“FL Studio’s duty is to get more people to stick with music-making”: CEO Constantin Koehncke on FL Studio 2025 and beyond

[HollywoodP]

Anywayz... I'm out the loop can you used cracked VSTs with an officially purchased version of the latest FL studio?

yes. Analog Labs and all the sounds you can find to put in it.

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

Is this better than pro tools? Also is the lowest price ($180) good enough?

It's more for music production, whereas ProTools is more for engineering

 

[315]

Is this better than pro tools? Also is the lowest price ($180) good enough?

These things are always subjective and a lot depends on what kind of music you want to make. If you're sample based and use a lot of VSTs PT is a bit behind in that regard. Mixing and recording live bands is its strength. They're all annoying in one way or another to me lol. DAWs are basically just a multitrack recorders for me. I don't use much of it's features or instruments

 

[maxamusa]

Exactly. Any nikka who try to shyt on FL obviously is going off lack of experience or pure ignorance. Simple and plain. fukkin HIT records been made left n right with FL. I’m a nikka that has used all of it. FL, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Cubase, Native Instruments, Analog and Akai. This nikka @Awesome Wells just rambling in this muthafukka.

Ehh respectfully I disagree. Southside and all those ATL FL spokesmen had hit records because of the mixing and engineering. I wouldn't credit it to FL. They have guys in million+ rooms adding the sauce.

 

[Doobie Doo]

This here.

The work flow is an issue. A lot of indie artists cop it, and then try to bring their work to the studio and they're lost. It's not the kinda DAW that really allows for learning while working. So people come in, but they can't function in the studio because they haven't been able to get a grip on the basics to either collaborate or work seamlessly in other settings. That's why most of us have never been fans of it. It limits you.

I don't understand how that's the software's fault.

My first seutp was analog, Tascam MK4 track casette recorder, yamaha psr 225 & alesis sr-16. I got hip to FL in college in 99 cuz I ain't have no room for my equipment in the dorm and didn't know you could make music in a box then. I have used countless DAWs since that time and prefer FL cuz it has the fastest workflow for me to get my ideas popping.

I don't understand the limit issues, you can use the same 3rd party VST instruments and effects you can use in other DAWs. You can MIDI pads and keys to play shyt out in real time so your not stuck clicking a mouse to make a beat. They got some new MIDI FL specfic Controllers where you can do the basic functionality without touching a computer keyboard or mouse. It can even record vocals (I still use Audition or Pro Tools for recording vocals). Where's the limitation?

 

[Awesome Wells]

nikka u mad annoying sometimes and u always coming with some wild ass takes. Like Pop Smoke wasn’t poppin in NYC before he died. Or that Jim Jones was some type of enforcer. Then other times u be right. I dont care where u been. U don’t DO this shyt. U don’t know what it’s like to put ur hands on equipment and have to record people. Or make a beat. Or mix and master. Matter fact. I was just politicking with my boy Knice who literally just worked on the new Jim Jones album about this VERY thing. Using DAWs u comfortable with and Cubase vs Pro Tools. He uses Pro Tools by the way. U always “around” some shyt but u don’t actually DO shyt. Move over.

I never met you a day in my life. I don’t even know who you are, bro. I shouldn't be annoying to you.

Again, I'm talking shop with people asking about DAW's. Take your emotions and bickering somewhere where you actually exist. Nobody got time to babysit your insecurities online, fam. Do better, Tito. Seriously.

 

[maxamusa]

I don't understand how that's the software's fault.

My first seutp was analog, Tascam MK4 track casette recorder, yamaha psr 225 & alesis sr-16. I got hip to FL in college in 99 cuz I ain't have no room for my equipment in the dorm and didn't know you could make music in a box then. I have used countless DAWs since that time and prefer FL cuz it has the fastest workflow for me to get my ideas popping.

I don't understand the limit issues, you can use the same 3rd party VST instruments and effects you can use in other DAWs. You can MIDI pads and keys to play shyt out in real time so your not stuck clicking a mouse to make a beat. They got some new MIDI FL specfic Controllers where you can do the basic functionality without touching a computer keyboard or mouse. It can even record vocals (I still use Audition or Pro Tools for recording vocals). Where's the limitation?

the fact people are going hard for DAWs IMO is a little silly.....if you wanna flex....



flex your hardware. I'd be more interested in hearing what people got and how the rooms are treated. thats the real flex......just my opinion tho

 

[Da Jungles]

This ain’t the mid to late 2000’s anymore. There’s some great records that have been made on FL Studio. I don’t use it even though I own it lol. But I respect it.


I had to go back to the MPC from Reason though. I missed it But I have been considering getting the latest version.

 

[StarClout]

Logic Pro gang

Ableton is cool too

I’ll always have love for FL, I got my start on it in like 2006 on a school laptop

 

[CHICAGO]

You're trying too hard, bro. As usual.

Dude is working from home. Why should he be spending monthly for a DAW, when he's just trying to make his own beats and record himself? If he wants to actually learn more about production and be able to take his work to other studios, he needs a DAW that's being used widely by pros. I've been in the game forever, nobody with common sense would be telling someone working from home to cop Pro Tools monthly or anything that wouldn't allow them to learn more about music and how to take their show on the road if they want to get to that level.

YOU STUCK IN THE PAST BREAUGH.

THERES PLENTY OF PROS
USING FL NOWADAYS



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[Doobie Doo]

the fact people are going hard for DAWs IMO is a little silly.....if you wanna flex....



flex your hardware. I'd be more interested in hearing what people got and how the rooms are treated. thats the real flex......just my opinion tho

Why do think it's a flex? I'm just literally telling you I've worked with both analog and digital.

I got an ASR 10 sitting in the corner of this room gathering dust and a 20-30 lb box of floppy disks full of sounds. I replaced it with an FL Key 61 midi controller. Best upgrade EVER! I ain't got to wait 1 minute for the OS to load and the other buttons actually do shyt in the box.

 

[Awesome Wells]

I don't understand how that's the software's fault.

My first seutp was analog, Tascam MK4 track casette recorder, yamaha psr 225 & alesis sr-16. I got hip to FL in college in 99 cuz I ain't have no room for my equipment in the dorm and didn't know you could make music in a box then. I have used countless DAWs since that time and prefer FL cuz it has the fastest workflow for me to get my ideas popping.

I don't understand the limit issues, you can use the same 3rd party VST instruments and effects you can use in other DAWs. You can MIDI pads and keys to play shyt out in real time so your not stuck clicking a mouse to make a beat. They got some new MIDI FL specfic Controllers where you can do the basic functionality without touching a computer keyboard or mouse. It can even record vocals (I still use Audition or Pro Tools for recording vocals). Where's the limitation?

Not the software's fault, at all.

But all DAW's and software have their advantages and disadvantages. If you're looking for a more extensive workflow, FL doesn't provide what the others do. As other people in this thread and everywhere have said, the workflow is weird and limited. So most pros who have tried it, and came from using the other joints, typically have issues with the fast workflow because it doesn't provide what you get from the more thorough DAW's. So if you want to learn more about music and the true in's and out's, it's not the best choice for that. I ran down why earlier in the thread.

Might be a preference thing, but I'm speaking more objectively about it. Just based on what I've been seeing with it forever, and what dude said he was trying to get done. For those who want to really learn their way around the studio, and want to know everything about the process at a pro level, if that's the goal, I would never tell someone working from home to hop on FL for that. That would be setting them up to fail.

 

[Awesome Wells]

YOU STUCK IN THE PAST BREAUGH.

THERES PLENTY OF PROS
USING FL NOWADAYS



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Not at all.

I'm using a ridiculous amount of DAW's and plug-ins that are all mad new. I mentioned a couple in this thread. I just know what works and what doesn't for certain situations. Same sh*t others on here are saying. I might just be more adamant about it, lol. I don’t know.

 

[Gains]

I’m curious to try it been using ableton for years

stay with ableton

 

[spliz]

Ehh respectfully I disagree. Southside and all those ATL FL spokesmen had hit records because of the mixing and engineering. I wouldn't credit it to FL. They have guys in million+ rooms adding the sauce.

Bro this is pure cap and I’m telling u this from actual experience being around some of these nikkas. Plus my brother would make beats that rivaled any of them nikkas shyts right from his crib. If u really followed 808 mafia like that u would know how alotta that shyt got done. And a lot of the time the mixing on them beats ain’t even that good. shyt the mixing on Start It Up by Lloyd Banks was done by Cardiak with FL and that shyt is HORRIBLY mixed and it’s featuring Ye, Swizz, and Ryan Leslie who are all producers.