Image-Line updates FL Studio to v12.5

1st August 2017 - KVR Audio News

Image-Line has announced the released of FL Studio 12.5. This will be the last major release of FL Studio 12.

New in 12.5:

Picker Panel (Alt+P) - A Pattern, Audio and Automation Clip manager / browser that lists all Pattern, Audio and Automation Clips in the project. Useful features include:
- Select unused Clips.
- Select Clips in Playlist.
- Rename/Color multiple clips.
- Render Pattern Clips to Audio Clips (Right-Click Clips > Render as audio clip.
Virtual MIDI Controllers - Resizable, customizable vectorial Keyboard and Drumpads. Play the selected Channel, just like an external MIDI controller.
Automation Clips - New (Right-click) control points 'Type in value...' feature.
FPC
- Resizable vectorial UI.
- Pads can now have custom colors and icons.
- New layout options (single/double pads).
- Per-pad automatable pitch.
Fruity Delay 3 - 'Analog' style delay plugin with BPM varying tempo-synced delay. It includes filtering and distortion options.
FL Studio Mobile
- Loads .dwp files (monolithic DirectWave presets).
- FL Studio will open .flm projects in FL Studio Mobile.
- Drag and drop compatible formats on the plugin (.flm, .dwp, .wav etc).
Harmor - Vectorial UI.
Fruity Balance - New vectorial UI & converted native plugin.
Patcher
- Threaded processing of hosted plugins/modules.
- 'More...' option in plugin insertion menus.
- (Right-click) node and select 'Insert plugin...' to connect a plugin to a node.
- Load DirectWave when .dwp file is dropped.
- (Middle-click) plugin title bar to rename.
- (Middle-click) connection filter checkboxes to disable the two others.
- 'Tree display' option in Control Surface tab Preset Menu.
- (Left-Click) to switch filter groups On/Off.
- (Middle-Mouse Click) to Solo/Unsolo a filter group.
Edison - Shows the length of selections (top-right in the Editor window).
Layer Channel - 'Reset children' option, resets the range and root notes for all Child Channels of a layer.
DirectWave
- Resizable vectorial UI.
- New filters (MiniSynth & Vox) plus High Quality Rendering (Option) to enable near audio-rate modulation of all DirectWave parameters.
Channel Sampling Robot - (Right-click) any Channel and select 'Create DirectWave instrument' to turn any Channel, Patcher or Layer into a DirectWave bank/patch.
Transistor Bass - New '303 pulse' (square waveform) switch and 'Gate Length' control.
Control Creator - Updated and now accessible from Patcher > Control Surface and the Tools menu.
Control Surface - Controls can now be auto-aligned. Select two or more controls and Right-click > Align for options.
Piano roll - 'Menu > View > Mini piano roll preview' shows an overview of notes in the scroll-bar. Highlight root key according to scale. New 'Menu > View > Keyboard style > Dark' keyboard mode. Use (Ctrl+Mouse-wheel) on Channel Selector to select empty Channels.
Plugin preset panel - Native plugins now show preset name and selection on the top-right of the window.
Playlist - 'Menu > View > Mini playlist preview' shows an overview of Clips in the scroll-bar.
MIDI Out - New 'Note' Knob output mode. Automate sending note on and off. A note value of 0 = Note OFF.
Route selected to free mixer track (s) (Ctrl+L) - Routes selected Channel/s, or plugins, to the first available Mixer Track/s.
Tools > Macros - 'Lock all playlist tracks to content' and 'Unlock all playlist tracks from content'. Aids for 'block-track' simulated workflow.
VIEW > Close all plugin windows (Alt+F12) - Closes only plugin windows.
Hide the plugin wrapper menu by default - See 'General Settings > Miscellaneous > Hide plugin window toolbar by default'.
TOOLS > Macros > Lock all playlist tracks to content and Unlock all playlist tracks from content. This is a helper for those wanting to replicate 'block-track' behavior present in older versions of FL Studio.
Additional changes & Bugfixes - Many. See the What's New here.