ABLETON VS FL STUDIO - Let's Settle This!

ABLETON VS FL STUDIO - Which Is Better?

In this video I check out 2 of the BEST DAWs for music production...Ableton Live 11 and FL Studio 20. After doing my Ableton Live 11 tutorial, i thought i would put it up against FL Studio 20. What are the differences? Which one is better? Why does ________ have the best piano roll & so much more.

Ableton Live 11 & FL Studio 20 are both fantastic DAWs. Ableton offers the live performance aspect whilst FL Studio allows you to quickly sketch out patterns. I also give you guys a quick overview of both the Ableton push 2 & AKAI Fire for FL Studio 20. Both great controllers for each DAW.

For the last 13 years i have been using Ableton Live as my main DAW and just recently got back into using FL Studio after 17 years.....Yep, I first started on FL Studio (back then called Fruity Loops) in 2003! Glad to see how far FL Studio has come to this day!

Something to add as well.....I know that FL Studio has a live performance mode, however I still think that Ableton takes the lead here! Considering Ableton Live was actually made for live purposes in the first place, performing live with Ableton is so straight forward.

But the question.....which is better? What is the best DAW in 2021? Ableton or FL Studio!?

What are your thoughts?

Timestamps
0:00 - Intro & Prices
1:15 - Basic UI Differences
1:40 - Learning Curve
2:25 - Which Is Best For Songwriting?
4:40 - FL Studio Vs Ableton Piano Roll
5:56 - Stock Plugins
6:58 - Sampling In Ableton & FL Studio
7:35 - Mixing In Ableton & FL Studio
8:04 - Hardware Controllers
8:53 - HUGE Thing That FL Studio Does..
9:30 - Overall Pros & Cons
11:20 - My Thoughts
11:51 - Check These Videos Out!

Thanks for watching!

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[NXISEWOLF]

Ableton Live or FL Studio? 🧐

Let me know!

[miyalys]

Speaking of Lifetime Free Updates I bought FL Studio 4 almost 20 years ago, and today I own FL Studio 20.
It was worth it.

[bassinblue]

It would be game over if Image Line and Ableton came together for a project and did a variant DAW and called it Able Loops.

[lateam]

I recommend getting the trials to a few daws and just seeing what feels natural at first. Once you learn one you can easily apply those skills to another. Personally I recommend fl to visual learners, and ableton to someone who values simplicity but they both can do the same things at the end of the day.

[ckatheman]

With the exception of the piano roll (FL Studio has the best piano roll by far) - Ableton is my choice having worked with both. Ableton has such a great interface for creative workflow. However, once I am done with the creative parts, I mix in Cubase. No one DAW does it all.

[TheHiYaku]

This is by far the most balanced comparison video I've ever seen. Most guys have a very biased opinio caused they've used one DAw for years, while the other they've tried for 30 days and suddenly they're gurus...

[xemex]

im still learning Abelton but im FLstudio for life..love Image-Line
and there update policy

[SpiritMirrors]

I’ve been an Ableton user for almost 10 years now, but before using Ableton I bought a copy of FL Studio because it was cheap and my friend at the time was using it

Despite being an Ableton user, I do absolutely love the fact that I can just download FL Studio at anytime and my license from a decade ago still grants me their latest software.

I love having that in my back pocket whenever I need it. FL is a pretty sexy DAW tbh haha.

Love that you can even have a background pic (behind all them windows, that is lol)

[officialnctrnl]

Ive been using fl and Ableton for 5 years and 4 years, respectively. and I can say that the quality of my production has gone up significantly after using Ableton. There are too many unnecessary things in FL Studio and some of the things are too distracting. AND THE AMOUNT OF WINDOWS YOU HAVE TO OPEN. Plus FL is really bad with CPU management. To run 4 instances of Serum with 32 Voices, FL was glitching, DESPITE THE BUFFER SIZE SET TO MAX. Meanwhile, Ableton handles it like a pro and my cpu usage was only 10%. The only place where fl takes the win is with its plugins. Stuff like Flex, Soundgoodizer, Harmor, Vocodex are the real gems. Other than that, Ableton wins by a MILE.

[Mikl]

You don't actually have to live with the floating windows, you can resize, move and edge-snap them into whatever layout you want, even something more traditional with the mixer on the bottom half and playlist on the top half. You can also customize the top bar (I recommend removing the second row), add new tabs to the browser, make all plugins show over other windows, and most importantly - assign playlist tracks to the channel rack (instrument tracks) or the mixer (audio tracks). Am I the only one who did these things?! I would have never picked up FL Studio if I had to keep reopening windows like everyone on YouTube seems to do.

[CalvinMOfficial]

Fl Studio windows are not a problem for me. I have the mixer, channel rack, pop out search bar and playlist on screen all at once. This is saved as a template also, so the only windows which open up and close is the piano roll and plugins, that's it. In my template I even have spectrum analyzer visible at all times in the bottom right 😎

[natskar]

I actually wish I went with abelton later on after I made my FL Studio purchase. All the windows and stuff clutter real quick and as a beginner it's hard to manage all those tabs and keep them cohesive with each other. So many different shortcuts and options that it gets overwhelming really fast. I like the clean look and feel of abelton.

[awoniranoluwaseyi]

Like 2 minutes in and you've solved the issues I was having. I didn't realize that box for showing what was going on was there, I didn't

[asitkumarmanna]

Yes, Ableton Piano Roll need to improve for smooth work flow. But it's ok for me. I love Ableton Live too much❤️👍🙏.

[kdrei]

I used FL for 5 years and Ableton for 5 months. The piano roll is ass in Ableton but 11 and LES makes it more tolerable and honestly I don’t think imma ever go back to FL 😂 the sampling in Ableton is god tier and the search is so much better and other stuff

[Caelo_music]

Used Fl for about 4 years (first Daw) and it took me forever to learn the basics but the large community helped a lot. Switched one year ago because I hate the short cuts and windows management of Fl to Reason 11. I didn‘t want to change at first because all Daws do the same stuff but changing was huge for my motivation and music. Love Reason, great shortcuts, VSTs, and the cable routing is fantastic. I also own a copy of Ableton Live Lite but I never got into a really fast workflow and I don’t like the Shortcuts compared to Reason. It is a personal preference at the and I would suggest to try out the trial version if you want to change. If you are a beginner I would suggest to pick one and stick with it no matter what to learn the basics.

[bigdap]

👑 👑 Ableton Live is the GOAT for these reasons:
-Session View
-Effects Rack and Chain Selector (this alone is enough)
-Drum Rack (this alone is enough)
-Dummy Clips/Momentary Effects
-Simpler and all other Sampling Features
-Warping
-Create-Listen Feature
-Browser Sidebar (can literally pull a track, a vocal, an instrument, anything out of another project via drag and drop...In --Real Time without ever stopping the project you're presently working on 🔥🔥 🔥🔥)
...do I really need to keep going??

[stellitacat]

LIVE WINS. But since I started using FL Studio, I fell in love with the interface which is so familiar, the pattern usage and it's easy to use overall. I think FL is more user wise. However, if you get into Live, you can become an audio scientific, thing's like a laboratory and a lot more complex. Live can change sounds into other sounds all by itself.

[Hardcrafter]

For mixer routing in FL all you really need to do is scroll the "track" number in the channel rack. Of course, you'll then have to rename the track in the mixer if you wanna stay organized but FL has multiple ways of doing the same thing.

For instance, you can right-click an empty mixer track and route any selected channel in the channel rack to it, which is my go-to method.

[bassbugyt]

FL LIFE TIME OF FREE UPDATES!!!... no brainier :0)