It has it's limitations with advanced audio editing needs that most people will never use but apart from that it's possible to get superb sounding tracks even from freeware such as Audacity of Goldwave if you know what you are doing. I do quite a bit of audio editing myself and in online audio communities I frequent who use this stuff all the time it would appear that a lot of people who use high end DAW's such as Reason, Logic, Ableton Live etc. claim FL Studio to be an excellent, but limited program that certainly isn't a useless alternative for professional production.
It is not the fault of the developers of programs that artists and their producers don't have a clue how to make the most of the tools they have, a lot of freeware developers pour their heart and soul into programming superb apps and VST's that if a lot of people who just recorded stuff at home were smart about and wanted to save a bit of money and hard drive space they would realise if they trained themselves properly it's all they would ever need. On the flipside there are people who get $1000 audio production suites and succeed in nothing except making the worst sounding crap on the planet, relying on an overabundance of filters and automated tasks and not learning a single thing in the process. Cheaper applications such as FL Studio are not a bad alternative if a producer is trying to go legit with a professional application, until they save enough money to afford a better program it will more then do the job.
People who know absolutely nothing about audio production should not comment on programs leading to automatic fail in reviews, that is all. I see people bashing the tools used rather then how they are used far too often and it's silly. In this review, its okay in hindsight because at least he mentioned preset sample libraries but grr I wanted to vent.
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