Its simple interface brought it a huge number of fans, especially in the States where it was adopted by high-profile producers in the hip hop community thanks to its beat programming prowess. Version 1 was a simple MIDI affair based around a TR-or Rebirth-style step programming interface, but it quickly developed to handle melodic sequencing and audio via a sample-based drum machine.
That first version was a simple four-track drum machine developed by Didier Dambrin for the Belgian company Image-Line who had previously released an adult version of Tetris called Porntris, I might add. However, it is now easily powerful enough to be considered as the one and only DAW of choice and many producers are using it as that. Like Reason, you can use the software as a kind of DAW within a DAW, and its fast beat and melody sequencing could tempt you to do just that so you could consider it almost as an instrument in its own right. If not, then you definitely need a sequencer of this power, and even if you do own one, FL Studio is a great option to consider. The chances are you already have a DAW or a hardware sequencer with which you make music.
With the moniker focussing so much on the history, perhaps this is an appropriate point to look back at how the software has developed in those 20 years.
If you were one of those lucky punters who opted for version 1. Well, the company is celebrating 20 years of the software and that policy I mentioned is its lifetime of free updates, which means just what it says. However, like all DAWs, it has become something of a production powerhouse over the years, yet tried to keep that simplistic ethos that won it so many fans at the start. FL Studio is a two-decade old piece of software that also seems to have won the hearts and minds of much of the music production community, especially Stateside. Andy Jones gets fruity and examines a genius history that has given it a huge DAW user base….
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