Yes you can keep on using Gross Beat no matter what daw you’re on! Since FL has become a MacOS native app there is now no real reason not to keep on using the original. Not to be confused with the native FL Studio plugin, the VST version is available to use in any daw on MacOs and Windows. Here’s a roundup of the best alternatives we’ve found.
This is the go to effect for many Hip-Hop and Trap producers for that laid out, dark feel. Instead it’s halftime presets are legendary and great for instant creativity. It’s rarely used for the original purpose of scratching. Gross Beat put volume and Time shaping into a single screen so that presets could be saved and recalled with ease and patterns selected by simple automation.
Originally designed to replicate a DJ scratching vinyl, it was meant to replace an earlier plugin called FL Scratcher. Today’s focus is Gross Beat, a time mangling effect from Image-line’s FL Studio, introduced way back in 2008.
