Ignored features of FL Studio

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drex

superpimp trillionaire
Battle Points: 11
For years I was stuck on soundforge. Ever since Fruity loops 3 I think...
Over the years I upgraded my kit many times, new SF, new Fruity.
Then one day it was no longer fruity, it became FLStudio.
I continued upgrading versions of the same programs.
i loved everything about soundforge and when edison was introduced, I didnt care.
i used edison for the first time a couple months ago...
I just realized that fl scratcher sounds pretty decent
What are some of FLstudios most ignored features?
 

dacalion

Hands Of FIRE!
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 259
The whole program in general...I've even seen comments by really knowledgeable producers on here that have overlooked a lot of its 'hidden' features. Anyway, here are some of my personal favorites...

FL Scratcher - One of the dopest scratch programs out. You have several options with it, you can program your scratches by hand, you can use your mouse to control it, you can use your keyboard, or you can use turntable controllers.

Gross Beat - Is mainly used for Trance/House/Techno type effects but also has some turntable style scratches. Gross Beat is all about programming your scratches but it has some dope presets as well.

Fruity Parametric EQ2 - Is basically a 7 band EQ with a analyzer in the backgraound. This really comes in handy when you want to cut specific freqs. out of a sample. If you set it up right, you can come very close to eliminating all the vocals or all the bass, or even all the music out of a sample.

Fruity Stereo Enhancer - Is awesome for putting a stereo effect on anything you run through it. I use it a lot on my snare and hihat hits. It's really good for throwing a stereo offset on whatever.

Fruity Love Philter - Is dope for adding that phase shifting effect to any of your work.

Fruity Chorus - putting a chorus effect on vocals or any instrument. Really dope!

SliceX - Even I slept on this until recently. Edison is awesome alone but SliceX is Edison on steriods! Combine SliceX with your FPC and now you're playing with power. The chop dump function is soooo much easier in SliceX if you're running a pad controller it's ridiculous.

Drumaxx - Highly slept on! If you like creating and programming your own drums, it doesn't get much better than Drumaxx. With Drumaxx, you can go into the finest detail of any drum that you use. You can change the amplitude, decay, noise and noise phase of your mallet. You can change the tension, material, size, shape and other aspects of your membrane...let me put it like this...if you dig into drumaxx, you'll find how dope it really is.

Fruity Reeverb 2 - One of the best on the market and I'm a vst dude, trust me...there are some better but Reeverb 2 can run with the best of them.

Also, on a side note, FL Studio has a very cool way of side chaining your kicks (if you're into that). I've only found the need to do it once but there's a good vid on youtube that explains how to do it.

There are tons more but I'm gonna leave room for you guys to add, these are just some of my favs.

Just keep in mind that with all of these...you'll find some really good presets but if you dig deeper and learn the settings, you can come up with some awesome results. Most of these have some very good youtube tutorials as well, check the Image Line website too.
 
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 170
I can't say enough about the program as a whole. The aforementioned Edison and Slicex are worth the cost of admission alone. I like the FPC a lot. The layering capabilities are excellent. The Buzz Effect Adapter is really never mentioned, yet has some outstanding presets for effects. I am even coming around to the synths on there. Sytrus is powerfull, especially if u tweak the presets and stack the sound. And another thing I don't see discussed, Rewiring Reason to FL Studio. Then you have the sounds from Reason, which if you don't know,are a whole lot of quality sounds, with the easy work flow of FL. On top of that, I have always found that my beats coming out of Reason were nowhere as warm as the ones done in FL. I'm talking about with no or minimal bus effects. Can't get into the "which DAW is the best" debate, but FL is damn sure the best for my needs.
 

dacalion

Hands Of FIRE!
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 259
It comes only as a demo in FL 10 Producers Edition =(, and sytrus has some really dope sounds...I started to jack it a few times, it's worth the purchase though.
 
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