FLStudio Bible Review...

My lovely wife decided that buying just a license to FLStudio would not be enough and she got me the "FLStudio bible" as well. The book is fantastic and covers most of the application in great detail.

I would recommend this book to anyone, from new users to the more experienced. For the experienced users it might not hold as much value as for n00bs. But still it might just show you one or two things that you didn't know...

Of course it covers the bare basics of the environment and to be honest it actually clarified a lot of "what does that do?" questions for me. a few chapters are spent on the step sequencer, the glorious piano roll and its myriad of functions (arpeggios, chopper, strumizer, flamer etc.)

It also covers the entire Fruity FX library and all the generators in a great amount of detail. Because i only have the "Producer Edition", I don't have access to all the generators, but I fill up the gaps with a couple of free VSTi's for the time being.

It will take me a while to reach the limitations of the supplied plug-ins (if ever) and sometimes its good limiting yourself to only a few instruments and rather concentrate on the features of the software (there is a lot of beef under the skin of FLStudio).

The book ends up with with an interview of a couple of existing artists who use the software as well as the employees who work on FLStudio at ImageLine. If nothing else it gives you a perspective of others opinions on the product and also a feel for who is behind the software.

So to summarize it really is worth the money for this book, especially if you are a newcomer to FLStudio and for the more experienced users this book almost certainly has something too.

ImageLine don't sell the book them self, so here is the link to the website where you can order it.

And so it starts ...

I'm not a total n00b when it comes to FLStudio. I used very old version of it a long time ago and at that stage FL was way better than hammerhead (a quadriplegic [but useful] cousin of Fruityloops). I ended up with a old version of Logic Audio because the "limitations" of Fruityloops at that stage stopped me from buying it.

After many years of playing and not actually producing a single mentionable track, I threw in the towel. I just couldn't stand the frustration anymore. I badly wanted to create something, but the simple "beeps and blips" that were coming out just didn't satisfy me.

a Few of my friends use FLStudio in their studios as a pattern based sequencer for quickly assembling drum beats and rhythms in their projects. Recently one of them completely moved their studio onto FLStudio and thats where this thing caught my eye again. It just got me thinking... and after downloading the demo version of FLStudio 6 i was in heaven. Almost immediately i could start creating music. Hooking up an old Yamaha synth via MIDI-IN-OUT was really simple to do and i use it as a MIDI input for "composing" (please note the "")

My wife must have caught onto the fact that i was spending time with music again because she bought me a Producers edition of FLStudio for my birthday. I suppose she realized that i was excited again and that i never really stopped wanting to make music.

I still haven't made anything worth mentioning, but at least my passion to create music is there again and this time it seems to be getting a bit of satisfaction ...