Στο τελευταίο τεύχος του αγλικού Computer Music, ένας αναγνώστης ρώταγε αν ισχύει ότι το FL Studio έχει χειρότερο ήχο από άλλα sequencers, π.χ. Cubase (κάτι απου αν ισχύει για το FL, θα ισχύει προφανώς και για άλλα sequencers). Το περιοδικό προώθησε το ερώτημα σε έναν από τους προγραμματιστές του FL και ιδού η απάντηση:
" Since audio is not visual, there are a lot of myths about it. This kind of stuff is regularly said about every sequencer, but the truth is that they all mix the same and will produce the same results. This is because adding two waveforms is a simple addition. To really colour the sound, a host would have to do it on purpose through filtering, so it'd be quite dumb to waste CPU on distorting the sound. Also, every host today mixes in floating point (32-bit or 64-bit - it doesn't really matter), and this means that there's no possible clipping in mixer busses, unlike through hardware.
Then you have plug-ins. It's obvious that a plug-in can't sound better or worse in another host, since plug-ins are just pieces of code. No one would ever think that a plug-in has better-looking knobs in some hosts, or that a VST calculator plug-in would output '2+2=3' in some hosts. So for the audio that they process, it's the same, unless a bug occurs - but a bug is more likely to crash the host or generate noise than colour the sound.
The one thing that can be a factor is resampling. Resampling happens when pitching a sample, or mixing a sample that's at another sample rate. There are various resampling methods, always with a CPU-vs-quality trade off. FL Studio offers sync interpolation, which is the best known resampling method, so this isn't really an issue.
Getting a good sound is an art, and has to do with equalisation, compression and other mastering methods - and not dithering and details like that, as many like to think."