Features · 2026

The complete music-making studio

Make beats, record ideas, and finish tracks with all the tools you need, whatever your style.

  • Playlist
  • Piano roll
  • Mixer
  • FLEX

Available on Windows macOS

Start beats with a few clicks

The iconic Channel Rack is where every track begins. Quickly build beats and patterns, step by step.

FL Studio Channel Rack with step sequencer pads

Build full songs

Go deep with 100+ instruments and effects. Drop clips, patterns, loops, sounds, and make your track truly yours.

FL Studio 3xOsc instrument over the playlist

Arrange and publish

Balance levels, add effects, and polish your track with a full-featured mixer. With up to 500 tracks, routing, and all the effects you need.

FL Studio playlist and mixer together

Instruments that inspire

Get FL Studio's wide and iconic range of instruments, from quick-start synths to deep sound design tools.

Ideas in seconds

Samplers, drum machines, and synths sit next to the piano roll, so a sketch can turn into a playable part without leaving the project.

Piano roll notes stacked over a synth panel

Your collection only grows

Lifetime Free Updates keep instruments current after you buy an edition. New tools land in the same license instead of a new shopping list.

Drumaxx, Sytrus, and Harmor plugin windows stacked
Harmless synthesizer interface

Harmless

Harmless goes beyond subtractive, letting you bend filters, phasing, and partials into new tones.

Sakura string synthesizer interface

Sakura

With Sakura, strings become a playground. Recreate the beauty of real instruments, or invent your own.

Drumaxx drum synthesizer interface

Drumaxx

Drumaxx does not play back samples. It builds drums from the ground up, with 16 modeled pads.

3xOsc synthesizer interface

3xOSC

3x Osc is a raw, three-oscillator subtractive synth. Fast, simple, and packed with the old-school power behind countless FL Studio tracks.

Sytrus and Harmor plugin windows

Sytrus

Sytrus is your sound lab, with six operators and deep modulation to move beyond presets.

Harmor additive synthesizer in a stacked plugin set

Harmor

Harmor is a deep additive instrument for sound design. It ships in All Plugins Edition with the rest of the Image-Line set.

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FLEX

FLEX is a fast, lightweight plugin in FL Studio packed with presets that sound finished from the moment they load.

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Start with fire

200+ presets and 8 Core Series packs, including visual libraries such as Aurora Skies. Play, Edit, Library, and Store tabs keep browsing in one window.

Sound design, simplified

Macro knobs cover EQ Low/Mid/Hi, chorus, tremolo, and vibrato. You can shape a preset without opening a second synth.

All Plugins Edition only

Kepler Exo

Inspired by legends like the JUNO-6 and Jupiter-8, Kepler Exo reimagines classic analog sound with expanded modulation, FM synthesis, and lush onboard effects.

Hear Kepler Exo in action
Kepler Exo plugin over vintage analog synthesizer hardware

Effects that polish, transform, or break the rules

With a full suite of effects, FL Studio lets you refine details, color your mix, or twist audio into something completely unexpected.

Gross Beat

Instant stutters, scratches, and gating effects. The secret behind countless innovative tracks.

Gross Beat time and volume slots with envelope view

Fruity Reverb 2

Your go-to reverb. From small rooms to vast halls, add depth and dimension to any sound.

Fruity Reverb 2 overlapping control panels
Emphasis limiter plugin

Emphasis

Crank up the gain without crushing your mix. A single-band mastering limiter that adds punch and clarity without losing transparency.

Fruity Delay 3 plugin

Fruity Delay 3

Crystal-clean repeats, warm tape echoes, or wild modulated feedback, all from one delay.

Fruity Chorus plugin

Fruity Chorus

Add width and shimmer to instruments and vocals with a chorus effect that sparkles on anything.

Fruity Parametric EQ 2 plugin

Fruity Parametric EQ 2

See your sound and sculpt it precisely with a flexible, visual EQ.

Fruity Love Philter plugin

Fruity Love Philter

Eight filter units you can automate, modulate, and combine for evolving, rhythmic effects.

Fruity WaveShaper plugin

Fruity WaveShaper

Draw your own waveshaping curves and craft distortion, from subtle to extreme.

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Fast ideas, deep tools

FL Studio is designed to keep your creativity moving. And it is deep enough that you will never outgrow it.

Chord Progression Tool

Instantly generate chord progressions that fit your scale and mood. Lock the chords you like, shuffle the rest, and explore advanced options.

Piano roll generate chord progression window

Loop Starter

Say goodbye to blank projects. Loop Starter gives you instant, genre-based loop stacks, so you can start with a vibe and build from them.

See it in action
Loop Starter genre menu over the Channel Rack

Stem Separation

With FL Studio's AI-powered stem separation, you can instantly split any song into vocals, drums, bass, and instruments. Perfect for remixing, sampling, or creating karaoke versions.

See it in action
Playlist after stem separation with drums, bass, instruments, and vocals

Patcher

Patcher lets you chain instruments and effects together to design your own sounds and workflows. Create something totally unique. Then save it to use again and again.

Patcher node map chaining instruments and effects

Advanced audio editing

From fixing vocals to chopping samples, you have full control over your audio. Edit fast, experiment freely, and drop it straight into your track.

Playlist vocal clips sliced, reversed, and automated

Works with your plugins

Load instruments and effects in VST, AU, or CLAP formats in addition to FL Studio's own plugins.

For Windows and Mac

Share projects between Windows and macOS with full plugin support, including Apple Silicon. Windows on ARM is not supported in 26.1.4.

Audio recording and editing

Record vocals, instruments, or any source straight into the Playlist. Slice, stretch, reverse, and refine audio with built-in tools like Edison. Recording starts at Producer Edition.

Get answers without leaving FL Studio

Gopher gives you quick, clear answers about FL Studio and music production. It is like having an expert sitting right next to you.

Gopher help tab answering how to reverse a sample beside the playlist

Make it yours

Rearrange toolbars, save custom layouts, and build themes to match your style. Detach windows across multiple monitors, or build custom control surfaces for advanced setups.

Three overlapping FL Studio windows in different themes

Sounds Library

FL Cloud puts a huge sample pool next to the Browser. Drag into the playlist, keep 500 MB of project backup free, and use Loop Starter when a blank session is too quiet.

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Sounds where you need them

Search Sounds, filter by type or genre, and drop one-shots or loops onto playlist lanes without leaving the DAW.

FL Cloud Sounds browser beside playlist track headers

Every style, every vibe

Packs cover trap, house, vocals, and more. The wall below uses artwork already stored in this site's media folder.

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Over 2 million samples

Browse a library that is too large for a single sample drive. Downloads you take from FL Cloud stay in your project folder.

Keep your sounds

Files you pull in are yours to keep with the project. 500 MB backup is free on FL Cloud.

Created by working producers

Bespoke packs sit next to one-shots, so a sketch can start from a kit instead of a blank Channel Rack.

FL Studio fruit logo on a dark mark

Get FL Studio today

Find an Edition that fits your needs. Fruity, Producer, Signature, or All Plugins. Lifetime Free Updates apply after you buy.

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