If you're wondering what all the hype is about.
FL Studio 20 is in it's release candidate stage.
Basically it's almost done but it's not the final release.
If you're on Mac, you're going to love this update, it's going to be available as a 64
bit native macOS Application.
You know what that means, AU plugins are supported!.
If you want to know about all the rest of the new features rolling out with this version,
stick around.
[FL Studio 20 Beta Review Features (2018)]
Hey, everyone, Jake from Transverse Audio here.
You see, FL Studio is only on version 12.5 right now.
Wait a second, then why is it on 20?
The reason, is actually because Image-Line is celebrating FL Studio's 20th anniversary
and funny enough, "to comfort the superstitious".
What? Scott said it himself!
Let's just get into the DAW...
Alright, so there's a few features you're going to notice right off the bat.
The Toolbar now has knobs instead of sliders for the master pitch and volume.
Cool thing about it is now the pitch snaps 100 cents.
It's also now a lot less confusing to switch between pattern and playlist,
actually showing the selection instead of just highlighting a button.
Another small thing that might be strange to you (well, it is for me) is the fact that
the window options are now on the right side, which is pretty much the standard for Microsoft.
But don't worry though, the entire toolbar is customize-able so you could switch it back
if you wanted to.
Bouncing your audio (or "freezing") can be done much easier now.
Traditionally, you had to go through a kind-of-tedious process to render your audio to use as stems.
There are four new ways to consolidate clips right from the pattern or track itself.
You can bounce selected clips to audio from the playlist menu, down to tools, and press
"Consolidate playlist selection".
If you want to bounce an entire playlist track to audio, you can right-click on a playlist
track and press "Consolidate this track".
The last two are through the Picker Panel.
Right-click on the Clip menu and either render as audio clip or render and replace.
FL Studio now automatically compensates for plugin delay in all normal case uses,
even mixer sends.
To change any manual latency on all mixer tracks you can go to the mixer menu >
Plugin Delay Compensation (or PDC) > Then go ahead and click reset manual latency on all tracks.
To put it simply, if you're having any issues with a "delay-like" effect when you're not using one,
this update will automatically fix this problem.
Mixer tracks, the Dry/Wet knob on mixer effects, and even the metronome if you've had latency with that.
Now, the playlist received a brand new feature called "Playlist Arrangements" and it's very
similar to how Patterns work.
With this new addition, you can create different versions of your music or even sound effects.
This is going to make sound design amazing, let alone experimentation without ruining a project.
While we're on the playlist, let's go over some other interesting features.
Before, you could only collapse grouped tracks.
Now, you can hide them all together, with the ability to toggle them through their group parent.
This should make your playlist much more clean and organized.
Another key feature rolling out for playlists is a real-time display of audio being recorded.
This also groups together multiple takes when recording.
Now there's a few extra things I think you'll like.
In version 20 they're bringing back two classic features.
You can once again edit velocity, pitch, pan, etc, right from the channel rack.
The other feature is precomputed effects in sampler channels, which will allow you to
do a few new things to samples.
You can now reset mixer tracks to default with one click, even when you select multiple tracks,
allowing you to reset them all at once.
Deleting a track is now "delete" instead of replacing with "none".
Used to be confusing I guess...
Now it's not!
You can drag and drop plugins right from the plugin manager, so you can sort by the name
of the plugin or even put a check-mark on plugins you use often and sort by that.
You never used to be able to do this but I think it can be useful for some unique workflows.
There are now more tracks that you can use in the mixer and playlist.
In the mixer, it's increased to 125 from the previous 104.
In the playlist, it's up to 500 now...
There only used to be 199!
Now, there are a ton of bug fixes that make this version better, but since there are so many,
I'm just not going to go through them all.
Thank you so much for joining me on this review.
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