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14 mentions in 7 episodes.
Charli XCX
“I don't know where this— do you know anything about this bass drum? If it's like a sort of Fruity Loops, like Young Chop kind of thing.”
George speculates that the knocky Jersey/Baltimore club kick sample driving Club Classics comes from the FL Studio / Young Chop trap lineage.
Fred
“I made the exact same sound in all Logic, same sound in— FL Studio. All another set of plugins, same sound”
While teaching at universities Fred recreated identical sounds in different DAWs and plugin sets to prove that the tools matter far less than your ear.
“He came with a laptop which didn't have a screen that worked, and so he was on Fruity Loops on that TV”
Ketama worked on the 'Hardstyle 2' drums in FL Studio, mirrored onto a big studio screen because his laptop screen was broken.
IDLES
“the way FL sounded for years, it has a certain ceiling to it, so drums in FL have this kind of clipped thing”
Kenny explains how FL Studio's clipped drum sound became a defining hip-hop aesthetic he now chases on live drums.
Kasabian
“I had Octamed and Fruity Loops, and essentially it's for people that aren't musicians but love making stuff.”
Serge cites Fruity Loops (FL Studio) as an early loop-based tool that got him producing before he played an instrument.
Porter Robinson
“With every album I buy a new gaming PC because I'm producing exclusively on Windows. This is like an FL Studio...”
Porter explains he produces everything exclusively in FL Studio on Windows, and had to rebuild old album projects on a new PC to open them for the interview.
“I took a piano and I put it through this FL Studio plugin called Harmor, which has like a resynthesis function.”
Harmor's resynthesis and formant control were used to pitch piano notes up into vowel-like 'ah, oh' textures in the intro layers.
“I can't imagine living without FL Studio. This UI is burned into my retinas at this point, like a TV burn.”
Asked for the one piece of gear he'd save, Porter names FL Studio, saying he's tried other sequencers but is married to how it flows.
“I use FL's plugin 3xOSC constantly. It's basically Operator. It's the most simple one.”
FL Studio's basic 3xOSC synth is a constant in his productions — he starts with plain saw waves and adds character with processing.
Sam Gellaitry
“As soon as he sent me it, I was on Fruity Loops fixing it up, making sure it was ready”
Sam re-arranged 'Curious' in FL Studio the same night Toro y Moi's verse arrived.
“I love the mixer emulating a real mixer... I can do a lot of sends to different delays, reverbs”
Praises FL Studio's mixer for vocal-chain sends and its instant piano roll, plus free updates and early built-in stem separation.
“I have stock Fruity Loops delay, and this is just for the tail end of the vocals”
FL Studio's stock delay on a send creates the long pulsing vocal tail that is part of Sam's signature sound.
“I use Fruity Flanger, which is the FL Studio flanger, which gives it a chorusy flanger effect”
FL Studio's flanger on a send gives Sam's lead vocal a doubling/chorus effect.
d4vd
“What is the difference between a reverb on FL Studio between Ableton and different plugins, and how there's not those plugins on BandLab.”
He studied FL Studio and Ableton tutorials on YouTube to reverse-engineer their plugins inside BandLab.