Picture-Line CEO Constantin Koenche has introduced FL Studio Net, a browser-based model of the beloved DAW, FL Studio — higher recognized to many as FruityLoops.
FL Studio Net isn’t a whole port of FL Studio desktop, but it surely boasts the identical workflow, FL Cloud integration, inventory FL Studio plugins, and a strikingly comparable GUI. Koenche says the DAW is designed as each a “gateway into music manufacturing” and a strong on-the-go companion for skilled customers. In apply, meaning you can begin a observe within the browser, save the challenge, and entry it later at FL Studio desktop, full with the total suite of Picture-Line plugins. No less than, that’s the speculation — MusicTech hasn’t been given early entry to FL Studio Net, neither is it readily accessible.
FL Studio Net is at present in public beta with a waitlist now open to new and present customers. Koenche provides that the app can be constructed “with [the FL Studio] group. As an early tester, your suggestions will form the way forward for FL Studio Net.”
Particulars are scarce, however on LinkedIn, Koenche and Robert Linke (chief product & expertise officer at Picture-Line) each point out that FL Studio Net is a bid to decrease the “barrier to entry” for brand new music makers.
“We’ve taken the enduring FL Studio workflow and streamlined it for the online, permitting anybody to begin creating immediately – no downloads, no complicated setups,” says Koenche. He continues to clarify the total ecosystem compatibility of FL Studio Net, the moment entry to FL Cloud and native FL Studio plugins, and an “interactive onboarding” course of that will get new customers making music “in minutes.
FL Studio Net is about to hitch a small variety of rising browser-based DAWs, together with BandLab, OpenDAW, Moises and Soundtrap. Nonetheless, this marks the primary time a legacy DAW developer brings its desktop product to the online in a significant approach.
In an interview with MusicTech earlier this yr, Koenche alluded to transitioning FL Studio right into a cross-platform expertise.
“Why ought to music making, as an entire, be totally different from graphic design or phrase processing or gaming, the place you decide up from the place you left off on totally different units?” he mentioned, including: “We predict lots in regards to the commonalities between gaming and music making when it comes to expertise and the joyfulness of studying whilst you’re taking part in…There are a number of analogies in our group — phrases like ‘cheat code’ are used lots in relation to FL Studio. We see a number of overlap and commonalities in how folks work together with music-making software program and particularly FL Studio.”
“We simply wish to be wherever any individual’s excited about creating music; it’s about being wherever your customers may be.”
You’ll be able to be part of the waitlist for FL Studio Net now.
Editor’s word: BandLab and MusicTech are each owned by Caldecott Music Group.
Sam is the Commissioning Editor at MusicTech, the place he’s helped form the publication’s editorial voice since 2019. With practically 20 years of music-making and a level in music expertise behind him, his focus is on the tales behind studio gear and the artists who use it. He’s spent approach an excessive amount of time sampling disco information.
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