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Representing the culmination of more than 10 years of sustained development, FL Studio 8 is set to become the most flexible virtual music studio tool in the industry.

What is FL8?

FL Studio is a fully featured, open-architecture music creation and production environment for PC. No extra software is required* to produce any style of music, as the complete set of instrument and studio tools is included in the cost of the package. With the included plugins, sounds and tools the user can create complete songs, as well as backing tracks, loops and sizzling beats. Completed songs can be saved to WAV, MP3 or MIDI or .ZIP or native project formats (.FLP).

Instruments

Make virtually any sound. FL8 includes 13 virtual synthesizers covering 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 (subtractive, modelling, FM, granular and additive).

With its newest addition, FL Synthmaker - a fully modular environment, you can create & share your own FL instruments, effects & dashboards without the need to write basic code.

Audio Recording & Editing

Capture audio from a single vocalist right through to a full symphony orchestra. FL8 can record up to 64 simultaneous tracks of audio#. The Playlist workspace can contain an unlimited number of audio tracks and allows you to arrange discrete audio events in any order, and position the creative process dictates with complete flexibility. Audio tools allow the ability to time-stretch, pitch-shift, beat-slice, chop, edit and creatively destruct audio. FL8 has further enhanced its Edison Wave Editor, a fully integrated audio editing and recording tool with spectral analysis, convolution reverb, loop-recording and more…
FL Studio supports WAV, MP3 and OGG formats.

Sequencing

Record musical performances and ideas in the most logical way. FL8 functions as both a pattern and track based sequencer depending on user preferences. Tools include an unlimited track Step-sequencer, an industry-leading Piano Roll and Automation Clips. FL Studio supports MIDI and input from all standard Controllers.

FL8 is probably the fastest way from your brain to your speakers.

Arranging

Determine your own project design. In FL8, you decide how your project will be laid out. Unlike the competition, FL8's Playlist is a totally flexible and virtually unbounded space where Note Pattern, Audio and Automation data can be arranged, and edited to suit your creative ideas and workflow.

Mixing/Mastering

The most powerful mixer in its class. FL8 includes an industry-leading 64 stereo track mixer. Each track can include up to 8 effects and can also be routed to any of the other 64 tracks or one of 4 dedicated 'send' channels. The 44 included effects plugins span Maximizer, Limiter, Compression, Delay, Distortion, EQ, Filtering, Phasing, Flanging, Chorus, Vocoding and Reverb. These will take you from the creative broad-brush effects like reverb, through to the minutia of the mastering process with multiband compression/limiting and parametric EQ.

Key new features and changes

First of all, FL Studio 8 is everything which is included in FL Studio 7 plus many, many more.

Let's have a look at its key new features ...

- FL Synthmaker is a fully modular environment where you can create & share your own FL instruments, effects & dashboards without the need to write basic code.

One-click-recording using the built-in Edison Wave Editor, a fully integrated audio editing and recording tool with spectral analysis, convolution reverb, loop-recording and more…:

Slicex, the power horse drumloop slicer & re-arranging tool.
Soundgooodizer is a stereo 'maximizer-enhancer' plugin based on the Maximus sound processing engine.
Soundgoodizer is shiny it’s good!

1. Included Fruity Limiter/Maximizer for maximizing & compressing final mixes or individual tracks
2. FL Studio can permanently learn and remember links to external controllers with the new ‘multilink’ function + 'Override generic links' option.
3. Wave Candy is a flexible audio analysis and visualization tool with Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyser and Peak Meter.
4. Sinc interpolation now faster (64point sinc now usable real-time depending on CPU)
5. Rendering with latency compensation
6. Score logger, records all MIDI & note activity for instant recall.
7. Directwave Player, broaden your musical palette with downloadable sound banks and multi-sample sets.
8. Recording filter, to select Audio, Automation or Note data recording independently or in any combination.
9. New slip editing and resizing tool for Playlist clips
10. Multi-core safe plugins are threaded for performance gain on multi-core CPUs.
11. Introducing 'Selected mixer track' in Mixer, to which the selected mixer track is routed, and where to place visual effects or a recording Edison.
12. FL8 now supports Track-based sequencing, Pattern Clips present sequence data as Audio and/or Automation Clips
13. A 'News Panel', to keep users updated with content and patches.

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Instructions

Install, replace FL engine and run the regkey. If it ever expires you can use the date trick from this link : FL Studio Date Trick - it contains instructions and it is very easy and quick to do.

Propellerhead | Reason 4

Reason 4 introduces:

• Thor, a sophisticated synthesizer;
• The ReGroove mixer, a new way to adjust the rhythmic feel of tracks;
• RPG-8, a versatile arpeggiator;
• A newly rebuilt sequencer; and
• Workflow enhancements that give musicians the control and power to make great sounding music faster and easier than ever.

“This is clearly the biggest update to Reason ever. For users, this will be as inspiring as using Reason for the first time,” says Ernst Nathorst-Böös, CEO and founder of Propellerhead Software. “We can’t wait to hear the music our users will make with the new version.”

If you’re psyched already - you can apply for the beta progam.

Otherwise, we’ve got a sneak preview of the new features:

Thor, Polysonic Synthesizer, takes sound creation to a new level, according to the company, offering a “museum” of synthesis techniques wrapped into one instrument.

With six open “slots,” Thor brings together six different oscillators with four different filter types plus wave shaping, enveloping and effects. Thor facilitates a plethora of modulation routings enabling users to exchange audio and control signals just like original analog synths. The result is a fantastic, full-sounding software instrument that is extremely light on CPU usage.

Preview the sound of Thor below.

The ReGroove Mixer brings traditional groove and swing quantization from sequencers into the more flexible, usable paradigm of a mixing console. Using the ReGroove Mixer, users can apply in real-time varying amounts of swing, shuffle and grooves to tracks.

This revolutionary approach gives users 32 “groove channels” that can be assigned to sequencer tracks and lanes, providing individual settings for groove strength, timing shift, velocity, duration and other parameters nondestructively. Users can create tighter sounding tracks with more human feel and even attain better mixes using ReGroove. Users can create their own groove templates.

In addition, Reason 4 will ship with a large selection and variety of grooves—from grooves extracted from live recordings to grooves taken from vinyl funk gems of the 70s.

Reason’s sequencer has been redesigned and rebuilt into a more intuitive and powerful tool (see Live). Users can quickly make global edits using “clips,” assign notes and controller events to different “lanes,” manage multiple takes, and edit events numerically—to name but a few of the hundreds of enhancements.

Controller data now uses vector automaton for the smoothest of transitions. Users can manage tempo and time signature changes through a transport track. The inclusion of a floating tool window makes getting to frequently used tasks a snap.

The RPG-8 monophonic arpeggiator device provides a wide away of controls for arpeggiation. Very easy to use, yet deceptively powerful, the RPG-8 provides endless creative possibilities for each of Reason’s sound sources.

A demo below showcases RPG-8’s capabilities.

Other Stuff

The new Reason features a number of other improvements and enhancements. Reason 4 is now fully localized into English, French, German and Japanese, including all menus, interface items, help files and documentation. The transport control and hardware interface have been redesigned for easier use. A floating tools window lets users access devices, editing commands and groove controls without having to invoke menu commands or dialog boxes

The included Factory Sound Bank has grown with a number of additions, as well as a large set of signature Thor patches from well-known artists and sound designers. The Combinator and NN-XT devices have seen improvements and new features that are especially useful for sound designers and live musicians.

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Ableton Live v7.0.2

Ableton Live 7 is your companion during every stage of the musical process, from creation to production to performance.

Live Features:

Recording - Editing
* 24 bit / 192 kHz multitrack hard disk recording
* Complete MIDI and audio sequencing with non-destructive editing, unlimited undo
* Instant capturing and resampling of audio signals while the music is playing
* Real-time loop / overdub MIDI recording for pattern build-up
* Unlimited audio and MIDI tracks

Non-linear Sequencing
* Audio and MIDI files can be mapped to MIDI keyboard ranges and computer keys for instant triggering
* Records all actions as arrangements and automations for later in-depth editing
* Scene concept for non-linear organization of audio and MIDI files for live and jamming purposes
* Customized and random sequencing of audio and MIDI files for generating ideas and preparing performances
Actions can be set up to allow for automatic jamming and generative music

Time and Pitch Manipulation
* Real-time time-stretching to play any audio file in sync with the project tempo, even if original tempo fluctuates
* Real-time pitch shifting for the individual notes in a sample
* Real-time groove and swing manipulations for MIDI and audio
* Tempo automation via continuous breakpoint envelopes

Instruments - Effects
* Includes a wide array of innovative Ableton audio and MIDI effects
* 'Simpler' instrument for polyphonic playback and creative exploration of any sound recorded or dragged into Live
* 'Impulse' percussion sampler instrument for dynamic drum sound design
* Endless expansion via VST, Audio Units, and ReWire Plug-in support
* Free assignment of effects, mixer, tempo and transport functions to MIDI controllers
* Complete and easy automation recording and editing for all instrument and effects parameters

Browsing - Import - Export
* Built-in browsers for previewing WAV, AIFF and SDII audio files in sync with the project tempo
* Audio tracks play mono and stereo audio files of any sample rate, bit depth, length with no prior conversion
* Drag-and-drop MIDI file import
* Exports MIDI and audio files

Routing - I/O - Sync
* Drag-and-drop signal flow management for MIDI effects, instruments and audio effects
* Unlimited bussing for audio and MIDI signals for mix grouping, synth layering, post-effects recording, MIDI to audio
* Supports previewing and cuing via separate audio outs
* Up to 8 send / return tracks
* Supports ASIO, MME, DirectX, Sound Manager and CoreAudio audio interfaces
* Manages unlimited number of MIDI ins and outs
* Acts as MIDI clock master or slave; MIDI timecode slave
* Acts as ReWire master or slave

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