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― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 17 January 2004 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I just got this. I loved it immediately in demo, the lego-block Playlist is more or less how i visualized how songs 'work' anyway, the piano roll, amazing. I'm a novice (my gear experience beyond guitar amps is limited to a tascam 4 track, a korg n364 that had been through a car wreck that a friend gave me, and a zoom drum machine) and can't afford much so it was right up my alley, now I can churn out chinzy bedroom electro like everyone else. A friend of mine has reason (along with a TON of other stuff, a G5 with logic, the whole bit, I'm green...) and I didn't really like it. Now I do realize that FL is sort of in an area between "pro-gear" and "toy", but it should keep me occupied enough.

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 17 January 2004 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Some immediate drawbacks: the demo songs that come with it are uniformly awful, true of most things i guess but it'd be nice to have it show off with something that wasn't cringey and "professional" and yes i get it, you can do trance. the FL-native vst's aren't so hot either, the two fake guitars and bass being particularly useless. of course, the really great sounding tools (dx10, wasp, drumsynth, beatslicer, soundfont player) are extra. and no outside recording, but it can handle and edit big .wav clips (haha 'go buy cubase already, you amateur')

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 17 January 2004 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't read any of the documentation yet, but is it possible to save a particular config on an instrument to pull up later?

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 17 January 2004 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been using the demos for YONKS, never bought it due to the weakness of the Aussie Dollar. I think it's pretty cool, especially because of the way you can tweak sounds as they play. I don't mind the crappy guitar synth! Sounds a bit like that awesome synth in Bjork's "Army of Me".

― jole, Saturday, 17 January 2004 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

buzz ownz FL. but not for the faint of heart.

www.buzzmachines.com

― phunktion, Saturday, 17 January 2004 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm hoping to be getting a copy of FL very soon to replace the defunct but fantastic Impulse Tracker which I was using up until about a year ago. Haven't been able to use a music program since. Buzz looks powerful but is too awkward to be able to start bashing shit out straight away like i could with Impulse (too much mucking about with machines and stuff). I'm hoping FL will prove a little easier to use. I tried using Renoise Tracker but my computer wasn't having it (some error with directx when I tried to upgrade it and now nothing works if you need directx :-( )

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 17 January 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Fruity's TS 404 is to Croydon dubstep what the 303 was to acid house... behold them warping b-lines.

― martin (martin), Saturday, 17 January 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Fruity Loops is a fantastically simple program, and you can do a lot of cool stuff right off the bat, unlike most other electronic music creating software. However, the stock sounds can kind of get boring, and after my friend made a song he said "Wow, its really easy to make techno music."

I always considered recording my own things, like recording my sax play one note, and loading it into fruity loops and using the piano roll to adjust the pitch and place it within the song. Anybody tried this sort of thing? Does it work?

― David Allen (David Allen), Saturday, 17 January 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

David, that does work. I do the same thing with just samples from songs. It's quite interesting what I did to a short Delfonics sample when I turned it into just a sound on the Fruity Loops interface. Piano rolling though, I haven't tried but don't see how it wouldn't work, unless your original sample was just poorly setup to begin with.

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Saturday, 17 January 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I've just started playing around with FruityLoops the past couple of weeks, and have found it pretty good for a complete novice.

It's pretty easy to create some decent boom-bap style hip hop - i've only got a couple of additional soundpacks though, so there's still some things I'm having trouble getting. Anyone got a link to somewhere where i can get some decent bass / guitar / keyboard loops?

― Mil, Saturday, 17 January 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

fruity loops is my main music making program. i love it to death. and refuse to "upgrade" to a more complex program. if you've got any mcgyver tendancies at all you can figure out how to do all sorts of "advanced" things with it.

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Sunday, 18 January 2004 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i am to fruityloops what hendrix is to the guitar...

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Sunday, 18 January 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Please make an album and title it that.

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 18 January 2004 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

A bluegrass album, mind you.

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 18 January 2004 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

anyone know of anything equivalent to this for mac?

― stephen morris, Sunday, 18 January 2004 04:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Is all uk grime based on fruity loops?

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Sunday, 18 January 2004 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Fruityloops is cool. I always used to import computer-game sound files to create some really unearthly loops. Has anyone here used Reason by Propellerhead? That one's the shit!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 18 January 2004 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Is all uk grime based on fruity loops?

probably! I recently noticed a Wiley track using a very stock Fruityloops slap bass sound.

― OCP (OCP), Sunday, 18 January 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been piddling around making simple tracks on FL v3.x for a couple years and just picked up v4 on soulseek. I've got next to no understanding about how the more advanced features can be tweaked to produce the sounds I'm hearing in my head. Anyone know of a good online tip or how-to guide?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 19 January 2004 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)

'go home, build tunes on fruity, have a drink but i don't blaze'
j.me

rapid uses fruity loops too. a lot of them do but not all. there's different ones about.

― ', Monday, 19 January 2004 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

It's really heartening to think that some some of the really good tunes that I think are really well-produced might be done solely with really bottom-end programs like FL or Reason. I've always been really dismayed reading interviews with artists in sound mags where they describe their set-up like "oh I tend to use a really bare bones little rig..." and then go on to list like $20,000 worth of equipment.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 19 January 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Argh. "really really really". Fuck, I hate it when that kind of thing happens.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 19 January 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

(ok lessee if this works)

a song I wrote, does it suck?

trying for a grand loping ballad kind of thing. It should have some vox (falsetto maybe, beware) but I haven't figured that bit out yet. I've got a mic and a little preamp and a wav. recorder that came bundled with my soundcard. any tips?

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

ok uh how bout this

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

bah. ok this

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

ok whoops here we go

my production is abt as good as my html so :/

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Just got it. Heheh, it's a little different from Impulse Tracker, but I like the features. Kindof need someone to show me round the interface though.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 23 January 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

You can run VST synths in Fruity like no tomorrow, so it is a pretty functional program. I think the name and the look makes it appear more like a toy program.

Audio Mulch is another interesting music software thingy for pcs. Different kind of thing, but you can absolutely mangle sound with it.

― earlnash, Friday, 23 January 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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