


FL Studio 12 is a complete software music production environment, representing more than 14 years of innovative developments and our commitment to Lifetime Free Updates. There are a lot more tweaks and changes going on that are best explained in their update video below.įL Studio 12.3 is available from August 2nd and is free to all users. For more details and the download link follow this link.FL Studio 12.3.1 Build 12 Producer Edition įL Studio 12 totally reworks the user interface and adds exciting new features you have been asking for. They’ve also added three different versions of the piano keyboard displayed on the left – just to sooth the minds of the users who objected to the original one. The piano roll features locking to scales and keys so that only the notes you’re after are highlighted. You can now map MIDI through plug-ins to other destinations. You can now lock notes to channels, so certain keyboard ranges can be routed independently. There’s been a lot of underlying improvements to the handling of MIDI. The extra size has allowed for a lot more focused display of information and makes adjustments a whole lot easier. 12.3 brings updates to 12 of these plug-ins to support the Vectorial UI along with expanded presets and other tweaks. However, some of the long list of plug-ins that came included hadn’t received the same treatment. It could be resized all over the place which is ideal for high resolution screens and tablets. With FL Studio 12 Image Line introduced a new vectorised interface. It makes for a feature set that’s full of fun as well as being very creative when many other DAWs seem to believe that looking serious is all that matters. Image Line’s approach always seems to come from a different place to any other DAW. This allows you to “play” the audio and even create harmonies just by adding notes to the piano roll. It doesn’t detect the pitch but rather moves the pitch relative to an assumed C5 for the current pitch. You can open a piano roll across a piece of audio and add notes to pitch shift parts of the audio around. They’ve also used the audio stretching function to build in something a bit like a Melodyne type pitch correction, but again in an unusual sampler style. With the use of a simple macro command all the audio tracks can be time-stretched together in the same way which I had not come across before. You can now stretch audio while keeping the pitch the same – which most DAWs can – but you can also stretch or squash the entire project. This has been sorted out in 12.3 but not in the normal way.

This makes it great so pulling out bits of audio and using them as sample instruments, but less good for independent time and pitch stretching. FL Studio treats audio a bit like a sampler would.
