People who use FL as a VSTi in another host.

[jmbriley]

Do you use FL VSTi as a sound module. i.e. you get your sounds from FL but do the actual pattern making and sequencing in your other host. Or do you do everything in FL and then just let your patterns playback in your other host on the blank tracks. Any suggestions or comments from anyone with this experience would be cool. Thanks

[corman rapeblio]

try shit, then do what you feel like doing.

[G-Ro124]

try shit, then do what you feel like doing.

that's the most useless reply in f**king history

@jmbriley: I believe that it will play as if it were a rendered audio track, but in the space provided. not sure though, hink will come in & say further

[jmbriley]

try shit, then do what you feel like doing.

that's the most useless reply in f**king history

@jmbriley: I believe that it will play as if it were a rendered audio track, but in the space provided. not sure though, hink will come in & say further

And that my friends is the process of taking words out of someones mouth.

[jmbriley]

Come on, just don't be nosy, help me out. At least give me 1 reply out of every 115 views.

[The Chase]

try shit, then do what you feel like doing.

that's the most useless reply in f**king history

It really wasn't. he was just saying to explore your tools

[blortblort]

try shit, then do what you feel like doing.

while a little too concise to be very useful, that's kind of my way of thinking, too:

Yes, you can use FL as a VSTi and record all your parts as midi in your host...OR...you can do all your arranging in FL and render your FL output to be used in another host.
It would depend on just how you would like to treat your FL output: if you want, you can render loops or full song tracks from FL as loops to be manipulated/mangled/editted inside your host. Conversly, if you are intending to do lots of midi editting, you may want to leave FL as a VSTi... your options are open to your needs and preferences
there are pros and cons to each: rendered audio can prove to be more static and "final" (ie- if you recorded reverb and decide to edit depending on your usage of the part, it can be quite pronounced. on the other hand, some types of music benefit from such cut and paste edits!
Keeping your FL as a VSTi will offer you more overall control so far as your MIDI editting ability goes and also providing you with a much more homogenous end result on final render, but again- it depends on what your needs are.
Experiment. Ultimately, your mileage WILL vary from the next guy's and you do have to work in a way that you feel comfortable or what is the sense in doing it?
both ways are good...and we haven't even mentioned that you may have a "rewire" option depending on your host!...that can come in handy but since FL can be used as a vsti, rewiring FL would almost seem to be a "6 of 1, a half dozen of the other" proposition. (the less concise version of what I *think* corman rapeblio meant )

[TRN76]

I do all my idea's and generally most things in FLStudio.
When the project is more or less done, I insert FLS into SX3 as a VSTi and work from there on.

I now convert/copy MIDI and VSTi presets of instruments to SX3, except drums and tracks with alot of automation and special "FLStudio only" (I say this, because SX have terrible automation...well.. probally not *the* worst, but it's crap!).
If I still need some tricky automation done inside FLStudio to be in SX3, I output MIDI NRPN from FLS to SX3 (due to yet another bug in SX3, you have to manually fix this by editing some files, but I have allready made a template in SX3 that I use), so FLStudio still is the main automation controller.
I use FLStudio as a multi-output VSTi, and I turn the quality up to the highest when Im ready to export the project.

There are no better way to work, than to use this method with SX3/FLStudio.
If you use FLS in Rewire mode, you have to manually load/save the project... In SX3 and in FLS! ...bad move!

If you wanne know why I use NRPN, its because regular MIDI CC only have 7bit values (from 0..127), while NRPN have...mmm..not sure, I think it is 14bit witch gives excelent automation resolution


This is the ultimate workflow for me, and I'm sure this metod will only get better with times, as SX and FLStudio grows.. Who know, one day they will melt together!? ...hehe.. Naah, but it would be nice though..


Hope this helps.....

[idobs]

I use FL5 as a VST inside of Sonar. To answer your question, I do the pattern programming inside of FL. I pretty much only do this for drums, because I really like doing drums as patterns, and FL is great at that.

Now, here's a warning: I tried the LATEST version of FL6 as a VST in the LATEST version of Sonar, and it has some serious timing bugs. 100% of the time FL wouldn't start playing audio until about 3 measures in. ...And putting a silent 2 or 3 bars at the beginning of the song didn't help.

So I went back to FL5; I never had any problem with it, so I'll wait for FL6 to be at least as good before I upgrade again.


-Ido

[Hink]

try shit, then do what you feel like doing.

that's the most useless reply in f**king history

@jmbriley: I believe that it will play as if it were a rendered audio track, but in the space provided. not sure though, hink will come in & say further

sorry I never use FL as a vsti...

[G-Ro124]

OMG Hink, this must be the first time you have not been capable of answering an FL Studio question