NOTE: There is a bug that is causing the beta to expire a little early, restarting FL Studio will fix that. It may happen from time to time. We are working hard to have the Beta 3 out soon to avoid any hard-outages.
Welcome to FL Studio 12.9 BETA 2 (for Windows and macOS here). We are excited to continue rolling out the features for the next major release of FL Studio, including those listed below:
THIS IS AN OUTDATED BETA GET 12.9 BETA 3 HERE
NOTE: There is a bug that is causing the beta to expire a little early, restarting FL Studio will fix that. It may happen from time to time. We are working hard to have the Beta 3 out soon to avoid any hard-outages.
Welcome to FL Studio 12.9 BETA 2 (for Windows and macOS here). We are excited to continue rolling out the features for the next major release of FL Studio, including those listed below:
Last updated 25/Dec/2017 Expires Feb 18
See Known Issues
MAC INSTALLER
Download macOS Installer Here [build 102] - Last updated 27/7/Dec/2017 Expires Feb 18
See Known Issues
What's New in BETA 2
- Playlist Arrangements - An 'Arrangement' is the layout of Audio, Automation and Pattern Clips in the Playlist as you added them. Use the drop-down Arrangements menu to manage multiple Playlist versions of the project (working ideas, sound design, versions etc). See Known Issues
- Consolidate Clips (Freezing) - Convert selected Audio and Pattern Clips to a single Audio Clip via the Playlist menu > Tools > Consolidate playlist selection option, Picker Panel > Right-Click menu > Render and replace option, Pattern Menus or Playlist track > Right-Click > Consolidate this track option.
- Audio recording - Realtime display of audio data as it is captured. See Known Issues
- Playlist - Punch in/out Time Markers so you can start/stop recording using Time Markers.
- Playlist Tracks - Increased to 500, up from 199.
- Plugin Delay Compensation - Updates include:
- Icon colors - Automatic (Orange), Manual (Blue) or not set (gray).
- Mixer menu - Plugin Delay Compensation > Reset manual latency on all tracks - Option to reset all manually set latency values to zero.
- Metronome - Now latency compensated.
- Mixer FX Slots - Latency compensated Wet/Dry mix knob. Processing delay is now compensated when mixing the Wet/Dry signals from an effect for each FX slot.
- Continuous adjustment - Roll the mouse wheel over the time icon or latency display (Mouse Wheel) = 10 ms steps, (Ctrl+Mouse Wheel) = 1 ms steps, (Ctrl+Alt+Mouse Wheel) = 1 sample steps. Mouse Wheel works in three places: Track Input latency icon (FX panel), Track Output latency selector (FX panel), Track Output latency icon (Mixer Tracks).
- Wrapper Offset - The latency shown in the Wrapper Info can be set and saved per plugin. Use to compensate plugins that consistently report an incorrect latency.
- Icon colors - Automatic (Orange), Manual (Blue) or not set (gray).
- Mixer (Layout Menu) - Two new layout optons (Compact Alt, Wide Alt), showing track names at bottom.
- General settings - 'High visibility' option that makes switches and selected icons more obvious. Shows the hover rectangles around (most) switch buttons/icons. Scrollbars show hover color (white). Useful for those with color/vision deficiencies.
- Playlist menu - View > Resize all tracks. Choose from 33% to 200%.
- Score logger - Tools menu > Dump score log to selected pattern. Additional time options - 2, 5, 10, 20 or 30 min.
- Channel Rack - Menu > Channel name alignment. Names can now be left justified or centered.
- Fruity Reeverb 2 - Modulated reverb using Modulation (amount) and Speed options to break up 'ringing' or 'metallic' sounds.
- About Panel - Option to show password while typing (no more mistakes!).
- Edison - 24 Bit file export option.
- Transport Panel - Has now been divided into 2 1-unit high panels. Transport and Recording Options panels.
- Fruity Video Player 2 - Video now seeks time/position correctly when FL Studio playback started mid-tempo change or mid-project after a tempo change.
Full details & bug fixes here ...
What was new in BETA 1?
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KNOWN ISSUES
- Arrangements - Playlist Tracks across arrangements: Beta 2 will copy all Track header track settings over to another arrangement when switching between them. This will prevent separate Playlist Track names for now. (fixed for next update)
- Audio Recording - Jittery recording waveform display noticeable when zoomed in.(fixed for next update)
- Audio Recording - UI slowdowns after recording audio to the playlist for a while (fixed for next update)
- Consolidate this track - 1. Muted clips are rendered. 2. Consolidated Audio Clips are set to 'Stretch' mode. This will result in some transient smearing, manually set to 'Resample' to fix. (fixed for next update)
- Sampler Channel - 'Start offset' not working in Pattern mode, does in Song mode tho. No start offset for you! (fixed for next update)