Recommended orchestral tool plugins

To create orchestral music, you need orchestral instrument plugins. If you're new to this, I recommend that you play around with FLEX first. It's an instrument plugin that's free and comes with all versions of FL Studio.

You can load up FLEX by inserting FLEX into the Channel rack, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.1 – Inserting FLEX

This will load up the FLEX plugin. At the top left of FLEX, you'll see a tab called FREE. Navigate to it. This will show a list of free plugins you can download to FLEX. Download them. Once you've done that, FLEX will be populated with plugin packs such as Essential Strings, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.2 – FLEX

When you install the free FLEX preset packs that come with FLEX, you'll find an instrument library to work with that contains orchestral instruments. For example, FLEX includes preset...