$200-$250 Right Now Gets You Hardware and Full-Featured Traktor or Serato;...
The Z1 already works with NI’s iPad app as well as desktop. Now, you get a full-blown copy of Traktor Pro for your Mac or PC free, too. Image courtesy Native Instruments. Okay, if you’ve got some old...
View ArticleNo Excuses: Watch Deft Make a Track in FL Studio in Ten Minutes
“But I don’t have enough time.” So, get a camera crew from FACT to loom behind you and watch while you produce, all with a clever ten-minute clock ticking away for their series Against The Clock....
View ArticleFL Studio keeps rocking – now with mobile integration
FL Studio, the program once known as Fruity Loops, is one of those indestructible gems of music software. It’s the thing people may sheepishly admit to using – only to proceed to gush about their love...
View ArticleAbleton or FL Studio or Bitwig, Maschine Jam integrates with everything
First, there was software – and mapping it manually to controllers. Then, there was integrated hardware made for specific software – but you practically needed a different device for each tool....
View ArticleFL Studio 12.5: watch it in a minute, quietly gets more awesome
The software formerly known as Fruity Loops just hit 12.5 – which means, as usual, a grab bag of new stuff as a free upgrade for current owners. You can watch all that newness in just one minute: But...
View ArticleLong-term hands-on: Razer Blade 14” as creative laptop
Not just for gamers any more: Razer’s high-spec Blade laptop holds promise for music making, too. I’ve taken one for an extended test to see how it holds up. Do you know what you want in a production...
View ArticleFL Studio 20 for Windows and now Mac, with Hell-freezing functionality
FL Studio aka Fruity Loops has hit a version the developers are dubbing FL Studio 20. At age 20, the software still includes lifetime free updates – and a bunch of new features, including freezing of...
View ArticleFL Studio gets Akai Fire, and it’s serious about step sequencing
As the Akai APC40 was to Ableton Live, so the Akai Fire hardware controller is to FL Studio. It looks like the step sequencing grid you see when you open FL, and it was created in collaboration with...
View ArticleFL Studio 20.1 arrives, studio-er, loop-ier, better
The just-before-the-holiday-break software updates just keep coming. Next: the evergreen, lifetime-free-updates latest release of the DAW the developer calls FL Studio, and everyone else calls “Fruity...
View ArticleHow to get into a creative flow with FL Studio – and what could make it worth it
FL Studio's reputation is deceiving: this is one of the richest, most surprisingly open-ended tools for music-making. But long-time users may miss some of its recent improvements - and newcomers may...
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