What do you make music on?

[MollyGalaga]

I don’t wanna get too technical about it, it’s all fun really.


I work on Ableton as of now but im thinking about making that jump to Studio One.






I’ve messed around with it at my patnas crib n brehs it’s a breath of fresh air


FL to me is simple yet complex for the shyt i want, plus it can’t accurately detect midi input from scaler n company
Ableton, that fukking price for suite


Plus it really looks outdated now
I’ve been on this joint since 2011 and the shyt looks the same as ever.


I tried beatmaking on some hardware (old akai a cousin had)
It’s a lil limiting for what i want to do but i will def add a mpc live/x to my studio workstation


Any brehs tried studio one out yet, or the other daws like reaper, cubase,

Hell anybody still use pro tools


Forgive me if a thread like this has been made but its 2019 I wanna see where we at with software now

 

[GPBear]

:flstudio::sp404:

FL Studio is my bytch

grab a four bar drum loop, throw it into Fruity Slicer (Channels>Add one>FL Slicer, click and drag sample)

1. Top right where it says '4 Beats,' when you drag the sample into Fruity Slicer, it'll originally be like 25 beats, drag that shyt all the way down to 4.
2. Then right click on that button with the razor, click 'Slice To Beat'
3. Then run the '4 Beats' up to 8. (Also, barely bring up the ATT/DEC like 10ms to clean up the chop 'clicks').

Go to piano roll, you have four chops, repeat the first two drum chops, add the other two on the 4th measure for the changeup ..

Find a 4 bar sample, Slice it the same way and play it over the drums.

Q2W3E4R5T6Y is the order of fl slicer notes when you're using just keyboard/mouse

the top row of the keyboard becomes a piano for all you 'I miss my triton's 88 keys' cats, in other words, q-w-e-r-t-y are 7 white keys, and the 23 is C#/D#, then 567 is F#/G#/Bb or the black keys. The chops get slightly lagged, so you go into piano roll to realign them.



Then you can take like four 4-bar loops, Slice each one, and then play around like that. Group all the Fruity Slicers together onto one mixer, and add filters or sidechain compress it.



that's the Zen of FL brehs, go fukkin' bananas.

I've got that shyt down to a science, je suis artiste

I just do it as a hobby mainly, I realized years ago that the new wave of beatmakers have a particular sonic aesthetic, and that the sound comes from Ableton. Knxwledge has that ambient kind of sound, and I'm pretty sure it's ableton. FL is more gritty boom-bap, but it's transitioned into the trap world because you can get a really big drum sound out of it. Ableton is more ethereal, post-Flying Lotus/Low End Theory style experimental beats.

 

[Why-Fi]

right now, studio one 4 is the hub. mind you, I JUST switched from reason 10 about a month ago. I've been using reason since 2 and I outgrew it something serious. super restrictive.

the bulk of the stuff I haven't lost I did on maschine studio with the standalone app. BUT I haven't used that setup in over 3 years. I went back to reason, ended getting an mpc live. did some joints on that then discovered studio one. now I use everything I have through s1...even reason sometimes.

studio one is probably the most workflow friendly app I've used next to logic pro x, and the stock plugs are fukkin serious. and I'm not ear trained so the chord detection and key signature detection puts it far ahead of everything for me

I've used ableton because that's what my brother uses it's almost as restrictive as reason particularly because of the screen switching

 

[TEKBEATZ]

 

[Youseenmywork]

MK3 and Stanton and all in one computer ...cant leave out all the old vinyl
I for lgot to add I have a akai studio black that I plan on getting back to once I master this MK3. Some of you guys are funny take it from an old head less is more...when it come to this hip hop shyt or just music period. Your favorite producer dosent have near as much as you think. I’m older so I get all my sounds off Vinyl. I have you sound packs and all that shyt yet I’m pretty I will get around to once I master what I want to master or at least get a good hold of what I want before I move over to what the beat makers are doing.

 

[PlainSight]

Was an advocate for FL Studio for 12 years (still kinda do) and I'm a regular Logic user depending on who I am working with.

Predominantly I've been using Ableton Live for the last 2-3 years (9 so far, haven't found a decent crack for 10 - nor do I have the money). Ableton has offered me a lot of ease in terms of adapting to the newer techniques that younger producers are using as well as older techniques that some no longer use. So far, I'm very happy with it.

 

[GPBear]

Was an advocate for FL Studio for 12 years (still kinda do) and I'm a regular Logic user depending on who I am working with.

Predominantly I've been using Ableton Live for the last 2-3 years (9 so far, haven't found a decent crack for 10 - nor do I have the money). Ableton has offered me a lot of ease in terms of adapting to the newer techniques that younger producers are using as well as older techniques that some no longer use. So far, I'm very happy with it.

I could never figure that shyt out

 

[PlainSight]

I could never figure that shyt out

It's difficult to get used to at first. Not as interactive as Logic or even FL Studio to begin with but it's worth getting used to it if you like making your beats quickly. I had to binge watch a lot of SadowickProduction vids on youtube just to understand the shortcuts. Now, whatever usually takes me 5 minutes on FL Studio or Logic takes me half that time to do on Ableton. I made the switch because I wanted to change over from FL Studio. I felt I got stale - now of course, I believe it's nothing to do with the DAW and rather ones own creativity but I've come to far now .

 

[GPBear]

It's difficult to get used to at first. Not as interactive as Logic or even FL Studio to begin with but it's worth getting used to it if you like making your beats quickly. I had to binge watch a lot of SadowickProduction vids on youtube just to understand the shortcuts. Now, whatever usually takes me 5 minutes on FL Studio or Logic takes me half that time to do on Ableton. I made the switch because I wanted to change over from FL Studio. I felt I got stale - now of course, I believe it's nothing to do with the DAW and rather ones own creativity but I've come to far now .

Yeah exactly. Knxwledge puts out hundreds of beats, shyts fast af. I did it backwards and kind of just picked up what shortcuts ableton has to speed up the process and applied it to FL. Like I’ll make a beat, keep the drum patterns and chops, then add more layers or replace it with different sounds or rhythms as an improvised drum rack. The biggest drawback is I think ableton beats just sound better, or at least sound more like the kind of shyt modern producers make.

FL is interesting though, because each version sounds different. FL 8-10 was great for gritty 90s boombap, then FL 12 was way better for ethereal trip hop type vibes.

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

I tried Ableton a couple of times but i didn't like the Drumracks. I rather have those 16 pads in the FPC of FL. Is easier/faster to me. And if you edit a sound you can just tick "show in browser" to get it back and add some more sounds from the pack to your FPC you're using etc.
That was the thing that really turned me off on Ableton. I didn't like those drumracks.

I wish FL had Time-Stretch for every single slice in Slicer. And i wish it didn't ruin the sample's soundquality. I put a Ozone Maximizer and Maximus on top of the sample to get back quality. (Sounds better)

I really want to know how to time-stretch each slice in FL. Seems like you can only time-stretch the entire sample in FL???

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

I used Slice Ex in Fl Studio 12 for my chops.

When I would change the pitch of the sample I would have to guess the new bpm and do shyt like play out the newly pitched sample and do a tap tempo on my phone to figure out new bpm

Time stretch would be great for fl studio.


Right now I'm using MPC LIVE..it's much mor3 fun and and inspiring than fl studio.

 

[ShaDynasty]

MK3 and Stanton and all in one computer ...cant leave out all the old vinyl
I for lgot to add I have a akai studio black that I plan on getting back to once I master this MK3. Some of you guys are funny take it from an old head less is more...when it come to this hip hop shyt or just music period. Your favorite producer dosent have near as much as you think. I’m older so I get all my sounds off Vinyl. I have you sound packs and all that shyt yet I’m pretty I will get around to once I master what I want to master or at least get a good hold of what I want before I move over to what the beat makers are doing.

That 9th rhythm roulette is probably the greatest one ever.

I use the DAW a lot but I also use the maschine, I think I want to switch to something else now. Plus I play keys and guitar.

 

[mrfortune]

logic

 

[FeverPitch2]

right now, studio one 4 is the hub. mind you, I JUST switched from reason 10 about a month ago. I've been using reason since 2 and I outgrew it something serious. super restrictive.

the bulk of the stuff I haven't lost I did on maschine studio with the standalone app. BUT I haven't used that setup in over 3 years. I went back to reason, ended getting an mpc live. did some joints on that then discovered studio one. now I use everything I have through s1...even reason sometimes.

studio one is probably the most workflow friendly app I've used next to logic pro x, and the stock plugs are fukkin serious. and I'm not ear trained so the chord detection and key signature detection puts it far ahead of everything for me

I've used ableton because that's what my brother uses it's almost as restrictive as reason particularly because of the screen switching

I'm curious as to what you found restrictive in Reason v.10

 

[Why-Fi]

I'm curious as to what you found restrictive in Reason v.10

the rack mainly. the better I got at music the more stuff had in the rack and sifting thru it is a pain. switching screens for every move I make is a pain. it's very slow. I think it would be a lot better if I could open and tweak devices individually and directly from the ssl channels and the sequencer tracks, like logic and s1. in the end I find the rack is only useful for routing...the best option of all daws in that regard