FL Studio 12.5 Beta released with tons of new stuff

FL Studio 12.5 Beta released with tons of new stuff

FL Studio 12.5 Beta was announced by Imageline on 31 May 2017 and unlike their last update which was predominantly a maintenance release, this new version packs a decent list of enhancements and improvements.

It is still in BETA mode so, although it is now downloadable for users, they still have their get-out-of-jail card for any bugs and fixes that may be picked up by users.

FL Studio 12.5 Beta introduces a new way to browse patterns and arrange them; called the Picker Panel it is a Pattern, Audio and Automation Clip manager which will display all clips used in a your project.

The virtual MIDI controller gives more power to those using just a laptop and headphones as you can pretty much use it as a MIDI keyboard too.

New Features in FL Studio 12.5 BETA

Click on each item for additional information where required.

• Picker Panel (Alt+P) – A Pattern, Audio and Automation Clip manager / browser that lists all Pattern, Audio and Automation Clips in the project. Useful features include: Select unused Clips. Select Clips in Playlist. Rename/Colour multiple clips. Render Pattern Clips to Audio Clips (Right-Click Clips > Render as audio clip, hold (Alt) to bypass Mixer Insert FX.
• Virtual MIDI Controllers – Resizable, customizable vectorial Keyboard and Drumpads. Play the selected Channel, just like an external MIDI controller.
• Automation Clips – New (Right-click) control points ‘Type in value…‘ feature.
• FPC – Resizable vectorial UI. Pads can now have custom colours and icons. New layout options (single/double pads). Per-pad automatable pitch.
• Harmor – Vectorial UI.
• Patcher – Threaded processing of hosted plugins/modules. ‘More…‘ option in plugin insertion menus. (Right-click) node and select ‘Insert plugin…’ to connect a plugin to a node. Load DirectWave when .dwp file is dropped. (Middle-click) plugin title bar to rename. (Middle-click) connection filter checkboxes to disable the two others. ‘Tree display‘ option in Control Surface tab Preset Menu. (Left-Click) to switch filter groups On/Off. (Middle-Mouse Click) to Solo/Unsolo a filter group.
• Edison – Shows the length of selections (top-right in the Editor window).
• DirectWave – Resizable vectorial UI. New filters (MiniSynth & Vox) plus High Quality Rendering (Option) to enable near audio-rate modulation of all DirectWave parameters.
• Channel Sampling Robot – (Right-click) any Channel and select ‘Create DirectWave instrument‘ to turn any Channel, Patcher or Layer into a DirectWave bank/patch.
• Transistor Bass – New ‘303 Square waveform’ switch and ‘Gate Length’ control.
• Control Creator – Updated and now accessible from Patcher > Control Surface and the Tools menu.
• Control Surface – Controls can now be auto-aligned. Select two or more controls and Right-click > Align for options.
• Piano roll – ‘Menu > View > Mini piano roll preview‘ shows an overview of notes in the scroll-bar. Highlight root key according to scale. New ‘Menu > View > Keyboard style > Dark‘ keyboard mode. Use (Ctrl+Mouse-wheel) on Channel Selector to select empty Channels.
• Playlist – ‘Menu > View > Mini playlist preview‘ shows an overview of Clips in the scroll-bar.
• MIDI Out – New ‘Note‘ Knob output mode. Automate sending note on and off. A note value of 0 = Note OFF.
• VIEW > Close all plugin windows (Alt+F12) – Closes only plugin windows.
• Hide the plugin wrapper menu by default – See ‘General Settings > Miscellaneous > Hide plugin window toolbar by default’.
• Additional changes & Bugfixes – Many! See the what’s new here.