The Verge has published a "Weekend Questionnaire" interview with Constantin Koehncke, CEO of Image Line, the company behind the popular digital audio workstation FL Studio (once known as Fruity Loops). The piece highlights how Koehncke stays close to his user base, checking the FL Studio forums and Reddit every day, and it matters as a look at how the head of a long-established music-software firm keeps in touch with its community while steering it through the AI era.

Koehncke took charge of Image Line in 2022, having previously led Native Instruments and worked in marketing and as a freelance music journalist. Under him, FL Studio has gained AI-powered features such as stem separation and its Gopher chatbot. In the light-hearted questionnaire he names his AirPods Pro as his most indispensable tool, grumbles about Apple's redesigned iOS Contacts interface, admits to keeping 34 organised browser tabs open across two windows, and cites Reddit as the only social platform he still enjoys, alongside a fondness for long-form journalism such as The New Yorker, FT Weekend and The Economist.