fruity loops survey...

[Cloudland]

I use fruity loops 3 for all my dance productions.,

And I'm just curious how many other people use the program for their songs 2...

any features you love, any you hate?

also, my version is a fully reg.ed crack, and i have trouble adding VST plugins, of which i have plenty... i have added the folders and directories where they are, but i only get green folders on the left column, with nothing in them... any help?

[redmond_herring]

if your loving it - buy it!

its dirt cheap and if your getting use out of it its only fair!!

Fruity rocks and is eternally flexible.

get ver 3.55 though

:) :P :p

[phunkdust]

fruityloops is well capable of being a professional music tool... the things it can do are amazing - but a lot of the tricks that it can do are hidden - you have to really look hard and experiment with Fruity to use it to it's best.

Make sure you're running 3.55... versions earlier than 3.4 have very unstable vst wrappers

[Khem]

I use FL3 with some plug ins and some other apps, but it is pretty much the core of my setup.

I was a bit sceptical as everyone else seems to be on the Reason bandwagon, but if you get the chance try and find some of Concord Dawn's work. They have releases on some major dnb labels now, all 100% Fruity.

I mainly do dnb. I have had a tune released on Mark 7's 5158 Records and should have at least one more tune out on that label before the year is out. I have got another one sitting in the offices of Big Dog Records that might see the light of day too.

Lots of other bits in the works, even some techno and some house.

I agree that Fruity does seem very simple and basic at first glance, but if you dig deep enough it has pretty much everything you need.

To add a vst, go to channels - add new - vst wrapper - then browse to wherever your vst plugins are.

[djneo]

you can even get gut-wrenching, sphincter clenching sub-bass outta the TS404 if you treat it right :)

[LoneSwordsman]

A 15 year old got signed to a well-known, if not tedious, label in Melbourne recently - all his tracks are Fruity Loops.

[phunkdust]

people who get picked up like that annoy me... X(

ah well, once i get my computer back the way it was before the big hard drive crash earlier, i'll start releasing some of my new tunes... 8-) all done in fruity...!

[dks49]

A 15 year old got signed to a well-known, if not tedious, label in Melbourne recently - all his tracks are Fruity Loops

:) :) :)

I have heard about this guy too. The track is supposed to be amazing!

FruityLoops rocks. People who bag it are usually people who have spent thousands on other programs. It is dirt cheap, damn powerful, very flexible and is enough to get u signed.

if your loving it - buy it!

Fuckin oath man. These guys have busted their nuts to make a wicked program and they deserve every penny.

[phunkdust]

the thing that concerns me is that its all too easy to download a brilliant track in fruityloop format and change the notes around a little - and voila you have a new track...

although this kid might be fantastic (ie child prodigy or something) I'm usually apprehensive of younger producers, as the quality of music you produce has something to do with your maturity (not plain maturity, but maturity in music and the understanding of it) if you're a bit older generally you are more musically mature and it shows in your music

its all to easy to follow the basic steps of hard house and make a once-off killer track - there isnt much skill and maturity in it

but im not critisizing this kid - there are some pretty amazing people out there...

would be interested to hear it... anyone know a name for him?

[Cloudland]

i know fruity pretty well, well enough to create tracks easily, but the ts404 is a bit daunting just to look at...

i've heard what it can do from other samples, and i'm sure practice is all it is - but can n e 1 give me some guidance in using it really well...?

i don't reckon that 15 year old kid could stand up 2 the likes of the DJ's resident here in sydney, maybe commercial types, and mainstream stuff like all the "WILD" and "ENERGY" cd's, but come'on, i'm sure he can spin a few tunes, but to come up with tracks like Cosmic Gate's - exploration of space, or Ferry Corsten's - Punk... that takes, like some1 else pointed out, maturity - and a hell of a lot of talent...

[djneo]

A few good guides to learning about analog synthesis (the TS 404 is just a virtual analogue synth)is HERE (http://www.studiocovers.com/articles17.htm) and it can be applied to just about any VA softsynth... once you know the basics you can really start to experiment and get maaaad sounds :)

[Dante]

Yeh, I'm using 3.56, and it's excellent... I've been using fruity for a number of years, and I love it.. it's so powerful, but so many people discredit it because of it's included samples..

If you create your own samples, and use soft synths etc, fruity kicks a lot of arse.

[danielmarshall]

I agree with all the posts in this thread. The real power of Fruitlyloops is not in its endless array of quirky gadgets (Fruity Vibrator takes first place in this category), but in the way you can map everything to a MIDI controller or one of its great little internal controllers and record it all live. Do yourself a favour if you've got fruity and have a good play with the "Fruity Peak Controller" plugin. One wicked trick I use all the time to make crazy percussive basslines and drum loops is this:

Assign a highly syncopated drum loop to a free effects channel. Then assign the Peak Controller's output to either a Cutoff, Pitch or Volume knob of a sample. Now just start tweaking stuff like mad. Try reloading the sample with everything you can think of. Drums, vocals, guitar riffs and industrial samples.

I've come up with some really smoking Thomas Shumacher like riffs like this.

[konfuser]

i love the way fruity is set out, its easy and fast to lay down drum patterns and i like the way you can easily adjust panning volume pitch ect on each individual hit, to make your patterns more dynamic