I think FL has much more capability than is given credit for. One huge plus that I see over reason is it's capability to support vst's. Now is you like to produce electronic type music like me you will find that vst support is a major advantage. Rewire capability is poor. There are some obvious things it lacks in though that I'm sure will be implemented in later versions. Overall: I consider FL to be a pretty flexible program ("for it's ease of use&quot.

Price paid

149 USD

Very intutive design. Highly recommend this for anyone to start on. NOT SAYING YOU SHOULD NECESSARILY MOVE ON TO SOMETHING ELSE once you become more proficient with sequensing. Just saying out of anything out there this is real easy to learn on for the amount of flexinility it has.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Wow... Tha samples that come with this are absolutely horrible. Don't plan on jammin' with this program right out of the box. You're ganna have to grab some 3rd party software and build your own collection of samples/soundfonts. I am a reason user to and it seems like everything that comes out of reason just sounds much more professional.

I cannot recall any crashes or serious problems. I've heard complaints from other people about feezing up or shutting down but I suspect that was due to non-legitamate use/cracked software.

OVERALL OPINION

I can honestly say "I love FL". It's intuitive design is just so easy to use yet its features are powerful. To some it up it's just a very comfortable program to work with.

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Esthetix (January 2-, 2005)