"Key new features and changesFirst 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!
Included Fruity Limiter/Maximizer for maximizing & compressing final mixes or individual tracks
FL Studio can permanently learn and remember links to external controllers with the new ‘multilink’ function + 'Override generic links' option.Wave Candy is a flexible audio analysis and visualization tool with Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyser and Peak Meter.
Sinc interpolation now faster (64point sinc now usable real-time depending on CPU)
Rendering with latency compensation
Score logger, records all MIDI & note activity for instant recall.
Directwave Player, broaden your musical palette with downloadable sound banks and multi-sample sets.
Recording filter, to select Audio, Automation or Note data recording independently or in any combination.
New slip editing and resizing tool for Playlist clips
Multi-core safe plugins are threaded for performance gain on multi-core CPUs.
Introducing 'Selected mixer track' in Mixer, to which the selected mixer track is routed, and where to place visual effects or a recording Edison.
FL8 now supports Track-based sequencing, Pattern Clips present sequence data as Audio and/or Automation Clips
A 'News Panel', to keep users updated with content and patches."
What's new in FL8? page
Be sure to check out CDM for their write-up.
Is this actually available already? "My FLStudio" page lists 8rc3 for download, which the forums say will expire March 31st, and the demo still just list FL7.
ReplyDeleteAlso the linked news-story isn't on front-page or news feed within FL so guess we'll have to wait a bit more.
Anyway, tried RC2 a week or two ago, and the single most important new feature for me is the controller multi-link thing, which works (or worked in RC2 at least) like this: Check multi-link on top of screen, then tweak automation capable controllers (which in a good VST would be almost anything), and it'll list them with some fancy scrolling text. Once you've touched all you wanna link, you'll uncheck the multi-link on top, at which point you'll get link-to-controller dialogs for each (same dialog you get with link-to-last-tweaked in older FL).
So basically, you'll tap multi-link, hit all the knobs you wanna link, then tap multi-link again, then tweak MIDI knobs in the same order (since by default that automatically accepts the dialogs as well), and you're done. Couldn't be much faster.
Also, I guess I'm not the only one that nowadays only uses the patterns as clips, and this way of working is much easier with the new version, as playlist will give you a nice menu for the clips.
Lots of other small improvements (things like show spectrum instead of waveform on top of the screen) even without going to the new plugins.