Image-Line released beta versions of FL Studio for macOS. The entire FL Studio community is comprised of Windows users, and it’s time FL Studio becomes available for Mac users too. This would be a great feature to help producers manage and display how their mix looks visually. It would then open up the native feature and display the waveform in real time as you’re playing your track. We would love to see a button on the mixer board panel on the master channel that indicates the live waveform option. You would be able to see where you track needs to be improved in the mixdown as it’s playing.

Tracking your masters waveform live would allow you to see where you mix stands after all the processing and compilation of your samples and instruments. Two important qualities that producers battle over in 2017 are track dynamics and loudness.Ĭreating an overbearingly loud mix can squash your dynamics and creating an extremely dynamic track can end too quiet. Well, you can with a few outdated plugins out there, but having a DAW with this feature would be a huge time saver. Imagine being able to see your audio waveform live as your next banger is playing… We believe this could push FL Studio above most DAW’s in terms of accessibility. The points above stand the ground for it being a crucial part of mobile production. It could also make it perfect for producers who work on multiple computers and have to constantly move project files between each one of them. This feature would save a huge amount of producers from carrying around a bulk of hard drives around with their laptop. It would change the production game and maybe even convert a lot of producers to FL Studio. In fact a lot of the major creative companies with software or applications like Adobe went this route, and now we think it’s time for DAWs to try it too.Ī cloud-based DAW may sound crazy, but just imagine having all of your projects, samples, and collaborations compiled into a cloud which could be accessible anywhere. Saving your files to a cloud has been a common addition everywhere else, so why not add it to the production realm? It’ll also allow you to push the boundaries by not staying in the one key you understand from practice. Having it at your fingertips within the DAW would be a huge time saver and an easy way to teach about music theory/harmony to all producers. A company called Traktion made a DAW called Waveform, which happens to offer this vision. Well, FL Studio wouldn’t be the first DAW to do this. It’s just a tool that changes the way non-theory producers can approach harmony/chords.īut why would a DAW add this to their features? Why not just keep using Odesi separately? Odesi wouldn’t write a song for you though. This could be an incredible new learning tool that would allow new and even existing producers who aren’t familiar with theory to learn visually. Odesi was developed by the same company that makes the key-tagging software Mixed In Key. This program allows you to create chord progressions based on the key you select, the tempo, and time signature.

That’s why we hope FL Studio adds in a native plugin similar to “ Odesi”. Our team and many other producers have collected many different features we’d love to see Image-Line add to their new version and narrowed them down to our top 9!Īs time progresses, more and more young kids and adults are starting to pick up electronic production before learning music theory or any kind of instrument.

These features alone have enhanced the DAW greatly, but we think there are still many steps FL Studio can take to improve. This is because it's Image-Line's 20th anniversary, and they thought this would be a great way to celebrate the success they've had thus far!Īnd over the years, they’ve released some amazing new features. It's worth mentioning that FL Studio will skip version 13 and jump straight to version 20. If you look at their release date history, you’ll notice that every two years they come out with a new version of the DAW outside of the updates they apply frequently. In fact, some of the most well-known producers in the world such as Avicii, Martin Garrix, and Porter Robinson use this extremely powerful DAW.Īnd the good news is, it’s been almost two years since FL Studio 12 was released, which means… *drum roll*

FL Studio is already one of the flagships of music production, but we believe Image-Line could take it to the next level with the upcoming release of FL Studio 20.

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