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hey been using fruityloops for a while, kind of use massive with it.
i know skream and high ranking both use it and get great results.
wondering if anyone else out there could show me any stuff they have made with it?

also find when im producing something with alot of layers it seems to lag and crackle on playback.

should i stick with FL or would it best to move to another program?

thankss

P.S any FL users up for a collab? could be intresting

DAW's are like martial arts, there is no "good" or "bad" styles. become a master at your discipline and you'll be able to defeat almost anyone.

so, if you're already an orange belt at karate why would you want to start all over again in another discipline? keep going and one day you'll be better than your idols, it's inevitable.

or, more practically said: i don't use FL but from what i've heard it's on par with any other DAW on levels of quality, the popping noises you hear are probably your soundcard or your CPU. try and "freeze" channels you're not working on (if FL doesnt have a freeze button, export them as a .wav and play that back) to keep your precious CPU power for the stuff you're actually fiddling with at the moment.

thanks, ill keep this in mind!

hasezwei wrote:DAW's are like martial arts, there is no "good" or "bad" styles. become a master at your discipline and you'll be able to defeat almost anyone.

Brilliant quote

comfyman wrote: also find when im producing something with alot of layers it seems to lag and crackle on playback.

1) Check your ASIO drivers are up to date for your soundcloud

2) Buy more memory

Fl studio can do everything you need it to, it just needs a lot of practice.

Check out warbeats tutorials on youtube, he has dozens of fl vids on there.

As for the crackling go to tools > audio options and there is a slider for buffer overruns (or something like that) just slide that up until the crackling stops.

Oh and there is a brilliant 13 part tutorial for massive on youtube, search for dubstep tutorial massive part 1 and it shouldn't be too hard to find

For the crackle, go into your audio settings and raise your buffer length. Goodbye crackle!

As for tracks made in fl9, I use it an awful lot, but then again i'm none too great at it. One of my tracks is in my sig.

nicee stuff diggytots.. yeah ive seen the tutorial, its pretty sickk. what synth you using?

comfyman wrote:nicee stuff diggytots.. yeah ive seen the tutorial, its pretty sickk. what synth you using?

I'm running Massive for all the synth sounds and bass sounds. The horns in my sig track are from an Orchestral VST i have

check my sig... this is one of the few i've finished and posted online, but i've gotten much better since then. the whole mix is kinda flat but u get the idea, lol.

and as for the crackling noises, r u running on ur primary sound driver? or are u on asio? if ur not on asio, switch asap! get the latest asio drivers and get on it, it's the best quality, and u'll get rid of the crackling

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yeea mars, your sig tune is well sick mate, n yea as far as the thread goes, just do what theyve said, keep practising, get asio for defo, i use FL too

FL is probably the most sensible option to pick when finding a DAW...

It does midi and audio very well, the daw itself isn't very cpu intensive and allows everything every other host allows, even if its built in synths and fx are not going to last you a life time, keep at it.

All of mine are in FL, basses either sytrus, 3xosc, massive or fm8.

I use FL as well. Its really easy to get an idea down or make a beat on the fly. I definitely would recommend getting sylenth or massive as they are both very good synths. Vengeance and Thomas Penton also make some good sample packs to start out with.

Im a FL user too(Check the sig for examples)
As long as you learn your DAW properly, its just as good as any other

comfyman wrote:hey been using fruityloops for a while, kind of use massive with it.
i know skream and high ranking both use it and get great results.
wondering if anyone else out there could show me any stuff they have made with it?

also find when im producing something with alot of layers it seems to lag and crackle on playback.

should i stick with FL or would it best to move to another program?

thankss

I use nothing but FL for the most part. I do have a copy of reaper that I've used a little bit here and there, mainly for recording sounds since it seems to handle recording a bit better than FL.

I don't use massive at all. I've tried it out, but overall, it just didn't work for me. Massive is a pretty cpu intensive synth, so the more instances of it you have loaded up, the more it's going to eat up your cpu. Add some more layers to that, and then effects on the mixer channel and you're looking at probably 80% of your cpu sucked up on just a few instruments. You definitely should check into your ASIO drivers, make sure the buffers are turned up to a decent size, but not too high unless you have a soundcard that can handle the larger buffer sizes. If it's possible, pick up some more ram for your computer. It's rather cheap now a days. Last but not least, learn to resample those instruments. Rather than doing an entire song straight out of the instruments, bounce them out to .wavs and use those in place of the actual instrument patterns. You'll save yourself a hell of a lot of hassle and your computer will thank you for it.