Image Line FL Studio 10

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‘Keep on Disk’ option for Audio Clips &
Sampler Channels that allows mapping
of these to separate memory space.
Sticking to performance issues, the
Audio preferences have been updated
and offer two further options that might
improve CPU load with some ASIO
drivers (‘Mix in bufferswitch’ and ‘Triple
buffer’). These appear to offer an extra
layer of protection between the program
and soundcard drivers, reducing
glitching and possible drop-outs.
It should also be noted that plug-in
delay compensation for a new project is
now fully automatic by default.
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There have been some modest, but
useful, changes to the mixer section.
A ‘Wide Tracks’ option makes for much
easier navigation and editing of the
mixer surface, while a ‘Waveform’ meter
option provides a useful alternative way
of viewing each track’s audio via
downwardly-scrolling waveform displays.
The Playlist area of FL Studio has
been revised, allowing the resizing of
track heights (this addition certainly
helps when more detailed editing is
required, particularly with automation
work), the locking of track heights and
locking of tracks to clips. A new
playback tool allows the preview /
auditioning of Audio and Pattern Clips,
and the number of mouse and modifier
options have been increased for
improved copying, moving and
duplication of elements.
Markers have been expanded to
include Live Playlist marker types that
allow for real-time looping, pausing and
skipping. Similarly the Piano Roll editor
has seen some significant changes,
although many of these might not be
immediately obvious and relate to the
cycling, selection, zooming and
rescaling of notes
and clips.
Usefully, Piano
Roll and Playlist
sync has now been
added – meaning
that editing in the
Piano Roll while in
Song mode will
also move the Playlist transport.
Additionally, Piano Rolls may now be
exported to a standard notated musical
score in PDF format.
specs
System Requirements
PC: Windows: 2GHz AMD or
Intel Pentium 3 compatible
CPU (with full SSE1
support), Windows 7, Vista,
XP/2000 (32- & 64-bit),
1GB RAM, 1GB free hard
disk space + Windows-
compatible soundcard with
DirectSound drivers. ASIO
drivers are required for
audio recording.
FL installer comes with
generic Asio4All for
soundcards that do not
provide ASIO drivers.
Mac: Intel Mac with Boot
Camp (running XP or Vista)
- or another virtualisation
environment.
The update introduces
two new optional pitch
manipulation plug-ins for
use within FL.
Pitcher is a real-time
pitch-correction plug-in
the manner of Antares
Autotune, but with a few
additional features. For
simple pitch correction,
automatic mode can be
used, with the option of
setting the scale, key or
notes to avoid. MIDI mode
allows for external control
of pitch transposition,
with a ‘harmonize’ mode
capable of producing
four-part harmonies. The
correction speed setting
allows for the plug-in’s
use a ‘special’ effect,
while various formant
options determine how
much the timbre changes
with extreme values.
Newtone takes its cue
from software such as
Celemony’s Melodyne or
zplane’s vielklang. This
allows audio clips to be
dragged from the playlist
and manipulated on a
note-by-note basis. The
plug-in allows the user to
adjust volume, pitch,
pitch variation (vibrato)
and formant elements
individually against a
standard piano-roll style
grid. In fact pitch and
volume adjustments can
be made for the whole
note as well as the
user-definable ramp-in
and ramp-out sections.
The results can even be
output to a MIDI file.
Newtone and Pitcher Plug-ins
Markers have been expanded to
include Live Playlist types that allow
for looping, pausing and skipping
There have been some modest changes to the FL Studio mixer section
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