Version	Release	Notes
1.0.0	18 December 1997	MIDI program only, never fully released
1.3.56	1 September 1998	Pitch for notes added
1.4.0	16 December 1998	Loops in sample browser, up to 64 notes per pattern, drumkits added, rendering to mono, animation added
1.5.23	3 May 1998	VST plugin support added, beta version
2.0.1	21 November 1999	Support for DirectX plugins added, redesign, live recording added
2.1.1.	19 January 2000	Now using LAME .mp3 encoder, BeatSlicer engine added, Fruity center plugin added
2.5.1	19 April 2000	Set of FruityPlugins added, including Fruity Reeverb and the 7-band FruityEqualizer
2.7.0	22 July 2000	Fruity Fast LP plugin added
2.7.1	25 September 2000	Fruity Phaser plugin by Smart Electron:x added
3.0.0	25 January 2001	Piano roll and metronome added, typing keyboard to MIDI option added, new layout. DrumSynth upgraded, new plugins include 3x Osc, BeepMap image synth, Fruity PanOMatic, Fruity NoteBook, MIDI out, and others
3.3.0	15 October 2001	Added ASIO output, Fruity db meter, multiple MIDI device controller, up to 8 plugins per track, velocity and kb tracking to all channels. New plugins included Fruity Slicer, Fruity Granulizer, and Fruity Big Clock
3.5.4.	19 June 2002	Allowed copy/pasting/saving automation, program available as VSTi plugin
4.0.0	5 March 2003	Program name changed from FruityLoops to FL Studio with this release.New playlist, FX window made into mixer, mixer given 64 insert tracks, piano roll improvements, Fruity Slicer upgrade, program now available as DXi plugin
4.1.0	7 April 2003	Free vocoder plugin added
4.5.1	29 December 2003	New plugins included Sytrus and the Fruity Flangus effect
5.0.0	22 November 2004	Fruity Slicer upgrade, basic loop recording added, Elastique time-stretching and pitch-shifting in audio tracks, added tempo detector for imported audio tracks. New plugins included Fruity WaveShaper effect and Fruity Pad Controller (FPC).
6.0.1	8 December 2005	FL compiled with Delphi 2005, multiple MIDI input devices accepted, Sytrus improvements, new GM for DrumSynth Live. New plugins included Wasp XT synth and DirectWave sampler.
7.0.0	30 January 2007	Programming language switched to Delphi 2006, BeepMap allows drag and drop function, Sytrus upgrades, support for AIFF files in sampler channels, support for Apple Loops AIFF extensions, DirectWave support for AIFF. New plugins included Fruity Parametric EQ 2, Edison audio editor and Fruity Love Philter effect.
8.x	8 November 2008	Support for MIDI SysEx input, Love Philter allows piano keys to be assigned to patterns, updated to LAME 3.97, program support and some plugin support for .OGG format, added OGG Vorbis rendering target, default audio device changed to ASIO4ALL, FL-Chan character added in wallpapers, Edison plugin upgrade. New plugins included Slicex drumloop slicing generator, SynthMaker.
9.0.0	9 September 2009	Wave Candy upgraded, support added for Korg nanoKey, nanoPad, and nanoKontrol controllers, new Riff Machine piano-roll tool, Fruity Dance upgrades, upgrade to LAME 3.98.2, Edison upgraded to export to OGG files. New plugins included Ogun (+Autogun) synthesizer, Gross Beat beat re-arranger effect, Vocodex, Sakura string synth, and Fruity Stereo Shaper.
9.1.0	5 May 2010	New Fruity Convolver effect added, MP3 export capabilities added to Edison plugin. New plugins included Harmless synthesizer.
10.0.0	29 March 2011	Allowed Fruity Edition access to Playlist Pattern Clips, and added the ability to save the piano roll as sheet music. New plugins included ZGame Editor Visualizer, Patcher, Newtone and Pitcher. Includes 64 Bit Memory management and 64 Bit plugin hosting.

Link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flstudio

FL Studio comes with a variety of plugins and generators (software synthesizers) written in the program’s own native plugin architecture. FL Studio also has support for third-party VST and DirectX plugins. The API has a built in wrapper for full VST, VST2, VST3, DX, and ReWire compatibility. Many of the plugins also function independently as standalone programs.

• Dashboard – An included plugin which allows the creation of full automation-enabled interfaces for hardware MIDI devices. This allows FL Studio to control hardware from within the program. As of version 9.0 it also supports multiple controllers for different generators and effects.
• Edison – Edison is a wave-form editor and recording tool in VST format, though Image-Line also produces a stand-alone version that does not require FL Studio to run. It is included in the Producer Edition and allows spectral analysis, convolution reverb, loop-recording, and loop-construction, as well as support for cue points.
• Fruity Video Player – Included in the Bundle Edition, it allows the composition and synchronization of audio and video.
• Deckadance (often referred to as DD) – a standalone DJ console and mixing program which can also be used in conjunction with FL Studio as a VST plugin. Initially released in May 2007, it was made available starting with the release of FL Studio 7 as an optional part of the download package.
• Maximus – Maximus is a multi-band audio limiter and compressor for mastering projects or tracks. It also serves as a noise gate, expander, ducker, and de-esser, and is included in the Bundle edition.
• Riff Machine – Self-generates melodies in the piano roll using a randomly selected instrument, with parameter controls for shaping melodies. Introduced in version 9.
• Fruity Stereo Shaper – Stereo processor with a mixer for left and right channels and their inverted equivalents and controls for channel delay and phase offset. Introduced in version 9.

Virtual effects

FL Studio is bundled with a variety of sound processing effects, including common audio effects such as chorus, compression, delay, flanger, phaser, reverb, equalization, vocoding, maximization, and limiting.

• Gross Beat – A time, pitch, and volume manipulation effect.
• Hardcore Guitar Effects Suite – A multi-effects suite of plugins designed to resemble guitarists' stompboxes, which works for any instrument.
• Juice Pack – A collection of proprietary plugins ported to VST format for use in other music hosts. The contents of this pack has changed since its release; at the time of this writing it includes the Delay, Delay Bank, EQUO, Flangus, LovePhilter, Multiband Compressor, Notebook, Parametric EQ, Parametric EQ 2, Spectroman, Stereo Enhancer, Vocoder, Wave Candy, and Wave Shaper plugins.
• Fruity Vocoder – A real-time vocoder effect.
• Vocodex – An advanced vocoder included in the Producer Edition of version 10.
• NewTone – A pitch correction and time manipulation editor that allows for slicing, correcting, and editing vocals, instrumentals, and other recordings. Introduced as a demo with version 10.
• Pitcher – Serves as a real-time pitch correction, manipulation, and harmonization tool for creating or correcting 4 voice harmonies under MIDI control from a keyboard or the piano roll. Introduced as a demo with version 10.
• Patcher – Free plugin for chain effects that can then be quickly uploaded in new projects.
• ZGameEditor Visualizer – Free visualization effect plugin based on the open source ZGameEditor, with movie rendering capability.

Samplers

• DirectWave Sampler – A software sampler that provides sample recording, waveform editing, and DSP effects (works for both VST and live instruments).
• SliceX – A beat-slicing sampler for processing and re-arranging recorded drumloops, included in the Producer Edition.

Synthesizers

3XOsc – A generator with three programmable oscillators that subtractively produce bright sound with low memory use.

FL Studio is bundled with 32 generator plugins (October 2011). Some are demos. The list includes;

• Autogun – A synthesizer with no controls and over 4 billion patches accessible by numbers only. The free version of Ogun.
• Boo Bass – A monophonic base guitar emulator.
• Buzz Generator Adaptor – A wrapper for a large number of generators from Buzzmachines.com
• Drumaxx – A physical modeling synthesizer designed to emulate and create the sound of percussion instruments.
• DrumSynth Live – Allows for percussion synthesis. Included in all Editions.
• DX10FM – Recreates a classic FM. Included in Fruity Edition and higher.
• FL Slayer – FL Slayer is an electric guitar simulator originally developed by reFX which is equipped with a high quality amp and effects tools to allow for the realistic recreation of hundreds of guitar sounds and effects boxes. It is a VSTi plugin and is included in every version of FL Studio.
• Groove Machine a virtual drum machine
• Harmless – Performs subtractive synthesis using an additive synthesis engine.Demo
• Harmor – Additive / subtractive synth with ability to encode pictures into music and resynthesis. Demo
• Morphine – An additive synthesizer that allows voices to be mixed and morphed under user control.Demo
• Ogun – An advanced programmable additive synthesizer chiefly for creating metallic timbres from 32000 harmonic choices. Demo
• PoiZone – A subtractive synthesizer with non-essential control removed for easy navigation.
• Sakura – Sakura is a physical modeling synthesizer which is designed to emulate string instruments.
• Sawer – A vintage modeling synthesizer which attempts to emulate Soviet Union era subtractive synthesizers.
• SimSynth Live – Modeled after the classic analog synthesizers of the 1980s with three oscillators, with a programmable LFO section. Created by David Billen, Frederic Vanmol, and Didier Dambrin.
• SynthMaker – FL Studio 8 Producer Edition introduced a version of SynthMaker, a popular graphical programming environment for synthesizers. It allows for the creation and sharing of new instruments without the need to understand programming code.
• Sytrus – A software synthesizer. The first version was released with FL Studio version 4.5.1. The second version of Sytrus (introduced with FL Studio 6) comes with an array of presets covering many types of sounds. Sytrus uses a combination of subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis, FM synthesis, and ring modulation, allowing the production of sounds ranging from drum sets to organs. Sytrus provides a large number of adjustments and controls, including shape shifting, harmonics editing, EQ, a modulator, filters, reverb, delay, unison, and detune.
• Toxic Biohazard – A virtual FM synthesizer similar to Sytrus, using FM and subtractive synthesis.
• WASP/WASP XT – A 3 oscillator synthesizer created by Richard Hoffman.

Link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flstudio

History

The first version of FruityLoops (1.0.0) was developed by Didier Dambrin for the Belgian company Image-Line and was partially released in December 1997. Its official launch was in early 1998, when it was still a four-channel MIDI drum machine. Dambrin became Chief Software Architect for the program, and it quickly underwent a series of large upgrades that made it into a popular and complex digital audio workstation. FL Studio has undergone ten major updates since its inception, and FL Studio 10 was released in March 2011. Noted programmer Arguru contributed to various editions of FL Studio.

Link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flstudio

WHAT CAN FL STUDIO DO?

• Audio editing and manipulation including pitch correction, pitch shifting, harmonization, time-stretching, beat-detection & slicing, audio warping and standard audio manipulation (cut/paste etc).
• Automate most interface and all plugin parameters by recording, drawing, and using spline-based automation curves or automation generators with formula-based control of links.
• Be hosted in other DAWs as a VST or connected through ReWire.
• Live music performance including video effect visualization.
• Mix and remix audio, including application of real-time audio effects such as delay, reverb & filtering.
• Multi-track audio recording.
• Record & play MIDI input recording from keyboards, drum pads and controllers.
• Sequencing and arranging.
• Synthesizer & effect plugin hosting (VST 32 & 64 bit, DX and FL Native format)
• Link.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flstudio

What is FL Studio?

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 four different editions for Microsoft Windows, including FL Studio Express, Fruity Edition, Producer Edition, and the Signature Bundle. Image-Line offers lifetime free updates to the program, meaning customers receive for free all future updates of the software. Image-Line also develops FL Studio Mobile for the iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad.

FL Studio can be used as a VST instrument in other audio workstation programs and will also function as a ReWire client. Image-Line also offers other VST instruments and audio applications. FL Studio is used by electronic musicians and DJs such as Afrojack and 9th Wonder.

Link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flstudio