Fruity Loops help

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This is something huge to ask. I have Fruitly loops, and the manual. However, what Im looking for is a simple walk through on setting up a basic drum track. Im an extreme newb and am completely lost when I open up Fruity Loops. Can any of you tell me if Im missing it in the manual, or if perhaps one of you could take the time to make a step by step for me? Im also using Sonar XL if that helps. As some other posters suggested, I went to provided links and downloaded other "drum kits" .wav files as I heard the stock in Fruity wasnt that great. Thanks for any help guys!
 
There is a member here at HR.COM that can help you with your initial question.

The member name is william conifer, drop them an e-mail.


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SPINSTERWUN said:
Did you set-up your AUDIO PROPERTIES, yet?
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Audio whazit? Slow down, cheif... ;) (No, I dont know what that is. :( )
 
Thanks to you spinsterwun and to deepseasquid for those links. Have bookmarked them all for later reading. Not yet into FL, tend to use piano roll view for drum creation with Virtual Piano and soundfonts.
 
greetings,

I started using Fruity about 3 months ago, so I feel your pain. hehe. First off the folks at ImageLine (makers of Fruity) offers support and help for those who pay for the product. If you got Fruity 2.x with Sonar then you are most deffinately lost. Spend the $70 to upgrade to Fruityloops pro 3.4 or it's $99 for reg purchase. WORTH THE PRICE!! When you purchase you are sent a reg # and password and a web link. When you access the link you get the Fruity web page that has all the help files and most importantly THE GETTING STARTED WORD document!!!! aka "the manual" It's like 60 pages long. It steps you thru the basics. It is a MUST READ. Any step by step I would provide would be better explained in that document. You can download it at http://66.96.213.229/fruityloops/Demo/ManualEnglish301.zip

Fruity is amazing (imho) but it is unlike 90% of all software out there. It is unique in it's interface and sequencer. Also go to the official Fruity message boards. Looptalk is for user advice and it's at http://forum.e-officedirect.com/forum.exe?forumname=Fruityloops_LoopTalk. Techsupport is at http://forum.e-officedirect.com/forum.exe?forumname=Fruityloops_Techsupport. Do yourself a favor and re-read the manual and look at the sample FLP files. There is a subdirectory in Fruity called Tutorials that are FLP files that will walk you thru many of the different features of Fruity. Also read all of the program help files. Then read a couple of days worth of postings at both of the above mentioned messagegroups and then post advice questions there. If you do not take a little bit of effort to figure things out first on you own then you might get slammed on the board. ALso if no one answers your question than it has an obvious answer that is easy to find. Don't be intimidated, alot of the users are from Wales and spend too much time infront the computer so they get punchy at times. Stick with it. Fruity is just as powerful as Reason (if not more) and it's a fraction of the cost. ALso get the soundfont player if you haven't done so already. The soft synth Wasp is wonderful. Personally I like sequencing in it better than Sonar. Really versital program. Also, the next version of Fruity will include Fruity as a VSTi!! That means you will (with the proper vst wrapper) run Fruity from within Sonar!! Fruity sounds amazing. The effects are fantastic. I will even take an Acid loop and bring it into Fruity and effect it there and mess with it, re-render it and put it back into Acid. It sounds that good. Also being that Fruity is fully DXi/VSTi complient all of your softsynths in SOnar will play in Fruity as well, including all fx plugins.

Another plugin ($30) is Beatslicer. It's just like propelerheads Recycle. It will take a Wav file and sense the rythm and slice it up and put each slice into it's own channel in Fruity and re-layout the pattern. You can then change the pattern to get that nice drum and bass sound or replace the sliced sound with a different sample. Very cool.

You just need to wander around in the program and get lost. You'll get it, trust me. Just keep at it.

Good luck
jack
 
This is some great advice guys! Thanks for all of the links and such! Ill look at the manual again. Im just impatient, I guess. My week is so busy with work and our 2 1/2 year old, and/or band practice, then the weeknds, if Im not playing, we have practice (a 4 -6 hour one) on either saturday or Sunday. So What maye take a normal usr with brains (who said I had any? ;) ) a week or so to learn, it would take me months as I only have one day to really dig into it a week, best case scenario. So Im sorry if Im asking what appear to be silly questions. :(
 
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