Image Line FL Studio 9 (Signature Bundle) - £313.87

Image Line FL Studio 9 (Signature Bundle) Description

FL Studio 9 is a complete software music production environment, representing the culmination of more than 10 years of sustained & focused development. FL9 is the fastest way from your brain to your speakers. Signature Bundle’s arsenal of plugin instrument and sound libraries will seriously broaden anyone’s musical horizon!

What is FL9?

FL Studio is a full-featured, open architecture, music production environment capable of audio recording, composing, sequencing and mixing, for the creation of professional quality music. The FL Studio philosophy is creative freedom .

Chief Software Architect, Didier Dambrin has realized his vision of creating an open-architecture virtual studio environment where the only constraint on the users is their own imagination.

This philosophy is reflected in FL Studio 9’s flexible audio and control data routing, free-form Playlist design and interoperability with industry standards (VST/VSTi/VST2, DXi, DXi2, Buzz, ReWire, MIDI, MP3, WAV, OGG). Didier notes ”We don't try to protect our data & come up with new formats only for marketing reasons. We use existing standards as much as possible, and allow FL Studio be used as a plugin in other hosts“. In version 9, particular emphasis has been given to improved workflow through enhanced interface design, so that ideas can be crystallized and creativity captured.

Free your audio - Route any instrument to any mixer track. Each mixer track can receive audio from any number of instruments, any number of other mixer tracks and a soundcard input. Mixer tracks, in turn, can send audio to any number of other mixer tracks and a soundcard output. Create sub-mixes, effects chains or complex mixes. FL studio’s flexible architecture sets audio free.

Free your mind - Choose your preferred workflow, compose using the step-sequencer or piano roll. Create in pattern or track mode, then arrange your ideas in the free ‘palette’ Playlist. The Playlist presents timeline as a virtual ‘canvas’ where each Playlist track can simultaneously hold any number of score, audio and automation events. Now that’s freedom.

Instruments

Make virtually any sound - FL9 includes over 30 software synthesizers covering acoustic/synthetic bass, electric guitar, multi-sampler tools including piano & strings, general sample playback and beat-slicing (With Rex 1 & 2 support).
Synthesis techniques - span subtractive, modelling, FM, RM, granular and additive. With the addition of FL SynthMaker you can further create & share your own FL instruments, effects & MIDI control dashboards without the need to write basic code.
Open plugin standards - FL Studio supports all PC industry plugin instrument standards including VSTi (1/2), DXi(1/2), Buzz and Rewire. This means you can sequence with your favorite plugins and applications.

Audio Recording & Editing

Multi-channel audio inputs - With the ability to simultaneously capture all the inputs on your audio-interface, FL Studio has the flexibility to record a single vocalist, guitar or a full symphony orchestra.
Arranging audio - Audio can be arranged, with complete freedom in the Playlist. Features include the ability to host an unlimited number of audio recordings, time-stretching, pitch-shifting, beat-slicing, cropping, editing and the re-arranging of audio with only a few mouse clicks.
Edison - FL9’s audio capabilities are further enhanced with Edison, the recording wave editor. Edison is an integrated audio editing and recording tool with spectral analysis, convolution reverb, noise reduction, loop-recording, loop-construction tools and more.

FL Studio supports WAV, MP3, OGG, WavPack, AIFF, and REX audio formats.

Sequencing

Compose and record your musical performances and ideas in the most logical way.

Pattern or track sequencing - You choose, record your musical performances and ideas in the most logical way. FL Studio 9 can simultaneously function as a pattern and track based sequencer. Reuse patterns as Pattern Clips in the Playlist or record song-length sequences, as desired.
Step sequencer or Piano roll - Scoring tools include FL Studio’s legendary Step-sequencer, one of the most advanced Piano roll’s in any software studio, event and multipoint automation envelopes. FL Studio supports MIDI input, standard controller compatibility, and the ability to simultaneously control multiple instrument channels from separate controllers.

Arranging

FL Studio allows you to do what you want where and when you want.

Determine your own project design - In FL Studio 9, you decide how your project will be laid out. Unlike the competition, FL9's Playlist is a totally flexible and virtually unbounded workspace where Note Pattern, Audio and Automation data can be arranged and edited to suit your creative ideas and preferred workflow.

Mixing & Mastering

FL Studio provides all the tools you need to produce your tracks to high professional standards.

The mixer - FL9 includes a superb 104 track stereo track mixer that is about precision, control and flexibility. The mixer’s tracks each hold up to 8 effects (VST, DX or FL's proprietary format). To create sub-mixes or mixing chains of almost unlimited complexity, each mixer track can be routed to any other mixer track, one of 4 dedicated 'send' channels and or the Master track. Sends provide the ability to sidechain inputs to multi-input effects plugins. Finally, each of the mixer tracks can be routed to any output on your audio interface, now that’s flexibility.
Effects - What about effects? FL Studio includes more than 40 effects spanning maximization, limiting, compression, delay, distortion, equalization (graphic & parametric), filtering, phasing, flanging, chorus, vocoding and reverb. These have you covered for the creative broad-brush effects, through to the minutia of the mastering process.

Open plugin standards FL Studio supports all PC industry plugin effect standards including VST (1/2), DX(1/2), Buzz and Rewire. This means you can mix with your favorite plugins and applications.

Features

Arrangement Tools: Step Sequencer, Realtime, Pianoroll and Playlist.
Bundled Software Synths/Sampler Plug-ins: SimSynth Live, DrumSynth Live, DX-10, WASP, WASP XT, Directwave Player, 3xOsc, Sampler, Boobass, Plucked, Fruity Kick, FL Slayer, FL Keys, FPC and WaveTraveller.
Bundled FX Processors: Audio: EQUO, Fruity Bass Boost, Blood Overdrive, Chorus, Compressor, Delay 2, Delay Bank, Fast Distortion, Fast LP, Filter, Flangus, Limiter, Love Philter, Multiband Compressor, PanOMatic, Phaser, Fruity Reeverb 2, Scratcher, Squeeze, Vocoder, WaveShaper and Soundgoodizer to name a few! MIDI : Echo, Delay and Arpeggiator.
Flexible Software Mixing Console: 64 stereo channels featuring 8 FX inserts, 4 Band Parametric EQ, 4 effects sends, Volume, Pan and VU meter per channel .
3rd Party Instrument Support: Software: VSTi, ReWire and DXi instruments. / Hardware: MIDI I/O & MIDI file import/export.
3rd Party FX Plugin Support: VST and DX.
Sample Library: 250MB+ of high quality samples included. A further 2GB available via download.
Low Latency ASIO & Directsound playback support
Audio Import/Export: Export to WAV, MP3 and OGG. / Import WAV, MP3, OGG, SYN, DS and Speech files.
Video Tutorials: 30 minute getting started video included on installation disk. Many more available online.
Multitrack audio recording : Record live vocals, guitars, drums etc directly in to your FL Studio project.
Envelope Automation : Create automation clips for almost any parameter in FL Studio.
Edison wave editor : Precisely edit audio/samples with the most innovative wave editor in the music industry.
Slicex beatslicer : Powerful slicing tool for creatively dissecting and rearranging any kind of audio loop.
FL SynthMaker Full: an audio programming application that is used to create virtual instruments and effects without the need to write basic code. The instruments and effects you create in SynthMaker can be used in FL Studio as 'native' plugins and shared with other SynthMaker users.
Vocodex : Professional feature packed vocoder
Sytrus Hybrid Synthesizer: Disruptive innovation in software synthesis, nothing else compares to the diversity Sytrus packs. FM, RM & Subtractive synthesis - have it all!
VideoPlayer allows you to open and play video files synchronized with your song. This is a very useful tool for those who are working on music soundtracks that need to be scored in time with video events.
Soundfont Player gives you the power to load, play and render soundfonts (.sf2 files) in FL Studio.
DirectWave editor is a powerful and versatile sampler featuring a fully programmable synthesis section and features such as inbuilt FX, velocity-layering, looping, automatic sampling of VSTi plugins and the ability to 'sample' (record sound) when loaded into a mixer track on an effect slot.
Additional Sample Library DVD containing 14.000 high quality samples (2.5GB).
Maximus will deliver transparent peak limiting and volume maximization without coloration of the processed sound.
Slicex uses advanced beat detection algorithms to slice song/percussion samples into pieces and make them independently playable from the Piano roll or controller.
Hardcore : Playing guitar is cool, but the steep learning curve to make your DAW sound like your old amp and stomp-boxes definitely isn't. Welcome then to Hardcore, a collection of 10 classic effects designed with Guitarists in mind.

System Requirements
In general: FL Studio runs on any machine operating Windows ME/200(3)/XP or Vista. FL Studio will run on an Intel Mac in Bootcamp (running Windows) or Parallels. The faster the CPU, the more channels & FX you will be able to run simultaneously.

Recommended System Requirements:

minimum Pentium 4 or Athlon XP (any processor supporting SSE instructions) - Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
minimum 512MB ram - 200MB free hard disk space
Windows compatible soundcard with DirectSound drivers, ASIO drivers required for audio recording (FL installer comes with generic Asio4All drivers)