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Posted by _Nut_ on Nov-12-2001 15:37:

Fruityloops 3 help needed!!!

Hey there trance addicts!! I am a longtime trance lover/DJ and I use a program called acid pro 3.0 to beatmatch and make CD's. I saw the link on fruityloops and I wanna learn how to get that monsterous prog to work. Please help me out TA's!!

Posted by mantisnl on Nov-12-2001 19:07:

just look in this post!!!

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...&threadid=24147

Posted by _Nut_ on Nov-12-2001 19:18:

That is the link that I used to download the prog, but I am still confused as to how to run the prog as a whole. that is what I need help with. anyone have anything that can help??

Posted by newbie on Nov-12-2001 20:13:

fruityloops.org has a partial, manual you can download in pdf format. I beleive with registration, or a fee, you can download the entire manual.

I still use 2.7, and just playing with it worked better than the manual.

Posted by mantisnl on Nov-22-2001 15:27:

this is what I think:

fruityloops is a program that isn`t good cause you can`t get a professional sound out of it...... no matter what you do, you can`t get a sound that`s really good..... you can make some nice melodies or beats with it, but it just don`t sound professional......
you should try reason...... i have a demo and that program just kicks ass man! the only thing is that i cant get the full version (2 CD`s) of it

ok, that was my opinion.... (don`t make a discussion of it pleaze )

greetzzzzzz

DJ Mantis

Posted by [A|ienFactory] on Nov-23-2001 09:32:

quote:
Originally posted by mantisnl
this is what I think:

fruityloops is a program that isn`t good cause you can`t get a professional sound out of it...... no matter what you do, you can`t get a sound that`s really good..... you can make some nice melodies or beats with it, but it just don`t sound professional......
you should try reason...... i have a demo and that program just kicks ass man! the only thing is that i cant get the full version (2 CD`s) of it

ok, that was my opinion.... (don`t make a discussion of it pleaze )

greetzzzzzz

DJ Mantis

Well, here's my opinion:
You can indeed get a professional sound with fruity loops. You just have to know what kind of effects to use and how to handle the EQs.
It's so much more user friendly than Reason.

In my opinion, Reason is a piece of overrated shit with lack of AMD support and the layout is stupid as well. Maybe it's more realistic than fruity loops, but hell, it's not user friendly. Most producers start as trackers and FLP is much more natural. Reason takes so much more CPU and memory than fruity loops, it'a allmost useless unless you have a 1 GHz Intel at least.

Fruity loops also supports VSTi, DXi and Buzz machines. Reason doesn't support shit. It sucks. It's so f*ckin overrated just because it looks cool, costs $400 and is 1.2 Gig, which makes it so much cooler to finally download somewhere. The truth is that it sucks.
The only reason that it is popular is because it's overrated. But it isn't very good at all. Fruity is way more flexible.

Have a nice day.

Posted by [A|ienFactory] on Nov-23-2001 11:30:

Anyway, here's the manual:
http://www.geocities.com/df_210/Fruity3Manual.zip

Posted by TDR on Nov-24-2001 19:09:

Play with it!

I dled FL3 the other day... AWESOME! program. I'm a long-time user of the ACID series, and also EJay but wanted something with some decent presets that I could use to tweak and make some decent ORIGINAL stuff with, not put together a jigsaw puzzle of a track with pre-recorded loops. ACID and Ejay are cool, but they're just painting-based sequuencing machines. I'm not knocking them, they both have their place, but FL3 more suits my needs :-)

As for how to use it, they have an online manual and several starter loops for you to get a feel for the program... it took me a while to realize that in order to get the playlist to 'work' you have to check 'song', which reverts from the individual patterns to the playlist. It's truly an awesome program and has limitless potential - the only limit is your imagination. I say listen to Tiesto, AVB, PVD to get a 'feel' for the general style... I'm somewhat musically inclined, so it makes it easier!

At the end of the day, you just gotta sit down at the computer for a day and just play! Once you've got the basics, everything else is just a matter of tweaking parameters.

FL3 truly does kick royal ass :-)