Why you left FL Studio?

[NERF_PROTOSS]

reasons I stuck with it
- sytrus is awesome
- patcher is awesome
- slide notes and note panning (for stock plugins) in piano roll are really nice features
- internal controllers + formula mapping make LFOtool look like a joke
- image-line steadily release good updates/improvements

reasons I gave up
- make unique
- working with audio is painful
- organizing plugin folder structures is painful unless you enjoy manually shuffling things around in your OS folder tree
- make unique
- no ability to filter out mixer tracks. filtering playlist/channel tracks requires you to waste time setting up groups
- even with the new instrument/playlist linking, still a huge amount of needless time wasted trying to organize, name and colour channel/mixer/playlist tracks
- MIDI CC automation is completely neglected, the event editor is plain bad
- make unique
- working with automation clip points is clunky. something as simple as copy/paste requires fiddling with multiple context menus
- no customizable hotkeys in general
- no odd grid spacing or snap settings (quintuplets, septuplets)
- no flats in the piano roll
- no pre-fader sends unless you want to waste limited effect slots on fruity send
- no MIDI sends without wasting space on a MIDI Out channel
- make unique

[Reefius]

I think you forgot this:

- make unique

[highkoo]

Ive been using FL for an embarrassingly long time.
For most of that time, every time I look at the competitions workflow, features, developers, price, community... I am f**king flabberghasted at the praise given to the presumed kings, and the hate casually given to the presumed toy.
Ableton is the only other thing even in the right ballpark for me. Everything else is for a band or something..

[Tannaliini]

FruityLoops was my first “real” music making software ever. And I really loved it back then! But I was forced to leave it since started to use Mac... So I tried Logic Pro & a little bit of Ableton and naturally garage band. But found that Reason was more suitable for me after FL.

Now (after yers) I’m back trying FL studio. It has this “old friend” feel to it. But I keep struggling with vocal recordings in it and some other stuffs. I think the workflow just isn’t working for me anymore :/

It has some really good factory sounds that I love. And I really enjoy how it looks (maybe it’s just since it’s reminding me of the days of my youth ).