The program is available in four different editions for Microsoft Windows and macOS, including Fruity Edition, Producer Edition, Signature Bundle, and All Plugins Bundle. FL Studio features a graphical user interface based on a pattern-based music sequencer. I've tinkered with Alchemy on numerous occasions and never really yielded anything. FL Studio (formerly known as FruityLoops) 2 is a digital audio workstation developed by the Belgian company Image-Line.
It's very capable and awesome, but it's too much for when I want to just whip out an exact sound I know how to make. maybe with a whole bunch of awesome presets it might be worth it.Īdditive's one of those things where the synth really becomes a preset playback device since it takes a good amount of time to get your patches right. You do get a bunch of bellish tones, as expected with additive.Īt $149 it seems a bit expensive. I mean, the dub-step s "aiaiaia" bass isn't really what comes to mind when I think of the most effective use of additive / stft resynthesis with image based editing.
Interestingly, I think from the abundance of additive / stft resynthesis synths out there, my ears have become so accustomed that I wasn't really able to pick out anything worth noting. It's an interesting way and fun to experiment I'm sure, but I don't think it'll be predictable enough to be used for bread and butter sound design.
Can't see myself using image editing as my primary way to create sounds. In other words, it's almost as if either Harmor - or REAPER's equivalent of VST wrapper - 'starts to refuse' to receive note offs for certain MIDI note numbers, and only obeys All Note Offs. The image editing part may be interesting, tho it seems fairly gimmicky. If Harmor is then sent All Notes Off, the sound stops - but as soon as same note is sent again, it gets stuck again.