Values between 1.5:1 and 5:1 should be the first 50% of the knob (r similar). The ratio parameter is 15:1 at 50% knob throw, which is ridiculous. What does Fruity Compressor do? The first 1% or so of the knob is 0-10ms and 50% is 200ms! You may want values up to 40ms sometimes, but generally you want the most control between 0-10ms. Often with the attack value you’ll use values between 0-10ms. The biggest issue I have is that some of the control throws are not ideal.
It has a few modes that give you a palette of compression flavours and there’s no obvious signs of poor compression. Fruity 7 Band EQįruity Compressor can sound decent. You can assign X and Y to internal controllers to get some rather neat effects.Įffector isn’t the best effect, in any way, out there, but what it lacks in sonic quality it makes up for in sheer fun factor. FLStudio’s Modulation capability has you covered. You don’t need a hardware controller either. I used a WiiMote and Osculator and subsequently put myself half a day behind with this review. If you have any sort of 2 dimensional controller, load this guy up, assign the X/Y controls and go to town. The delay, grain and ‘Vox’ mode are particularly fun to play with. You could set this up yourself using an XY controller and a bunch of effects, but why bother? You load this up and you’re out of the gate. How does it sound? It’s not super amazing, and you’re intentionally given minimal control, but in the context of live performance it’s fantastic. There’s 2 tempo synced LFOs for each control, with various shapes and switches to select the main tempo division. Then there’s an X/Y pad that controls 2 parameters of the selected effect. You get 12 effects, which you can use one at a time. If you’re familiar with the Kaossilator then this is fairly similar. Your browser does not support the video tag.Įffector is largely a live performance effect. These plugins come with all versions of FLStudio Control Surface No other DAW has such a collection of beautifully scaling effects. This is something that nearly every other DAW can learn from. I took these images on a 5k iMac and due to the vectorization of the GUIs, they came out sharp and massive. Let’s do it.įLStudio’s effects are mostly all vectorized. I’m not going to waste any more time with the foreword. It’s time for when I do a mini-review of every single effect in FLStudio.