All right guys welcome back to the course. 1
So in this video I'm going to show you how to try out FL studio for free. 2
If you're not decided on if you want to purchase FL studio or not or if you just want to try out the 3
product with this course and try to learn FL studio you can do it all for free. 4
So first let's navigate to image-line.com 5
and you will come to this website. 6
You can see FL studio 7
20 is the version of now and you can see this button here "Download Trial". 8
So let's click that and here you can see you can choose between Windows version and a Mac OS version. 9
So FL studio always had the Windows version available and didn't support Mac OS until recently. 10
So it's very nice that both Windows users and Mac OS users can use FL studio now. 11
So depending on what version you have you just click on it. 12
You will download an installer. 13
You can see their full installer and trial installer. 14
So what you basically do is to download the installer, click that you want to try the product out. 15
When you do that you can do everything but there is there are some trial limitations here. 16
So as you can see you can save FL studio-projects, so you can do that but reopening save project is 17
not possible. 18
Some functions that use save/load capability don't work in the trial. 19
For example "Clone channels" and the "Save preset as..." menu options. You can export to WAV and MP3 20
files so basically you can create a project you can create a full track and they can export it to WAV 21
and MP3. Then you can see the trial is equivalent to FL studio + All Plugin bundle so you can test 22
all features and plugins. 23
So in next video you will see a comparison between the different FL studio versions that are available. 24
And you just choose whatever version you want to have. 25
But as you can see this trial here is basically the biggest version you can have. 26
So let's say that you're using it for studio with the trial version here 27
and you see that you're always going to one or two or several plugins and you feel that you really 28
really want these plug ns. 29
Then you can decide on what version you want to purchase. 30
So it's really nice that image-line has 31
that you can try it out with the old plugin bundle. 32
You can see here "Free trial": Test all features and extra plugins. 33
Time unlimited. 34
No registration or account needed, one installer for trial and full versions. 35
So it's very nice as well. 36
You can just purchase it and you can unlock the trial as well. 37
So as soon as you unlock the trial you can use the full version there as well. 38
So you don't have to let's say install the program and then uninstall and reinstall the download and 39
stuff like that. 40
You just basically get an access code and then unlock FL studio with the trial that you have installed. 41
You can do almost everything with the trial version here but you can't save an FL studio project and 42
then open it. 43
That is the big limitation that they have with the trial. 44
So let's say that you're working with a project and you save it then you can't open it up again. 45
You have to start all over again. 46
So it's not really that good to just stay on the trial all the time. 47
It may work if you're working really really quick and want to just get out some tracks with one sitting 48
and in one session you can do that of course. 49
But let's say that your computer crashes or something then you can open it up as well. 50
So I really recommend you to just start out with a trial here just download it, try it out and just keep 51
watching the course. 52
We're going to create a track, a full track later on in the course so just hop in to the course. 53
So as I said before you don't have to pay for the FL studio to watch this course. 54
You can get this trial and watch the course with the trial version. 55
All right guys so that is it for this video. 56
Let's see you in the next lecture.