FL Studio or eXT.....

[basic channel]

There's no obvious documentation built into the product, so I'm at a loss and I'll have to peruse the web site quite a bit more.

Jon

Err, try http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=36

Links to all the docs you'll ever need (including the fantastic automatic update program)

BC

[DWb]

eXT doesn't seem very approachable.

Probably true - it doesn't really hold your hand through the learning process, there are quite a lot of buttons identified only by mysterious symbols, and it doesn't come with documentation included. OTOH, it is extremely intuitive once you know what everything does, documentation does exist (although it sometimes struggles to keep up with the steady flow of new functions), and the user community is fantastically helpful.

I think it's possible I made a mistake buying it

No!

I'm a software developer by day, and I think they cut a lot of corners

A minor point, but it's 'he' and not 'they'!

From where I'm sitting, eXT lacks a lot of the little bits of polish which you'd be annoyed about if you'd paid £400 for it, but with the price as it is, they seem like a fair trade off for the fantastic little features that are included (not to mention the fantastic big features).

[soma]

They are both very good programs but very different. A few people use them together.
(I happen to use XT but can't say anything bad about FL).
If you like to make huge multi-layed instruments then XT is more flexible. If you do some unconventional signal chains XT is also more flexible, although FL also has some good MIDI mangling. FL is probably a bit faster to work something up out of scratch.
They are both developing pretty fast, but with XT you get the updates more frequently.
Frankly I've though of getting FL so I can have both.

[djsubject]

eXT!!!!!!!

its £27

& its verry easy to use when you know how

its power is amazing, you can load as meny sequencers as you want inside it all running concurrently (if you so wish to use them) you can add vst fx to your inputs & outputs for the sequencer & it loads as a vst or vsti (including the ability to load its self in side its selfe inside its self....ect)

the built in sampler alone is worth the price the support is trumendus! & all the bits like presets color scheems manual's FAQ's are all in the energyXT forum

i think eXT could realy use a getting started video tutorail, so i will probly make one now i understand it,

PS, eXT will allso load as a midi vst aswell


Subz

[soma]

Subz have you seen NicFit's flash stuff?
http://xt-hq.com/nicfit/xt_tutorials.php

The only thing missing video for a newbie is the setup stuff mentioned here:
http://www.asseca.com/darkstar/ext-bg/w-1.htm