FL Studio

FL Studio is bundled with 32 generator plugins (October 2011). Some are demos whilst some are full versions. The list includes;

• 3X Osc – A generator with three programmable oscillators that subtractively produce bright sound with low memory use.[36]


• Autogun – A synthesizer with no controls and over 4 billion patches accessible by numbers only.[37] The free version of Ogun.[16][38]


• BooBass – A monophonic bass guitar emulator.[36]


• Buzz Generator Adaptor – A wrapper for a large number of generators from Buzzmachines.com[39]


• Drumaxx – A physical modeling synthesizer designed to emulate and create the sound of percussion instruments.


• DrumSynth Live – Allows for percussion synthesis. Included in all Editions.[16][19][38]


• DX10FM – Recreates a classic FM. Included in Fruity Edition and higher.[19][38]


• FL Slayer – FL Slayer is an electric guitar simulator originally developed by reFX that is equipped with a high-quality amp and effects tools to allow for the realistic recreation of hundreds of guitar sounds and effects boxes. It is a VSTi plugin and is included in every version of FL Studio but not available as 64-bit version (available only in 32-bit version of FL Studio) until release of FL Studio 12.[40]


• Groove Machine – a virtual drum machine


• Harmless – Performs subtractive synthesis using an additive synthesis engine.[38] Demo.


• Harmor – Additive / subtractive synth with ability to encode pictures into music and resynthesis.[41] Demo.


• Morphine – An additive synthesizer that allows voices to be mixed and morphed under user control.[38] Demo.


• Ogun – An advanced programmable additive synthesizer chiefly for creating metallic timbres from 32000 harmonic choices. Demo.


• PoiZone – A subtractive synthesizer with non-essential control removed for easy navigation.[38]


• Sakura – Sakura is a physical modeling synthesizer that is designed to emulate string instruments.[34][38]


• Sawer – A vintage modeling synthesizer that attempts to emulate Soviet Union-era subtractive synthesizers.[38][failed verification]


• SimSynth Live – Modeled after the classic analog synthesizers of the 1980s with three oscillators, with a programmable LFO section. Created by David Billen, Frederic Vanmol, and Didier Dambrin.[16][38]


• SynthMaker – FL Studio 8 Producer Edition introduced a version of SynthMaker, a popular graphical programming environment for synthesizers. It allows for the creation and sharing of new instruments without the need to understand programming code.[18][19]


• Sytrus – A software synthesizer. The first version was released with FL Studio version 4.5.1. The second version of Sytrus (introduced with FL Studio 6) comes with an array of presets covering many types of sounds. Sytrus uses a combination of subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis, FM synthesis, and ring modulation, allowing the production of sounds ranging from drum sets to organs. Sytrus provides a large number of adjustments and controls, including shape shifting, harmonics editing, EQ, a modulator, filters, reverb, delay, unison, and detune.[38][42]


• Toxic Biohazard – A virtual FM synthesizer similar to Sytrus, using FM and subtractive synthesis.[34][38]


• Transistor Bass - A subtractive synthesizer plugin. Exclusive to FL Studio 12.3 and up!


• TS-404 - a 2-oscillator subtractive synthesizer designed to mimic the Roland TB-303 transistor bass module. Removed in FL Studio 12 and replaced with the similar emulator Transistor Bass.


• WASP/WASP XT – A 3 oscillator synthesizer created by Richard Hoffman.[16][38]


• FL Soundfont Player – An FL Studio add-on that gives power to load, play and render soundfonts (.sf2 files) in FL Studio.


• Toxic Biohazard - An FM/Subtractive synthesiser for making synth effects.

macOS VST/AU - FL Studio can now be used as a VST or AU plugin on macOS hosts that support VST or AU plugins. Windows hosts can use VST.
Browser - (Alt+Click) to preview samples to their end. Click the stop on the transport panel to end early.
FILE settings - Option to change the maximum number of backup files.
Playlist / Piano roll - Mute selection (Alt+M). Unmute selection (Alt+Shift+M).
Plugin Manager - Check mark for favorite plugins is now a star.
FL Studio performance monitor - VIEW > Plugin performance monitor. Useful to identify resource heavy plugins.
Patcher - Option to show CPU usage of modules. Right-click workspace > View > Performance.
Channels & Effects - Added 'Don't show this in the future' option when deleting Channels and Effects.
Reset popup warnings - Option on the General Settings tab.
MIDI Options - The MIDI device list will be updated when the computer wakes up after sleep mode.
MIDI - Added 'Don't show this in future' for error messages when a MIDI device can't open.
Plugins - Deleting plugins now asks for confirmation (since there is no undo).
SoundFonts - DirectWave will open when a SoundFont file is dropped on the Channel Rack.
Templates - Are now set under the General Settings tab.

The Plugin manager Now shows a message when the user wants to close the window during a scan.

When changing the user data location, FL Studio will offer to copy data from the old to the new location

64 free Sytrus presets by Synthwave FLEX library developer Saif Sameer.

Added ability to allow dropping files on to VST and VST3 plugins with Wrapper

the ZGE Visualizer now has a button to refresh images.

Musata 'Real Bass (Original Mix)i is added as a demo project.

'Associate project files' was removed from FL Studio for macOS as it only applies to the Windows version.

menu shortcuts added. MacOS version shows 'opt' instead of 'alt'