Fruityloops...?

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Hey guys. I don't have a Software sequencer... so, I was wondering if I'd be able to use Fruityloops to create drum patterns with Cool Edit Pro 2.0?

I have a triton, which I'd like to use for all the synth sounds and so on, but the drum kits on the Triton suck, and I don't want to spend $300 in expanding the Triton, getting a smartmedia drive for my PC, downloading new sounds, and uploading them to the triton if I can help it...

I figure, if I can use Fruityloops in conjunction with CEP, I'd rather spend the $99 on that, and have a few hundred more drum sounds, plus the ability to create my own kits.

BTW, my intentions are for Hip-Hop production. Does anyone know if Fruityloops has a lot of good Hip-Hop drums?

Thanks.

-Brian
 
In Fruity Loops, you create your own drum loops using real one shot samples and then you render the sequence as an acidized wav file. You would then import that wav file into Cool Edit, Acid Pro or whatever audio program you use.

[One Shot samples: a sample that just sounds once. I.E. snare drum, kick drum, etc.]
 
Fruity Loops has almost nothing but hip hop sounds! Not a lot of real drums in there at all! Excellent if you're into the techno thing, which I'm not. You'll dig the sounds.

ed
 
guitar ed said:
You'll dig the sounds.
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Yeah, they suck... :D :D :D


And if you want to sync FL to Sonar via a VST-wrapper, talk to Paul881. ;)
 
Its a pity that FLoops do themselves no good by shipping the Express and standard versions with such techno orientated hits. And yet there are infinite possibilities with using soundfonts and wav hits, let alone other drum kits in the FL retail Packs.
 
guitar ed said:
Fruity Loops has almost nothing but hip hop sounds! Not a lot of real drums in there at all! Excellent if you're into the techno thing, which I'm not. You'll dig the sounds.

ed
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True, it comes with some 808 samples and a bunch of other stuff but you can buy a cd-rom (or download from several sample sites) with nothing but 'real' drum samples!! FruityLoops was originally intended for and used by 'electronic' musicians, hence the cheesy samples. I've loaded my computer with tons of real drum samples and it sounds great. I've got 2 folders with aprox. a gig each of 'real' drum samples. For the money, Fruityloops is a great program for creating drum sequences and loops.
 
I kinda did the same thing, but not much anymore. I spent a lot of time putting together what I thought was a killer drumkit. Then I just incorporated them into a soundfont, and now I don't really use Fruity that much.

ed
 
DWBass said:
True, it comes with some 808 samples and a bunch of other stuff but you can buy a cd-rom (or download from several sample sites) with nothing but 'real' drum samples!! FruityLoops was originally intended for and used by 'electronic' musicians, hence the cheesy samples. I've loaded my computer with tons of real drum samples and it sounds great. I've got 2 folders with aprox. a gig each of 'real' drum samples. For the money, Fruityloops is a great program for creating drum sequences and loops.
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Whoa! A gig of samples?
DWBass, did you know all newbies here have to share their “royalty free”
Drum samples? :D

I’ve found some pretty good samples but it seems like a lot of the CD’s
you can buy are heavy on loops and not individual drums sounds. Have
you bought any of those loop CD’s, and if so which do you recommend?
 
Some of the loop cd's I've bought also have one shot drum samples and of course, I've downloaded a ton of sh** off the internet. I've got samples of just about every drum kit, acoustic and electric and hits with different types of effects on them like reverbs, choruses, flanges, reverse effects, etc...

I have folders with just acoustic snares, kicks, toms, cymbals, hihats, etc. The same with all the electronic kit sounds. I may be exagerating a bit. Maybe not a gig in each folder but easily 500mb of one shots. Maybe a couple of gigs of loops alone.
 
Try Drumkit From Hell, and you'll never go back! ;)

The Blue Jay Drumkit soundfont on the Sonar 2 CD is great too! :)
 
I burned over 2 Gig of samples today from my laptop:) Isn't that what employers give us machines for:D
 
I won't even begin to count the gigs of samples I have that I don't use! ;)

You wanna know how I got them... Well, I was young and dumb, and actually thought you could make music with them. :D
 
moskus said:
Try Drumkit From Hell, and you'll never go back! ;)

The Blue Jay Drumkit soundfont on the Sonar 2 CD is great too! :)
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Man $90 for Drumkit form hell, ouch. I listened to the demo and it does sound good. I just gotta get over sticker shock!
 
moskus said:
Really? 90 bucks isn't that much...
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I know it's not that much, for some reason I was expecting something like $40-50. But I'm seriously gonna look at this as the samples sound great. :)

What did you use for drums on "In The End"?
 
therage! said:
What did you use for drums on "In The End"?
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Wow! Somebody listened to my one of my songs! :D


Seriously, I used the Blue Jay Drumkit soundfont. It's a pretty good sfont, methinks. It has a much better snaredrum than GoldDrums (which is a soundfont I "overused" before...). :)
 
moskus said:

Seriously, I used the Blue Jay Drumkit soundfont. It's a pretty good sfont, methinks. It has a much better snaredrum than GoldDrums (which is a soundfont I "overused" before...). :)
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I don't know much at all about sound fonts. I have been getting drum samples and loading them into Fruity and programming my beats there. To do sound fonts wouldn't I need something like a Soundblaster card? For a brief period of time (before I bought a Delta 1010) I had a soundblaster but never tried to run it with my Delta.

Maybe I should be looking into Sound Fonts...
 
I don't know much at all about sound fonts. I have been getting drum samples and loading them into Fruity and programming my beats there. To do sound fonts wouldn't I need something like a Soundblaster card?
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For a great s/font drum tutorial, check this out:

https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=39305

And Moskus is right, you don't need a s/blaster to use s/fonts. I prefer VSampler cos you can audition the sounds on screen.

And if you use Session Drummer to trigger the soundfonts....even better:D
 
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