Image Line has released FL Studio 11 – the latest version of its DAW for Windows.

New features in FL Studio 11 include:

• Performance mode – Trigger Playlist Clips live using a mouse, touch screen, typing keyboard or MIDI controller. Supports APC20/40, Launchpad, Lemur, Block, Maschine/Mikro, padKONTROL, Traktor Kontrol (and more).
• Multi-touch support – FL Studio and some plugins now respond to Multi-touch with Microsoft gesture functions supported.
• Playlist – 199 Playlist tracks, increased from 99.
• Linking includes MIDI input port – Links now remember the MIDI input port used to avoid conflict between controllers.
• Playlist & Piano roll – Horizontal & vertical movement locking. Shift is horizontal lock & Ctrl is vertical lock when dragging items.
• Piano roll – Glue notes, Mouse wheel velocity, Monophonic step entry mode & Chop chords tool.
• Right-click data entry – Most controls now allow a Right-click option to type in values.
• Plugin Picker – Right-click to open a plugin and its presets in the Browser. Start typing plugin names to highlight entries.
• Mixer – Page Up/Down keyboard keys cycle through the current mixer track’s plugin windows.
• Options – Play truncated notes in clips restores notes overlapping slice points in Pattern Clips. Click and hold functions. GUI animation level now selectable from sober to entertaining.

New Plugins:

• BassDrum – Deep Kick-Bass percussion synthesizer with sample layering.
• GMS (Groove Machine Synth) – Multi-timbral hybrid synthesizer & FX channel lifted from Groove Machine.
• Effector – 12 performance oriented effects: Distortion, Lo-Fi bit reduction, Flanging, Phasing, Filter (low/high pass), Delay, Reverb, Stereo panning & binaural effect, Gating, Granulizer, Vocal formant and Ring modulation effects. Effector was introduced to compliment Performance Mode and is also designed for use with multi-touch displays & controllers.
• Patcher – Introduced with FL Studio 10 to provide a means of saving and recalling commonly used effects and plugin chains. It’s in the new section as, aside from being overhauled with animated connections and a fresh interface, patcher has gained two, of many more to come, Voice Effects (VFX).
• VFX Key Mapper – Allows note inputs, live or from the Piano roll, to be transposed, keychanged, chorded or creatively remapped.
• VFX Color Mapper – Leverages FL Studio’s 16 Piano roll note colors that have traditionally mapped to MIDI channels. Now inside Patcher note colors can control 16 independent generators/instruments or groups of generators

Updated Plugins:

• FL Flowstone – Flowstone is the successor to the original Synthmaker program. Now including the Ruby high level programming language.
• Newtone 2 – Has been completely re-written with a new analysis and pitch engine for more accuracy, while also brushing up the workflow. Shortcuts & mouse actions now harmonize with FL Studio’s Piano roll and Playlist, where possible. Most exciting are the new Vibrato and Warp editors. The Vibrato editor allows users to create vibrato effects from scratch with controls including start/end amount and frequency. The editor even detects existing vibrato and displays this value so users can match the singers natural tendency, if desired. The Warp editor is designed to work with mono or polyphonic material and is perfect for slicing and re-timing/quantizing drum-loops, vocal performances and is great for sounddesign experimentation. Importantly, Newtone 2 is a free update for existing customers.
• Harmor – Now supports Komplexer WT wavetables & ‘Map audio regions to keys’ for sampler like functionality and auto-dump to score for Slicex like drum handling.
• ZGameEditor Visualizer – Based on the free open source ZGameEditor that can be used to create 2D & 3D video game style visualization objects for the plugin. ZGE Visualizer can create real-time or rendered HD video effects in automated or automatic sync with FL Studio projects to support live performances or YouTube videos.
• DirectWave – Added multi-timbral mode to the FL native version so you can load and play more than one patch from note colors in the Piano roll. There’s also a new live 16 point sincinterpolation mode for lower CPU usage when using DirectWave in multi-timbral mode.

FL Studio 11 is available now, in editions priced starting at US $99. See the Image Line site for details.