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Can anyone tell me if there's a simple and concise instruction on how to use Fruity Loops?
(Because a friend of mine has Fruity Loops, but she doesn't really know how to use it properly, and I'd like to use it to mess around a bit :D). Thanks :)

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posted by: Body Electric on 2005-02-07 06:51:57
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Unfortunately no.......it took me a while to figure it out, I nearly dumped it. The best is to know someone who knows. The help files suck. The only other way is to go into the examples.

I suggest she throws some stuff on the step sequencer (e.g., like drums), then opens one in the piano roll and plays there a bit. Next she has to put this pattern in the playlist and play the "song". In addition there is the mixer, VST-plugins......woah, the program is great but the description is unbelievable bad. They have some general intro files on the web at FLstudios website.

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posted by: Random Insults on 2005-02-07 08:13:29
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Fruity Loops is pretty strait forward. If you just experiment for a while, trying out all the knobs and buttons and such you'll figure it out.

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posted by: Cereal Box Conspiracy on 2005-02-07 19:47:50
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Thanks for the help :) (I didn't really expect there'd be a helpful help-file, LOL, but it was worth a shot I guess).

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posted by: Body Electric on 2005-02-07 23:53:15
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a lot of those knobs don't really do anything though

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posted by: BLANK on 2005-02-08 18:20:34
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You can do alot with fruity loops (especialy flstudio)... if your ever about to give up, take a listen to a couple of my songs...

http://www.TripToy.net

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posted by: chaosinmind on 2005-02-15 01:22:34
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I really never was able to use FL, really too close to a hardware beatbox for me.
It took ages for musicians to get rid of hardware so I don't feel like using emulations... (such as FL or reason)

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posted by: ddn+ on 2005-02-15 02:44:44
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It is a beatbox - but also much more. You can automate every single button. For example, you can automate equalizer settings to change when the song plays. When you couple that with delay in a good way, that gives extremly cool effects. Took me a while to learn to do it though.

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posted by: Random Insults on 2005-02-15 04:27:03
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For example, you can automate equalizer settings to change when the song plays. When you couple that with delay in a good way, that gives extremly cool effects.

I like people keep dropping occasional hints like that. This one in particular sounds like gold \m/

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posted by: BLANK on 2005-02-15 06:41:38
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Other favs are: panning with stereo effect in mixer, increasing distortion with Fruity Fast Distortion, Slayer II guitar effects in mixer used with a slow synthesizer. If you have a specific question on how to do something, just ask. No secrets here except for my synthesizer settings. My synthesizer settings I don't give away ;).

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posted by: Random Insults on 2005-02-15 06:50:53
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My synthesizer settings I don't give away ;)

Synthesizer settings are like babies to me.

Except I usually do it by hitting "Randomize" and then just going from there.

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posted by: BLANK on 2005-02-15 07:15:14
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