I started on FL Studio 4.. i was 16 im 34 now 💯🔒🎹 This was Real nostalgic for me, took me back in history with FL and what I was doing in life during these years... Life going fast
probably because you need producer edition for sytrus as for zac, harmor is in all plugins edition sooo yeah as a fruity edition user i can't actually use those without dropping an amount of money that's more worth upgrading editions with, which i'll probably be doing by 2023 anyway so i can get producer edition.
@@DillyzThe1 Oh, huh, tbh I forgot I have All Plugins Edition. If you're planning on upgrading, now is actually a good time with the Black Friday sale.
@@zacanger hey i forgot to respond but shortly after i did end up getting producer edition! soundfont player, sytrus, dragging in sound, & recording audio were so worth it! ofc ik i get things like slicex too but i prefer fruity slicer like 95% of the time lol
Ableton user here. I’ve never really been a fan of the fl workflow but this video has really made me appreciate one of the other sides of the market. It’s great that there is a competitive nature between the major daw companies, as it means the customers always win. This was a really thorough yet digestible video that was a great watch. Earned yourself a sub!
I have Ableton 12 (I believe) and I don't really like the workflow, don't get me wrong I've made some pretty grand stuff on it, but I use reason /mpc live/maschine /Serato/FL 20, so I can't give Ableton too much time but it's decent
@@marvin469 ableton is only good if you have a midi controller especially an apc or any type of clip launcher, if you only use a mouse and keyboard it sucks
@@niggardlylad2008 I make beats by mouse sometimes, that's how I started but now I prefer making music on pads. I'm probably going to use Ableton to mix , I like the way u get different track colors
I started on Fruity Loops 2 but I thought it was only for drum loops. I became strictly FL user when FL 4 came out. On the Imageline site they had a pic of Kanye West using FL and I was a follower of his as a kid when he was known for producing. I think AIR is also infamous in making FLstudio popular because they made it so easy to crack in the early days. Thanks for making this video. You did good.
Can proudly say I've been a user since version 4 (and I was only 14 years old). 20ish years later I'm on version 20 and killing it in the music game. Thanks for the awesome video brother
This video deserves so much more recognition! It made me remember why I love FL STUDIO so much! Thank you for this masterpiece of a video! SUBSCRIBED 🤟
@@afunnylookingsquash was FL Studio the first music software I remember hearing about it back in 2000 FL Studio and Pro Tools were the first music software I ever heard of
Ive been in love with fl studio for 22 years. Its amazing to see how its grown to be a leading competitor in the world of daws. I used to get criticism for using it because it wasnt taken seriously early on, but now i have the last laugh because this software is amazing. I feel so vindicated as one of the oribinal fl OGs.
Same here. People used to tell me it was a toy, a gimmick then eventually they asked "wow, you made that on Fruity?". I had it since someone gave me fruity 3 on a data CD and said "try this". I decided to stop getting cracks as I grew up & began seriously using it & could make no excuses about not being able to afford it. To be honest, the lifetime updates alone should be enough of a reason to give this company your money as who do you see doing this, putting people over profit? Plus staying true to their word. I hope the founders are all millionaires!
I discovered Anvil Studio in 2001 while looking for a drum machine. I was able to make simple loops and then used Cool Edit Pro for recording audio. I played around with Fruity Loops a couple of years later but I didn’t understand it. I finally got FL 8 and started really learning midi. I fell in love with it and I haven’t used anything since.
fl studio was my start to make music by myself. thats one and a half year ago. it is so understandable and well designed im so thankful for its existence and this video!
I've been making music with FL since I was 11 (28 now), and the first version I used was FL 9. I have made probably over 200+ songs in that time which is crazy like I can't wait for FL 21 to release next year!
I Googled, "The History of FL Studio," a month before you made this video in the hopes of finding a cool mini documentary, but I had very little luck. Then boom, did it again today and found this perfect video! Fantastic job. Perfect mixture of visual storytelling and historical detail. Nerdgasms all around.
What's appealing for a non fl user is that it have lifetime free update plus the producer edition sits perfectly for any budget users..awesome stock plugins and a unique work flow.. Thinking about switching but the amount of learning curve I will have to put on again is terrifying when I think.. So I am sticking with studio one for now.. Lol
As someone who has tinkered with Studio One, Give it a shot! The workflow is surprisingly similar, I think you'll have an easier time than you think. :)
the trial version is 100% free and you still get to use all the features of FL (except opening project files youve closed) its a really good way to figure out if its right for you
After using 5.0 for WAY too long, I am still deeply grateful that Edison was added in 6, the hell of trying to use the original wav editor (before I wised up and got Audacity) felt like endless suffering, or at least until it inevitably crashed the whole program.
I got FL 3 in 2001 Dec, I heard a dude playing a CD in 2000 he said he made the beats on FL 2 and they were 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. There was soooooooooooo little information on how to use the DAW. I learned as much as I could but until utube really came along ppl had no clue of how deep those programs could go. FL 11 was my favorite Thanks for this documentary. I'm glad the new generation got this information
I started my FL Studio journey since FL 10 at high school with the school's computer, and about 3 years ago I officially started my debut on FL 20. Been taking audio commissions from people here and there, even though the earnings aren't a lot.
I remember downloading fl studio when I was 14 back in 2005 to make music for fun, and the tracks would sound awesome. I would make eerie gothic electronic melodic songs, and they sounded real good and I was just fooling around.
As an Ableton music producer and EX FL user, I could say that FL Studio has more features than any other DAW and is the most complex software for music production. And I really like that FL gives you Lifetime free updates and not like any other company that will suck your money for a few updates. FL Studio has a REAL opportunity to cover all other known DAWs (Including Ableton). Gr8 video, thank you for sharing!
Kinda wish pattern blocks could still be enabled if you want or have a mix of playlists and blocks because blocks was so fast and I wish it was mixed in still. It was a good idea and I think it could be incorporated into modern times somehow. Switching the pattern for every section and having to switch the spacing every time to get it precise instead and painting basically it in quickly and instead having to flip and take more time and such. I think a lot of people would enjoy if blocks was brought back but in a modern way, and in a way that didn’t destroy anything we have now, or force blocks. It could very easily improve workflow, and it basically would just be the playlist we have now but you can quickly make a second patterns if you want by just a button click or something, and then you can change how precisely that section lays down pattern so you can easily just paint over the sections and quickly improve workflow. They could even have it so filters and stuff can be quickly drug onto blocks not just patterns. I know you can lock patterns and such, but it doesn’t really do what blocks did. I definitely think it could have a modern way to exist with what we know now and not restrict anything now, and still allow for putting patterns just simply inside automation clips and stuff if you want it and ect. It wouldn’t take away, it just simply would add to what we have and know. It also would bring back a feature some miss, but improve it in a very modern way somehow to fit. If you wanna use it the old way you can, but it would be designed to simply improve workflow.
I spend "some" time in a 2.0 version back in early 2000's, than had over two decades off and now come back to making music with new version. And still after those 20 years it feels so familiar.
When i was 12 i wanted to start making music but i had no idea how. I ended up trying out the Fl studio demo because (as far as i knew at the time) it was the only thing i could make music with while not having a midi keyboard. ive been using it ever since and used it to start a youtube channel which is now my primary job. So, i really like Fl studio lol
Started in 2013/14 with fl 11 and after few tries I deleted it but friend of mine was using it and told me to try again. I did and I learned a few things and started loving. Didn't use for too long and then fl 12 came and everything became easier and better and more fun. I'm at 21 version rn and it's getting better and better by every update. Thank you Image Line,we love you!!
as someone who edits occasionally, This editing looked intense. The effort will pay off over the years. I think this video will hit 1 mill views in about a year. please make more like this. itll pay off~
I've been using it from day one as a beat box back around 1998. Me and my brother would go clubbing be inspired by the nights music and when i'd get home i'd open fruity up and start trying to make beats. 3 osc was my favorite back in the day making Earth-shattering detuned basses and pads!
Dope video but you forgot the mention Lex Luger the producer was if not the first, he was the first to have major hits on fl studio in 2008/2009. South side and metro boomin comes way later. Look up “BMF” and “MC hammer” by Rick Ross. He is the creator of that trap sound that we use still today.
I started on FL Studio 5, but it was a cracked version I got off of burnt cd back in 2007. I played around with demos before then, but FL Studio 5 was the one where I started taking making music seriously. I decided to purchase it in 2008 (it was FL Studio 7 when I bought it), and the rest they say, is history. FL Studio has been my main DAW since then, although I've been messing around with Ableton here and there. However, FL studio will always be my main DAW, been using it till this day. Awesome video!
Version 4 of FL studio was my first contact with it back then. I had a demo that came on a Magazine CD-ROM and i was tinkering around with it and realized "Wow!! I can actually work with this thing!!". This was when i was absolutely frustrated with other DAWs like Steinberg Nuendo, Cubase, Ableton Live and basically every other DAW i had been testing. FL studio always felt super intuitive where nothing got into your way and i didn't even have a MIDI keyboard back then but just used my normal computer keyboard to record what i played. No other DAW let me do that. So i could actually easily come to some results and implement all my VST instruments as well. It felt like making music on a playground where it never felt like work but like a fun way of playing around with ideas and making them grow into actual musical pieces.
My first version was Fruity Loops 3. I had so much fun with it. This was before TH-cam tutorials etc. so I was learning just by trial and error. But it was pretty primitive. It didn't have automation clips, you could automate inside the piano roll though. I only switched to FL 7 which was on a completely different level. I've seen the 4 5 and 5 before this video
This is so so so nostalgic. I started back in FL studio 4, got it on a CD and I was hooked. Most of childhood I would spend every single waking hour on that program, just fixated on creating melodies and inserting sounds. I still spend 90% of my free time on FL and could never see a reason to switch to anything different. The Daw is incredible, easy to get your ideas straight into place nearly instant, and it works flawlessly. All the updates they bring, are insanely good, and it really shows how much they care for their customers, and the music industry in general. FL has never dissapointed me, and watching this video gave me so much, so thank you for making this!
I've been a FL enjoyer since like 2013 or 14 because my brother let me mess around on his copy when I was young. While personally, MIDI export support leaves a lot to be desired, I would still never use another DAW. FL Studio feels like home, and it's extremely intuitive and is genuinely fun to use. Hell, I still discover new stuff in it almost every time I need to find a way to do something. Purely magical. Thank you FruityLoops for giving me the chance to become the musician I am.
Been with Fl Studio since 1999!!! What a time schools days spent coming up with concepts I never got to use lol crazy how long I’ve been using this program ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I feel what makes FL for me is that I never feel like I overpayed, I have rarely had any issues with FL itself, and the times I have had issues, fl management has been super useful, and knowing I have lifetime updates for free only makes me like it more. And because of that, I feel more inclined to buy more from FL, like the optional flex packs. Its rare I feel to have an art system not only work so well but be so solid in fulfilling my specific needs with great customer support. And especially since I've been a bit salty about my drawing program CSP, it makes me appreciate FL even more.
While I've been a musician for a long time, I've only recently (compared to many people here probably) started to dabble in digital music. I honestly nearly gave up because DAWs always felt foreign and over complicated. I wasn't aware of MIDI controllers at the time, so the only way to make music was to put notes into a piano roll, and every DAW I tried seemed to make that process painful. They always seemed more biased towards recording. Then I tried FL Studio and it just instantly clicked. The superbly engineered core VSTs aside, the piano roll was everything I had hoped for. It was responsive, flexible, and just did exactly what I told it to without putting up a fight. Within minutes I was making music, which is all I ever wanted to do. If it wasn't for FL I wouldn't be making digital music today, so I owe a lot to Image-Line.
Fruity Loops 3 was the first version I used back around 2001/2002. I got a copy of it from some hip hop producer friends on a chat program called Paltalk. Still use FL to this day. Nice video! :)
I started with Fruityloops 5.0 producer edition. I also am an avid fan of the piano roll. As a guitarist, I love note bending. In FL Studio, you can bend and vibrato notes for native plugins SUPER EASY thanks to the note-slide function. No other DAW can do this simple musical feat as efficiently.
Been with them since FL 10, got it for Christmas as a kid and it was by far the best gift I've ever gotten. About to upgrade to the full plugin bundle now that they've added a sick ass reverb plugin in FL 21. Probably never gonna use anything else.
wow at 04:23 to see a folder named bubnjevi1 and bubnjevi2 (meaning drums).. can't believe someone from Serbia was using this software back then 😅 edit: dope video, thank you for this! 😎
i was on fl since first release in 2001 luney toons and few major reggaeton artist where the first to make major placements with this daw im still on it till this day!
Wow today is december 18th! Happy BDAY FL! I started on FL 8 or 7 if my memory is right. I woke up today and started watching videos on music production and decided to open up FL and then I saw more videos and came to this one and now I'm like feeling super aligned with the universe rn xD
This takes me baaackkk 😅 i started my production with Fruity loops 1 back in 1999/2000 daamn!!! I’m now using Logic Pro but this one was created by a Genius 🙌🏾 ahead of its time!! Powerful DAW
I've been using FL since version 7 and only JUST got into Patcher this year, and it's frikkin amazing. HIghly underrated feature that everyone needs to dive into if they have some time.
I started with FL 2, but really started music seriously with FL 3. The piano roll made all the difference. I started as some kid with a pirate copy and went legit all plugins bundle with the money I got from contest winnings in the following years as Sanxion7. It's been free updates for me for a while now and I'm forever grateful they continue that today. Happy to support them whenever new things come out.
One thing to note with the "Lifetime free updates" policy is that this didn't extend to earlier versions of retail versions, which were cut off at FL9. A real bummer for me, as at the time, buying digitally wasn't as strightforward as it is today, and i hadn't expected to get burned this way.
I've been using FL Studio since FL7. I bought it for programming drums. Than started adding pads and melodies. Eventually started making full songs. And that's my story of using it. There was things that I didn't like but I see with every update things improve. So I got the latest producer version with lifetime updates. Love it, hate it, I'm stuck with it. And they have Mini synth and GMSynth and Parametric EQ which I heavily use all the time. Why not. They sound exactly the way I want. They are very straight forward and I can get the sound I want in seconds. That helps the creative process. Let's not make it too long. FL Studio is worth buying.
Thanks for talking about brobeatz. Don't hear his name a lot. Also as someone who still uses fl studio 11 it does have a time division section. Under options general settings then projects. Fl studio 11 still runs perfectly. And I think it's just as good as the newer ones 😅
I love Fl Studio. People keep telling me to switch to Ableton, but I’ve just never felt the need to. Fl isn’t perfect, but I’ve gotten real used to those imperfections over the years and have found a workflow that I really like
Heh love when people tell me that, as if I didn't already spend over a thousand dollars on FL studio 🤦♂️ yeah I'll just switch and throw all that money out the window sure
@@pricklycats I mean, the free lifetime updates are cool and I understand the money side of it, but I’ve never not wanted to use Fl. It’s not perfect, but I’d kinda miss those imperfections if they weren’t there. It really just works for me
broooo, this video was so nostalgic! Thanks a bunch for making this dude, so cool to see the evolution of FL. I personally came across FL Studio when they were at Version 9 and since then I've never looked back, Genuinely don't know where I would be right now or what I would be doing if it wasn't for this DAW (Seriously, it changed my life.) Subscribed - Bless!
I remember starting on Fruity Loops 3.5. Brings back many memories. I've also used others like Protools, GarageBand, Reason, CuBase, etc. but always felt the most comfortable with FL Studio and still use it to this day. Back then it get as much credibility but now you see major producers working with FL studio.
11:44 you did not mention one of the biggest workflow changes from 11 to 12 - many people do not talk about it, but it was a BIG deal. - They took away the square button at the top of the channel rack that would make it easier to do a whole song in a pattern with short and long loops together for example. It's one of the main reasons the Internet Money dudes stuck with FL 11 I think too.
Started with FL 10 in 2011. I was 14, now i'm 25. Still using it! Although lately, my laptop with Windows has been slowing down a bit, so i've been working in Ableton on my Macbook a lot more. I'm using FL for instrument recordings and jersey club music
I've been using FL for about as long as I've been properly making music...which isn't that much compared to a LOT of people here. Still, I was surprised to learn that non-4/4 time signatures and multiple arrangements were introduced less than a year before I started producing with it! While I still haven't done anything that I really think is that grand, I've definitely used alternate arrangements for plotting out a song's core versus its extension, and I *do* enjoy playing around with time signatures that aren't so common.
I loved Fruity Loops 3 so much! It was my first music production software when I was a kid. I still fire it up once an year for nostalgic reasons and it's still so fun to use! :)
Switched to FL Studio yesterday and I've been really interested into learning more about the software itself and the community around it. Very informative and entertaining video! Keep it up!
This is the best video I watched so far on TH-cam. As a music producer I really appreciate the effort you make for music production content. Keep up bro I wish the best for you ❤️
awesome video! ive always wanted to learn more about the history of FL. ive been using fl studio since 2017 and its been amazing seeing the updates they have made even in that short time span.
I remember starting with the demo of FL Studio fairly late in its lifecycle, around version 9 or so. I had fun making little beats and my own renditions of video game songs with the stock plugins and presets, but I didn't get far because of the trial limitations. I switched to Linux Multimedia Studio because I couldn't afford FL Studio but I wanted to continue with music. I stuck with that for a long time. Before I bought FL Studio, I'd been gifted a Fender Stratocaster Squire because I had wanted to try learning how to play real guitar. I finally bought the Producer Edition of FL Studio in 2015 when a boxed copy of it went on sale on Amazon. I registered my copy and a few years later in 2020, I bought the All Plugins upgrade when that, too, went on sale. I've been growing my small collection of software and gear, and I now have a few MIDI controllers and keyboards, a couple of audio interfaces, and a pair of well-worn Audio Technica ATH-m50x headphones. Nowadays I don't really have the time to sit down at my PC to make music, but I do want to upgrade my setup further with some studio monitors, better screens, and even pick up some gear for my guitar as well. All this happened because I wanted to make my own music to play in Frets on Fire.
I think you gotta mention 9th wonder, he's part of the history of the software. He helped popularize it when people realized that's what he used when he collaborated with Jay-Z on The Black Album.
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the production in this video was great
dudes too underrated
Thanks for this, well researched and on point! ;)
yoooo cool company!!!
hi fl studioo
Thank you fl studio for always keeping updates free!
very nice keep rocking that fruity loops bro, why was it named like that?
Thank you fl studio... 💚💯♾️ 🎶
I started on FL Studio 4.. i was 16 im 34 now 💯🔒🎹 This was Real nostalgic for me, took me back in history with FL and what I was doing in life during these years... Life going fast
same here ...
Fam, Sammeee
Same bro. Except I was in New York
I use Gargaband iOS, so I have to have an iPad.
i started on FL 8
hands down, sytrus is like the most underrated plugin ever
Harmor too, I haven't felt the need to buy Serum because Harmor can do all of that.
probably because you need producer edition for sytrus
as for zac, harmor is in all plugins edition
sooo yeah as a fruity edition user i can't actually use those without dropping an amount of money that's more worth upgrading editions with, which i'll probably be doing by 2023 anyway so i can get producer edition.
@@DillyzThe1 Oh, huh, tbh I forgot I have All Plugins Edition. If you're planning on upgrading, now is actually a good time with the Black Friday sale.
@@zacanger true, although i dont want to make my mom use any more money on plugins.
@@zacanger hey i forgot to respond but shortly after i did end up getting producer edition! soundfont player, sytrus, dragging in sound, & recording audio were so worth it!
ofc ik i get things like slicex too but i prefer fruity slicer like 95% of the time lol
how does this have such little views?? incredible video man, this will blow up for sure.
small channel and a topic nobody is searching for right now. but it was just shared by FL Studio themselves :)
I'm just now seeing this for the first time.
@@OlivioSarikas If you produce any kind of electronic music it's pretty hard to avoid this video. My algorithm is full of this stuff lol.
@@pricklycats really? i have never seen a video about the history of a daw in my suggested videos
@@OlivioSarikas Yeah and ever since watching this video I've gotten one recommended for Ableton, logic, pro tools, cubase, etc. Lol
Ableton user here. I’ve never really been a fan of the fl workflow but this video has really made me appreciate one of the other sides of the market. It’s great that there is a competitive nature between the major daw companies, as it means the customers always win. This was a really thorough yet digestible video that was a great watch. Earned yourself a sub!
don't worry friend, ableton video in the works!
@@afunnylookingsquash can’t wait to see it!
I have Ableton 12 (I believe) and I don't really like the workflow, don't get me wrong I've made some pretty grand stuff on it, but I use reason /mpc live/maschine /Serato/FL 20, so I can't give Ableton too much time but it's decent
@@marvin469 ableton is only good if you have a midi controller especially an apc or any type of clip launcher, if you only use a mouse and keyboard it sucks
@@niggardlylad2008 I make beats by mouse sometimes, that's how I started but now I prefer making music on pads. I'm probably going to use Ableton to mix , I like the way u get different track colors
I started on Fruity Loops 2 but I thought it was only for drum loops. I became strictly FL user when FL 4 came out. On the Imageline site they had a pic of Kanye West using FL and I was a follower of his as a kid when he was known for producing. I think AIR is also infamous in making FLstudio popular because they made it so easy to crack in the early days. Thanks for making this video. You did good.
Ooh a Verified User commented on this video 😮
@@oftenyoutuber4348 who cares, FL Studio themselves commented here which is actually wiiiiild & super dope
@@von... Ooh Von Hassen commented on this video :OOOO 🤯🤯🤯🤯
@@TelPhi_ what can I say, I am a man of the people
Can proudly say I've been a user since version 4 (and I was only 14 years old). 20ish years later I'm on version 20 and killing it in the music game.
Thanks for the awesome video brother
lol I have a similar story, only I was 12 when I first started with fl studio 4,
This video deserves so much more recognition! It made me remember why I love FL STUDIO so much! Thank you for this masterpiece of a video! SUBSCRIBED 🤟
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@@afunnylookingsquash was FL Studio the first music software I remember hearing about it back in 2000 FL Studio and Pro Tools were the first music software I ever heard of
Ive been in love with fl studio for 22 years. Its amazing to see how its grown to be a leading competitor in the world of daws. I used to get criticism for using it because it wasnt taken seriously early on, but now i have the last laugh because this software is amazing. I feel so vindicated as one of the oribinal fl OGs.
He who laughs last laughs best.
I came onboard with 4 now waiting on 21🥭F or L ife
That’s almost the entire time it existed… 😳
Same here. People used to tell me it was a toy, a gimmick then eventually they asked "wow, you made that on Fruity?". I had it since someone gave me fruity 3 on a data CD and said "try this". I decided to stop getting cracks as I grew up & began seriously using it & could make no excuses about not being able to afford it. To be honest, the lifetime updates alone should be enough of a reason to give this company your money as who do you see doing this, putting people over profit? Plus staying true to their word. I hope the founders are all millionaires!
I discovered Anvil Studio in 2001 while looking for a drum machine. I was able to make simple loops and then used Cool Edit Pro for recording audio. I played around with Fruity Loops a couple of years later but I didn’t understand it. I finally got FL 8 and started really learning midi. I fell in love with it and I haven’t used anything since.
fl studio was my start to make music by myself. thats one and a half year ago. it is so understandable and well designed im so thankful for its existence and this video!
Yo bro thanks for this history lesson was awesome to watch
Really great to see the timeline laid out like this. I've been a fan since 97 and love to support this company!
I've been making music with FL since I was 11 (28 now), and the first version I used was FL 9. I have made probably over 200+ songs in that time which is crazy like I can't wait for FL 21 to release next year!
Just curious do you have any idea f your music posted
So since 2005?
Next year eh? Using it now! 😁
OK it has a few little quirks but I'm sure it is close to finished.
21 just dropped today
I Googled, "The History of FL Studio," a month before you made this video in the hopes of finding a cool mini documentary, but I had very little luck. Then boom, did it again today and found this perfect video! Fantastic job. Perfect mixture of visual storytelling and historical detail. Nerdgasms all around.
Dope video. I started on FL3 and jumped to 7. I got major nostalgia watching this
Damn, I almost forgot about the pattern blocks! Brings back memories.
What's appealing for a non fl user is that it have lifetime free update plus the producer edition sits perfectly for any budget users..awesome stock plugins and a unique work flow.. Thinking about switching but the amount of learning curve I will have to put on again is terrifying when I think.. So I am sticking with studio one for now.. Lol
As someone who has tinkered with Studio One, Give it a shot! The workflow is surprisingly similar, I think you'll have an easier time than you think. :)
hey and if you did try it and give it a shot, just use the demo, so if you ended up not using it, you didn’t waste any money 👍🏻
the trial version is 100% free and you still get to use all the features of FL (except opening project files youve closed) its a really good way to figure out if its right for you
I use logic but this is cool asf!
Bro. The world uses FL studio
After using 5.0 for WAY too long, I am still deeply grateful that Edison was added in 6, the hell of trying to use the original wav editor (before I wised up and got Audacity) felt like endless suffering, or at least until it inevitably crashed the whole program.
Edison is my favorite sampler, by far. It was hard to adjust when going to Ableton and not having it
Congrats dude you're officially featured on Image-Line's website! 🙌
I got FL 3 in 2001 Dec, I heard a dude playing a CD in 2000 he said he made the beats on FL 2 and they were 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥.
There was soooooooooooo little information on how to use the DAW. I learned as much as I could but until utube really came along ppl had no clue of how deep those programs could go.
FL 11 was my favorite
Thanks for this documentary. I'm glad the new generation got this information
9:52 Hey that’s me!! ✌🏻
(I mean, my patch 😂)
I started my FL Studio journey since FL 10 at high school with the school's computer, and about 3 years ago I officially started my debut on FL 20. Been taking audio commissions from people here and there, even though the earnings aren't a lot.
Version 10 came out on my birthday 🎂
Awesome video.
I remember downloading fl studio when I was 14 back in 2005 to make music for fun, and the tracks would sound awesome. I would make eerie gothic electronic melodic songs, and they sounded real good and I was just fooling around.
I use it since fl6! Thanx for this video
As an Ableton music producer and EX FL user, I could say that FL Studio has more features than any other DAW and is the most complex software for music production. And I really like that FL gives you Lifetime free updates and not like any other company that will suck your money for a few updates. FL Studio has a REAL opportunity to cover all other known DAWs (Including Ableton).
Gr8 video, thank you for sharing!
Great video! It's unbelievable how little views this video has!
Kinda wish pattern blocks could still be enabled if you want or have a mix of playlists and blocks because blocks was so fast and I wish it was mixed in still. It was a good idea and I think it could be incorporated into modern times somehow. Switching the pattern for every section and having to switch the spacing every time to get it precise instead and painting basically it in quickly and instead having to flip and take more time and such. I think a lot of people would enjoy if blocks was brought back but in a modern way, and in a way that didn’t destroy anything we have now, or force blocks. It could very easily improve workflow, and it basically would just be the playlist we have now but you can quickly make a second patterns if you want by just a button click or something, and then you can change how precisely that section lays down pattern so you can easily just paint over the sections and quickly improve workflow. They could even have it so filters and stuff can be quickly drug onto blocks not just patterns. I know you can lock patterns and such, but it doesn’t really do what blocks did. I definitely think it could have a modern way to exist with what we know now and not restrict anything now, and still allow for putting patterns just simply inside automation clips and stuff if you want it and ect. It wouldn’t take away, it just simply would add to what we have and know. It also would bring back a feature some miss, but improve it in a very modern way somehow to fit. If you wanna use it the old way you can, but it would be designed to simply improve workflow.
I spend "some" time in a 2.0 version back in early 2000's, than had over two decades off and now come back to making music with new version. And still after those 20 years it feels so familiar.
When i was 12 i wanted to start making music but i had no idea how. I ended up trying out the Fl studio demo because (as far as i knew at the time) it was the only thing i could make music with while not having a midi keyboard. ive been using it ever since and used it to start a youtube channel which is now my primary job. So, i really like Fl studio lol
Started in 2013/14 with fl 11 and after few tries I deleted it but friend of mine was using it and told me to try again. I did and I learned a few things and started loving. Didn't use for too long and then fl 12 came and everything became easier and better and more fun. I'm at 21 version rn and it's getting better and better by every update. Thank you Image Line,we love you!!
as someone who edits occasionally, This editing looked intense. The effort will pay off over the years. I think this video will hit 1 mill views in about a year.
please make more like this. itll pay off~
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I loved every update since FL v4. FL 7 is what really got me going being able to record audio in.
I've been using it from day one as a beat box back around 1998. Me and my brother would go clubbing be inspired by the nights music and when i'd get home i'd open fruity up and start trying to make beats. 3 osc was my favorite back in the day making Earth-shattering detuned basses and pads!
Dope video but you forgot the mention Lex Luger the producer was if not the first, he was the first to have major hits on fl studio in 2008/2009. South side and metro boomin comes way later. Look up “BMF” and “MC hammer” by Rick Ross. He is the creator of that trap sound that we use still today.
I started on 9.0 .. not a bad time for them... Got 20 now. Loving it
Am proud to be an FL user, i started since version 9 and am still using FL till date. It's my favorite DAW.
I started on FL Studio 5, but it was a cracked version I got off of burnt cd back in 2007. I played around with demos before then, but FL Studio 5 was the one where I started taking making music seriously. I decided to purchase it in 2008 (it was FL Studio 7 when I bought it), and the rest they say, is history. FL Studio has been my main DAW since then, although I've been messing around with Ableton here and there. However, FL studio will always be my main DAW, been using it till this day. Awesome video!
I started on FLStudio 3 back in 2002 , man those were the days
Version 4 of FL studio was my first contact with it back then. I had a demo that came on a Magazine CD-ROM and i was tinkering around with it and realized "Wow!! I can actually work with this thing!!". This was when i was absolutely frustrated with other DAWs like Steinberg Nuendo, Cubase, Ableton Live and basically every other DAW i had been testing. FL studio always felt super intuitive where nothing got into your way and i didn't even have a MIDI keyboard back then but just used my normal computer keyboard to record what i played. No other DAW let me do that. So i could actually easily come to some results and implement all my VST instruments as well. It felt like making music on a playground where it never felt like work but like a fun way of playing around with ideas and making them grow into actual musical pieces.
My first version was Fruity Loops 3. I had so much fun with it. This was before TH-cam tutorials etc. so I was learning just by trial and error. But it was pretty primitive. It didn't have automation clips, you could automate inside the piano roll though.
I only switched to FL 7 which was on a completely different level. I've seen the 4 5 and 5 before this video
I jumped in when 3.1 was released, yeah, long time ago. Thanks for taking back man, awesome vid.
This is so so so nostalgic. I started back in FL studio 4, got it on a CD and I was hooked. Most of childhood I would spend every single waking hour on that program, just fixated on creating melodies and inserting sounds. I still spend 90% of my free time on FL and could never see a reason to switch to anything different. The Daw is incredible, easy to get your ideas straight into place nearly instant, and it works flawlessly. All the updates they bring, are insanely good, and it really shows how much they care for their customers, and the music industry in general.
FL has never dissapointed me, and watching this video gave me so much, so thank you for making this!
I've been a FL enjoyer since like 2013 or 14 because my brother let me mess around on his copy when I was young. While personally, MIDI export support leaves a lot to be desired, I would still never use another DAW. FL Studio feels like home, and it's extremely intuitive and is genuinely fun to use. Hell, I still discover new stuff in it almost every time I need to find a way to do something. Purely magical. Thank you FruityLoops for giving me the chance to become the musician I am.
Been with Fl Studio since 1999!!! What a time schools days spent coming up with concepts I never got to use lol crazy how long I’ve been using this program ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I feel what makes FL for me is that I never feel like I overpayed, I have rarely had any issues with FL itself, and the times I have had issues, fl management has been super useful, and knowing I have lifetime updates for free only makes me like it more. And because of that, I feel more inclined to buy more from FL, like the optional flex packs. Its rare I feel to have an art system not only work so well but be so solid in fulfilling my specific needs with great customer support. And especially since I've been a bit salty about my drawing program CSP, it makes me appreciate FL even more.
While I've been a musician for a long time, I've only recently (compared to many people here probably) started to dabble in digital music. I honestly nearly gave up because DAWs always felt foreign and over complicated. I wasn't aware of MIDI controllers at the time, so the only way to make music was to put notes into a piano roll, and every DAW I tried seemed to make that process painful. They always seemed more biased towards recording. Then I tried FL Studio and it just instantly clicked. The superbly engineered core VSTs aside, the piano roll was everything I had hoped for. It was responsive, flexible, and just did exactly what I told it to without putting up a fight. Within minutes I was making music, which is all I ever wanted to do.
If it wasn't for FL I wouldn't be making digital music today, so I owe a lot to Image-Line.
Amazing video dude. This was so nostalgic for me. I remember starting up with FL 7…wild how things have changed.
Fruity Loops 3 was the first version I used back around 2001/2002. I got a copy of it from some hip hop producer friends on a chat program called Paltalk. Still use FL to this day. Nice video! :)
I started all the way back with 8, myself. Such a lovely DAW
I started with Fruityloops 5.0 producer edition. I also am an avid fan of the piano roll. As a guitarist, I love note bending. In FL Studio, you can bend and vibrato notes for native plugins SUPER EASY thanks to the note-slide function. No other DAW can do this simple musical feat as efficiently.
Been with them since FL 10, got it for Christmas as a kid and it was by far the best gift I've ever gotten. About to upgrade to the full plugin bundle now that they've added a sick ass reverb plugin in FL 21. Probably never gonna use anything else.
wow at 04:23 to see a folder named bubnjevi1 and bubnjevi2 (meaning drums).. can't believe someone from Serbia was using this software back then 😅
edit: dope video, thank you for this! 😎
I got in at 1.7, it's been a wild ride seeing it grow.
i was on fl since first release in 2001 luney toons and few major reggaeton artist where the first to make major placements with this daw im still on it till this day!
Wow today is december 18th! Happy BDAY FL! I started on FL 8 or 7 if my memory is right.
I woke up today and started watching videos on music production and decided to open up FL and then I saw more videos and came to this one and now I'm like feeling super aligned with the universe rn xD
This takes me baaackkk 😅 i started my production with Fruity loops 1 back in 1999/2000 daamn!!! I’m now using Logic Pro but this one was created by a Genius 🙌🏾 ahead of its time!! Powerful DAW
I've been using FL since version 7 and only JUST got into Patcher this year, and it's frikkin amazing. HIghly underrated feature that everyone needs to dive into if they have some time.
I started with FL 2, but really started music seriously with FL 3. The piano roll made all the difference. I started as some kid with a pirate copy and went legit all plugins bundle with the money I got from contest winnings in the following years as Sanxion7. It's been free updates for me for a while now and I'm forever grateful they continue that today. Happy to support them whenever new things come out.
This hit my algorithm. You should consider making more videos like this
i got a playlist of em, gonna work on them while im not at my real job as much as i can
What a fun and nostalgic video. Been at it since 04 or so, I think it was FL5 if I remember right. Crazy how far IL has come!
Sweet look back at the history of FL. I started using it way back in the naughts, but haven't used it for a while, I might have to get into it again.
3:53 this was where I got my start.
Before this, I was (and still am) using Acid.
The I two was super cool, explained everything
Awesome video keep up the good work !!
One thing to note with the "Lifetime free updates" policy is that this didn't extend to earlier versions of retail versions, which were cut off at FL9. A real bummer for me, as at the time, buying digitally wasn't as strightforward as it is today, and i hadn't expected to get burned this way.
My main DAW since FruityLoops 2 🙂
Just because It had the 303-like synth TS404 where event event automation was possible.
I've been using FL Studio since FL7. I bought it for programming drums. Than started adding pads and melodies. Eventually started making full songs. And that's my story of using it. There was things that I didn't like but I see with every update things improve. So I got the latest producer version with lifetime updates. Love it, hate it, I'm stuck with it. And they have Mini synth and GMSynth and Parametric EQ which I heavily use all the time. Why not. They sound exactly the way I want. They are very straight forward and I can get the sound I want in seconds. That helps the creative process. Let's not make it too long. FL Studio is worth buying.
Thanks for talking about brobeatz. Don't hear his name a lot. Also as someone who still uses fl studio 11 it does have a time division section. Under options general settings then projects. Fl studio 11 still runs perfectly. And I think it's just as good as the newer ones 😅
i am so thankful for the free updates. ableton 11 was too much for me.
You have worked hard for this video. Thank you very much ! ALL HAIL FL
I began with FL11 and I had a wave of nostalgia
I love Fl Studio. People keep telling me to switch to Ableton, but I’ve just never felt the need to. Fl isn’t perfect, but I’ve gotten real used to those imperfections over the years and have found a workflow that I really like
Heh love when people tell me that, as if I didn't already spend over a thousand dollars on FL studio 🤦♂️ yeah I'll just switch and throw all that money out the window sure
I have the full version of FL like the most expensive one there is so I'm fully committed lol
@@pricklycats I mean, the free lifetime updates are cool and I understand the money side of it, but I’ve never not wanted to use Fl. It’s not perfect, but I’d kinda miss those imperfections if they weren’t there. It really just works for me
I started with Fl Studio 10 at 16 years old, it gave me wings to my imagination. Fruity Loops for life!
I make sure to BUY what ever they release out of respect for not going subscription based.
broooo, this video was so nostalgic!
Thanks a bunch for making this dude, so cool to see the evolution of FL.
I personally came across FL Studio when they were at Version 9 and since then I've never looked back, Genuinely don't know where I would be right now or what I would be doing if it wasn't for this DAW (Seriously, it changed my life.)
Subscribed - Bless!
I remember starting on Fruity Loops 3.5. Brings back many memories. I've also used others like Protools, GarageBand, Reason, CuBase, etc. but always felt the most comfortable with FL Studio and still use it to this day. Back then it get as much credibility but now you see major producers working with FL studio.
Love you brother. May god give you all happy things in your life .
11:44 you did not mention one of the biggest workflow changes from 11 to 12 - many people do not talk about it, but it was a BIG deal. - They took away the square button at the top of the channel rack that would make it easier to do a whole song in a pattern with short and long loops together for example. It's one of the main reasons the Internet Money dudes stuck with FL 11 I think too.
Thank u for taking me back
Started with FL 10 in 2011. I was 14, now i'm 25. Still using it!
Although lately, my laptop with Windows has been slowing down a bit, so i've been working in Ableton on my Macbook a lot more. I'm using FL for instrument recordings and jersey club music
I've been using FL for about as long as I've been properly making music...which isn't that much compared to a LOT of people here. Still, I was surprised to learn that non-4/4 time signatures and multiple arrangements were introduced less than a year before I started producing with it! While I still haven't done anything that I really think is that grand, I've definitely used alternate arrangements for plotting out a song's core versus its extension, and I *do* enjoy playing around with time signatures that aren't so common.
I loved Fruity Loops 3 so much! It was my first music production software when I was a kid. I still fire it up once an year for nostalgic reasons and it's still so fun to use! :)
I started with Version 3. I think I got it off of one of those CDs that came with computer magazines if I remember correctly.
Switched to FL Studio yesterday and I've been really interested into learning more about the software itself and the community around it. Very informative and entertaining video! Keep it up!
Thanks for the video, I think it will help people with writer's block to realize there are supposed to be many ways to do the same thing.
This is the best video I watched so far on TH-cam. As a music producer I really appreciate the effort you make for music production content. Keep up bro I wish the best for you ❤️
Superb video! Well done. Thanks for the hard work.
Fruity Loops 2 (it wasn't called "FL Studio" then) is what got me into beat making on the PC in '99
Why is he not calling the early versions Fruity Loops? Either embarrassed or cease and desist from Kelloggs lol
haha, I didn't realize this until I'd already edited the video. my mistake
@@afunnylookingsquash 😂
awesome video! ive always wanted to learn more about the history of FL. ive been using fl studio since 2017 and its been amazing seeing the updates they have made even in that short time span.
I remember starting with the demo of FL Studio fairly late in its lifecycle, around version 9 or so. I had fun making little beats and my own renditions of video game songs with the stock plugins and presets, but I didn't get far because of the trial limitations. I switched to Linux Multimedia Studio because I couldn't afford FL Studio but I wanted to continue with music. I stuck with that for a long time. Before I bought FL Studio, I'd been gifted a Fender Stratocaster Squire because I had wanted to try learning how to play real guitar. I finally bought the Producer Edition of FL Studio in 2015 when a boxed copy of it went on sale on Amazon. I registered my copy and a few years later in 2020, I bought the All Plugins upgrade when that, too, went on sale.
I've been growing my small collection of software and gear, and I now have a few MIDI controllers and keyboards, a couple of audio interfaces, and a pair of well-worn Audio Technica ATH-m50x headphones.
Nowadays I don't really have the time to sit down at my PC to make music, but I do want to upgrade my setup further with some studio monitors, better screens, and even pick up some gear for my guitar as well.
All this happened because I wanted to make my own music to play in Frets on Fire.
I witnessed all that. :) Brings me so many good memories.
I think you gotta mention 9th wonder, he's part of the history of the software. He helped popularize it when people realized that's what he used when he collaborated with Jay-Z on The Black Album.
Here at 4K I’ll be here when you’re at million much love 💚
Hope this blows up! Great video
Fantastic video! Can't believe this doesn't have milions of vews already
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when fl 7 hit the screen i kinda died a lil ngl . . mad love bro.