FL Studio 

FL Studio (formerly known as FruityLoops) is a digital audio workstationdeveloped by Belgian company Image-Line Software. FL Studio features agraphical user interface based on a pattern-based music sequencer. The program is available in four different editions for Microsoft Windows, including FL Studio Express, Fruity Edition, Producer Edition, and the Signature Bundle.Image-Line differentiates FL Studio from competing software by offering lifetime free updates to the program, meaning customers receive all future updates of the version they purchase for free. As of June 2011 Image-Line is developing the FL Studio Mobile App so the program can be used on iPods, iPhones, and iPads.

FL Studio can be used as an instrument in other audio workstation programs such as Cubase, Sonic Solutions, and Logic, and is also compatible with dozens ofImage-Line and third-party plugins such as the DJ mixing program Deckadanceand the synthesizer Sytrus. FL Studio is used by electronic musicians and DJs such as Afrojack and Basshunter.

Image-Line FL Studio

FL Studio10 Producer Edition XXL on Microsoft Windows 7
Developer(s)	Image-Line Software (International)
Initial release	December 18, 1997
Stable release	10.0.0 / March 30, 2011
Written in	Delphi
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Digital Audio Workstation
License	Proprietary
Website	www.FLstudio.com

Plugins

FL Studio comes with a variety of plugins and generators (software synthesizers) written in the program’s own native plugin architecture. FL Studio also has support for third-paty VST and DirectX plugins. The API has a built in wrapper for full VST, VST2, VST3, DX, and ReWire compatibility. May of the plugins also function independently as standalone programs.

• Dashboard - An included plugin called Dashboard allows users to create full automation-enabled interfaces for their hardware MIDI devices. This allows FL Studio to control hardware from within the program. As of version 9.0 it also supports multiple controllers for different generators and/or effects.