Fruity Loops, Reason, Cubase...

[Dave Elyzium]

avoid uberschall like thew plagues though.

errrr??? whys that??

[DannyBlack]

Actually, all joking aside, I have some empty wheelie bin Kick samples. I havent gotten around to refining them yet, will post them when I have. EVERYTHING is a sample to me.

[Jay Pace]

Reason and cubase mainly

Like the hands on approach to reason, wiring together monster machines. Plus I like redrum for making drum loops.

Cubase I'm just used to and can work quickly with it. Not sure if its the best, or better than anything else, I just haven't got the time to learn anything else and don't see the point in changing.

Trying to learn ableton at the mo to look at live performance options.

[theledge]

Fruityloops is great

It was written by a lifelong games programmer rather than a musician, and it feels like it

Wonderful to use, quick and powerful, intuitive interface, totally controllable via keyboard and midi, stable..... etc etc

If you want to use time varying compound time sigs or whatever, then fruity isn't going to do the job, and I'm not really a fan of either the sampler or built in synths, but hook it up with Kontakt and a couple of decent VST synths, and you really shouldn't need much more

The only sad thing is that it's never, ever likely to be released for a Mac, and it's the one good reason I can think of to keep on using a Windows machine.

[acidsaturation]

http://www.bangingtunes.com/misc/royalty-free-samples/ (not tried these)

quite good stuff, hard dance mainly but some nice hits. Some of the files didn't fully unpack as I recall tho'

[RDR]

errrr??? whys that??

sorry i should have written (IMO) in it.

simply because the uberschall stuff has been done to death and really doesnt bring anything new to the table.

of course everyone can use anything really, depends what you do with it.

[acidsaturation]

I'm mainly using Acid, 'cos much of my stuff is audio from my hardware by the time it hits the computer and that's what I've always used.

TBF now the midi is all up to spec seems pointless moving too.

But it is a lot of a temptation to chuck samples everywhere and be lazy and find loops instead of programming them.

And the silly thing is that VSTi busses can't be routed to the send effects, you can only put the effects on inline, but then most VSTis have their own effects, or I just wait until I bounce it down to audio if I really need something on a send.

But I like sliceing audio about, it's fun.

[RDR]

Fruityloops is great

It was written by a lifelong games programmer rather than a musician, and it feels like it

Wonderful to use, quick and powerful, intuitive interface, totally controllable via keyboard and midi, stable..... etc etc

If you want to use time varying compound time sigs or whatever, then fruity isn't going to do the job, and I'm not really a fan of either the sampler or built in synths, but hook it up with Kontakt and a couple of decent VST synths, and you really shouldn't need much more

The only sad thing is that it's never, ever likely to be released for a Mac, and it's the one good reason I can think of to keep on using a Windows machine.

COugh Cough

VMware fusion.. cough... parralells.. cough bootcamp...

shall i carry on?

[theledge]

yeah I know it can be done, still means running Windows though, hence a Windows machine. Windows = Pain in the arse

Fruityloops though, always good to see it appreciated. Great stuff

[audioinjection]

fl studio, been using it for years! i love it!

i do use cubase occaisionally as well, great for editing tracks