Welcome to FL Studio 21.1 Beta No. 2. Please read everything below carefully!
WHERE TO DISCUSS THIS RELEASE?
- BUG REPORTS: Use the FL Studio Beta Forum. Make a NEW post and put 21.1 Beta in the title.
- WHAT'S COMING?: See the FL Studio 21.1 Teaser Thread
- This release is a mix of Alpha and Beta features. We do this to give you early access and provide feedback before development is locked down! If you have a suggestion how something could work better. Now is the time to make it.
- Expect to be chastised if you complain this release is unstable or buggy! If bugs annoy you, please stop here and use 21.0.3.
- Do not use Alphas / Betas for mission critical projects. This release is far from final and will change significantly before it is ready.
- By default this will install in parallel to your current FL Studio location/s.
- Betas will expire! A replacement Beta may not be ready when it does.
KNOWN ISSUES
- Realtime stretching uses more CPU than in 21.0.3.
- The macOS installer will ask to allow installation twice on M1 and M2 computers.
- Windows - FL Studio 21.0.99.3629
- macOS - FL Studio 21.0.99.3163
- FL Studio:
- Colored waveforms - General settings option to color code frequency content in audio waveforms. This applies to the Browser, Playlist, Sampler Channel etc.
- MIDI Control - New 'External sync' mode & improved jitter. This allows FL Studio to 'slave' to an external MIDI Clock so that it plays in time to an exernal MIDI clock source.
- Automated updates - Option to automatically download FL Studio updates and apply them at the next restart.
- Piano roll
- Snap to Scale - Piano roll option to snap notes to the selected scale on placement or movement. See the note icon on the toolbar.
- Menu > Tools > Script - Scripts are Python based that allows custom manipulation of Piano roll data. There are several pre-made scripts or you can write your own. Scripting also includes automatic user interface creation. See the Piano roll scripting to share and discuss Scripts.
- New & Updated Plugins
- Hyper Chorus - Extreme chorus FX plugin, included with Producer Edition and up.
- Edison Declipper - New and improved AI-based declipping tool. Can restore recordings that have been clipped due to level issues.
- SliceX - Now resizable by dragging the lower-right corner.
Changes
- 9615 Added cancel button to the plugin size warning window, when saving
- 15842 Added an option to enable or disable automatic crossfades when starting a new project
- 15818 Ask what to do when they drop plugin presets on a large selection of mixer tracks
- 15834 Don't open plugin editor windows when dropping effects on a large number of multiple mixer tracks
- 15811 Drag multiple mixer states from the browser to multiple mixer tracks
- 15843 Change the automatic crossfades option directly from the playlist menu
- 11360 Channels with data in the current pattern are now shown first in the piano roll target channel menu
- 13083 Improved the way tag names are shown when the browser is at minimal width
- 15859 Program now asks for confirmation when Tools > Clear log is clicked
- 15848 Read "pitch bend range" changes from imported MIDI files (experimental)
- 9878 Rename pattern groups by right-clicking on a grouped pattern in the picker panel
- 13414 Send samples from the browser to the playlist as instrument or audio tracks
- 15853 Show the audio track "monitoring" button in a different color when monitoring is active
- 15849 Sort search results in the browser
- 15812 Fruity Slicer window can now be maximized
- 2019 Slicex window is now resizeable
- 11319 Transistor Bass: added a button to randomize the sequence
- 15720 VFX Sequencer: rename programs from the program selector's right-click menu
- 14218 VFX Sequencer: show the detected chord when playing notes
- 15845 ZGE Visualizer: initialize Surface tab controls with the parameter value when linking a parameter
- 15877 Piano roll scripting: added a "selected" property to notes
- 15882 Piano roll scripting: added the Utils.log(msg) method to add text to the debug log
- 15751 "Automatic Crossfades" item in the playlist menu doesn't always show the correct state
- 15844 Clicks when relocating current position during playback in the playlist
- 15821 Crash when adding a key marker
- 15833 Crash when moving a clawed selection with scale snapping enabled
- 15817 Cursor is always too small at 200% scaling when the main screen is at 100% scaling
- 14985 Fade handles don't repaint after moving a clip to another track
- 8502 FL Studio windows rescaling issue
- 15837 M4A format shows 0 disk size in export dialog
- 15835 Mixer window height changes when FL Studio is minimized and reopened
- 15870 News item titles don't show ampersand characters
- 12647 Piano roll Randomize tool groups notes in error
- 15836 Plugin picker shows both "Generators" and "Effects" text when opened for only generators or effects
- 15826 Plugin windows change location when changing presets
- 15855 Pressing F2 when the playlist is focused but detached always renames the current pattern
- 15863 Reopening a detached plugin dragged to a different screen opens it on FL Studio's screen
- 15865 Sample previews in the browser's Library tab show partly black when resizing
- 15829 Scale snapping doesn't disable vertical movement when dragging notes with Shift held
- 15861 Searching with "enable indexing" off in the browser shows results for more than one folder
- 15824 Shift + Up or Down does not snap a selection of notes to the scale
- 15875 "Show gain value" and "Show gain scale" menu items are shown in the piano roll menu
- 14817 The chosen startup template is not loaded when a message is shown during startup
- 15800 The note properties window closes immediately after it's opened by double-clicking a note
- 15789 The playlist scroll position and zoom level is reset for the first arrangement when reloading a project
- 15872 The program freezes when it's closed
- 15852 The project tab in the browser can't be hidden permanently
- 15860 The theme editor selection rectangle highlights the wrong item after selecting the default theme
- 15862 Tree and Samples layouts in the browser scroll up after each autosave/save
- 15804 Tweaking plugin parameters forces the sample preview in the browser to refresh
- 15847 Undoing after not selecting an input, while recording, causes a crash
- 15854 Undoing a single playlist instrument track deletion doesn't restore the playlist and mixer track colors
- 15805 Voices re-trigger when opening the piano roll by double-clicking on a pattern clip
- 15810 When "Auto locate" is enabled it's not possible to open a piano roll for channels with no notes
- 15656 Wrong files are loaded when projects are saved to a project data folder
- 15864 Wrong file can be opened in external tool when right clicking on the waveform of the channel
- 15840 Zoom level is not applied to new browser tabs created with "Open in new tab"
- 15839 Beepmap: the window doesn't resize when the preset changes
- 12634 Boobass: knobs look different at 200% scaling than at 100%
- 15807 Diagnostic: recovering a project can result in an empty file if the first option is checked
- 15792 DX10: the window isn't resizable anymore
- 15392 FLEX: search filter and tags are not applied after reopening the plugin
- 15761 Slicex: crash when changing presets
- 15873 ZGE Visualizer: crash when re-opening the Wizard after renaming layers
- 15880 Piano roll scripting: script modifies notes on other channels
- 15878 Piano roll scripting: Slide, Porta and Muted properties can be set but not cleared
- 15867 (macOS) Can't reorder patterns in the playlist
- 15846 (macOS) Crash when replacing a VST plugin with another
- 15793 (macOS) Crash when dragging an audio file from Finder
- 15808 (macOS) Crash when trying to open a folder (from the browser) that doesn't exist
- 15813 (macOS) Freeze when opening a project that contains a trial plugin if there's no license for it
- 15787 (macOS) Morphine: crash when opened in FL Studio VSTi