Fruity Loops ????

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I know absoluetly nothing about "midi files"

I have the Zoom and am happy with it, but im also expolring other things that might help me.

Whats with programs like Fruity Loops and Acid? i read up on them, is this only for hip hop and dance music?

Im into heavy rock, do these programs have good sounding wav files for making drums?

All the midi;s i ever heard suck as far as sound..

would it be worth it to buy this program to get good solid drum sounds?
 
FruityLoops and Acid are probably aimed more at dance music than heavy rock but you can import your own sounds to both programmes. FruityLoops comes with Vintage and Basic drum kits (among many others) which sound okay as acoustic drums. The sounds on FruityLoops definitely don't suck. Most of them are pretty good. Best bet is probably to download the demo and try it out. Don't stick with the default Fruity drum kit though, change it around. Best thing about Fruity is the ability to edit individual hits and edit and effect individual instruments.

BTW, I know nothing about midi. FruityLoops is a midi based program (I believe), but you don't "use midi" just a mouse.
 
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I've got the demo of Fruity Loops 2 (it's up to 3 now) and there are heaps of different drum samples you can use, the default ones suck though so change them around.

You can import your own samples in and use them if you don't like the sound. BTW, fruity loops is aimed at dance stuff, the drums sound that way - but they do sound good.

I can't believe they made the demo so functional! If you want you can just make your loops then record them to MD or something using the sound cards line out.

I haven't really liked any of the midi drum sounds I've heard. They just don't cut it when compared to a real kit. But then I haven't heard any real expensive midi gear.
 
Is any drum machine/sequencer (ie. fruity loops) aimed at 'heavy rock'???

guess it depends on how you define 'heavy rock'

It's quite easy to load your own samples into Fruity Loops....and there are lots of free samples around the web...I'm sure you could find some 'heavy rock' sounding bass drums/snares/etc. somewhere on the net and then use them to program your beats
 
my 2 c: midi drums can get you very far when it comes to punchy kick, snares and toms. It's difficult as f... to get your hi-hats and cymbals sounding anything like "heavy rock" though (however u define it). Getting the variety that live h-h and cymbals have takes a great bunch of slightly varied samples that nobody seems to want to provide - I always play ride cymbals live and hh if it's supposed to be "rocky"
 
ive heard some kick ass rock drum tracks done with Fruity Loops.....Cooperman and Messhugah come to mind.....

definitely go with outside samples....
 
Hey Eddie Rice,

I use Fruity Loops for all my drum programming. I do a mix of hard rock with a techno edge. But i would encourage you to listen to my song "Never Knew" Mostly a rock song. It was done with FL3 Full Version, which is a great buy at $99. I have found really cool samples at www.analoguesamples.com

Heres a link to the song. All the programming was done from scratch.

www.mp3.com/sondriven

"never knew"

I have used Acid, but I have found Fruity a little more simple at building your own loops.

Later and good luck,
john
 
dammit i spelled your name wrong......one of these days ill get my head straight and get back on MSM........
 
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