Every Plugin In FL Studio Explained

Overview of FL Studio's extensive plugin collection across different editions, featuring synths, instruments, effects, drum machines, samplers, and controllers.

• ImageLine Remote app transforms smartphone into FL Studio controller • Control playback, tempo changes, and access piano roll from device • Useful for recording vocals or controlling from across the room

Allows stacking multiple effects or instruments in series or parallel processing chains, enabling complex routing that exceeds standard mixer capabilities.

Includes fantastic pre-made presets for chorus, compressor, crusher, and delay effects, with some created by developer Julian, significantly expanding available plugin options.

Fantastic plugin for recording, sampling, and affecting audio; allows recording directly from microphone or dragging samples from browser for manipulation and looping.

• Newton: Manually inspect and change pitch of any audio file for fine manual pitch correction • Useful for vocals and instruments requiring precise tuning

NewTime helps re-time loops and samples by locking everything to the grid or elastically shifting elements for vocals, drum loops, and bass loops.

Direct Wave is a powerful sampler with extensive options; start by exploring orchestral sounds in the packs instrument folder and drag them to channels.

• Harmor: Incredibly detailed and feature-rich but has a very difficult interface, especially for beginners • Harmless: Smaller, more manageable alternative with good for beginners and intermediate users

• Transistor Bass: Recreates classic Roland 303 sound with triggerable grooves via MIDI notes • FL Keys: Decent sounding piano with Rhodes patch preference in presets

Flex offers more sounds than any other plugin, perfect for beginners with production-ready bases, synths, and arpeggios with good parameter control.

3X OSC is the simplest option with basic waveforms; when layered with good effects, it can produce extremely professional results for learning synthesis.

• SimSynth: Provides analog-sounding synths with usable classic presets, not overstuffed with options • Creates metallic and breathy atmospheric sounds with unique character

• Ogun: Excels at unique metallic and atmospheric sounds • Auto Gun: Two dials based on Ogun with random sound generation

• GM7: Gritty synth without typical preset browser, requires bank navigation for sound access • Morphine: Additive synthesizer requiring significant learning time but opens new sonic palettes

FL Studio Mobile Plugin allows using FL Mobile inside FL 20 with project transfer capabilities from phone to computer.

• Poison: Thick-sounding synth best learned by resetting to blank and adjusting cutoff parameter • Mini Synth: Another FL Mobile synth with underutilized interface

Sakura offers beautiful string sounds including harps and cellos, plus breathy and textured pad sounds for ethereal effects.

Thick, rich, and subby recreation of analog synthesizer design with excellent depth and warmth for bass and pad work.

• Speech Synthesizer: Generates synthesized speech • Sylenth1: Incredibly powerful and complicated wavetable synth favored by professionals for creating virtually any sound

Toxic Biohazard is a monster synth with confusing GUI but produces gritty, edgy, textured sounds perfect for cinematic and ominous soundscapes.

Beepmap lets you create sounds from pictures by dragging images, producing unique and experimental audio results.

• Boo Base: Simple but mediocre bass guitar plugin • FL Slayer: Pretty mediocre electric guitar plugin • Plucked: Plucked string sounds with difficulty maintaining tuning

Despite extensive collection, some specialized sound design needs remain challenging with included plugins.

• FPC: Drum machine similar to Akai MPC with different workflow for programming pads and velocity layers • Bass Drum: Specialized for making kick drums with adjustable parameters

• Drum Pad: For synthesizing custom drum sounds • Drum Act: Drum synthesizer with built-in step sequencer for fine-tuning drum samples

• Fruit Kick: Kick drum synthesizer with limited appeal • DX10: Classic FM synth excellent for bells and metallic sounds

Drum Synth Live is modern-looking drum synthesizer with classic 808 sounds and contemporary interface design.

Granulizer is sample-based plugin allowing drag-and-drop samples with granular synthesis modification for creative audio manipulation.

• Fruity Slicer: Analyzes and automatically slices audio files for playback with keyboard • Slicex: Advanced version for serious sampling and beat slicing work

Wave Traveler lets you warp loop timing and apply scratching effects for creative audio manipulation and vinyl-style effects.

Slicing tools enable keyboard-based playback of individual audio segments for performance and production flexibility.

• Balance: Change pan and gain without using mixer, with large readable display • Center: Remove DC offset from signals generated by hardware synthesizers

• DBMeter: Large resizable meter showing peak loudness readouts • Wavecandy: Shows oscilloscope, spectrum, decibel meter, or vector scope for detailed audio analysis

• Fruity Notebook: Basic note-taking on mixer tracks • Notebook 2: Cleaner modern version • HTML Notebook: Alternative note-taking option

Fruity LSD accesses synthesizer on sound card; poorly understood and rarely used by most producers.

• Fruity Mute 2: Allows automating mutes since mixer doesn't support this directly • Panomatic: Adjust pan and volume with built-in LFO for smooth panning automation

• Phase Inverter: Swap channel polarity • Picture: Apply automatic pitch correction (auto-tune) to any signal

• Scratcher: Vinyl turntable simulator with real-time performance recording • Send: Send audio from one channel to another anywhere in effects chain without relying on typical side-chaining

• Stereo Enhancer: Easily change stereo image and width • Stereo Shaper: Mixer matrix allows flipping channels and removing specific sides for detailed stereo control

Grossbeat is the most famous FL Studio plugin; time and volume manipulation plugin that creates impressive rhythmic patterns through simple interface.

• Fruity Reverb, Fruity Delay: CPU-friendly versions of classic spatial effects • Reverb 2: Classic reverb with tons of variation possibilities

• Delay 2: Streamlined delay for simple effects and learning delay concepts • Fruity Delay 3: Adds effects to delay including feedback, modulation, and diffusion

• Fruity Flangus: Fun flanger plugin with good sound though automation can glitch • Fruity Phaser and Fruity Chorus: CPU-friendly versions of classic modulation effects

• Fruity Compressor: Tiny CPU usage and good sound but lacks visual gain reduction readout • Fruity Limiter: Both limiter and compressor with fantastic visual readout, great for side-chaining

Fruity Multiband Compressor breaks frequency spectrum into low, mid, and high bands with separate compression; linear phase mode available but settings can be fiddly.

Soft Clipper is soft limiter with gentle knee compression, designed to avoid clipping and add warmth and saturation to signals.

Maximus is the dynamics champion, splits frequency spectrum and allows stereo widening, saturation, limiting, and compression for mastering needs.

Soundgoodizer packages Maximus processing into four easy presets with amount dial for simple compression and saturation.

Transient Processor quickly dials in track dynamics by adjusting attack and punch; easier than compressor for beginners and highly underutilized.

• EQu: Graphic equalizer with built-in stereo panning for frequency-specific panning • Can subtly shift low end left and high end right for added realism

• Seven Band EQ: Low CPU usage with simple seven-band splitting • Parametric EQ 1: Seven bands with more flexibility and control over filter shapes • Parametric EQ 2: Most advanced with superior interface and more CPU usage

• Fast LP: Simple low-pass filter with just filter and resonance controls • Free Filter: Very simple basic filter option

Fruity Filter is designed specifically for automation with smooth parameter changes.

Lovel Filter is most advanced filtering plugin with eight different filter stages runnable in series or parallel with envelope control for creative effects.

Convolver is most underrated FL Studio plugin; most beautiful-sounding reverb with built-in linear phase equalizer for superior sound quality.

• Fruity Delay Bank: Stack up to eight separate delays with individual panning • Create interesting feedback loops for guitar and other instruments

Fruity Flangus is fun flanger plugin that stands up with vintage and retro options, though automation can cause glitching.

Basic versions of reverb, delay, phaser, chorus, and flanger offer CPU-friendly alternatives when advanced versions consume too much processing power.

Multiple delay and modulation options allow creative layering and combination for spacious, textured audio.

• Bit Reduction: Bit-reducing distortion effect • Overdrive: Overdrive and general-purpose distortion • Wave Shaper: Waveform shaping distortion

• Total distortion produces bit reduction effects with grit and edge • Subtle saturation adds warmth and texture to tracks

Destructor layers up different effects including distortions, filters, and choruses with four selectable categories; effects order can be rearranged.

• Effector: Multi-effects plugin great for live performance or experimentation with filters, phasers, reverb, and distortion • Hardcore: Guitar pedal board layout with simplified two or three dials per effect

• Fruity Video Player: Play video alongside projects with lockable playback to playlist • Useful for creating soundtracks to music videos

• Fruity Dance: Ensures animated character dances to music • Spectraman: Dated spectrum analyzer for audio visualization

Video Visualizer or Z Game Video Editor helps create cool graphics and music videos for productions.

Razer Chroma Plugin controls Razer keyboard, headset, and mouse colors and lights through FL Studio automation.

Rewired allows hosting any ReWire-compatible devices within FL Studio for expanded software integration and modular workflow capabilities.

• Keyboard Controller: Uses MIDI or piano roll to control parameters via key assignments • Envelope Controller: Applies envelope to key presses for parameter automation

• Formula Controller: Create automation data from typed formulas • XY Controller: Simultaneously control two parameters with mouse movement • XYZ Controller: Control three parameters, better for touch screens and live performance

• Fruity Voltage Controller: Send control voltage to hardware synthesizers • Control Surface: Customizable interface with dials and faders assignable to any parameters, great for simplifying multi-parameter automation

Video covered extensive FL Studio plugin ecosystem including synths, effects, drum machines, samplers, and controllers with audio examples.

• Showcase unknown plugins in collection • Spark creativity for further research and experimentation • Encourage deeper learning of individual plugins

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