FL Studio 8 XXL Bundle

by Image-Line

Product Features

• 29 virtual synthesizers like acoustic/synthetic bass, electric guitar and plucked string simulation, sampler tools including piano, general sample playback, and beat-slicing, and a range of synthesis techniques
• Up to 64 simultaneous tracks of audio
• Each track can hold 8 effects and can be routed to any of the other 64 tracks or one of 4 dedicated 'send' channels
• Time-stretch, pitch-shift, beat-slice, chop, edit and creatively destruct audio
• Spectral analysis, convolution reverb, loop-recording, loop-construction tools

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0015D7BVM
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 30, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,862 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

If you're a musician or producer, you want as much flexibility as possible. FL Studio XXL is a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for Windows that has an incredible variety of features built-in. This fully featured sequencer supports VST, DX & ReWire plugins. It will play any sample file (wav), generator (softsynth), VSTi & DXi or midi instrument you feed it. A complete kit of instruments and studio tools is included. With the specialized plugins, sounds and tools, the user can create complete songs, backing tracks, loops or beats. Completed songs can be saved to WAV, MP3, OGG, MIDI, or ZIP.

Unlimited track Step-sequencer, a Piano Roll and Automation Clips The 44 included effects plugins span - Maximization, Limiting, Compression, Delay, Distortion, Equalization (graphic & parametric), Filtering, Phasing, Flanging, Chorus, Vocoding and Reverb A powerhouse drumloop slicer & re-arranging tool Maximize & compress final mixes or tracks Permanently learns and remembers links to external controllers Downloadable sound banks and multi-sample sets Multi-core safe plugins are threaded for performance gain on multi-core CPUs An 'Online Panel', to keep your software updated Includes FL Studio 8, DrumSynth Live, SimSynth Live, DX-10, Soundfont player, Sytrus, DirectWave & VideoPlayerSystem Requirements Pentium III or Athlon XP Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista DirectSound drivers

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great All-In-One, August 15, 2008

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G. Smith "Egghead" (Longmont, Co United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FL Studio 8 XXL Bundle (CD-ROM)

FL Studio 8 XXL is a great place for any beginner to start or any pro to expand their studio with. I use it not only for its easy to use sequencing and pattern editor that's easy to understand at a glance, but as a VST host and a flexible signal router. For recording, I use a Linux machine with a Delta 1010 and connect it to my Windows box with an Audiophile 24/96 via the SPDIF connectors. This allows me to route synthesizer outputs through the mixer in FL Studio for effects processing, EQing, compression ect. At the same time, I can use the analog inputs on the audiophile to turn two of FL Studio's mixer channels into signal inserts that I plug into my main mixer. I can't do that with Reason, and even with the academic discount, Cubase is much more expensive.

Image Line has done really well packing FL8 XXL with a lot of features. The Soundgoodizer is a very effective tool in the loudness war and a great way to get a taste for what Maximus can do. I use all of my soundfonts and most of my other samples in Linux, so I don't use the various sample players too much, but the DirectWave player looks fantastic and I'm sure the soundfont player does its job well.

There are a few things that I don't like. Plugin management is tedious and frustrating. I wish the hotkeys were more convenient to use, as having to change between the different tools can slow you down. The included tutorials are decent. The online videos are better, but don't help if you take your laptop around.

All in all, with any of the FL8 packages, it's a great way to get started with computer music. Throw in some free VSTs (say, the CM Studio!), and you've got more music instruments and effects at your disposal than multi million dollar studios had just a decade ago. For the money, it's hard to go wrong with FL Studio 8.

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Tool for Mixing, March 20, 2010

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Thomas Kehl "Dave Ramsey fan" (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FL Studio 8 XXL Bundle (CD-ROM)

I worked hard for a few weeks to learn the basics of this Studio. They have great online tutoring. I was mixing some great things up, very quickly and Im no musician. Fun to work with and intuitive.