This little piece of equipment is necessary if you want to connect your headphones, MIDI keyboard, guitar, or microphone to your computer. And it has enough built-in tools to help anyone produce killer tracks without resorting to outside plugins.īut before you can start producing, you need an audio interface. While personal preferences will vary, FL Studio can today hold its own against the most advanced DAWs. Fruity Loops matured into FL Studio and became a favorite tool for even serious producers. That, of course, has changed drastically in the recent few years.

Cubase and Nuendo ruled the roost and Ableton 8.0 was still a few years off. This was a time when producers masochistically took pride in the complexity of their tools. A basic tool to help beginners make simple beats. Serious producers I know dismissed it as mostly a toy.

I remember when FL Studio was first launched (and it was still called Fruity Loops).