools like Edison and the far-superior-to any-other-DAW piano roll, it's amazing how quickly I can record what I need and edit the f*ck out of it! I shudder at the thought of how annoying and time-consuming it would be to try to do the same things in Sonar or Studio One. I've been there before and don't want to go back there again.

I feel spoiled having a DAW like FL. And while I understand that others feel the complete opposite way about Fruity, I still have to laugh. The idea that FL is only for copy-and-paste musicians is ludicrous.

To each his own as they say.

Yeah, it does fit some people's way of doing things, nothing wrong with that. It's just a little bit harder to navigate for those who are used to the traditional way of doing things.

I also believe that most people get into the software because of the step sequencer and beat making aspects it provides. Which would make sense to have an extended piano roll to accompany it.

There are a lot of people that use the software to get things started, layout ideas and for the most part sketch out something. I also hear a lot of professionals then take that and import it into different DAWs to finalize, record vocals, mix and master the final project.

I find it easier to stay inside one DAW from start to finish, but that doesn't mean everyone should. It's all a personal preference and whatever fits their work flow and creative process.

[dune_rave]

Dunno why anyone would like to sell it.
FL is a plugin also, or call it a synth environment - it's like Reaktor.

[WotEva]

I vote: nope!

[dermichl]

@dermichi:

That's ridiculous, Image Line has done nothing to deserve that. Please stop posting here if you plan on continuing to be so vindictive to a company for no reason.

I stand my ground ymmv! I would even sell FL Mobile if possible.

[Wopelka]

Never.

FL Studio is irreplaceable.

[stewartmays1]

nope i love fl studio

[MattmaN]

Would not be a sound move to sell due to the lifetime free updates.
For EDM, Hip-Hop, and other electronic genre's it's very nice.
Only if I were a guitar guy would I want to sell it, but I probably would just use a Traditional linear DAW for that anyway.

[kivajiva]

If I cannot ever sell a thing then I do not own it, plain and simple, it is just being licensed for use and is disingenuous to frame it any other way. If someone actually owned it I don't understand why someone couldn't buy it from someone and not ever receive lifetime updates at a price commensurate with that in mind. This way Image Line is not, as they say, loosing exponential sales down the line and everyone is happy as a proverbial clam. When I buy a Martin Guitar for instance, I am granted a lifetime repair for a neck reset which can be fairly expensive. I could own that guitar for 70 years and go through numerous resets. If I sell it to another person that part of the guarantee is null and void, but the new owner understands that. The same would be true with FL Studio. It is at a place that the software could be used in its present state of version indefinitely and would be well worth it to buy for someone. Version 10, 9, or even 7 could be worth to buy from someone who wished to use it.

[Trancit]

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