What is FL Studio?

FL Studio is one of the world's leading digital audio workstations. It's a software suite that lets you do pretty much anything you ever wanted to do while creating music. You can use FL Studio for all of your composing needs. You can play instrument plugins, record audio, create chord progressions, mix music, and score videos all within this software. We will be using FL Studio to compose music throughout this book.

Get FL Studio

You can download a trial version of FL Studio for free. The trial version lets you try out all the plugins to see what they can do. You can use all of the tools in FL Studio but won't let you reopen saved projects until you purchase a version.

You can download FL Studio from the Image Line website: https://www.image-line.com/:

Figure 2.1 – The FL Studio website

There are several version tiers of FL Studio available for purchase. Here's a breakdown of the versions so that you...