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pgreasy	Date: September 9, 2005 @ 11:52 AM that i should purchase a keyboard to help me with making beats on fruity loops 5. in what ways would using a keyboard benefit me, and how exactly would i use it
DigitalEntropy	Date: September 9, 2005 @ 12:09 PM well using just a m ouse isnt that helpfull. a keyboard has a bunch of letters on it and.. ok just kidding well, if you know how to use a keyboard that would be benificial as well you can hook up the keyboard to fruityloops via midi port or usb port (i believe) this will alow you to play as one of the sounds youve picked out (but you can also do this with your computer keyboard). you could also record parts over fruityloops songs with a nice keyboard. im not to up to date on what you can exactly do. ive used my keyboard maybe once or twice with FL. but im positive that someone will post immediately with an answer. if they didnt allready while i was busy writing this.
RobertMcDade	Date: September 9, 2005 @ 12:25 PM I was wondering about this myself I hope someone replies soon!
2step-4eva	Date: September 9, 2005 @ 9:41 PM playing a keyboard makes you much more creative. when putting notes in the piano roll you can try for ages and not get anywhere, but just messing around with a keyboard helps you come up with great and original melodies and basslines pretty fast. my keyboard is not even hooked up to my PC but it is where most of my inspiration comes from. i just program into the piano roll what i came up with on the keyboard.
pgreasy	Date: September 10, 2005 @ 10:21 PM how do you plug what your sounds from your keyboard into your piano roll
2step-4eva	Date: September 11, 2005 @ 4:03 PM i just look at what notes i'm playing, then programme them into the piano roll manually. im probably not the best person to ask because im a cheap bastard and i cant bring myself to pay the £50 it would cost for the wire that would connect my keyboard to my PC. there is a keyboard forum as well so the people with keyboards might hang around in there.
GeneHilbert	Date: September 11, 2005 @ 4:30 PM 1st thing piano type keyboard has to be midi. Then you need a cable - venturing a guess your computer is a PC.... The cable will have a 2 midi plugs (In/Out) on one end and a D25 plug on the other. Plug midi cables into the keyboard. The cable In is the direction of the data flow..... so plug the In cable into the midi out port of you keyboard and out into in. Plug the D25 plug into your sound card it will only fit one way.... be careful not to bend the pins..... Turn on the keyboard - Load your software - Select midi channel 1 on both the keyboard and the software program....... Select the sound you want....... and play. You must record into a trac in order to see and edit data in the piano roll, event list of staff views. You can also use the pencil tool to input notes directly.
monkvolcano	Date: September 11, 2005 @ 6:04 PM http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Radium49-main.html this keyboard is good and cheap.. it has a usb out in case your sound card doesn't have midi ports.. i don't really use the keyboard much, mainly just write stuff out.. however i do use the knobs for controlling filter sweeps and what not./

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