Fruity Loops or Pro Tools?

[bikinpunk 10+ year member]

Anyone use either of these? I torrented FL but haven't had much time to play with it. I"m looking for something to just play around with for fun, nothing serious. This program looks incredibly confusing to me, and I can't find any good tutorials on it. I'm curious if Pro Tools is better or worse as far as learning curve?

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[WantedIsHere]

two diff programs... fruity loops is retarded.... basicly to make people feel like they can make and mix music... takes no skill and you should hold your head down if you use it....

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

i would like to try pro tools, but i can't seem to get my hands on it.

 

[hoodkid 10+ year member]

theres nothing wrong with fruity loops, sure anyone regular person can use it and make music but only people with talent and knowledge can use fruity loops correctley, there are alot of tools , and options in fruity loops that are not used by alot of people, but pro tools is better though

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

Ive been told by a lot of beat makers and local producers that they only use fruity loops as a sequencer.

However if you are just looking to **** around with it and have fun, fruity loops is fine, just try to find some good sound packs and mess around with it a lot. Ive heard some good beats come from fruity loops, just takes a lot of practice, and a lot of sound searching. They paid for their sounds though. Look for 'reasons' too. Can get that from guitar center.

 

[SyKo13 5,000+ posts]

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[bikinpunk 10+ year member]

two diff programs... fruity loops is retarded.... basicly to make people feel like they can make and mix music... takes no skill and you should hold your head down if you use it....

There are a whole lot of functions besides "kick" & "snare" on that program...

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

Fruity loops is a much easier program to use then protools IMO. As D said, Reason is a great software as well as some other cheaper ones for beat making. IMO protools isnt for beat making, but thats not to say that you cant use it.

I have protools, reason, fruity loops, and some other producst but I currently am hooked on Digital performer 4.1

 

[bikinpunk 10+ year member]

I more or less want to find something that's straight-forward so I can learn the basics. I'm confused on FL how to make a sample, then go into another sample. I assume I'd have to do 2 different sets of beats, then tie them together?

 

[BIGsherm7272]

you think fruity loops is confusing? try using audition.........

 

[MTXman 10+ year member]

or

I'll take the cereal.

 

[mtlhead 10+ year member]

pro tools is the leading recording program in the music industry today, if you want to record things, use this. Make sure you have all the inputs you need in order to use this.

Fruity Loops is just a sequencer that uses pre recorded loops to make music, or "beats"

totally different programs, but pro tools is far more useful in the recording business

if you don't like fruity loops, get Reason, it's the same type of program, but far more powerful

imagine an infinite amount of mixers, effects, sequencers, and synthesizers right on ur computer

 

[Brock 5,000+ posts]

two diff programs... fruity loops is retarded.... basicly to make people feel like they can make and mix music... takes no skill and you should hold your head down if you use it....

obviously you do not know what you're talking about.

you need heardware to run protools.

if you're just looking for something to mess around on (and are finding fruity loops difficult), pro tools is definitely not what you should look into.

stick with FL and use the tutorals in the help file, seriously, they help.

 

[CJL 10+ year member]

I use the Fruity loops demo version on a regular basis and to me its very easy to use once you understand how to use it. The only thing I wanna do is upload a song and change the bass or use a part of the song in a beat but I dont know if you can do that with Fl studio let alone the demo version //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[mtlhead 10+ year member]

or

I'll take the cereal.

Oh come on, its not THAT complicated

First: the control window, the first button determines what kind of time marking u want to use (clicks, or real time), the second button returns to 0, the 3rd is rewind, 4th is stop, 5th play, 6 fast forward, 7 goes to the end, 8 arms recording

Next: the track list, on the left shows what u name your track, and u can view the waveform, panning automation, or volume automation, click the R to be able to record, click S to mute everything but that track, click M to mute that track. in the middle is all the data that you've recorded

The mixing console is on the right, you've got your faders, panning controls, solo, mute, and record. Basically here you can record panning and fading automation

the top portion: the four buttons grouped in the top left are how u want the waveforms to move, slip means u can move it wherever u want, shuffle means it will put it right at the end or the beginning of another waveform, spot means u can put it in a specific spot (time specific), and grid means that u can put it anywhere on the grid that is created

now the buttons to the right of that: these buttons effect the way the waveforms are presented, the left and right arrows make it longer or shorter

the next button zooms in on it, and the next button change the type of waveform u are looking at

the zoom tool: lets u click on anypart of the waveform to zoom in on it

the trimmer: lets u cut the waveform from either the beginning or the end

the selector tool: you can highlight any part of the waveform

the grabber tool: selects an audio clip

now when u click the little tab underneath, u can use all of them at the same time, depending on where u put your cursor on the waveform

the little speaker lets u play the waveform back at ur own tempo (depending on how fast u move your mouse across the wave)

and then the pencil lets u manually insert panning and volume changes

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