Być może wielu fanów aplikacji FL Studio ucieszy fakt, że

już w grudniu firma Image Line udostępni Fl Studio w wersji 6. Poniżej zamieszczam listę zmian (z manuala) jakie objeły "szóstą" odsłonę fl studio:
FL Engine/Interface

• New minimalist look.
• Added auto-map all ASIO inputs (just like outputs), to monitor all inputs.
• Added support for more hardware controllers including sustain pedals. Device List.
• Default sample loading change: long audio files are not kept on disk by default anymore.
• Drag/drop now works on detached playlist.
• Edited events are now stored in a most recently used list in the Browser>Current project>Automation>Pattern 1,2...N.
• Knob animation is now smoother (better anti-aliasing for those who can notice).
• LAME DLL (MP3 codec) now loaded dynamically (to avoid problems when FL is used as a plugin).
• Left-click and drag from most wave-displays to the channel window or other plugins is now possible.
• Misc little enhancements: middle mouse button opens items in browser, mouse wheel works in some new places, etc.
• New 'Link all parameters' dialog that allows you to step through all automatable parameters and link them to hardware controllers (See the Wrapper and Mixer menus).
• New menu system.
• New 'one-click recording' option for new users in the Tools Menu.
• Speed improvements.
• Support for multimedia keyboards (play/pause/stop/prev/next/browser keys, etc) - These will start/stop/pause FL Studio etc.
• Ultrasmooth visual feedback now off by default and sets a higher smoothness, and also now applies to fruity plugins (F10 > General Settings).

New Plugins

• FX: EQUO - Automatable equalizer plugin.
• FX: Fruity Delay Bank - Advanced Delay/Filter plugin.
• FX: Fruity Multiband Compressor - Variable 3 Band Compressor.
• FX: Fruity Reeverb 2 - Enhanced reverb plugin.
• FX: Fruity Squeeze - Distortion/Bit-reduction plugin.
• Generator: Fruity Envelope Controller - Automation plugin.
• Instrument: Direct Wave - Advanced Sampler plugin.
• Visualization: Chrome - Video synthesizer, controlled from the Piano Roll.

Sytrus

• Sytrus: arpeggiator function now built into envelopes, audio file to envelope analyzer, envelope vertical flipping.
• Sytrus: can now drag/drop single-cycle shapes onto harmonics editor, or channel button.
• Sytrus: waveforms can now be saved to (32bit) WAV files.
• Sytrus: enhanced waveform editing tools.
• Sytrus: added 4 new filter types.
• Sytrus: can now lock harmonics individually.
• Sytrus: can now drag waveforms (click big waveform or ctrl+click small one) onto other synthesizers.

Piano Roll

• All control/automation events can now be edited in the Piano Roll, see item 4 - Target Control.
• Piano roll now offers 16 note colors (that can act as separate MIDI channels).
• New scale-detecting helper in piano roll (check hint bar when on).
• Piano roll helpers also mark notes that have names (useful with Fruity Slicer).
• Alt+click in piano roll/playlist/event editor bypasses the current snap (very handy).
• Shift+left/right or Alt+left/right shifts (nudges) selected notes in piano roll/playlist.
• Ctrl+mouse wheel to center-zoom at the mouse position in event editors, piano roll & playlist.
• Can now edit note properties to change a note into a slide.
• Double-right-click piano roll & playlist brings the options menu.
• New note helper mode (Piano Roll menu) - display note length in the 'Note Properties' view.
• Note properties (velocity, panning, filter-cutoff etc) can be adjusted by mouse wheel. ( Alt+Mouse Wheel) Hold the cursor over a note (upper Piano Roll), press Alt and move the mouse wheel.
• Horizontal note position can be adjusted by mouse wheel. ( Shift+Mouse Wheel) Hold the cursor over a note (upper Piano Roll), press Shift and move the mouse wheel.
• Note start time can be adjusted independent of note end. Select the CapsLock key, left-click the note on the left edge and move your mouse.

Play List

• Patterns may now be sliced.
• Live mode: song relocation is bar-synchronized.
• Keypad - Alt+/* and Ctrl+Alt+/* to jump to/select next/previous song markers.
• MIDI controller keyboard notes can now be used to jump between time-markers during playback (F10, MIDI settings).
• Playlist pattern lane gets a popup menu, and selected patterns can be renamed all at once.
• Added option to split (explode) a pattern by channel.
• Shift+piano roll/playlist cut tool now selects a column.
• Alt+click in piano roll/playlist/event editor bypasses the current snap (very handy).
• Shift+left/right or Alt+left/right shifts (nudges) selected notes in piano roll/playlist.
• Ctrl+mouse wheel to center-zoom at the mouse position in event editors, piano roll & playlist.
• Shift+mouse wheel to scroll playlist, shift+right click for playback tool in piano roll, and various similar little enhancements.
• Double-right-click piano roll & playlist brings the options menu.

Mixer

• Revamped Mixer with enhanced free track routing (all tracks can now be sends).
• Plugin Delay Compensation (PDC). The new mixer has sample-accurate, per-track, PDC.

Browser

• Browser revamped visually, with various enhancements.
• Browser smart search feature, allowing searches for things like 'sytrus', 'simsynth' or 'bongo'.
• Browser updated to remember its last state, visual drag/drop.
• Snapshot open-states can now be saved in one of 4 slots.
• Auto mode will open the directory to the presets/samples/files associated with the object in focus in FL Studio.
• If files already exist, dropping them on the browser will open the directory where they reside.
• Browser now monitors FL's data folder to refresh itself.
• Browser can show all file types and extensions.

MIDI

• Multiple MIDI input devices are now accepted.
• MIDI clock sync can now be sent to multiple MIDI devices.
• Added CC standard names to popup in MIDI remote control box.
• Support for MIDI hold & sostenuto with result directly in piano roll.
• Can now jump to song markers using MIDI input, and create them on the fly.
• Wrappers publish 128 extra parameters for CC's, so that you can control a VSTi without using a MIDI out channel in most cases.
• FL can now send MTC as well as MIDI clock for output synchronization.
• Option to save audio & MIDI clipboard data to files (see tools menu).

Changes and Additions

• Can now drag individual slices from the Fruity Slicer onto channels (or the explorer), and copy them to the Windows audio clipboard.
• Better support for the Korg MS20 controller: cable in/out are mapped to CC to work as switches.
• Enhancement for tablet PC's: most forms states are saved per screen resolution (handy when switching from landscape to portrait mode).
• Enhancement for tablet PC's: stylus mode that allows easier tweaking of knobs as well as several little usability improvements for pencil use.
• App includes a 128x128 icon size for application bars (ObjectDock, etc).
• "Typing kb to piano" feature now works from the browser window as well (accel chars now only work in the tree when the feature is off).
• Improved stability/safety for ASIO devices.
• Less flicker when resizing some windows (unless detached).