

It’s the “Dark Side of the Moon” / Wizard of Oz approach to making music tech marketing videos more palatable. It’s a little longer than the FL Studio 20 launch video, so don’t panic … you’ve got up to 60 seconds to then hit play on the FL Studio launch video, and hit the mute button in YouTube. First, cue up this delightful live performance of “Söngur heiftar” by classic Icelandic black metal band Misþyrming. FL Studio’s video may turn off a lot of producers simply because they hate the music. Oh, sure, Ableton can throw a big posh party in Berlin and toss moody high-contrast artist photos beneath a stylish typeface they hired a London design consultancy to choose for them. Maybe one reason people assume FL Studio is for people making particular kinds of music is that … the video projects a particular kind of … uh, let’s say musical taste.

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Ahem.) How to watch the Image-Line launch video without offending your aesthetic sensibilities
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Now you do have to disable some Windows 10 annoyances, like a CPU-hogging malware check and automatic updates on by default. And even the old Razer Blade remains cheaper and better equipped than the Mac. (I will say, though – a new Razer Blade is out. But the Mac still represents a huge portion of musicians, and this means choosing FL doesn’t require choosing a particular OS. Of course, it may be hard to Image-Line to shake the Windows association, and some Mac users are coming the opposite direction, opting for the power-for-price ratio on Windows PCs. FL Studio 20 is entirely Mac native – not running any kind of emulation. Now, Mac users can be first class FL Studio citizens if they so choose.

And while about ten years ago the company flirted with using emulation layer WINE to provide rudimentary support, that approach wasn’t terribly satisfying. It’s a reference to a claim developers Image-Line made that they’d add native Mac support “when Hell freezes over.” The comment at the time wasn’t so outrageous: FL Studio had been built a Windows-native development toolchain that made porting unthinkable. The “Hell freezing over” bit you’ll see a lot around this release. At age 20, the software still includes lifetime free updates – and a bunch of new features, including freezing of audio, and Hell freezing over. FL Studio aka Fruity Loops has hit a version the developers are dubbing FL Studio 20.
