FruityLoops

[mrx]

Anyone use FruityLoops - particularly for more "traditional" music? The demo looks very cool, but I wonder how well it would work for Allison Krauss, as opposed to J-Lo...

[bdbdbuck]

MRX,
I've got the demo version and though it's hard to imagine Allison with the fm bell or something like that........well possibly a gospel song? Wish I could play the dobro like Jerry Douglas! Does Fruity loops have that option?



bd

[mrx]

At this point I'm really just looking to use stuff like this for drums and bass. The 'realistic' drumset isn't bad, and it looks like it would be possible to get some nice bass samples loaded up.

My concern is how well suited it would be for songs with standard forms. I see that the pattern window can be expanded to 4 bars, so that would certainly work for cases where notes extend over bar boundaries.

Looks like I'd have to get the 'full' version to get pano roll editting.

[bdbdbuck]

I agree, I couldn't find much use for the demo version but it does seem like a pretty cool program.


bd

[morindae]

I used Fruity Loops for a bit about 18 months ago. I thought the sequencer was good, but the sounds, were to my ears, unusable. I was really after something to develop grooves in, but it really fell short for me, especially in the drum department. It's one of the reasons I ended up buying the Yamaha QY100. It seems a very useful piece of software for someone that wants to write techno and hip hop stuff. If that's your thing, I don't think you can go wrong with it.

[mrx]

That's what I thought at first, but the drums under the "realistic" menu sounded like a normal drum machine. Add some real bass samples, and this might work. I agree that most of the pre-loaded stuff is all techno, etc.

[morindae]

I guess I should have given it more time. If I ever get into using the computer to compose music I'll give it a second chance. I hope you manage to create some useful grooves in it. Lets us know how you get on with it.

[Shaky Tee]

I resolved the resident samples issue by purchasing the soundfont player plugin that works with Fruity Loops. I never have to worry about boring old techno sounds ever again!

[srvfenderfan]

I really like the program also.