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Plugin_Update.jpg' alt='Image-Line Minihost Modular Beta 3' title='Image-Line Minihost Modular Beta 3' />On with the article its a long one. I have looked down my nose, ignored, patronised and generally dismissed Fruity Loops as a fun little loop making program for its entire existence. I did hear of people using it, being creative with it but even when it evolved into FL Studio I didnt take it particularly seriously. I was encouraged to check out version 1. I soon discovered they were pretty basic and I had never liked the look of the program which appeared to have remained largely unchanged for a decade and so being a snobby knob I gave it less than a few minutes of my time. So it is from a position of poorly disguised cynicism that I find myself looking once again upon the immense greyness of the latest version of Fruity Loops. However, I have a feeling in my water that cool stuff is going on in here and I will endeavour to put my prejudice aside and give FL Studio 1. FLHelp/html/img_plug/Patcher.png' alt='Image-Line Minihost Modular Beta 3' title='Image-Line Minihost Modular Beta 3' />Lets see if I can get to the bottom of whats great about this eager and strange piece of music production software. FL Studios main screen. ImageLine Remote Free FL Studio WiFi MIDI controller app for Android iOS. When you are used to practically any other DAW the layout of FL Studio is a bit disorientating and I find myself getting annoyed quite quickly. Simple things like why are the opencloseminimise buttons on the wrong side why cant I work out how to resize the main window wheres the projectarrange window what are all these empty browser folders how do I actually do anything The mouse pointer has turned into a little white dot and doesnt appear to do anything in this huge field of grey, grey and more grey. So, remembering my promise to get deeper into it lets open a demo project and see if I can get FL Studio to come to life. File Open presents some possibilities and I opt for the Cool Stuff folder and discover a huge list of projects. In most DAWs youre lucky to get one demo so this is very pleasing indeed. I opt for D. A. T. A FL Studio Remix for no particular reason and Im treated to the same grey screen as before but this time I have a little pixie bobbing on the left and a text document of presumably Japanese lyrics. Alien Shooter Game Crack there. Hmmm. ok, lets press play. Ha the pixies dancing Thats hilarious. Right, so Ive got some quite banging bit of techno going on but the only thing on screen other than the pixie who is going to have a heart attack soon is a cool looking spectrograph. Right Fruity Loops, time to show me what the fuck is going on. Lets have a go at the toolbar icons first one is called Playlist bugger me Here we go. Right, familiar territory, a projectarrange style window called Playlist which is slightly weird but here we have MIDI tracks where you can see the note content and audio tracks with wave shapes and also what look like automation tracks. With the time line steaming along like its on fire the whole thing looks simply beautiful. Once you start fiddling and clicking around you find that piano roll editors leap and fly onto the screen, audio tracks have an unexpectedly serious looking editor, the mouse scroll wheel does awesome zoomy type things depending on whether you have Ctrl or Alt held down and shift seems to move events about. Just dont right click on anything or it will disappear. Chicken Invaders 6 Full Version For Pc. The other thing I notice is the massive smile on my face could I actually be enjoying this Lets have a quick browse through these other buttons before we start learning how to use it. Channel Rack I have no idea what that is its a box with little thin blocks on it that wont go away. Piano Roll opens a blank piano roll but I cant seem to select anything in the Playlist for it to edit. BrowserPlugin Picker opens and closes the side browser. Mixer Oh cool there it is, nice one oh look its grey. Open ProjectPlugin Picker what the hell is this It produces a window that smoothly fades in over the top of everything else and appears to have a bunch of clips and images of synths and stuff. Hovering my mouse seems to trigger them and also shows which clips are connected to which synths Im assuming. Its stunning and fascinating and maybe Ill come back here later. Open PluginPlugin Picker Wow, same sort of screen but this time it appears to show all the various plugins and synths available. Are these all included plugins I cant see any of my VST plugins so I guess they must be. What an awesome way to let you browse plug ins not sure yet how you use or select things but well come onto that. View Tempo Tapper oh, a nice big place to tap the tempo are you watching Propellerheads FL Studio 1. Plug in Picker. That seems to be the main toolbar but something tells me weve not yet scratched the surface. So my first impressions Well, having gotten over the initial disorientation and the acres of greyness Im feeling quite excited by what I might find in here. Theres a lot things Im not yet understanding like I have this list of plugins and stuff on the left that seem to want to be dragged into the Playlist but nothing happens. Theres also some quite busy menus and right click options in certain places that need to be explored. So, rather than fumbling around Im going to crack open the documentation and watch a few videos and come back and try to open up FL Studio 1. Getting into the Details. Right the first thing you have to do is unlearn everything you think you know about DAW software. The journey that this program has taken from Fruity Loops to FL Studio has resulted in a very unique and open way of working. The normal linear and logical connections of MIDI tracks, audio tracks and routing are simply not there and instead FL works on the fluid concept of that you can slap anything anywhere. The reason the playlist window has a billion tracks already setup is because these are not really tracks in the regular sense, its just a grid onto which you paint your stuff. They probably call them tracks so that its familiar to people coming to FL for the first time. The tracks have no relationship to the mixer instead the mixer deals with the actual devices making the sound, whether MIDI or audio. And then the final thing to understand is that as these are not tracks you dont really record into them, you record into patterns or clips and then slap those patterns into the playlist. I guess its the impression that the term patterns give that makes you assume this is all about dance and electronic music which is probably true but also short sighted. Lets open a new project and get stuck in. All you get with a new project is this box called the Channel Rack you may get other things too like the mixer and playlist which largely depends on what you had open last time, but lets focus on the Channel Rack. On it you get what looks like an analogue drum machine with four sounds Kick, Clap, Hat and Snare, each with 1.