Do any professional musicians use FL Studio?
Plenty of producers use FL Studio. Among those I can think of off the top of my head are Feed Me, Porter Robinson, Mat Zo, Madeon, Savant, and BT; deadmau5 and Steve Duda have also used it on-and-off in their work.
That aside, choosing a DAW should not be about what major artists use it, or how popular they are; DAWs are about workflow and, to some extent, the quality of the DSP behind them. All "serious" DAWs will have the same core capabilities-- the ability to record audio, MIDI support, plugin support (the most common being VST, though Logic and Pro Tools use their own proprietary formats), the ability to automate parameters within a sequencer window, and a mixer. With that in mind, your choice of DAW should be a reflection of what you plan to do with it.
FL is an excellent option for electronic music producers looking for a highly modular software with detail-oriented workflow, and Ableton Live is a close second (though its DSP is not as polished as others on the market). If you're a mix engineer, Logic or Pro Tools are both optimized well for recording scenarios. Mastering engineers are often finicky about their DSP, and tend to use DAWs that pay more attention to transparent summing and gain changes; some of the best summing engines on the market are those of Pyramix and SoundBlade, two relatively unknown DAWs that pay careful attention to audio fidelity and the elimination of distortion artifacts caused by rounding errors in the summing process.
If your intent is to compose electronic music (what I consider myself to do inside a DAW), my lineup of options to compare and contrast would be as follows:
That aside, choosing a DAW should not be about what major artists use it, or how popular they are; DAWs are about workflow and, to some extent, the quality of the DSP behind them. All "serious" DAWs will have the same core capabilities-- the ability to record audio, MIDI support, plugin support (the most common being VST, though Logic and Pro Tools use their own proprietary formats), the ability to automate parameters within a sequencer window, and a mixer. With that in mind, your choice of DAW should be a reflection of what you plan to do with it.
FL is an excellent option for electronic music producers looking for a highly modular software with detail-oriented workflow, and Ableton Live is a close second (though its DSP is not as polished as others on the market). If you're a mix engineer, Logic or Pro Tools are both optimized well for recording scenarios. Mastering engineers are often finicky about their DSP, and tend to use DAWs that pay more attention to transparent summing and gain changes; some of the best summing engines on the market are those of Pyramix and SoundBlade, two relatively unknown DAWs that pay careful attention to audio fidelity and the elimination of distortion artifacts caused by rounding errors in the summing process.
If your intent is to compose electronic music (what I consider myself to do inside a DAW), my lineup of options to compare and contrast would be as follows:
1) FL Studio
Focal points: exceptionally particular (BT once portrayed it as "a DAW meets a measured [synth]"); the absolute most all around planned workflow devices available for arrangement.
2) Ableton Live, with Max For Live
Favorable circumstances: upgraded for "live" execution (read 'astute control while I let the carousel run its course'); a lofty expectation to absorb information from the outset, however worth the intrinsic association that accompanies it; a large group of thoroughly examined industrial facility instruments and impacts that, while menu-situated and finicky to learn, are important beginning stages for a wide range of insane sound plan; Max For Live is a monster of a programming climate, on the off chance that you need to extend your creation to the Xenakis-Schaeffer level of sonic wizardry.
3) Logic Pro
Preferences: instinctive; accompanies the best choice of processing plant instruments and impacts out of any DAW (especially their Postpone Planner); program encourages route by labels just as indexes.
4) Reason
Focal points: simple to-control I/O directing (for example input circles) not proficient in different DAWs; Overhaul considers introductory outlining of thoughts to turn out to be all out creations inside another sequencer, while as yet including the choice of a local sequencer and blender; design and format of the processing plant instruments and impacts are significantly helpful for novices attempting to get familiar with the nuts and bolts of computerized music organization.
Supplemental plugins and software
1) NI Reaktor
More remarkable than Max For Live, and an industry standard shell that can run as a VSTi inside host sequencers with VST uphold
2) Plugins
A couple of very much planned, trustworthy VST synths and impacts, to be adapted comprehensively and utilized as go-to modules
3) In the event that you produce on a PC, the quantity of free VSTs available is somewhat astonishing; however the buggier ones are additionally for the most part the free ones.
In the event that you wish to create electronic music, I would suggest a similar arrangement, yet with Ableton Live first, and recommend a duplicate of Komplete.
On the off chance that you are anticipating recording and blending your band or others, consider a Master Apparatuses arrangement for certain McDSP and Waves modules; or, in case you're on a careful spending plan, start with Rationale.
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