making fruity tracks sound less fruity

[Stu Cox]

I think that 'fruity' sound comes from using the fruity samples and plugins. Step away from these and you'll be fine. As for the having to create new patterns... ctrl-shft-c duplicates the selected pattern ;) :lol:

yeah but i just find it an awkward way to work

in cubase, you just double click on the part (equivalent of a little block in the playlist in fruity, just they're all independent of the others on that "row" of the arrangement), change what i want to and it's done

automation is easy within fruity

excuses excuses..... u get out what u put in!

well exactly, if you want to work with a program, you've got to put the effort in to make it do what you want it to

it's the same with anything, some things in cubase/reason/logic etc take ages but if you don't do it then your track will suffer

i agree automation is very easy in fruity although it's easy to get confused about which pattern contains automation for what and there isn't actually a way of telling from a controller whether it has automation applied to it. also, as it's all just done by drawing on a continuous scale i'm not a massive fan of how you write the automation in fruity (have to keep redrawing it if you want to change something slightly) - i'd much rather use the point-to-point system cubase/acid use (can't remember about the others)

although i see fruity are now adopting this technique for automation on audio clips in version 5... maybe they'll apply the same to automation of controls and see the light about the playlist - if this happens i'd almost certainly go back to using it myself

but that's just me :p