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1.FL Studio FL Studio is an ideal digital audio workstation for creating beats and building music. FL Studio comes in three different editions, which include varying plug-ins, sounds and features, so it's a great option for any musician or business owner regardless of one's experience level. The Producer version, the second tier FL Studio edition, is ideal for small studios and businesses looking to expand their music-making capabilities with a full-scale DAW. FL Studio started as a drum sequencer, and it remains a core function of its service. It's an easy-to-use program that offers intuitive drag-and-drop beat creation on multiple different channels and lifetime free updates. Price There are three versions of FL Studio: Fruity, Producer and Signature. The $199 Producer version is an ideal DAW for small business owners or small-scale musicians. In this version, users have access to FL's online support system, lifetime free updates on the product, and FL Stu...

1. UAD Manley Massive Passive The Manley Labs Massive Passive is a favorite tool of high end studios and mastering engineers for its ability to open out and when needed color a mix.   For those that do not know; the Massive Passive is a 2 channel 4 band passive tube EQ.  It’s a complex beast and one that takes a long time to learn all its tricks and subtleties and comes with a price tag to reflect its complexity and quality.   Up until recently that meant that it was out of the reach of many engineers.   That was until the folks at Universal Audio spent the time modelling it so now you can run a bunch of them at once in a mix. So that brings up the often asked question "How does it stack up to the real thing?”. The Massive Passive is often referred to as a ‘Pultec on steroids’, but what does that really mean unless you can hear it for yourself (and compare it to an actual Pultec)? So here is a couple of tests we’ve set up of the analog Mas...