FL Studio 10 Review

As I said in the introduction this was my first time ever trying to mess around on any FL Studio program, and with anything I found myself thinking about the pros and cons of this product. I personally like the compliment sandwich approach to criticism so here it goes.

The Pros: This program allows you to make pretty cool sounding beats without really knowing that much about playing the drums. When you start a new project you can start a template with four basic options:kick, clap, hat and snare. Once you've got that opened you can start building your first beat in the pattern screen that comes up. I like how you can click the buttons while the songs playing and keep adding to it while the song is looping. It almost takes no time to get something that sounds kind of interesting. The whole time I was messing around on it I was thinking "wow, some Joe Shmoe, in corporate America, would love these beats to put behind his powerpoint presentation on synergy , or something."

The Cons: One of the things that I found very frustrating was the fact that there was just data overload when the program starts up. There's a lot of things going on that can be clicked, pushed, dragged, pulled, and overall messed with on the screen. For my purposes I wanted to add drums to a song that I recorded, but it became very clear this was not going to be easy to just figure out. There was a lot of tutorials on youtube on how to do certain tasks but even in those videos there was so many things to adjust and tinker with it seemed to get me no where.

Conclusion: I am kind of torn about this program. I don't like how its very un-user friendly for the first time user, but the fact that there is so many options means you have a lot of control over the exact sound you want. For what I was trying to use it for, I don't think it would be worth the time to learn all that the program has to offer. This product would work very well for someone that wants to lay beats for rap, techno, dance, party music, and that kind of stuff. For music and that purpose I definitely recommend taking the time to learn FL Studio 10. As for me, I was able to find an awesome website that had 4x4 rock beats up for grabs, and that was a lot easier then taking months learning how to work this program.