Installers
- Windows: 26.1.5.5618 (24/August/2026)
- macOS: 26.1.5.5384 (24/August/2026)
WHAT'S NEW?
- FL Studio:
- Backup projects to FL Cloud - All customers get access to FL Cloud project backups (Free 500 MB, Plus 5 GB & Pro 1 TB). Use File > Save and backup to FL Cloud or enable the option under Project settings > Project > 'Backup to FL Cloud storage' to auto-save to FL Cloud on each save. Saved projects appear in the Browser under 'FL Cloud > Project backups'. You can (Right-Click) any project in the Browser to 'Download' or 'Delete' it.
- Tools Menu - Audio Logger tool. Similar to the MIDI Logger, FL Studio is now always recording audio from the Master Mixer Track.
- Audio Settings (macOS) - Now includes separate Audio Input & Output device selectors.
- MIDI Recording - FL Studio should now more accurately record incoming MIDI events (much less jitter) and also when the Tempo changes during playback.
- Help Menu - Added some guided tutorials (Loop starter tutorial & Step sequencer tutorial). Removed 'Product information'.
- Tools Menu - Added 'Chord Progression tool' and 'Remix a song'.
- Options Menu - Added 'Account Settings' option.
- Account Tab - Moved 'Show license information in the hint panel' option to the Account Tab in the Settings window
- Projects - When 'License Plate' is selected in Accounts Settings, the License Plate rather than User Name will be saved in project files.
- Welcome Window - New 'Remix a song' option that loads and stem-separates a track in the Playlist with a single click.
- Rename pop-ups - Are now slightly wider. Only slightly so you still have something to complain about.
- CPU Performance (Windows) - Changed the way the Windows Performance Plan is requested to avoid CPU throttling.
- Communications Panel - Renamed the Communications Panel, 'Downloads' Tab to 'Transfers'.
- Account - New 'Account' Tab in the Settings window. Access Image Line account and FL Cloud information.
- Toolbar Panel - Chord detection panel. Detects chords from MIDI, Typing keyboard to piano and note selections in the Piano roll. NOTE: If it's not visible edit the Toolbar to add this new tool. The maximum number of detected notes is limited to 10.
- Popup messages & options - Changed 'Don't show this in the future' options to a more effective 'Remember my choice'. We remember!
- Improved envelope preset loading - FL Studio uses .fnv format for multiple enveloper editors in the application, some are incompatible. Now .fnv files now show a clear message instead of failing silently, and drag-and-drop behaves consistently.
- Plugin Manager:
- Improved speed – Large plugin lists now load faster for a smoother browsing experience.
- Rescan all plugins – Added a warning when 'Rescan all' is enabled to prevent accidental long scans.
- Waves plugins – Added an option to control whether Waves plugins are always re-verified.
- Audio & Instrument Tracks - FL Studio will now indicate which associated Channels will be deleted when deleting an Audio/Instrument mixer track.
- Apple Silicon Performance - macOS now uses Audio Workgroups API to make sure audio threads work toward a common deadline. This reduces the risk of underruns when audio CPU usage suddenly increases.
- Speechsynth - Shows an message when trying to load a speech synth preset on macOS as it's not compatible.
- Plugin Management - Audio Unit (macOS) plugins are now at the end of the 'More' plugins list by default to encourage VST usage for compatibility.
- Plugin & Project Pickers - The search text can now be longer than 40 characters.
- New Plugins:
- Transmitter (All Plugins Edition) - Splits the input signal into Transient and Sustained audio streams for independent dynamics, spectral shaping and effects processing. The Transient envelope can also act as an internal controller.
- FL Studio Mobile & Rack - Get access to all FL Studio Mobile plugins. Most recently added ...
- SoundFont Player - Loads SF2 SoundFont banks.
- Note Arpeggiator - Turn incoming notes into rhythmic, repeating, and re-pitched patterns.
- Plugin Updates:
- FLEX - FLEX has been rebuilt from the ground up with a new synthesis engine offering up to 50% lower CPU use, when used with 2nd generation Packs, alongside a redesigned UI with simplified controls and improved search at both the pack and preset level.
- Gross Beat - New 'Trigger slots from MIDI notes' option to turn MIDI notes off so they don't trigger slots when Gross beat is focused. Improved processing during small tempo changes (the delay line no longer resets).
- Patcher > Menu > Show info inside modules - Displays the View data inside the Module UI. Otherwise, when deselected it's shown above the Module UI.
- FPC - You can now drop multiple samples on an FPC Pad to create layers.
- Video Player - Show the last frame when the playback position is beyond the end so the display is not black.
- Patcher - The window can now be smaller when a Surface Tab is selected, for improved UI design.
- Plugin Wrapper Menu - Added 'Replace' to select from the Plugin Database.
- MIDI Out - Added a 'Send program change' option. This can help with certain hardware synthesizers that don't have internal controls to ignore these messages.
- Edison - Scripts are no longer re-applied on accept if a preview already exists.
- Luxeverb - Added a Pitch Feedforward mode and 100 new presets.
- DirectWave - Added (Shift+Click) support to select multiple Zones in the list. Zones are activated when selected with up/down arrow keys.
- Emphasis - Disabled the Low Latency option when Instant Recovery is enabled.
- Piano roll:
- User key labels – You can (Right-Click) any Key and select Rename to enter your own text label in all View modes. Select Key labels to manage Note label presets or choose Keyboard Views.
- Chord Stamp Tool – Added top-down and bottom-up modes with voice-leading. Top-down lets your melody lead the harmony, the note you click becomes part of the chord that's built underneath it. Bottom-up is more harmony-driven where FL Studio chooses a chord for you based on where you click. Great for quick ideas and 'inspire me' workflows.
- Chord Progression Tool - When Typing to piano keyboard is selected, you can preview Chords starting from C5. When editing, Chord nudge - Allows to you swap chords by clicking and dragging.
- Piano roll - Tools icon (Right-Click) now opens the Chord Progression Tool instead of Riff Machine now moved to (Middle-Click).
- File > Open score - Shows both .mid files in addition to .fsc files as Supported score files is selected in the Operating System browser. Because, when you want a score you don't really care about the format!
- Note editing - Stretching selections in the Piano roll now snap by default, use (Alt) for unsnapped stretching. This harmonizes the behavior with other snapped vs unsnapped editing.
- Piano roll menu – Exporting to 'MIDI' or 'Score sheet' now defaults to the Project's Data Folder when set. Otherwise '... Documents/Image-Line/FL Studio/Presets/Scores' will be used.
- Channel Rack
- Loop Starter - Added a popup menu arrow button next to the Loop Starter dice controls for better menu visibility. Files downloaded by Loop Starter are now deleted automatically if they're not used to avoid the pop-up. FL Cloud status badge is now visible when using Loop Starter - allowing easier discovery of an extended loop library available to subscribers. Expanded loop library for FL Cloud Plus and FL Cloud Pro subscribers. Added 'Show more from this pack' on the track menu to show the pack from which the samples came. Renamed the 'Change project tempo' to 'Auto tempo'.
- Stepsequencer - Changed the default value of ‘Use both mouse buttons in step sequencer’ off.
- Channel Button - 'Replace' option to choose from the favorites list.
- Channel Rack Menu – Sort by > Type. Sorts Channels by their type: e.g Sampler Channels, Instruments/Generators, Automation Clips, Audio Clips.
- Playlist:
- Audio Clip Gain Controls (Right-Click) - Added Normalize selected Audio Clips with the option to Normalize selected Clips individually or relative to the loudest Clip in the selection. Updated option names to be clearer, Normalize selection individually, Normalize selection as a group.
- Audio Clip Properties - Now includes Pan control and adapts to whether they apply to a single Audio Clip or multi-selection. Context dependent options allow changes to be applied in a more granular way.
- Audio Clips - Added a new mouse cursor to distinguish Clip Resizing from Clip Stretching modes as selected from the Clip Focus panel.
- Audio Clip Editing - When the Typing to piano option is deselected, holding 'A' temporarily switches between Resizing and Stretching Audio Clips.
- Playlist > Edit Menu - Use 'Select tracks when samples are dropped' to select or not-select Tracks when samples are dropped.
- Playlist Menu - Revised the order of items in the Playlist window menu.
- Multi-selected sample dropping - No longer select all Playlist tracks when a group of samples is dropped onto the Playlist
- Audio Clip Titlebar - Shows Pan and Pitch values if changed from the default. Improved display of Pitch and Pan values in Audio Clip Title bars.
- Menu > Automation clips reset remote controls - Providing the option to takeover manually tweaked controls. Previously playback would need to be restarted to have the Automation Clip regain control.
- Menu > Collapse / Expand all grouped tracks - Minimize / Expand the height of all Grouped Playlist Tracks.
- Menu > Edit patterns in > Scroll to position - Renamed 'Adjust start time' to 'Scroll to position' switch to more clearly explain the features action.
- Performance Mode – Added a pop-up panel when preparing for Performance Mode to select Marker Count and Spacing. Markers are used to trigger Clip Columns.
- Mixer
- Mixer - Reset Input and Output selectors to '(none)' on (Alt+Left-Click)
- FX Slots - Clicking an unused Mixer Effect Slot now shows only the Plugin selection menu.
- Menu - Renamed 'Open audio logger' in the Mixer Menu/s to 'Open audio editor and record' to disambiguate it from the global Audio Logger tool.
- Browser:
- Project Backups - Auto saved projects now include the save date in the file name.
- .ZIP files - Now show the same menu as for project files including open.
- Browser UI - Increased the default width of the Browser to show 3 packs in a row in the Sounds Tab.
- Browser Tab (Menu) (Right-Click) - Option 'Show sample waveform' displays preview waveforms in-line.
- Gopher
- Gopher - Gopher can now control some features in FL Studio and plugins. NOTE: This is an experimental feature.
- Improved Scripting support - Gopher is now able to create improved Piano roll and VFX Scripts on demand. For example, ask Gopher for create a Piano roll script to remove random notes from a score.
- MIDI scripting:
- Added
HW_Dirty flags"for undo and redo operations. - Replaced the built-in MCU support with the new MCU script.
- Added '
setPatternLength' and 'incrementPatternLength' functions. - Added added '
get_swing' and 'set_swing' functions to set and get swing values.
- Added
FL Studio 2026.1.5 Maintenance Update
Changes
- Audio Recording - Added a 24bit option to the Mixer's Disk Recording menu.
- Channel Rack - Added a Delete option to the Channel Settings Window's menu.
- Files - Now defaults to the Project Data folder when saving from a backup version of the project.
- ZGE Visualizer - New effect 'Dubswitcher Dither'.
- MIDI scripting - Limit the duration of DisplayRect functions to maximum 2 seconds.
Fixes
(common)
- 22528 Can't favorite an unverified plugin in the More plugins window after setting its type in Plugin Manager
- 22475 Chord detector crashes when using ARP mode with the APK Mini 4
- 22515 Crash because the browser updates while closing
- 22526 Crash displaying library images in the browser
- 22480 Crash displaying items in the browser
- 22497 Crash in the browser when it displays an image locked by OneDrive
- 22498 Crash in the crash handling code
- 22539 Crash displaying data in the piano roll
- 22533 Crash displaying pattern clips in the playlist
- 22496 Crash finding MIDI scripts if the user data folder is cloud-based
- 22540 Crash in the browser loading information about a file
- 22479 Crash in the browser reading file preview information when it's cloud-based
- 22513 Crash parsing the product version information
- 22519 Crash reading plugin info when the user data folder is cloud-based
- 22483 Crash scanning for MIDI devices while the application closes
- 22523 Crash updating MIDI device information on start-up
- 22510 Crash updating search data while the application closes
- 22478 Crash when adding tags in the browser
- 22444 Crash when closing the playlist window
- 22566 Crash when displaying spectrum of a sample with invalid values
- 22487 Crash when displaying the plugin picker
- 22421 Crash when invoking "Change declicking for selected clips"
- 22443 Crash when loading a broken toolbar preset
- 22516 Crash when starting playback while sending MIDI notes to an external synth
- 22495 Crash when the browser loses focus while closing
- 22521 Crash when the program is unlocked from the web site more than once
- 22477 Crash when the screen configuration changes while the program closes
- 22531 Crash when toggling recording mode
- 22536 Crash writing settings while closing the program
- 22353 Demo project loads with an enabled Parametric EQ 2 plugin that should be muted
- 22442 Edison preset doesn't load when dropped on an effect slot
- 22476 Error loading mip map info from cloud-based files
- 22494 Error writing to disk when generating sample mip maps
- 22474 Freeze when using an Akai MPK device
- 22481 Loading browser tags fails when the user data folder is cloud-based
- 22512 MIDI synchronization thread is running while the program closes
- 22456 MP3 files load with the wrong length
- 22543 Notes recorded with FL Studio Remote stack up with zero length
- 22574 Playback start position sometimes changes while trying out new loops in Loop Starter
- 22462 "Open in browser" in the Sounds tab doesn't always work
- 22397 Right-click on a scale tonic in the Chord Progression tool prepends it to the scale name
- 22582 The wave format set in the mixer's Disk Recording menu isn't remembered
- 22538 Wrong note time when switching channels during recording
- 22499 DirectWave: crash when selecting a zone
- 22547 DirectWave: double-click on a sample behaves differently from "Add sample"
- 22471 FLEX: favorites aren't always loaded correctly
- 22454 FLEX: loading of demo sample fails if the cloud service isn't running
- 22449 FLEX: & character isn't displayed in the Picker panel and pack description
- 22488 FLEX: arpeggiator turns on automatically when loading the project
- 22527 FLEX: crash clicking the empty area above the search error text
- 22426 FLEX: crash displaying the audio generated by the plugin
- 22473 FLEX: error when saving a file in the user data folder when that's managed by OneDrive
- 22493 FLEX: window is focused at the wrong time
- 22489 FLEX: the "Open pack list" button is visible when a search has no results
- 22507 Patcher: plugin windows aren't always visible if they were saved with a different screen layout
- 22529 Patcher: sometimes an invalid output voice handle is sent to plugins
- 22511 Patcher: the size of plugin windows isn't always remembered
- 22571 Pitch Shifter: memory leak
- 22400 Scratcher: freeze when its parameters are tweaked from the browser
- 22572 Transistor Bass: crash when the engine can't be opened
- 22447 VFX Script: the window size isn't always remembered
- 22541 Wave Candy: crash when the plugin is closed
- 22548 Wave Candy: spectrum display isn't scaled correctly
- 22461 Edison scripting: regions aren't sorted after script completion
- 22522 MIDI scripting: the duplicate steps function now copies the pattern length
- 22455 Piano roll scripting: crash when an invalid marker.mode value is set
(macOS)
- 22504 Crash when a license validation file is saved
- 22534 Crash when the browser cache is saved
- 22535 Crash when the graph editor window is moved
- 22491 Crash while recording audio
- 22492 Crash when scrolling a context menu while pressing an accelerator key
- 22435 Error "Resource temporarily unavailable" when using the welcome window
- 22569 FLEX: crash when saving user data