How's FL Studio 20?

[mgw38]

It´s absolutely fine if you cannot adapt to FLS´workflow but then please agree that you don´t need to use... but it´s there waiting for you if you perhaps need it anyway...

I honestly think it is a great DAW. The pattern approach is brilliant. And I found it to be snappy as hell, even on a Mac. As I said, there were just too many of these workflow idiosyncrasies that made me not reinstall it when I switched from a Mac to a PC. And I do not doubt that you can work around a lot of these, but why should I find myself constantly hunting for workflow workarounds if other DAWs are just doing that natively.

[lotus2035]

All I can say is that FL Studio 21 (hopefully by Q2 next year) is going to be mind blowing.

What are they adding?

I'm curious too, all I know about is an upgraded EQ in the upcoming 20.8.

[wuworld]

What do you use now?

I've used Studio One since it came out. I'm a music producer who started doing hip hop, but am now focused on electronic/pop music. I know Studio One very well and wanted to see what else it out. I used Fl before Studio One. Didn't like it at the time. Now it's gotten a lot better.

Do to my Cubase 7 and Live 8 experiences, I see Studio One could be going down that road. So if I need to move on I will. Never wanna go through that again.

[wuworld]

It´s absolutely fine if you cannot adapt to FLS´workflow but then please agree that you don´t need to use... but it´s there waiting for you if you perhaps need it anyway...

I honestly think it is a great DAW. The pattern approach is brilliant. And I found it to be snappy as hell, even on a Mac. As I said, there were just too many of these workflow idiosyncrasies that made me not reinstall it when I switched from a Mac to a PC. And I do not doubt that you can work around a lot of these, but why should I find myself constantly hunting for workflow workarounds if other DAWs are just doing that natively.

FL works good on mac?

[xbitz]

yepp, just prepare yourself to use their Technical Support (macOS) official forum, have had to try it a couple of times but all my issues have been fixed in the next betas

[Reefius]

Just for fun I tried FL Studio again... Took me about 10 minutes to get frustrated by it and quit. Truly horrible workflow.
I have no idea why I ever bought a license for it.

[LoveEnigma18]

All I can say is that FL Studio 21 (hopefully by Q2 next year) is going to be mind blowing.

What are they adding?

I'm curious too, all I know about is an upgraded EQ in the upcoming 20.8.

So far, the new stuff that is in the betas isn't that interesting, but recently teased features like glitch-free loading of plugins (already in 20.8 beta), merge automation clips and selectable playlist tracks are quite huge, at least for me. And this is just a start. I am expecting more exciting features in coming months. I have a good engagement on IL forums and have given tons of suggestions/requests which I always keep pushing for implementation.

When it comes to working quick, nothing can come close to FL Studio. It might not be the best for recording/mixing, but it has come a long way and there's lots to come in near future.

[SneakyBeats]

Just for fun I tried FL Studio again... Took me about 10 minutes to get frustrated by it and quit. Truly horrible workflow.
I have no idea why I ever bought a license for it.

What's so horrible in drag n drop vst/sample to playlist track, it automatically connects to mixer track too.. Then you create a loop and few, if you want some variation you just create unique loop or stretch the original loop to cover the whole for example verse and do your midi magic there.

Easy as picking your nose.

[xbitz]

All I can say is that FL Studio 21 (hopefully by Q2 next year) is going to be mind blowing.

What are they adding?

I'm curious too, all I know about is an upgraded EQ in the upcoming 20.8.

So far, the new stuff that is in the betas isn't that interesting, but recently teased features like glitch-free loading of plugins (already in 20.8 beta), merge automation clips and selectable playlist tracks are quite huge, at least for me. And this is just a start. I am expecting more exciting features in coming months. I have a good engagement on IL forums and have given tons of suggestions/requests which I always keep pushing for implementation.

When it comes to working quick, nothing can come close to FL Studio. It might not be the best for recording/mixing, but it has come a long way and there's lots to come in near future.

posted the poll yesterday, https://strawpoll.com/2jhzdb6gx/r about what's next it was started by IL,

- audio editing (plugins like NewTone, NewTime, Edison) will be integrated into the playlist editor
- track mode based workflow will be improved further (and further workflow enhancements)
- theming(skins)
- and surprises (like multi-track operations, it was demoed yesterday https://forum.image-line.com/viewtopic. ... 0#p1550890 )

[antic604]

- and surprises (like multi-track operations, it was demoed yesterday https://forum.image-line.com/viewtopic. ... 0#p1550890 )

Some commenter "this is magic! "

LOL

[starflakeprj]

Taken out of context somebody is also mentioning, "This is torture" ...but yeah, out of context

[xbitz]

- and surprises (like multi-track operations, it was demoed yesterday https://forum.image-line.com/viewtopic. ... 0#p1550890 )

Some commenter "this is magic! "

LOL

I was the same feeling when started to use the color coding of Bitwig in tracks/clips too

which was introduced in 3.2 ... it's a kind of (color) magic

sry for offing, btw. Image-Lines also has only six developers similarly to Bitwig, so big respect to them too

[Trancit]

I honestly think it is a great DAW. The pattern approach is brilliant. And I found it to be snappy as hell, even on a Mac. As I said, there were just too many of these workflow idiosyncrasies that made me not reinstall it when I switched from a Mac to a PC. And I do not doubt that you can work around a lot of these, but why should I find myself constantly hunting for workflow workarounds if other DAWs are just doing that natively.

Just for fun I tried FL Studio again... Took me about 10 minutes to get frustrated by it and quit. Truly horrible workflow.
I have no idea why I ever bought a license for it.

What's so horrible in drag n drop vst/sample to playlist track, it automatically connects to mixer track too.. Then you create a loop and few, if you want some variation you just create unique loop or stretch the original loop to cover the whole for example verse and do your midi magic there.

Easy as picking your nose.

I think for most people (me too) the biggest error is trying to make FL Studio work like a "normal" DAW!!
This is a guarantee for much frustration and the feeling that it completely lacks of any workflow...
Much more than every other DAW FL Studio has it´s own rules and here more than everywhere else is the golden rule: You do it the FL Studio way or you better leave it!!

Stop forcing it to be something it isn´t and it will offer you all the goodies which are hidden overall the programm waiting for you to release the beast...

[clipnotic]

I started a new track in FL Studio two hours ago and I drunk some lockdown beers and meanhwile that track has 3 minutes ... that's FL Studio!

[larm]

I so hope per-clip crossfade comes to audio clips, seems like they are working on something in that style