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I see posts where people say they want to become producers. Since I use FLStudio I am giving tips on that. Please I need other Producers to volunteer to give tips on other softwaare

Brief intro on FLSTUDIO (culled from WIKIPEDIA)

FL Studio (formerly known as FruityLoops) is a digital audio workstation developed by the Belgian company Image-Line. FL Studio features a graphical user interface based on a pattern-based music sequencer. The program is available in three different editions for Microsoft Windows, including Fruity Edition, Producer Edition, and the Signature Bundle. Image-Line offers lifetime free updates to the program, which means customers receive all future updates of the software for free. Image-Line also develops FL Studio Mobile for iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

FL Studio can also be used as a VST instrument in other audio workstation programs and also functions as a ReWire client. Image-Line also offers other VST instruments and audio applications. FL Studio is used by hip hop and electronic musicians and DJs such as Afrojack,Avicii, Boi-1da, Seven Lions, 9th Wonder, Metro Boomin and Southside, as well as Dyro, Madeon, Porter Robinson and Martin Garrix.


System requirements

FL Studio 12 works on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10 (32-bit or 64-bit versions) or on Intel Macs with Boot Camp. FL Studio requires a 2GHz AMD or Intel Pentium 3 CPU with full SSE1 support. It requires 1 GB of free disk space and at least 1 GB of RAM is recommended.

FL Studio processes audio using an internal 32-bit floating point engine. It supports sampling rates up to 192 kHz using either WDM or ASIO enabled drivers.

User Interface


1. Instruments Panel – This may not be the technical name however the panel obviously is missing a title. This panel shows all the assets that belong to the project, including instrument VSTs, soundclips, and automations.
2. When a particular channel is selected which contains notes, they are displayed next to the instruments being triggered.
3. Project assets become categoriezed and by using the black dropdown box you can select categories to view.
4. Playlist – This contains multiple patterns, soundclips, and automations which make up your entire track.
5. Here you can see three patterns. The rows that audio gets triggered on does not matter, they can even overlap. In the first row I place all drums (for my convenience). On the second row I have a simple riff.
6. Here is a sample VST instrument.
7. This is FL’s interface to the VST instrument and contains configurable information, such as what mixer track the audio is being sent to.
8. These are mixer tracks that your audio is being sent through. FL offers 64 mixer tracks.
9. Each mixer track has a series of 8 chains. Each chain link contains a VST effect which audio comes in the top and out the bottom tot he next VST effect.

This is based on FLStudio 11. FLstudio 12 users might find this easier