The Verge⁠56%

FL Studio 2026 turns its AI chatbot into your assistant engineer ⁠43%

By Terrence O'Brien⁠58%

7/9/2026, 1:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and Appeal to Emotion, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 25.1% saturation with 143 hits. Analysis detected 1,123 faulty-reasoning hits from 569 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 46.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠43% (12,617 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 57.60% of the article peer group.

FL Studio 2026 turns its AI chatbot into your assistant engineer 
Gopher is now more than just an interactive user manual. 
Jul 9, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC 
If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. 
See our ethics statement. 
Gopher can’t play the piano for you, but it can bury it in the mix. 
Image: Image Line 
Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. 
He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. 
Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio , an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. 
You asked it how to do something, and it would serve up the relevant instructions. 
It’s the kind of thing I actually use AI for on a semi-regular basis. 
But in the new release, Gopher can actually execute actions on your behalf. 
I was able to ask Gopher to lay down a four-on-the-floor kick, with snares on the backbeat, then add a gated reverb on the snare for that ‘80s pomp, and it executed the instructions flawlessly. 
Gopher does have some limitations. 
It can’t create and draw automation for you. 
It can’t insert notes or chords into melodic tracks. 
And it can’t select specific presets inside of plug-ins. 
So, if you ask it to load up a Rhodes electric piano sound, it will create a channel with the revamped Flex instrument loaded, but locating a Rhodes patch is up to you. 
Image Line also says it’s not training its AI on user data — your recording session is private. 
The completely rebuilt Flex is one of the other headline features in FL Studio 2026 . 
Flex is Image Line’s do-it-all virtual instrument, similar to Native Instruments Kontakt, with dozens of sound packs available that cover everything from vintage synths, to realistic guitars, and glitchy weirdness. 
The new preset browser has improved filters and genre categories, while the engine itself has gotten a lot less resource-intensive. 
Image Line has also added automatic cloud backups for projects for FL Cloud subscribers and a new always-listening “audio logger,” which captures the 60 seconds of the master output so even if you forgot to hit record, you can still save that idea. 
As always, FL Studio 2026 is available as a free upgrade. 
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Meta is reportedly working on smart glasses that would be recording all the time 
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Cockroaches will learn to fear my Switchbot Bot flip switcher 
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ChatGPT’s upgraded voice mode is better at shutting up 
This jumping $800 robot camera dog filled me with joy 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 2.6%Terrence O'Brien: 4.3%The Verge: 3.6%Confirmation Bias2.6%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.1%The Verge: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 10.4%Terrence O'Brien: 3.8%The Verge: 3.8%Availability Heuristic10.4%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.8%The Verge: 1.3%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 1.1%The Verge: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 6.2%Terrence O'Brien: 0.8%The Verge: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias6.2%This article: 10.4%Terrence O'Brien: 8.9%The Verge: 6.2%Framing Effect10.4%This article: 7.7%Terrence O'Brien: 0.6%The Verge: 0.9%Loss Aversion7.7%This article: 4.7%Terrence O'Brien: 0.3%The Verge: 0.5%Status Quo Bias4.7%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.3%The Verge: 0.4%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 23.6%Terrence O'Brien: 2.1%The Verge: 4.0%Optimism Bias23.6%This article: 1.8%Terrence O'Brien: 1.8%The Verge: 2.4%Pessimism Bias1.8%This article: 11.4%Terrence O'Brien: 12.1%The Verge: 9.7%Negativity Bias11.4%This article: 2.5%Terrence O'Brien: 1.0%The Verge: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias2.5%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.4%The Verge: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.3%The Verge: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.7%The Verge: 0.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 1.5%The Verge: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 10.0%Terrence O'Brien: 2.9%The Verge: 2.8%Halo Effect10.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.6%The Verge: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.0%The Verge: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 1.3%The Verge: 1.8%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 3.5%Terrence O'Brien: 0.9%The Verge: 0.4%Primacy Effect3.5%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.0%The Verge: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 3.4%The Verge: 1.1%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 1.0%The Verge: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 7.4%Terrence O'Brien: 6.1%The Verge: 4.0%Appeal to Authority7.4%This article: 1.8%Terrence O'Brien: 1.1%The Verge: 1.6%False Dilemma1.8%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 1.6%The Verge: 1.2%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.4%The Verge: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 10.7%Terrence O'Brien: 5.9%The Verge: 6.8%Hasty Generalization10.7%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.4%The Verge: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 1.6%Terrence O'Brien: 1.3%The Verge: 0.7%Bandwagon1.6%This article: 14.2%Terrence O'Brien: 6.6%The Verge: 4.2%Appeal to Emotion14.2%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 1.5%The Verge: 1.1%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 3.5%The Verge: 2.3%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.3%The Verge: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.5%The Verge: 0.8%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.0%The Verge: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.2%The Verge: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 25.1%Terrence O'Brien: 2.7%The Verge: 3.6%Anecdotal25.1%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.1%The Verge: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 5.1%Terrence O'Brien: 2.6%The Verge: 2.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)5.1%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.0%The Verge: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.1%The Verge: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.2%The Verge: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.0%The Verge: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.2%The Verge: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 5.6%Terrence O'Brien: 3.2%The Verge: 2.6%Unattributed Quote5.6%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 2.9%The Verge: 1.4%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 1.9%Terrence O'Brien: 11.4%The Verge: 10.8%Biased Writer Voice1.9%This article: 7.6%Terrence O'Brien: 2.0%The Verge: 1.1%Indoctrination7.6%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 3.5%The Verge: 1.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Terrence O'Brien: 0.1%The Verge: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 21.6%Terrence O'Brien: 3.7%The Verge: 4.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…21.6%

569 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers14%attributed speech487writer words
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Selected voice

Image Line

95%flagged-word coverage
64 attributed words78% of attributed speech92% writer coverage
0%35.0%70.0%Indoctrination+67.2 ptsWriter: 0.0%Image Line: 67.2%67.2%Unattributed Quote+25.3 ptsWriter: 2.9%Image Line: 28.1%28.1%Attempt to Sell a Product -22.4 ptsWriter: 22.4%Image Line: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-2.3 ptsWriter: 2.3%Image Line: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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