This is all fine once you’re accustomed to it, but can be a little bewildering for new users. Although the interface is quite slick, it also relies a lot on small buttons and other graphics as well as extensive right clicking to access submenus. FL Studio is very powerful for working with audio, though it takes a little getting used to all the iconography.

This is essentially an advanced wave editor module that’s capable of complex analysis and editing tasks. High quality synthesizers, sampler, drum kits & sliced-loop beats. Effects modules (see Included Content) Full-screen Windows Touch, Trackpad and Mouse support. Audio recording, track-length stem/wav import. You can record audio using one of two methods: record it directly into an audio as a clip, after which it can be processed, or record it into an Edison recorder module. Record, sequence, edit, mix and render complete songs. The main sequencer area is called the Playlist, a name which makes sense when you are step sequencing though is slightly less accurate when you’re doing more conventional, linear track construction. Setting up is relatively straightforward, with a few MIDI and audio in and out settings to take care of, configuring buffers and so on. It tends to use lots of individual editor windows to work with content as well as having an Explorer-style Browser that shows all your content by type and allows drag and drop or the insertion of content into a project with a couple of clicks. For the uninitiated, FL Studio looks and feels a little different to other DAWs.

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