FL Studio 25 Now Includes Gopher AI Text Support In The DAW
Ezra Sandzer-Bell- Apr 17
- 6 min read
Updated: Apr 18
FL Studio is a digital audio workstation specializing in loops and sample based production. Championed by beat makers in the electronic and trap scenes, it's one of the three most popular DAWs, the other two being Ableton and Logic Pro.
FL Studio 25 was released as a public beta on March 13, 2025. On April 11th, beta V3 was released with a powerful new AI text support feature called Gopher.
Gopher has actually been around since August 23, 2024, but that alpha release was limited to invite only through their user forums. They've improved on the system gradually and it's now ready for everyone to enjoy.
In this article we'll show where to find Gopher in FL 25 and how to use it. We'll also share insights about how it fits into the greater product ecosystem of AI text support tools catering to music producers.
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How to access Gopher in FL Studio 25
You don't need a copy of FL Studio to experiment with Gopher. The AI chatbot is available via web browser on this dedicated webpage. That being said, the real utility of Gopher is within the DAW, so that's where we'll focus the remainder of this article.
To access Gopher, click on the globe icon tab located in the upper right hand corner of the DAW, highlighted in the screenshot above. This will pop open a side panel and Gopher can be found at the far right side of the menu, alongside News, Downloads, Notification and Help tabs.
Selected the Gopher tab to open the AI chat interface. Use that text area to ask any questions you have about the DAW. The beauty of this tool is that you don't need to know the technical name for a feature. Just describe your problem to the best of your ability and the AI will try to make sense of it for you.
Questions take about ~5 seconds to process. Gopher's responses are accompanied by upvote and downvote icons, so you can rate the quality of the response. This feedback feeds right back into to their system and will contribute to improving the quality of answers over time.
The screenshot above is an example of what Gopher conversations look like. You will typically get a plain text response with some direct links to relevant sections of their knowledge base, labeled References.
If you're wondering about the pencil and avat icons in the upper right corner of the chat box, those are used to either clear the screen and start a new chat, or to switch visually between light and dark modes.
No, Gopher is not an AI music generator
The initial response to Gopher on social media has been a grab bag of excitement and ambivalence. The announcement was met with some kneejerk reactions about artificial intelligence taking over music.
I want to proactively clarify this up front and let you know that Gopher does not generate audio or MIDI. It has zero visibility or access to your DAW projects.
The best Gopher can do is to make text-based recommendations for chord progressions, or share broad creative ideas about how to structure a project, as shown in the screenshot below:
Some people may find this kind of guidance helpful, but Gopher is really intended to help with interpreting your questions and fetching accurate answers fast.
For those of you interested in a text-to-MIDI chord and melody generator that works in the DAW, check out the AudioCIpher VST instead. You'll be able to type in any word or phrase and configure important parameters like BPM, key, chord extensions and rhythm automation to get the outputs just right.
What makes Gopher different from ChatGPT
Gopher offers several advantages over other AI tools like ChatGPT. I'll touch on each of these points briefly now.
First, Gopher is conveniently located in the DAW, which means you no longer have to toggle between FL Studio and a web browser to get answers. There's no monthly subscription fees because Gopher is free and included in the software.
Gopher was fine tuned on the FL Studio 25 knowledge base, which ensures that answers are highly accurate and up to date. ChatGPT on the other hand can struggle with quality control because it pulls answers from all over the internet.
It's a bit easier to stay focused with Gopher than ChatGPt. If you try to ask it about random topics outside the scope of FL Studio, it will politely shift the conversation back to your DAW. See the example below, where I ask it about the meaning of life:
Comparing Gopher to Futureproof, The Strip, Wavtool
FL Studio is not the first product to bring large language models into the music making experience. There are at least four other products worth mentioning in this context, to see how they compare to Gopher. Those are Futureproof, Google Gemini, The Strip, and WavTool.
FutureProof Music School is an educational hub for music producers that comes with an AI-powered music coach called Kadence. It's the first chatbot ever to actually view your DAW and listen to audio files, offering expert advice about your mix along with every phase of the creative process.
The Kadence AI music coach has built-in knowledge about sound design, mixing, songwriting, and much more. It's been trained with broad understanding of all DAWs and popular plugins, which could make it more useful than Gofer in some circumstances, even when a producer is working in FL Studio.
Kadence offers a major improvement on previous efforts to use Google Gemini as a co-producer. Gemini would pretend to listen but was only able to view the DAW.
The Strip 2 is an AI-assisted mixing channel strip plugin by Phil Speiser, designed to help its users with EQ, compression, saturation, reverb, delay, and limiting. The plugin centers around an AI Chat feature that shares real-time mixing tips and guidance based on the audio signal in your DAW.
Phil Speiser trained the AI model on his own mixing expertise and unlike Gopher, the plugin works in every major DAW. So you can use it with FL Studio along with any other popular workstation like Ableton, Logic Pro, and so forth.
WavTool was an AI DAW that ran in browser and had a built in co production chatbot that could see details about your project. Unlike the other tools we've looked at so far, WavTool's composer bot could take direct action in the DAW. It was able to generate MIDI, build custom wave tables, build audio effect chains and more.
The company is offline temporarily, as of late 2024, but their site makes it clear that intend to come back soon with something bigger and better than before. There are rumors that they were acquired by another company, but nobody is certain yet.
To summarize, the Gopher chatbot sits somewhere alongside FutureProof's Kadence, Phil Speiser's Strip 2, and WavTool's composer bot. All four of them represent an emerging trend where LLMs, or large language models, are incorporated into music making software as a guide or assistant.
Important privacy information about Gopher AI
The public has expressed concern over whether Gopher listens to their DAW projects. Do they send musical data back up the pipeline to the parent company Image Line? After all, we don't want companies spying on our projects and training on our music at any time -- especially unreleased music!
The short answer is no, FL Studio's Gopher feature does not listen to, collect or use musical content from the DAW in any way. For this reason, there are no music related privacy issues to be concerned about.
However, the company does keep an aggregated record of all questions asked by users, along with Gopher's responses to them. They do this in order to improve the product, especially in response to users' upvotes and downvotes.
Text interactions are not tied to specific user accounts or personal identities, with one exception. Users who access Gopher via the website's support ticket page do have the conversation assigned to their account, because that is how a human knows who to follow up with.
You can read the official privacy policy about Gopher from FL's parent company Image Line on this knowledge base article.
