All user reviews of 5/5 for the Image Line Fruity Loops 9

With FL Studio it is the most easy and nice looking digital audio workstation to use.
Everything was easy to set up with no stress at all basically download it, click install and your ready to go.
The vsts included are great, very nice looking and all of them provide something special to your tracks.
The manual is great and nicely set out I am still finding out new things that I can do with fl studio.
Everything in the program is easy to use and all works in sync with itself which I find is the most important feature in a digital audio workstation.
I really enjoy fl studio, just how easy everything was to set up and get going in matter of minutes was unbelievable to say the least.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Everything works perfectly on my configuration of 4gb ram and 1.8GHz processor. The performance is amazing but with most things will slow down once you get into using a lot of effects plugins to get the best mix possible such as having a lot of reverb vst plugins running at the same times can seriously impact on speed with the project but that is more about the performance of the computer than the actual fl studio set up.
I have been using this for about 1 year, maybe more and I will stick with it until there is an even better DAW on the market.


OVERALL OPINION

Overall opinion is that this is the best you can buy, its cheap which I think puts people off but it should not.
Everything runs smoothly and it looks nice as well which I think leads you onto making better productions.
You can run any external (non fruity) vst on this program also which is great since I have a lot of vsts.
Definitely the best production software out there and so underrated.

When I first bought FL studio I was sceptical to all the hype surrounding it. I simply thought it was just some noob tool that anybody could pump out generic sounding midi music. Oh how I was wrong. FL Studio is constantly used around the world by professionals, rightly too. I had no compatability issues with it at all, it installed sweetly on both of my computers. The main setup is very simple, this program is really the simplest way to get straight into music production. All the pros start here, and some stay here too, purely because of familiarity. You can pump out hits from FL at any level.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

FL works and does exactly what it is meant to plus more. You would never have thought that songs such as Drop The World and any 9th wonder produced track were made with FL. Lex Luger is another producer notable for using FL. It performs admirably and doesnt really strain my CPU or RAM at all. I have been using it now for roughly 3 to 4 years and have only stopped for brief periods to try out other programs.

OVERALL OPINION

The piano roll is probably my favourite feature of FL. It's accessability is immense and allows anybody to create brilliant music at the click of buttons (see Lex Luger). Obviously a midi keyboard does help any ventures but it isn't really neccesary as you can use your PC keyboard. I am a huge fan of everything FL brings, it's simplicity is key. The mixer is superb and even the stock effect plugins that come with it are near to industry standard with some tweaking of the presets that come with them. My only quirp with FL would be stability. If you overload it it can crash without warning. FL also does not take any sort of backups, this is extremely annoying when you are working on your brand new super beat and it just crashes out of nowhere with no backup made. However this is rare so there is no worrys. Knowing what I know now, I would buy FL any day of the week as it is really a super DAW.