FL Studio 20 Maximus plugin will deliver transparent peak limiting and volume maximization without coloration of the processed sound. Purchase FL Studio 20 Plugins online. Maximus free download - Maximus, Age of Mythology: The Titans Maximus model, Maximus Draughts, and many more programs. When FL 12 was released, Image-Line added Maximus, Sytrus, and a few other things from Sig Bundle to Producer Edition, and added some plugins that were previously sold separately to the Sig Bundle. It works retroactively too, so even if you're on FL 11 or before, just redownload your regkey and you'll get the additional products.
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- Which version of FL Studio do you need?
All right! You are orienting which DAW is suitable for you? Pay attention because this is an important choice. If you plan to buy FL Studio you have three critical options/steps that you have to make and which you have to think about.
1. Do you want to work with FL Studio and not with another DAW?
2. Which version of FL Studio do you need?
3. Crack or buy?
In this article, we will continue to help you make the right choice and provide quality advice. Do you still have specific questions about this subject? Let us know in a comment under this article!
Buy FL Studio or another DAW?
Is FL Studio the right choice for you? FL Studio is one of the most popular DAWs (Digital audio workstations). The popularity is partly because FL Studio is relatively easy to crack, so you can obtain it illegally without having to pay for it. Other DAWs such as Ableton and Logic Pro X is harder to get illegally.
Since the end of 2018 FL Studio is also fully available on Apple computers, this makes the barrier smaller and has become a more accessible product. Ableton works with Windows and Apple, and Logic Pro X only works on Apple computers.
Our opinion, what we would say in the Netherlands, is that it is the chef in the kitchen who makes the food tasty or tasteless, not the kitchen itself. This is also the case for all different plugins and DAWs that are for sale. It is true that the standard plugins that are supplied with Ableton and Logic Pro X are in terms of quality better.
It also has partly to do with the genre that you are going to make. Nearly all hip-hop producers use FL Studio because you can quickly put an idea down with the help of the step sequencer. FL Studio is perfect for quickly working out an idea digitally, but the workflow in other DAWs is considered less favourable by the majority. It is also just what you are used to. For techno, you see, for example, that Ableton is very popular because the live possibilities in Ableton are also very extensive.
Do you work a lot with recording a guitar and vocals? Then Logic Pro X will be very organized, and FL Studio will do a lot less. Every DAW has its advantages and disadvantages!
Which version of FL Studio do you need?
There are many different versions of FL Studio available from cheap to very expensive! Which version is right for you? Below we have made an overview of the available versions.
All versions of FL Studio have lifelong free updates and consist of a one-time payment. You pay and get what you see including free updates! So you do not have to worry about additional costs in the future. Do you buy at Bax Shop? Then you get a nice box including USB and more!
FL Studio Fruity Edition
Price: €89,-
Important features and differences:
With the cheapest version, the question is: what is not possible? The version is very limited so you can not record audio, have limited playlist features, and cannot use audio clips. There are also very few plugins available. In the sequencer, you can play around with different sounds.
FL Studio Producer Edition
Price: € 199, -
Important features and differences:
This is undoubtedly the most popular version of FL Studio and, in contrast to the Fruity Edition, has all recording and playlist features with 8 major plugins consisting of:
- Sytrus (FL Only)
- Maximus (FL Only)
- Edison (FL Only)
- Slicex (FL Only)
- Vocodex (FL Only)
- FL Flowstone (FL Only)
- GMSynth (FL Only)
- Bass drum (FL Only)
FL Studio Signature Bundle
Price: € 289, -
Important features and differences:
This bundle has the same possibilities as the producer edition. But then, instead of 8 plugins, 15 plugins included.
- Sytrus (FL Only)
- Maximus (FL Only)
- Edison (FL Only)
- Slicex (FL Only)
- Vocodex (FL Only)
- FL Flowstone (FL Only)
- GMSynth (FL Only)
- Bass drum (FL Only)
- Harmless (FL Only)
- Gross Beat (FL Only)
- Hardcore (FL Only)
- Direct Wave (FL Only
- Newtone (FL Only)
- Pitcher (FL Only)
- Video Player (FL Only)
FL Studio All plugins
Price: € 803.59, -
Important features and differences:
The complete list of plugins that FL Studio knows. This is fun, but in practice, you will often work with external plugins such as Serum, Nexus or Sylenth1. Only if you have enough money for it and you know that you are going to use it, we recommend this version!
- Drumaxx (FL / AU / VST / SA)
- Groove Machine (AU / VST / SA
- Harmor (FL / VST / SA)
- Juice Pack (VST)
- Morphine (FL / AU / VST / SA)
- Ogun (FL / VST)
- PoiZone (FL / AU / VST / SA)
- Sakura (FL / AU / VST / SA)
- Sawer (FL / AU / VST / SA)
- Toxic Biohazard (FL / AU / VST / SA)
- DirectWave (FL / VST)
- Hardcore (FL / AU / VST / SA)
- Harmless (FL / VST)
- Slicex (FL / VST / SA)
- Vocodex (FL / VST)
- NewTone (FL Only)
- Pitcher (FL Only)
- VideoPlayer 2 (FL Only)
- Edison WAV editor (FL / VST / SA)
- Gross Beat (FL / VST)
- Maximus (FL / VST)
- Transient Processor (FL Only)
- Transistor Bass (FL Only
- Sytrus (FL / VST)
- FL Studio Signature Bundle
FL Studio cracking or buying?
Take your hobby seriously and pay for your software is our advice! The Producer Edition has more than enough to start and is affordable. If not you will have a lot of trouble with updates every time to update what you will cost lots of time. The fact that old projects and other bugs are no longer working can also be blamed for the illegal use of FL Studio.
Being cheap is expensive in the long-run, and it only costs you a lot of time and effort the more you work with it! Just buy the Producer Edition or a different version! Do you still want to use it for free? Good luck with the search and watch out for viruses!
Let’s take a look at some mastering tips for FL Studio users. There are two primary ways of mastering. You can either apply mastering to your song on the mastering output, orr you can export out your song and then pull it back into FL Studio as an audio track and then master the stereo audio track. I’ll leave this method up to you, but the latter is a better way to go as you'll be less inclined to make changes to the mix while you master.
1—Cut Your Lows for Headroom
Try adding a low cut and cut everything below 40 Hz. This cuts out any inaudible frequencies that the human ear can’t hear and take up valuable headroom in the mix. So add a Fruity Parametric EQ 2 and then apply a low cut.
2—Use a Multiband Compressor
You have two multiband compressor options in FL Studio. The Fruity Multiband Compressor, or Maximus. I would recommend using Maximus as its features are more advanced. How Maximus works is that you have three bands (Low, Mid, High) where you can set the frequency range for each, and then also a single band master compressor on the effect. This gives you added control over your audio through the frequency range, plus you can gel the bands together with the single band master compressor.
For example, you could apply a heavier compression setting over the 0–200 Hz region where you bass and kick usually sit, and this won’t affect elements in the higher registers like the cymbals and hats. So decide where you want the band splits to be by soloing each band and then moving over to the right view to adjust the frequency amount.
How To Use Maximus
And then you can see the result of the compression on each band by switching to the monitor view. So tailor the amount of gain for each band, plus the Attack and release times. What I find really cool is that you can even draw in unique threshold curves in the graph. It’s actually very easy setting the threshold this way on the graph.
I like to apply a harder compression on the Low band and increase this slightly. Then I apply slightly less compression to the Mid band. And then for the High band, I don't apply compression, just gain for a bit more high-end detail in the track.
With the Master band, you use this as a single band compressor to gel all the bands together. Just apply a subtle compression here to help even out the compression on the track.
3—Adding in Saturation
Maximus Plugin
With Maximus, you can also add in some slight saturation per band, also known as harmonic exciting. With the threshold, you have two modes: Mode A or Mode B: and you can choose what percentage of the mode you want to add by moving the dial left or right from the center. With the ceiling dial, when you start decreasing this you’ll hear it imparts the saturation on the band.
4—How About Another EQ
After the multiband compression, you might want to make some EQ adjustments. If so, then add another Fruity Parametric EQ2. I sometimes find a slightly high EQ boost can help bring back some of the high-end detail that got removed through the compression. But this isn’t always necessary. So only use this if you find you need to do some EQ adjustments after the compression.
5—Some Reverb
What also helps to gel the elements together and give your track a sense of a space that it belongs in is to add some reverb. You can either use the algorithmic Fruity Reeverb2, or the convolution Fruity Convolver reverb if you want to use a real space. Less is more here. Too much and the song will become muddy. So drop the Wet dial to about 10% or less.
6—Hard Limiter
The last effect to add to your mastering chain is the Fruity Limiter. This will maximize the perceived volume of the whole mix, plus help prevent any clipping on your master output. Set the output to -0.1dB to stop it from going over 0 dB, and then increase the Gain to maximize the overall perceived level of your song.
7—Mixer States
What’s great about FL Studio is that you can save different Mixer states, and re-use them in other songs. So, for example, let’s say you’re mixing a whole album and want to apply the same mastering settings across the album, then you can use this technique. What you do is you go to the drop-down arrow on the top left of the Mixer window, then go to File > Open > Save Mixer State as…
Then when you go to a different song, you can navigate to the same menu and choose open Mixer state. This loads your master output state to the new song. You can also drag and drop these presets from the browser onto the master output channel.
8—Dither and Export
When you’re happy with your mastering, make sure to apply dither to your exported song Go to File > Export. Choose your format. Probably the best is to choose a lossless format such as WAV. Then give the file a name and click save. A Rendering dialog box will launch. Expand the quality section, and make sure to enable Dithering and HQ (High Quality) for all plugins to get the best audio results.
Conclusion
Those are a few handy techniques to use to get the best out of mastering your songs in FL Studio. Try them out in your next mastering sessions.