Image Line FL Studio 9 Signature Edition - Music Creation and Production Software for PC

FL Signature is the most complete virtual studio currently available. It will play any sample file (wav), generator (softsynth), VSTi & DXi) or midi instrument you feed it. You will be creating wav, mp3 or midi songs or loops only minutes after launching it. The Signature Bundle is a 'bundle' including Producer Edition + a collection of IMage Line's 'signature' plugins. It's the cost effective way to get your hands on some of our best gear. If you already own plugins in the Signature Bundle, the Image-Line shop will automatically deduct these from the price.

What you can do with Signature Bundle

Enhanced productivity. The addition of Maximus will make your final mix down process easier and have you putting out professional sounding masters in less time. The Fruity Video player will allow you to compose and synchronise your musical scores or foley to video. Directwave Sampler will allow you sample VST instruments and create your own multi-layer sample banks from any recordable instrument. Sytrus will round out your synthesis capabilities with a huge preset library and awesome range of sounds. Guitar players will appreciate Hardcore Guitar Effects Suite, but it’s also a bunch of generally useful effects pedals for any instrument, experiment!

Signature Bundle includes

• All Producer Edition features plus...
• SoundFont sample player to unlock your access to the many free Soundfont sample libraries you can find online
• Video player video scoring aid
• DirectWave full sampler
• Sytrus synthesizer
• Maximus multiband maximizer
• Hardcore guitar effects suite
• Lifetime free updates to FL Studio Producer Edition & all plugins originally included as part of the 'Signature Bundle' by download

Introducing FL Studio 9

FL Studio 9 is a complete software music production environment, representing the culmination of more than 10 years of sustained & focused development. FL9 is the fastest way from your brain to your speakers.

What is FL9?

FL Studio is a full-featured, open architecture, music production environment capable of audio recording, composing, sequencing and mixing, for the creation of professional quality music. The FL Studio philosophy is creative freedom:

• Free your audio - Route any instrument to any mixer track. Each mixer track can receive audio from any number of instruments, any number of other mixer tracks and a soundcard input. Mixer tracks, in turn, can send audio to any number of other mixer tracks and a soundcard output. Create sub-mixes, effects chains or complex mixes. FL Studio’s flexible architecture sets audio free.
• Free your mind - Choose your preferred workflow, compose using the step-sequencer or piano roll. Create in pattern or track mode, then arrange your ideas in the free ‘palette’ Playlist. The Playlist presents timeline as a virtual ‘canvas’ where each Playlist track can simultaneously hold any number of score, audio and automation events. Now that’s freedom.

Instruments

• Make virtually any sound - FL9 includes over 30 software synthesizers covering acoustic/synthetic bass, electric guitar, multi-sampler tools including piano & strings, general sample playback and beat-slicing (With Rex 1 & 2 support).
• Synthesis techniques - span subtractive, modelling, FM, RM, granular and additive. With the addition of FL SynthMaker you can further create & share your own FL instruments, effects & MIDI control dashboards without the need to write basic code.
• Open plugin standards - FL Studio supports all PC industry plugin instrument standards including VSTi (1/2), DXi(1/2), Buzz and Rewire. This means you can sequence with your favorite plugins and applications.

Audio Recording & Editing

• Multi-channel audio inputs - With the ability to simultaneously capture all the inputs on your audio-interface, FL Studio has the flexibility to record a single vocalist, guitar or a full symphony orchestra.
• Arranging audio - Audio can be arranged, with complete freedom in the Playlist. Features include the ability to host an unlimited number of audio recordings, time-stretching, pitch-shifting, beat-slicing, cropping, editing and the re-arranging of audio with only a few mouse clicks.
• Edison - FL9’s audio capabilities are further enhanced with Edison, the recording wave editor. Edison is an integrated audio editing and recording tool with spectral analysis, convolution reverb, noise reduction, loop-recording, loop-construction tools and more.
  FL Studio supports WAV, MP3, OGG, WavPack, AIFF, and REX audio formats.

Sequencing

Compose and record your musical performances and ideas in the most logical way.

• Pattern or track sequencing - You choose, record your musical performances and ideas in the most logical way. FL Studio 9 can simultaneously function as a pattern and track based sequencer. Reuse patterns as Pattern Clips in the Playlist or record song-length sequences, as desired.
• Step sequencer or Piano roll - Scoring tools include FL Studio’s legendary Step-sequencer, one of the most advanced Piano roll’s in any software studio, event and multipoint automation envelopes. FL Studio supports MIDI input, standard controller compatibility, and the ability to simultaneously control multiple instrument channels from separate controllers.

Arranging

FL Studio allows you to do what you want where and when you want.

• Determine your own project design - In FL Studio 9, you decide how your project will be laid out. Unlike the competition, FL9's Playlist is a totally flexible and virtually unbounded workspace where Note Pattern, Audio and Automation data can be arranged and edited to suit your creative ideas and preferred workflow.

Mixing & Mastering

FL Studio provides all the tools you need to produce your tracks to high professional standards.

• The mixer - FL9 includes a superb 104 track stereo track mixer that is about precision, control and flexibility. The mixer’s tracks each hold up to 8 effects (VST, DX or FL's proprietary format). To create sub-mixes or mixing chains of almost unlimited complexity, each mixer track can be routed to any other mixer track, one of 4 dedicated 'send' channels and or the Master track. Sends provide the ability to sidechain inputs to multi-input effects plugins. Finally, each of the mixer tracks can be routed to any output on your audio interface, now that’s flexibility.
• Effects - What about effects? FL Studio includes more than 40 effects spanning maximization, limiting, compression, delay, distortion, equalization (graphic & parametric), filtering, phasing, flanging, chorus, vocoding and reverb. These have you covered for the creative broad-brush effects, through to the minutia of the mastering process.
• Open plugin standards - FL Studio supports all PC industry plugin effect standards including VST (1/2), DX(1/2), Buzz and Rewire. This means you can mix with your favorite plugins and applications.

Features

Plugin support

• Multi-out VSTi, Rewire & DXi softsynths
• VST & DX effects
• FPC: Fruity Pad Controller
• FL Studio Generators & FX
• Usable as multi-out VSTi client in hosts like Cubase
• Usable as multi-out ReWire client in hosts like Sonar
• Usable as multi-out DXi client in hosts like Sonar

Midi support

• Use external midi keyboards & midi controllers
• Import & export midi files
• MIDI SysEx input and basic MMC functions

Audio support

• Full audiotracks with WAV form display
• Reads .WAV, .MP3, .SYN, .DS, .Speech files
• Edison Wave Editor ($99 value) included
• ASIO-in recording

Music creation

• Step sequencer with integrated Piano keyboard
• Pianoroll (allowing chords)
• Full realtime recording & automation of all parameters
• Internal controllers
• Arpeggiator
• Automatic slicer (that reads .REX files)
• More than 15 generators (softsynths) included
• Over 40 HQ FX (effects) included
• Pattern (midi) clips in the playlist

Automation

• Pattern-based event automation
• Envelope automation of all parameters in playlist

Mixer & FX rack

• 99 Insert & 4 Send Tracks with 8 FX channels each
• Post FX Parametric EQ, Volume, Pan, VU meter
• Full FX (re)routing

Output support

• Directsound
• Multi-out ASIO
• Midi out
• Render to .WAV (16bit, 24bit or 32bit)
• Render to .MP3 (32kbit up to 320kbit)
• Render to .OGG (32kbit up to 450kbit)
• Render separate 'stems' for each mixer track

Key new features and changes

Over 370 additions, changes & bugfixes featuring:

FL Studio

Sidechaining - The FL Studio Mixer 'Track Send' now has an additional 'Sidechain' mode to support multiple-input mixer plugins.

• Multi-core CPU (Hyperthreading) - Improved multithreaded generator & added multithreaded effects processing.
• Multiple controllers - Can now control multiple independent instrument channels, assigned by MIDI number.
• New volatile linking feature.
• Wrapper - Aligned tick lengths checkbox for greater plugin compatibility.

Revised Playlist

• Playlist track naming & icon - Tools for better song organization.
• Playlist track mute controls.
  
  
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Piano roll

• Riff machine - Automatic sequence generator tool.
• Note Grouping - New feature (works on selecting, moving, resizing, deletion, muting, shifting using mouse-wheel).

Mixer

• More tracks - Now has 99 Insert tracks (up from 64).
• Multi-core CPU support - Added 'multithreaded mixer' tracks processing for improved multi-core performance

New Plugins

• Autogun
• Sakura
• Ogun
• Gross Beat
• Stereo Shaper
• Vocodex

Revised Plugins

• SimSynth Live, DrumSynth Live, DX-10, WASP and WASP XT are now included in FL Studio (Fruity edition upwards).
• Fruity Reeverb 2 - Added Mid vs Side input signal processing.
• Fruity Wrapper - Now supports multiple inputs/outputs (free).
• Wavecandy - Visualization & analysis tools (free).
• Fruity Limiter - Compressor section now has sidechaining (free).

Browser

• Presets - Drop effect presets onto mixer tracks & channels, mixer track presets onto effect slots and channels, channel & generator presets onto mixer tracks & effect slots.
• Windows file shell menu - Available from Browser (right-click) item menu.

Minimum System Requirements

• 2Ghz AMD or Intel Pentium 3 compatible CPU with full SSE1 support (or) Intel Mac with Bootcamp (running XP or Vista)
• Windows 7, Vista, XP & 2000 (32 & 64 bit)
• 512MB ram
• 500MB free harddisk space
• Windows-compatible soundcard with DirectSound drivers. ASIO drivers are required for audio recording (FL installer comes with generic Asio4All drivers)

Demo Limitations

All FL Studio demo versions are fully featured, giving you access to features associated with the highest level of the program (Producer Edition). Compose new songs and export them to WAV, MP3 or OGG. The only limitation is that projects saved in demo mode will only open fully once FL Studio and plugins have been registered. This gives you the ability to save recover your original projects post-purchase.

FL9 will fit easily within your current software supporting VST/VSTi/VST2, DXi, DXi2, MP3, WAV, OGG, MIDI, ASIO, ASIO 2, REWIRE, REX 1 & 2.

Additionally supported through DirectWave Editor: AKAI AKP (S5/6K,Z4,Z8), Battery (version 1), MPC, Reason, Kurzweil, EXS24, Kontakt (version 1 & 2), Recycle, SFZ+ and SoundFont2.

When Would This Item Ship?
• Orders are processed Mon-Fri, excluding holidays. An order placed now would be processed on Tuesday, 5/29/2012.

• The average lead time for item EM.FLPRODUCERXXL8 is one business day, which means an estimated ship date of Wednesday, 5/30/2012 if you place your order now.

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