Does Fruity Loops sound good enough? (ie compared to cubase)

hehe, Logic all the way..

another thing people tend to do is just use the presets there and not bother making their own "sounds" as it were…(a prime example is hearing a String sample from the Instru-mental pack for Reason 2.5+ in a Jamiroquai track off their latest album). I guess there’s nothing wrong with it, but once you’ve been working with stuff for so long and you’ve pushed yourself beyond being satisfied with just the presets, your ears will pick on them so quickly it’s quite scary

Yeah, I’m embarrased by it but I’m using FL 6 for everything! Thing is I’ve not found it a problem untill recently. I’m getting tracks signed though, just waiting till I get the money for a mac on logic, not much point in running much else with house music!

Tim.

i used FL 6 for everything..etc, clubs , partys dance and i also use it with Acid

personnaly, I use ableton 5 (as my midi sequencer)rewired into acid 5 (as my tracker)
but I love the sequencer in FLoops for makin beats. no certain host is really better, some support higher sampling rates, and the m-audio stuff works with pro tools, but a pro can work in anthing/everything.

My humble oppinion on this matter is that most people who work with FL, just look at the step sequencer and be very happy that they can come up with a beat.

Cubase makes it easy to make little changes in drum patterns, that makes a mix more alive (I am talking house music ;))
In FL you must make a new pattern everytime you want a break or something. I see a lot of ppl just being too lazy to create a few different drumloops and snareloops, so the songs tend to become boring quite fast.

Also a lot of ppl don’t look under the FL hood, when I talk to ppl just fooling around with FL most of them don’t even know where to find the mixer or how to apply an effect.

I use Cubase by the way… It works faster for me

[If money was no object we would all have top of the range macs running Pro Tools and Logic anyway, with all the waves plugins and a stack of hardware synths! ]

Fruity is alright definately it is SO simple to use and i will always love it for that. Knocking up a beat in fruity is SO much quicker than in reason!!

Im running Pro Tools now – its a bit of a headache – industry standard MIDI sequencing? i think i prefer fruity!

Yob! Fat sounding track! bit repetative though

Yeah, its true. If I’m honest I absoulutely hate so many things in FL6. I mean, this audio recording, it records everything in stereo, thats all that about [well its more dual mono, correct me if I’m wrong?]

With Cubase [running LE!] audio makes so much more sense but there not very many good plugins to using when mixing down. I tend to bounce all the tracks into fruity to apply EQ, Comp and reverb + other bits and bobs like guitar amp modelling and then bring it back into Cubase to mix down, I get great results when I do this so I guess I use the best parts of 2 programs.

Cubase is great for tracking and rendering final mixes, Fruity is great for applying FX due to the great mixer, but awful for tracking and mixdowns [you have to hit the record button on every channel in FL, each time, pain in the arse when your drum tracking trust me!!]

Tim.

imo i love ableton for djing and fruityloops for beats