FL STUDIO BASICS

What is New in FL Studio 5

This is a list of the important new features in FL Studio 5. For a complete list of new features (and bugfixes) in this and older FL Studio releases, please check WhatsNew.doc in the FL Studio root folder.

If you have created projects in earlier releases of FL Studio (and FruityLoops), please be sure to check the Compatibility with Older Projects page.

New Features in FL Studio 5.02

• Sytrus 1.5 is now included in the setup program (note: free for existing Sytrus users, operates in DEMO mode for all other users). New features include: revamped and enhanced harmonics editor, new feature-rich filter module & gibbs phenomenon attenuation tools and real-time processing.
• New Piano Roll tools - Key Limiter, Flipper.
• New Event Editor tool - Level Scaling.
• New Piano Roll tools button for direct access to tools.
• Alternate arrange windows command (leaves the taskbar uncovered in Windows XP).
• Ability to detach windows (for dual screen setups). To detach a window, open the window's menu > View > Detach.
• Added local snap selector to the Piano Roll, Event Editor and Playlist.
• Various improvements to the user interface.

Time-Stretching in Audio Tracks and Sampler

• FL Studio features the high quality ZPlane Elastique time-stretching technology. Tonal, drums, slices and resample time-stretching are available.
• Sampler and Audio Clips support time-stretching (resizing audio clips stretches them in time).

Automation Clip & Improved Audio Clips

• Brand new Automation Clips added to the Playlist. Each clip supports a spline-based envelope and an LFO unit.
• Added option to trim audio clip parts outside playlist selection.

Improved Recording

• Added loop recording/overdub ability.
• Audio recording can now be undone.
• Right-click arm a Mixer track for a quick default name.
• Ability to leave tracks armed after recording.
• Selecting an ASIO input arms the track automatically.

New Plugins:

• FPC - FL Studio MPC, a new self-contained drum machine plugin.
• WaveShaper - Graph based distortion with supersampling.
• Video Player - Synchronized playback of video content inside FL Studio.

Improved Plugins

• Granulizer is vastly improved (supports transients, new key-to modes).
• Sytrus adds global envelopes, new curve types and more.
• Fruity Slicer is improved to support the new slicing engine & time stretching capabilities; FL Studio and Slicer load ReCycle Loop Files.
• DrumSynth Live now supports up to 120 patches at once.

New Tools

• New powerful Arpeggiator tool in piano roll.
• New Drum Flam tool in the Piano Roll.
• Note legato and Articulation tool in the Piano Roll.
• Brush tool added to the Event Editor.

Other New Features

• New realtime interpolation options for high-quality realtime playback.
• New option to render audio files with note slice markers.
• Tempo tapping added to tempo's right-click menu
• MP3 files can be loaded into sampler channels and audio clips.
• And a lot more! For a full list, see WhatsNew.doc.