Image Line FL Studio 12 Full, In Depth Review

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  • Опубликовано: 7 ноя 2024

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  • @FL_STUDIO
    @FL_STUDIO 9 лет назад +30

    Points noted, heroic effort on the review (battling spiders even)... the "Goose head" control will be added in the next update ;) BTW: Here is a use of the diagonal cut slicing in the Piano roll - ruclips.net/video/tvV1FLrjmck/видео.html

    • @simmpessor5541
      @simmpessor5541 8 лет назад +1

      Yess great improvement indeed Image-liner. But please take note of the following:
      1. The step sequencer is need to be removed and connect in with channels. it create traffic and time consuming. it is very annoying especially when you dont have larger screen. the step sequencer should be connected to the channels so that when i double click it take me straight to the piano roll. that will minimise lots of windows that are disturbing during the course of production.
      2. Image-Liner should get rid of that EDISON. we like to record directly to the channels. i do not understand why EDISON from the first place.Most people are annoyed bye EDISON when it comes to recording.
      3. Image-Liner please can you work on the waves, vocals and instruments especially when they are on channels. You need to pup more features there on channels. This will bring more people who run away from FL because it is good for beat production, not recording. Most people do sounds on FL but for Vocal the go for Cubase, Protools because of their greatest features when working on the waves.
      3. The last thing. Please, the native sound still sound horrible. You have to sweat on FL to get good sound. You have to have third party plugins or export to other DAW for mastering, that is not cool, we need to work on FL from screech to the finished product. Can engineers work on the advancement of the sound. It is not crisp and Fat but Loud and Cleat. That is likely to favour Rock, Electro & HipHop music.
      I salute you on the job done as young as you are in the market .
      Bonus.. Can we then have some easy option or jut a click button to hide all instruments channels when we are working on vocals because it is also time consuming to minimize one by one channels and aoutomotions to get space when working on Vocal, you end up not knowing or need to read word by word to neoprene.
      Excuse my bad English, it is not my native language.

    • @juancruz2337
      @juancruz2337 7 лет назад +2

      +Simthembile Phesa I know it may be a little late, but i don't care
      1.- Maybe you don't like the Step Sequencer, but it's a key FL Studio feature, most FL users love it, and it's what makes FL Studio's workflow so unique.
      2.- You can record audio in multiple ways, you are NOT forced to use Edison, you can actually record audio directrly into the playlist. Btw, Edison is really useful for sampling.
      3.- If you know how to mix, you can make anything sound great. Btw, FL Studio's native plugins are not that bad.
      4.- The company is called Image-Line, not Image-Liner
      5.- Last but not least, it's not their fault that you don't know how to use their software

    • @DaveDEF82
      @DaveDEF82 7 лет назад

      +Iamyouonlydifferent If multitracking is your focus why don't you use Reaper instead?

    • @vouse7391
      @vouse7391 6 лет назад

      Simthembile Phesa Edison is a sampler plugin. You can easily drag the audio clip into Edison and edit it. It’s really not that annoying if u know it’s purpose and how to use it

    • @vouse7391
      @vouse7391 6 лет назад

      Simthembile Phesa also it’s image line, not image liner

  • @zacheraylong3009
    @zacheraylong3009 7 лет назад +3

    This is probably the best review I've ever watched for a piece of software

  • @mrp3rs0n9uy
    @mrp3rs0n9uy 9 лет назад +15

    Around the 50 minute mark - you mention that you want to record the guitar dry.
    - Near the bottom of every mixer track there is an FX enable/disable switch. You can see it right there beneath the stereo separation knob. If you simply left-click that, all effects on the track will be disabled. You can then record dry (but not monitor wet - see below on how to do that).
    - Insert an Edison on the track as an effect, and record through there. The order of effects on the track matters, so if you place Edison before Hardcore you will be able to record a dry track while monitoring the wet track.
    - Place Hardcore on the track titled "Current", which is found all the way on the left of the mixer. This track affects any track that is currently selected, and occurs post-fader as well as post-recording. So you can place Hardcore on "Current", make sure the guitar track is selected, then enable the Arm disk recording button on the guitar track. Once you hit the record button and choose to record to the Playlist, the recording will be dry, but the monitor will be wet.
    In my opinion, the Edison method is definitely the easiest method. Simply insert an Edison and hit record. There's a button inside Edison which then drops the recording onto the Playlist.
    :)

  • @crimsun7186
    @crimsun7186 9 лет назад +4

    One of the main features that I like on FL Studio 12 is the fact that it is so well documented. There is help for anything on the program, to the point of context sensitive help. Don't know what something does? Right click on it and select help. You'll have the page for exactly what you asked for help. And it's all offline. No silly custom web page or online only help with confusing articles or having to rely on a user forum.

  • @BadObserver
    @BadObserver 8 лет назад +6

    As a devout user of FLStudio, I enjoyed you discovering all the great hidden treasures that is the child of image-line. particularly that you spent 2 days to gain a greater understanding of the product instead of judging it at face value. You haven't even the time to mention the depth of each instrument synth, the vast and complex array of fx inserts including the power of the controllers, which is funny you mentioned but at the time didn't know. Overall, great software review. I like how you came into it tainted but image-line has stepped up their game, and I do think you were genuinely impressed. I absolutely love FL and enjoyed your honest and very well put together review. got a sub.
    People hark on the fact that I use FLstudio but don't understand why my shit sounds better

  • @ouroboroswyrm
    @ouroboroswyrm 9 лет назад +4

    well....youre 2 for 2 for excellent videos and ive subed.
    as a long time user of fl studio (from back when it was fruity loops) it was refreshing to see someone who was skeptical really have an open mind and look at it objectively. fl studio often gets categorized as a "toy"...and i think youve proven to yourself, and anyone who watches this video, that it is indeed a feature rich and deep daw capable of anything any other daw is (and maybe a few things others arent). i agree that the non linear "anything goes anywhere" approach can be disorienting for people not accustomed to working that way, but it also enables one to do some pretty interesting things.
    youre right that its strength is also a weakness...that being its versatility, as often times theres so many ways to do something that it can be a bit confusing. however that goes away once you find the best way for YOU to do it...then you can kind of forget about the others.
    as i mentioned...ive been using fl studio for quite some time...and even i learned some new tricks from this video...great job!

  • @jpallatin
    @jpallatin 9 лет назад +7

    FL Studio is an amazing and unique piece of software. Thanks for the review.

  • @wernerlp3
    @wernerlp3 8 лет назад +3

    What a huge amount of time did you spent to do this video? And what a great result you were able to produce. A really profund walkthrough of fl-studio with many interesting aspects, thanks a lot! I'm a user of fl-studio since a month or so, and haven't found a workflow to get the audio-recording to work effortlessly. It's a real pain to me, and everything is really complicated and not selfexplaining at all.
    I have been using Adobe Audition and am considering to go back to it, as fl-studio is more into EDM stuff. These people work differently. They work with short samples and a lot of them never recorded anything. They rather use the step sequencer, which is a great tool.
    Anyway, thanks again for your cool video and by the way: have your guitar tuned :-)

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  8 лет назад

      The dissonance of my guitar tone is a trade mark sound i'm working on.
      Yeah, audio tracking is not FL Studio's strong point.

  • @spindreams
    @spindreams 8 лет назад +2

    Thanks for the in-depth review it was really interesting and informative, I recently purchase FL12 and I did so after looking at a LOT of other DAWs over many years and now I am just getting my teeth into it. The first Midi sequencer I ever really liked and used was back in the late 80s on the Amiga and it was called Music-X and it had similar way of working with patterns and arrangements which I've always missed from other sequencers/DAWs which are all so linear and I never found something that inspired me to work like Music-X did until now. With its new vector based interface (Why don't all DAWs do this?) i'm really hooked and looking forward to exploring FL studio's endless possibilities.

  • @Eventual420
    @Eventual420 7 лет назад

    I am a subscriber, a Surface Pro 4 user, docked, dual monitors, and FL Studio 12.4 user. EZDrmmer user, I record exclusively with FLS12, but some of my uploads use FL5, the older SD vids. I play folk/rock/metal. Great content here as usual. Much to learn.

  • @BillPasdeaux
    @BillPasdeaux 9 лет назад

    Thanks for a clear and concise overview... this is the best newbie-type effort I have seen these last few years.

  • @widebandrecords902
    @widebandrecords902 9 лет назад +2

    Also as a 15yr+ software/web programmer, i find only floops since fl4 stable had the true potential to truely make your own music and have it sound/rendered to wave/mp3 however you want without the daw container wrapping up the overall mixdown like cubase/ableton, also most daws are limited to how sounds are routed, i mean soundfonts were awful because of the huge dependency regardless of small file size but it was useful for cubase,.. Floops - flstudio can use soundfonts in a eloquent way especially if your a programmer as i said before, i feel having other skills on the computer other than music production skills helps one to get the most and much more than expected out of a daw.. Great video, i would say many would hate this video as the reviewer is speaking the truth and nothing more, i say flstudio is the Einstein of daws end of..

  • @MrLazylex
    @MrLazylex 8 лет назад

    Nice video!
    Got a question about your gear.
    The screen that lies before you, is that your main screen and also touch screen? And the one standing straight. Is that the second monitor pluged in? Or vice versa?
    Because the screen that lies, isnt the Surface Pro 4 screen right?
    I think that's a great setup to do some work. I only don't know what products or brands you are using there.
    I also want a screen that lies before me, that is a touch screen.
    But don't know what to buy. And i think your screen setup looks good.
    So long story short, can you tell me what kind of monitors you have there?? Haha
    Thanks!

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  8 лет назад

      Hi, yes it's an Acer T232HL touchscreen. The other screen is a regular 24" screen - nothing to do with the Surface here, it's all on a regular Molten MT desktop PC.

    • @MrLazylex
      @MrLazylex 8 лет назад

      Thanks!
      I did some googling, and i thought so that that was your monitor. But did not know for sure.
      But thanks, and up to the store! Haha

  • @XORISHE
    @XORISHE 7 лет назад

    That is a very nice review. I applaud your objectivity.
    I'm a long time user of FL, in fact I was a beta tester for them from FL3 to 7 ;-) and it was nice to see someone getting to grips with it.
    31:04 notice how the last tenor sax note you plot turns into a slide note (It has a small triangle on the end of the note) - this is an option in general settings called _click and hold piano roll functions_ . Unfortunately slide notes only work with native FL instruments. You should give it a go though - a very powerful feature - plot a slide note above or below a currently playing note and it will slide to it. The length of the slide note dictates slide duration.
    Subbed!

  • @m3chanist
    @m3chanist 8 лет назад

    Your reviews are absolutely excellent. Thank you and great work.

  • @Klaymor6405
    @Klaymor6405 8 лет назад

    36:32 LOL! Thank you so much for this video! Learned a handful of useful tips and tricks for the future. A friend of mine and I are recording music a la Steely Dan and finding this program to be wonderful. We can add all of our live instruments and mix them accordingly, then add a bass guitar instead of using the old POS in the basement. Very handy for double tracking vocals and all sorts of others tidbits which come in handy.
    Didn't mean to carry on. Once again, thank you for your time and effort!

  • @jackhopkins9618
    @jackhopkins9618 9 лет назад +1

    watching an fl rookie use fl really helped me being a rookie myself! thanks a lot, very useful!!! liked and subbed!

  • @komalthecoolk
    @komalthecoolk 8 лет назад

    This is awesome. As good of a fast intro/tutorial of FL studio as much as it is a review!

  • @redkevlar
    @redkevlar 8 лет назад

    Very cool. You've created the "missing manual" for us.

    • @henninghoefer
      @henninghoefer 7 лет назад

      redkevlar FL has an excellent manual available at a push of the F1 key

  • @MrPainseeker
    @MrPainseeker 9 лет назад +2

    The piano roll and channel sampler of FL studio are hands down the most versatile and flexible compared to all other DAWs, especially since FL 12.

    • @akiramenai4973
      @akiramenai4973 8 лет назад

      I looked a little while, and I couldn't find a way. If you just want to hide the key labels, you can use the button in the upper right corner of the piano roll window to vertically zoom out so that the keys shrink; eventually the labels go away. This is a strictly visual thing though, so it would be easiest just to ignore it.

    • @D3TOSS
      @D3TOSS 8 лет назад +1

      click on the menu in the top left corner from piano roll, go to "view" and then select "keyboard style" choose classic

  • @m3rcuryslaboratory322
    @m3rcuryslaboratory322 8 лет назад

    great video. thanks for actually giving the program a chance. ive been using it since version 4 and people have been hating on it since. all DAWs ecentially do the same thing but in different ways.

  • @josephletts1093
    @josephletts1093 6 лет назад

    Great Video, Ive used it since v3 and enjoyed your presenting style very much.

  • @digitalbeat666
    @digitalbeat666 7 лет назад

    Thanks for review. I had same prejudices about FL but it´s so popular it´s been sold out all the time. So it is not bad soft studio at all.

  • @zfalcon1
    @zfalcon1 9 лет назад

    Looking forward to Studio one 3!! Looks like you're already working on it! Looking forward to it and great work thus far. FL is a beast and very different to most DAWs that most are used to including myself and every now and then when I see things like this I get amazed at how FL does things so differently while at the same time once you see it, it all suddenly just some how makes sense.

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  9 лет назад

      zfalcon1 Yeah FL Studio does a good job of being much better than people think. Currently the multi-touch in Studio One is really buggy to a point that makes it unusable. Apparently an update is coming in a couple of weeks to fix it but so far the touch is very disappointing - their approach is also inefficient in my opinion but i'll say more about that once the update has landed and i can give it a proper go.

    • @zfalcon1
      @zfalcon1 9 лет назад

      Molten Music Technology That's interesting..And here I was thinking that Studio One would support multi touch the best among DAWs today. Guess I was wrong and hope for Presonus to get it up and running like they always do. Hope the updates come quickly and I would love to see how things go after everything starts to come in place!

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  9 лет назад

      zfalcon1 Studio One does support multi-touch (very few DAWs so) and in places it's excellent and hopefully the update will make it stable as well. But their approach is different to FL Studio in terms of editing and i think they've made some very weird decisions - but i'll demonstrate all that once i've done my review.

    • @crimsun7186
      @crimsun7186 9 лет назад

      zfalcon1 At this point, Studio One 3 has two issues:
      -Bugs and more bugs.
      -They eliminated the middle ground version (Producer), which forces users of the Producer version to either upgrade to Artist + VST and MP3 Addons (which doesn't offer Melodyne Essentials) or upgrade to Pro.

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  9 лет назад

      Crimson Sunrise Yep, there are some bugs in it, certainly from a touch point of view - i hope to have a video up about in a week or so. I think Pro is reasonably priced so perhaps they dont need the middle one anymore.

  • @KochJohannes
    @KochJohannes 9 лет назад +1

    Brilliant review!
    You should have a look at patcher though. For me it's the most amazing thing about FL Studio! :)

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  9 лет назад

      ***** Yes indeed, and if i can refer you to the other part of this review you'll find I talk all about it - ruclips.net/video/bXvqBDfEhls/видео.html

  • @EyezerProductionz
    @EyezerProductionz 5 лет назад

    Some things I'd like to mention:
    36:25: While this is annoying, there is a way to "fix" this. Go to an empty mixer channel and save it down to a mixer preset. Then you can just go to the browser (or just load the mixer preset directly from the mixer channel you want to default) and drag the empty mixer channel preset into the Sawer (just to use your video as an example) channel and it will go back to default. Fortunately, Image-Line has done some improvements which makes mixer organization easier in FL Studio 20.

  • @allenantony6523
    @allenantony6523 9 лет назад

    An easy way of doing recording would be to open Edison in the "Selected Track" and set it to record "on input" mode. And then you can select whatever mixer track you want and select input and then play. It would be automatically recorded in to Edison. You can use the send to playlist button . The advantage is that you can record stuff faster with few mouse clicks, without opening edison multiple times.

  • @pazthepro4969
    @pazthepro4969 8 лет назад +1

    best video I've seen in a long time

  • @PhreaSpirit
    @PhreaSpirit 9 лет назад

    Really nice review. You did a great job in a short time. Thanks!

  • @Ni6olas
    @Ni6olas 8 лет назад

    thanks for your insights - in order to colour your mixer channels simply right click on the selected channels/rename, colour/hit the grey button next to where u can type in the name
    / chose colour and then the entire channels are coloured

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  8 лет назад +1

      +Green Planet Yeah, i made the video ages before they introduced colour - in fact my criticism was the very reason they did :)

    • @macsleepy183
      @macsleepy183 8 лет назад

      +Molten Music Technology Since that video have you used fl studio?

  • @widebandrecords902
    @widebandrecords902 9 лет назад

    Great review, i come from the beginning of fl before it had studio features and everything you say makes sense, all those who hate the sequencer or fl's way of making music are those who remix beats and make no creations of their own, yes i said it, it's a fact..

  • @kbprojekty
    @kbprojekty 9 лет назад +2

    One thing that needs to go is that step sequencer. Fruity Loops was my first daw, back when it wasn't really a daw yet, and I remember always thinking "how cool would it be if one day they'd get rid of that step sequencer and connected tracks to instruments". Then I found out every other piece of software does it! This is obviously a testament to FL's past - it was a step sequencer first and all the features were implemented around it so at some point it was so central and integral to FL that they couldn't make do without it.
    But it has to go, as a pure step sequencer FL Studio is a mismatch and probably everyone whose daily job is making music doesn't use it at all. That kind of track/instrument separation makes it so much more inconvenient to work with this software and gives ammunition to everyone who wants to mock FL Studio... "look, it has a kid's toy at its core!".
    Sorting this out would of course be a failure of sort to Image Line and it would devoid it of its own unique vibe, but all vibes aside, the best daw is the one I have the fight the least when making music and this design doesn't exactly help to achieve that.
    Another thing is terrible quality renders for some users (this made me jump ship) - every other daw I used and tested renders properly but FL Studio renders are quiet and flattened - it completely destroys every mix. Many people on forums struggle with it and nobody knows what to do to make it work. I made astonishing amount of tests to try and find the culprit, but no matter what I did, that loss of quality was in every render. I was hoping they will solve it with 12 but they didn't.

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  9 лет назад +2

      kbprojekty some interesting thoughts there - thank you. I think that there's a swing going on towards a more analogue style of music making and actually FL could be well placed to capitalise on that. Rather than remove the step sequencer i think they should improve it, make it more interesting and obvious, include matrix sequencing. If it was to become one track one instrument then it would be like everything else and that would be a shame. We need diversity because not everyone thinks or creates in the same way. Funnily enough ive never finished anything in FL so i've never done a mixdown so i couldnt comment on any quality issues there.

    • @kbprojekty
      @kbprojekty 9 лет назад

      Molten Music Technology Yes, improving step sequencer would for sure be a great idea. They should detach it though, or implement some features that would justify its place. Right now normal workflow timeline for a beginner who starts with FL Studio is to start with step sequencer (where basic ideas can be quickly tested) and when he becomes more advanced and starts working with more complicated stuff, he doesn't need it anymore, but it stays there and demands place and attention.
      A very simple solution that would solve the problem would be having the ability to reduce the step sequencer length to zero by dragging the right side of its window so that only track buttons and mixer controls would be visible. Then, if someone wants it, tracks could be adjusted for width to exactly fit the pattern editor width, then put pattern editor next to it and voila! They could even make the program detect if those windows become joined with the same border length to pop up a window "do you want to merge those into one console?" or something to change the way pattern editor behaves and melt each midi&audio pattern editor track with every instrument. This way, everyone would have it the way he wants it. But perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself :D
      Anyway, thanks for the video and have a nice day.

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  9 лет назад

      kbprojekty I'd send your thoughts into Image Line - they are always open to ideas :)

    • @aleixfontanet3672
      @aleixfontanet3672 9 лет назад

      +Molten Music Technology About the step sequencer, it's always good to improve things, but interesting are or should be, for instance, a novel. Creating music, IMO, is about things like creativity, the ease of use or produce with a sound creating tool and it's quality, emotions... I believe Image-Line think like you guys, that's why they've implemented all that arround the initial step sequencer and you can totally ignore it as I do. It's there for legacy purposes, as well as other, do you imagine being able to load a project you created 15 years ago with Qbase? Sometimes you can't even load a project from the previous version, and that happens with too many DAWs, and that's terrible. IL have done some amazing stuff from the very beginning, and finally they're beginning to really get the recognition they deserved since the very beginning.
      I think, if you pick a music making program because you find it interesting, you should go for Nintendo DS music making games, they sure are interesting. You find making music interesting and you find/found interest in music so you become a musician, but you make music with tools by using them.
      There's one thing essential on the step sequencer, the channels, the rest could be ignored.

    • @aleixfontanet3672
      @aleixfontanet3672 9 лет назад

      +kbprojekty (normal workflow timeline for a beginner who starts with FL Studio is to start with step sequencer (where basic ideas can be quickly tested) and when he becomes more advanced and starts working with more complicated stuff, he doesn't need it anymore) Isn't a good reason enough for it to be there?
      You can detach it very easily and reduce it's size and length, and place any other window over it.

  • @DamZFXBeats
    @DamZFXBeats 9 лет назад +1

    this was a very useful review and quick tutorial! thanks :)

  • @johnvignola9323
    @johnvignola9323 9 лет назад

    i agree that the new mixer is great, I also agree that the assigned color up top should extend down the channel strip. Hear that Image Line?,

    • @FL_STUDIO
      @FL_STUDIO 9 лет назад +11

      John Vignola We heard. 12.1 should interest you.

    • @dennflorida
      @dennflorida 9 лет назад +4

      lol that's what I love about Image, they listen to us and take notes, so devoted! Amazing!

  • @D3TOSS
    @D3TOSS 8 лет назад +3

    31:09 this is my groove ;)

  • @simmpessor5541
    @simmpessor5541 8 лет назад +1

    Yess great improvement indeed Image-liner. But please take note of the following:
    1. The step sequencer is need to be removed and connect in with channels. it create traffic and time consuming. it is very annoying especially when you dont have larger screen. the step sequencer should be connected to the channels so that when i double click it take me straight to the piano roll. that will minimise lots of windows that are disturbing during the course of production.
    2. Image-Liner should get rid of that EDISON. we like to record directly to the channels. i do not understand why EDISON from the first place.Most people are annoyed bye EDISON when it comes to recording.
    3. Image-Liner please can you work on the waves, vocals and instruments especially when they are on channels. You need to pup more features there on channels. This will bring more people who run away from FL because it is good for beat production, not recording. Most people do sounds on FL but for Vocal the go for Cubase, Protools because of their greatest features when working on the waves.
    3. The last thing. Please, the native sound still sound horrible. You have to sweat on FL to get good sound. You have to have third party plugins or export to other DAW for mastering, that is not cool, we need to work on FL from screech to the finished product. Can engineers work on the advancement of the sound. It is not crisp and Fat but Loud and Cleat. That is likely to favour Rock, Electro & HipHop music.
    I salute you on the job done as young as you are in the market .
    Bonus.. Can we then have some easy option or jut a click button to hide all instruments channels when we are working on vocals because it is also time consuming to minimize one by one channels and aoutomotions to get space when working on Vocal, you end up not knowing or need to read word by word to neoprene.
    Excuse my bad English, it is not my native language.

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  8 лет назад +1

      +Simthembile Phesa It does have its quirks. You should send your thoughts into ImageLine - they do listen :)

    • @AizenIPlannedIt
      @AizenIPlannedIt 8 лет назад

      +Simthembile Phesa
      1. The thing here is what you're requesting is to change the very thing that makes fl studio what it is. FL is not a leaner-based daw, thus it offers it's own unique workflow which is the main reason it's users love it, if they got rid of that, then fl studio wouldn't be fl studio anymore. If you want a leaner workflow then it's best you use a different daw.
      2. No, edison has it's own unique features, also it being in plugin form and the fact that you can add more then one in mixer FX slots, gives you more creative options, for example you'd only need one mixer track to create a reverse reverb effect without any need of using auxiliary/bus channels like you'd do in other daws and so forth, btw you actually can record directly into the playlist if you want to, I prepare using edison though.
      3. You need to elaborate, which features would you like and/or think is missing?
      4. Daw don't have a "sound", it's the engineers job to make the sound fat and loud, not the daw, btw if they can't achieve this in fl studio then they're not good at there job because many professionals mix and master straight in fl studio with no problem.
      As for the bonus bit, it's best if you go the the imageline forum for feature requests.

  • @jacobitejake
    @jacobitejake 8 лет назад +1

    Great review! I'd love to hear your thoughts on LMMS? I'm sure there's a few 'very hard up' wannabe music makers out there that would appreciate it, thanks :)

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  8 лет назад

      Hadn't come across that before - i'll add it to my very long list :)

    • @jacobitejake
      @jacobitejake 8 лет назад

      Blimey, I didn't think you'd reply, I expected that as you're such a talented chap and your time would be pulled by many, that you'd be too busy to get back to me, thanks and very much appreciated.
      Just to let you know, I've watched a few more of your videos and you have a great manner explaining things and being fair and thorough it what you do, I'm extremely impressed. I'm getting on a bit at 53 and would love to get into creating some synth/electronic music, I'm a bit of an 80's kid really and although I'm no musician, I'm one of many I reckon that would love to do some creating. Your videos are the very best I've found on the subject, very clear and entertaining, excellent! Keep'em coming, many thanks.
      Kindest regards
      David

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  8 лет назад

      Nice one, thanks :)

  • @iNuchalHead
    @iNuchalHead 7 лет назад +1

    I'd like traditional tooltips. It's a bit eye-strainy to go between such small components and that box in the top left. Image-Line, please, give us a hotkey that toggles between explore (tooltips) and expert (no tooltips.)
    Also, wasn't "Magic Knob" the name of J. Geils Band's harmonica player?

  • @Leo-ew3lx
    @Leo-ew3lx 9 лет назад

    Wow you were one hell of a close minded person before you finally gave FL Studio a shot. Cheers!

  • @humanNumer1
    @humanNumer1 7 лет назад

    Thank you! You have saved and reasured my SANITY noticing and addressing all the strange logic and relationship between patterns, channels, playlist and mixer that drove me insane. I really doubted my IQ! ;-) It's a bizarre combination that FL is very affordable and seems to be easy, simple and cool to use at first but just when you want to make that second step of laying the bits of the song in the playlist you start looking and asking WHY? WHERE? HOW? Like Why there are multi channel patterns if you want to control instruments individually in the playlist? At least tell people to split the channel rack into separate patterns. But then be careful beacuse changing one channel instrument will change it in all patterns you used it so you need to make copies anyway. Then why virtually no controls next to each playlist 'track'? How do I do SIMPLE volume fade in/out on a clip? And why the advertised one button recording never really works for me? (there seem to be always something that I forgot to tick/press/arm) I am impressed if your recording experience in FL was really that 'expected' as in the video. This video is amazing and you have an outstanding, intelligent gift of spotting and reasoning features and ways they should work. FL is great btw but needs serious UX tests and maybe totally split the simple part of patterns as a totally different basic program mode like many graphic and video programs offer. It is the inherited from early versions pattern/loop feature that has dragged FL into this a bit illogical complexity to keep both functionalities of quick drum machine and playlist based professional DAW. As I said they should have split somehow into either different instances of software or at least program modes. THe EASY mode with pattern drum machine could have an option for conversion to Professional mode, splitting patterns automatically and arming the mixer, ready to arrange the song.

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  7 лет назад

      Yeah, could be.
      It definitely has a split personality - but that works for many of the devoted fans :)

  • @crimsun7186
    @crimsun7186 9 лет назад

    It's good to have automation so easy to setup. But how do you record automation?

    • @plk173
      @plk173 9 лет назад

      +Crimson Sunrise in the same way as audio

  • @DarrenAudioguy
    @DarrenAudioguy 9 лет назад

    Great stuff, thanks!

  • @TheCheeksMiller
    @TheCheeksMiller 9 лет назад

    These days for me I look at the playlist more as my "sequencer" in that its the order that my patterns will play. The sequencer up in the channel rack really at this point is only for creating the beat if you are not playing drums or using it for hits. Because as you show early on when you are recording a synth pattern its really a long as it needs to be which is why it should be in its own pattern not in the drums. Its just a way of looking at it that works for me :)
    I started using FL quite a few versions back but really didn't start to dig in till version 8. The workflow does take some getting used to but after a while of using it I did find myself in other daws thinking to myself..why doesn't this work like in FL. Normally in relation to the piano roll haha

    • @TheCheeksMiller
      @TheCheeksMiller 9 лет назад

      Ed Miller haha and that piano roll midi channel switch was not something I have used but will probably start

  • @2phalanges
    @2phalanges 7 лет назад

    hey your music pretty damn good. i can only wish i can make something half as that good 1 year into this. SUB!

  • @maniaconthetube
    @maniaconthetube 9 лет назад

    Great channel great informative video's il reccomend

  • @iamlamarto6777
    @iamlamarto6777 8 лет назад

    ARE U USING PRODUCER EDITION OR FLS ALL PLUGINS ?

  • @josuesantos8333
    @josuesantos8333 8 лет назад

    Can You record Good quality Music in this ? Vocals an everything ?

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  8 лет назад

      +Josue Santos Yes! If your music is good quality then this will record it.

  • @jsoundsonline
    @jsoundsonline 5 лет назад +1

    been using fl studio when it was called Fruity Loops. Everyone i told about this, hated the program and made fun of it. Its funny because everyone uses this now. (Welcome to the FL Gang)

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  5 лет назад +1

      There's still plenty of room for making fun of FL Studio :D

    • @jsoundsonline
      @jsoundsonline 5 лет назад

      @@MoltenMusicTech lol

  • @MrSeckin10
    @MrSeckin10 7 лет назад

    is there any easy way to add audio track like in old editions of fl? it's removed from main menu

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  7 лет назад

      all the tracks can be audio tracks. If you want to add an audio file just drag it in from the browser.

  • @djlobb
    @djlobb 8 лет назад

    Have you tried Studio One 3?

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  8 лет назад +1

      Yes, check out my other videos and you'll find a whole review.

  • @truthfinder4973
    @truthfinder4973 6 лет назад

    i love fl studio its very user friendly

  • @moussatouhami7567
    @moussatouhami7567 8 лет назад

    i love this guy

  • @xonnathagreat7644
    @xonnathagreat7644 6 лет назад

    Greetings from Milwaukee, WI( USA)! Great video here! I am a long time Maschine user and wanted to try something different. I don't like Maschine's poor ability to process. The CPU SUCKS! I also don't like that on the new MK3, I STILL cannot plug my guitar in and record it! I know that I would be able to do this with FL Studio. So, my only question is, how is FL's CPU??

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  6 лет назад +1

      Ummm.... i didn't really notice. Some of the demo tracks are hard on the Surface Pro but no problems on a desktop.

    • @xonnathagreat7644
      @xonnathagreat7644 6 лет назад

      Molten Music Technology So, how does it handle "hardware" gear? Say, I wanted to play my Mini Nova directly into FL. Can I do that? Or any other hardware gear?

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  6 лет назад +1

      No handling required - you can sequence via MIDI or record it as audio - whatever you like.

    • @xonnathagreat7644
      @xonnathagreat7644 6 лет назад

      Playing with the demo now. Thanks. How come I cannot Install all of my VST's though? Is it because it is a demo version of FL 12?

    • @xonnathagreat7644
      @xonnathagreat7644 6 лет назад

      Molten Music Technology Greetings, again. I'd like to update you on a couple of things. I am proud to say that I purchasdd FL Studio 12 Producer, recently! Furthermore, I am starting to LOVE it! Remember, when I asked you about using my Mini Nova inside of it? Well,I have been trying, recording audio clips BUT it isn't maximizing its potential. I think adding a midi cord and going directly into my Audiobox, is best! I wanna have well-timed playing, with the metronome, be able to manipulate notes, and sync my arp as well. Do I have the right idea? Should I purchase a midi cable and solve all of my hardware problems?

  • @moussatouhami7567
    @moussatouhami7567 8 лет назад

    when i use "kontakt" in fl studio gave so much noise with sound although CPU meter indicate to a little values, but when i use it "kontakt" alone it gave clear sound
    any suggestion plz

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  8 лет назад +1

      No, not really other than contacting Image Line. Make sure you have the right audio drivers selected in both programs. What audio interface are you using?

    • @moussatouhami7567
      @moussatouhami7567 8 лет назад

      fl studio 12.2

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  8 лет назад

      No... the audio interface, the way you hear the sound and plug things into it - how do you hear the music?

    • @moussatouhami7567
      @moussatouhami7567 8 лет назад +1

      i solved the problem it was from the setting of my daw and every thing work very good now
      thank you very much your interaction
      -i use headphone from samsung-

  • @Bravei
    @Bravei 9 лет назад

    Man you're nice, I use fl studio for ten years, I really love fl studio, I like your video, listen to some songs I made is on my soundcloud channel, I can add you on my facebook?

  • @rodneyfelder1070
    @rodneyfelder1070 9 лет назад

    how can I add 3rd party plugins through mac

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  9 лет назад

      +Rodney Felder Ummmm....... not sure what you're asking. You've got a Mac with a load of plug-ins you want to use with a PC or what exactly?

  • @JakkiFN0rmus
    @JakkiFN0rmus 9 лет назад

    I think you need to re edit this, be more objective and such.
    Although I do like that you clearly have never used FL and I'm sure most people have the same reaction, that was refreshing to see, yet explain it very well.

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  9 лет назад

      JakkiFN0rmus Thanks for the comment. I think that for me the nature of a review is to offer opinion rather than just objective information about a product - so that's what i do 😊

  • @CleverDjembe
    @CleverDjembe 9 лет назад

    thank you

  • @mikesaintjulesmusic
    @mikesaintjulesmusic 9 лет назад +1

    You didn't say Techno did you?..

    • @MoltenMusicTech
      @MoltenMusicTech  9 лет назад

      saintjulesmusic i'm sorry, did i get my genres in a twizzle?

    • @mikesaintjulesmusic
      @mikesaintjulesmusic 9 лет назад +1

      Molten Music Technology Haha all good. It's more "Trance" than anything in this case :)

    • @larrysomewhatdaily
      @larrysomewhatdaily 9 лет назад

      saintjulesmusic its a video, you can rewind it and find out :P

    • @vouse7391
      @vouse7391 6 лет назад

      Larry Somewhat Daily I think he knows that lmao. He could also ask the person who made the video themselves

  • @guitagrip8913
    @guitagrip8913 9 лет назад

    New to your channel, You play/record music on a Surface Pro? If I dont find it tonight can you direct me to a video of your setup? Thanks in advance, awesome channel!
    Problem with guitar slipping while playing guitar, bass, or stringed instrument? Answer: Guit-a-Grip. (www.guit-a-grip.com)

  • @JSprayaEntertainment
    @JSprayaEntertainment 9 лет назад

    i like FL ... i like FL 8 threw FL 11 the best ...
    FL 12 looks and seems very nice ... but ...
    theres is a butt

  • @omfgihopethisworks
    @omfgihopethisworks 4 года назад

    That is not techno