Image Line Fruity Loops Studio 8 for PC has stepped it up to another level! Packed with 13 virtual synthesizers; an entire suite of plug-ins for mixing and mastering, including reverb delay, distortion, parametric EQ, mulit-band compression and limiting, filters and more; as well as powerful audio tools such as beat-slice, time-stretch, and pitch-shifting FL 8 has everything you need to produce high quality music. Record up to 64 tracks of audio simultaneously, and take advantage of new features such as Slicex, the new drum loop slicer and re-arranging tool, and Wave Candy, a complete set of tools for audio analysis. Another great new feature is the Fl Synthmaker, which allows users to create and share sound patches with other FL 8 users. Other improvements to FL 8 include latency fixes for MIDI and audio recording. For the price, this is definitely the best deal around for music production. System requirements: Available for PC only. Pentium III or Athlon XP (any processor supporting SSE instructions), Intel Mac with Bootcamp (running Windows XP), Windows 2000/XP/2003 and Vista. 256MB RAM, 200MB free hard drive space, Windows-compatible soundcard with DirectSound drivers. ASIO drivers are required for audio recording (FL installer comes with generic Asio4All drivers). FL Studio 8 Producer Edition P5 Hip Hop includes the following P5 Audio products: Gangs of NYC Construction Loop Sets and ATL Snap Anthems Loop Sets Vol. 1.