Production People - What Do You Use To Make Your Music?

[supermash]

liquideyes said:

Buzzmachines, hmm is that the virtual routing thingumy? I think I've heard of it, isn't it quite tricky to get used to?

 

erm i guess it kinda is, the thing i like about it is that tho it seems tricky to start off with as the interface isn't the most user friendly, it's very flexible with the way you can route your generators thru effects - i have been using it for a few months now and i think i am jsut about starting to scratch the surface. I am big effects person and found it much easier to get something out of it that sounded (to my mind) good than using fruityloops. the way you can automate the different parts is also good. it's also free, as are heaps of plugins/effects/synths/etc (again a plus as i am a big effects person!).

[Ian Cashman]

fruity sucks arse....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

go on.. bite!...

[LiquidEyes]

digitalliquid said:

Crap.

FL3.56 is a very sturdy sequencer - you just have to change your approach to how you write your tracks.

Hmm ... in my experience it lacks some very elementary features. Perhaps you know about some features that I don't.

 

E.g. can you view audio tracks as waveforms? (as in Cubase etc) Cut up samples and reverse parts of them visually?

[LiquidEyes]

E.g. a typical thing I would expect to do on a sequencer:

 

Say this is my hihat track: X X X Y

 

each X is a 1 bar loop (an audio sample)

that goes --*---*---*---** (16th notes)

 

I want to make a variation (Y) which is slightly chopped up:

--*----------*-*

 

In Cubase this is piss: you can just set the "snap" value to 16th notes, select the scissors tool, then hack up the sample as much as you like. Then you can delete selected bits of it, reverse them, cut and paste them etc...

 

Then you can "hack up" your original loop X, and all the other ghost copies of X will be updated, without affecting Y.

 

Are you saying you can do this in FL? Or am I talking more "crap"?

[Claire DC]

Mod1 said:

fruity sucks arse....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

go on.. bite!...

 

[naughty_norris]

alrighy people i started off with fruity loops now i have cubase 6 vst and it kicks arse also got a groove box roland mc106 or something and theres piss heads outside my bedroom window brilliant!!!!

[Claire DC]

naughty_norris said:

and theres piss heads outside my bedroom window brilliant!!!!

 

 

[Scream]

logic, soundforge, recycle and a few other soft synths

 

just some new stuff that i now use.

[Louise]

upside down sauce pan and wooden spoon

tupperware tub with rice in

and a kazzoo

[Wonky]

luu_luu said:

upside down sauce pan and wooden spoon

tupperware tub with rice in

and a kazzoo

 

nice, i use those and i also uses spoons on my knee

[Louise]

aint quite mastered that one yet , bit to advanced.

[Wonky]

 

 

ill write a guide and make it sticky, that will answer a lot of those usual "i wana play spoons but its so [censored] hard questions".

 

 

[Claire DC]