FL Studio is coming to your browser as FL Studio Web

Image-Line CEO Constantin Koenche has announced FL Studio Web, a browser-based version of the beloved DAW, FL Studio — better known to many as FruityLoops.

FL Studio Web isn’t a complete port of FL Studio desktop, but it boasts the same workflow, FL Cloud integration, stock FL Studio plugins, and a strikingly similar GUI. Koenche says the DAW is designed as both a “gateway into music production” and a powerful on-the-go companion for experienced users. In practice, that means that you can start a track in the browser, save the project, and access it later at FL Studio desktop, complete with the full suite of Image-Line plugins. At least, that’s the theory — MusicTech hasn’t been given early access to FL Studio Web, nor is it readily accessible.

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FL Studio Web is currently in public beta with a waitlist now open to new and existing users. Koenche adds that the app will be built “with [the FL Studio] community. As an early tester, your feedback will shape the future of FL Studio Web.”

Details are scarce, but on LinkedIn, Koenche and Robert Linke (chief product & technology officer at Image-Line) both mention that FL Studio Web is a bid to lower the “barrier to entry” for new music makers.

“We’ve taken the iconic FL Studio workflow and streamlined it for the web, allowing anyone to start creating instantly – no downloads, no complex setups,” says Koenche. He continues to explain the full ecosystem compatibility of FL Studio Web, the instant access to FL Cloud and native FL Studio plugins, and an “interactive onboarding” process that gets new users making music “in minutes.

FL Studio Web is set to join a small number of growing browser-based DAWs, including BandLab, OpenDAW, Moises and Soundtrap. However, this marks the first time a legacy DAW developer brings its desktop product to the web in a meaningful way.

In an interview with MusicTech earlier this year, Koenche alluded to transitioning FL Studio into a cross-platform experience.

“Why should music making, as a whole, be different from graphic design or word processing or gaming, where you pick up from where you left off on different devices?” he said, adding: “We think a lot about the commonalities between gaming and music making in terms of experience and the joyfulness of learning while you’re playing…There are a lot of analogies in our community — words like ‘cheat code’ are used a lot in relation to FL Studio. We see a lot of overlap and commonalities in how people interact with music-making software and specifically FL Studio.”

“We just want to be wherever somebody’s thinking about creating music; it’s about being wherever your users might be.”

You can join the waitlist for FL Studio Web now.

Editor’s note: BandLab and MusicTech are both owned by Caldecott Music Group.

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