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Where did you learn to use Fruity Loops?

Unit-X	Date: July 22, 2005 @ 12:05 AM I have been trying to learn how to use fruity loops. I've even tried to go through their tutorial but I still feel lost. Where did you learn to use fruity loops? Is there a class I can take? Please Advise. Thanks.
BlackMage	Date: July 22, 2005 @ 2:28 AM "Where did you learn to use fruity loops?" Using/abusing it. "Is there a class I can take?" No. Just do shit with it. You'll get the hang of it.
MindSculpture	Date: July 22, 2005 @ 3:12 AM sorry to say...I'm the same. Just experiment with it, you will soon be making great tunes.
sinai	Date: July 22, 2005 @ 5:06 AM i'm sure there prolly is a tutorial somewhere for fruity loops, but you'll prolly find out more about it just winging it.
DigitalEntropy	Date: July 22, 2005 @ 5:14 PM the best way to learn anything on fruityloops is trial and error. if youve just started using it try going through all the songs it comes with first. hear something you like? go through the effects and find out what theyre doing. just break everything down piece by piece and youll begin to realize how much goes into each sound. that and years of using the programs
victorsskull	Date: July 22, 2005 @ 5:30 PM on my computer at home
2step-4eva	Date: July 22, 2005 @ 5:55 PM i think the verdict's unanimous on this one. i was introduced to it at a summer music school when i was about 15 but only spent about half an hour on it going through the most very basic aspects of the step sequencer. i downloaded a copy and from there it was trial and error. and a little bit of help from sites like this. i found out how to do automation and VSTs by reading message boards, so once u have grasped the basics i would scan this forum for information on those.
Unit-X	Date: July 23, 2005 @ 3:06 AM Thanks for the reply everyone. I've actually been playin around with it but it gets a bit frustrating when you have no clue what you are doing. For the most part, a lot of it is self explanatory but one thing that I have not been able to figure out is how to get the playlist to keep playing without looping itself. I played one of the samples and the playlist was long and it kept on going. However, I have not been able to figure out how they did that. I put the blocks on the side, but it seems irrelevant as to which pattern line it plays. I hope im making sense.
2step-4eva	Date: July 23, 2005 @ 8:40 AM next to the play button there are two little checkboxes for "pattern" and "song". just check the "song" box. simple but quite hard to spot.
orgasmotron	Date: July 23, 2005 @ 12:50 PM the thing that took me the longest to figure out pretty much: LP-means lowpass filter HP-means highpass filter BP-means bandpass filter. this appears in the 3xOsc, TS-404, and every sample window pretty much.
just2ska	Date: July 23, 2005 @ 2:04 PM see digital entropy's post.
monkvolcano	Date: July 23, 2005 @ 3:27 PM actually, i went to the national academy of Fruity Loops, or NAFL if you will. I highly recommend it.. but seriously folks.. the best way to learn? use the save new version command a lot, and then just go out on a limb. or you could be a real bad ass and be like "i'm not even going to save a new version of this song, cause i donn't even care if i mess it up, cause I'm cool like that."
DigitalEntropy	Date: July 23, 2005 @ 3:47 PM Oh nice man, what was your major in NAFL? I think I had TS404 101 with you. and were you in Plucked 245 with me?
just2ska	Date: July 23, 2005 @ 10:40 PM I majored in BooBassology with a minor in WASPotics.
Jankolli	Date: July 24, 2005 @ 6:46 PM I learned it with time. I kept on mixing and pressing this and that and then I knew the most parts. The only real way to learn it all is to experiment yourself. I tried to read tutorial and some helped, but most of them I couln't even understand.
iOrbit	Date: July 26, 2005 @ 1:27 PM Just keep pressing buttons, turning knobs and pushing sliders and you will get the hang of it soon enough. "I majored in BooBassology with a minor in WASPotics." Advanced automations and foreign VSTi relations.
just2ska	Date: July 26, 2005 @ 3:53 PM hahaha NICE TOUCH iOrbit
horusrogue	Date: July 28, 2005 @ 11:16 PM They was a Juicy delay of my REVERBerations of doubt about BPing the courses. To be extremely lame... I simpyl started with 3 and discarding four went to 5...my hardest problem was fidnign the "snap to cell" tab..lol..that was my sole reaosn for not swithcinf to Fl5 form Fl3 for monthes... I love effects....especially non-fl native vst's.....yummyyyyyy
TransAutobot	Date: August 1, 2005 @ 2:50 PM I've been using FL for acouple yrs now. The way I started using it was just by playing around with it and using the tutorial (but i didnt really understand it much). Seeing with nobs do. Stuff like that. Checking things out, and finding out what they do so i could use it later on. lol I still dont know what everything does in that program but I got by enough to make the stuff I want.
nyithit	Date: August 8, 2005 @ 2:12 PM I learned Fruity Loops here!!! www.fltutorials.com/
JasonJSmoke	Date: August 10, 2005 @ 10:25 PM i taught myself
ChriztFvkT	Date: August 11, 2005 @ 8:08 PM i just messed around with it till i learn the things.
BlackMage	Date: August 11, 2005 @ 8:30 PM "Advanced automations and foreign VSTi relations." Damn you! I only got myself MidiOUTed from there because of the excessive use of LSD.
Jazzmary2U	Date: August 11, 2005 @ 8:35 PM A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away!
Jazzmary2U	Date: August 11, 2005 @ 8:37 PM There are excellent FL forums on all aspects of Fruity Loops, but you have to BUY A COPY! to access them.. to me, worth the money, tho..
CobaltBlue	Date: August 11, 2005 @ 10:38 PM I was Portalead most of the way, but now I'm forced to Square Wave for Setzer SPC in this Analog Age.
slimerubik	Date: August 12, 2005 @ 2:46 PM i learned to use fl for the first time 5 years ago and managed to learn it by myself.
DrCodeine	Date: August 21, 2005 @ 1:02 AM About four or five years ago, a buddy of mine had it, I had a play on his box one night and was hooked. Rebirth is cool, but you need reason to make it sound worth anything, but fl5.0 is worth spending the time to learn. You just need to explore it.