DAW with Sequencer Like FL Studio
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- KVRian
- 843 posts since 1 Aug, 2016
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- Banned
- 3889 posts since 3 Feb, 2010
Congratulations, but i am curious, why you switched? traction is way less capable DAW, plus since FL Studio 20.1 were some major improvements made regarding stability, cpu use and also added audio/instrument modesubailey wrote: Mon Jan 07, 2019 5:58 am Update, I found a new DAW that i love since starting this thread. Waveform/Traction T7
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 149 posts since 4 Apr, 2017
Elektronisch wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:20 amCongratulations, but i am curious, why you switched? traction is way less capable DAW, plus since FL Studio 20.1 were some major improvements made regarding stability, cpu use and also added audio/instrument modesubailey wrote: Mon Jan 07, 2019 5:58 am Update, I found a new DAW that i love since starting this thread. Waveform/Traction T7
You were right. I tried switching for about a week. couldn't even finish a song, so now im back to FL. I guess i just like the ui better than FL, but the functionality is what's the most important, and your right, FL Studio is light years ahead of Traktion
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logifuzz-vst-plugins logifuzz-vst-plugins https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=434377 - KVRist
- 160 posts since 25 Jan, 2019 from Brazil
I would stick with FL Studio, it became a very powerful tool since it's early Fruity Loops days. I love all the piano roll features like chord helpers and lots of note/phrase altering options. Add your VST synths and effects of choice on top of that and you have a pretty comfortable environment for creativity.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 149 posts since 4 Apr, 2017
I made another beat in Cakewalk. Still working on it after several hours, as their zoom and arrangment features are not as user friendly as FL imo. Like i said this took hours. When I finished i started a beat in FL and had a project up and running in literally 20 minutes. FL's workflow is superior.
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- KVRer
- 24 posts since 3 May, 2019
The step sequencer in fl studio Made fl studio what it is today. I remember fruityloops as a real good beat program, but as the years went by iT became a real great Digital audio workstation. I use reason and fl both in Cubase ( Own them all ) really great.
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- KVRist
- 187 posts since 6 Jun, 2019
I don't understand the raving about FLStudio's step sequencer. Last I checked it was basically a standard, albeit graphically bulky looper for whipping up quick beats by programming in the sample triggers. There weren't enough steps to make much anything interesting, which either forced me to extend the pattern horizontally until it became impractical to use, and this was always when I sent the pattern to piano roll anyway and the step sequencer became completely useless (I'm being literal, not rhetorical) for the rest of the project.
However, what FLStudio did great was (is?) the looping itself. If I'm remembering right the patterns were on repeat by default, and when you'd insert MIDI beyond the looping section in piano roll, FLStudio had the gift of genius-league common sense to extend the loop region to include the new notes, by doubling the sequence length. I can't remember exactly how it behaved when I stepped beyond that next boundary, but I'd reckon the sequence was extended by the same amount, tripling the sequence length from the original, which doesn't seem that useful (correct me if I'm wrong!).
This behavior that mostly freed me from managing the stupid loop markers at the beginning of starting a new project, and the always reachable sample/VI browser that was standing in close proximity of the channel buttons enabling quick preview of its decent stock sounds and drag'n'dropping them to quickly create a set, to be clicked in comfortably into the smooth piano roll editor that let you use the two primary buttons of your primary hand's primary peripheral (aka. the mouse) for the two primary (IMO!) actions - inserting and removing MIDI notes - instead of wasting the right-click functionality for the idiomatic context menu (the very existence of which, again IMO, remarkably often is a testament to bad design) and remembered the length of the last inserted note and made the perhaps unfounded but - over, and over, and over again - lucky guess that I might wish to make my next note the same length, were the key features that I enjoyed in FLStudio.
The transition to arranging the patterns onto the playlist (or whatever it's called now) happened relatively smoothly when you felt it was the time, because the iterative process of creating the first basic loops in the streamlined but at the same time constrained environment of the piano roll was so fast and efficient that if nothing else the claustrophobia pushed you out of there into the bird's eye view.
After that fast, pleasant, productive starting flow, FLStudio began to show its weaknesses; the navigation between the different windows and views, managing instruments, managing patterns/sequences, the automation lanes... all of it became a crapfest. But for me, it's easy to see why some people feel they get certain things done in that DAW faster than in any other, if the workflow accommodates the music styles they produce.
The step sequencer is still useless in the very literal sense. IMO as usual.
However, what FLStudio did great was (is?) the looping itself. If I'm remembering right the patterns were on repeat by default, and when you'd insert MIDI beyond the looping section in piano roll, FLStudio had the gift of genius-league common sense to extend the loop region to include the new notes, by doubling the sequence length. I can't remember exactly how it behaved when I stepped beyond that next boundary, but I'd reckon the sequence was extended by the same amount, tripling the sequence length from the original, which doesn't seem that useful (correct me if I'm wrong!).
This behavior that mostly freed me from managing the stupid loop markers at the beginning of starting a new project, and the always reachable sample/VI browser that was standing in close proximity of the channel buttons enabling quick preview of its decent stock sounds and drag'n'dropping them to quickly create a set, to be clicked in comfortably into the smooth piano roll editor that let you use the two primary buttons of your primary hand's primary peripheral (aka. the mouse) for the two primary (IMO!) actions - inserting and removing MIDI notes - instead of wasting the right-click functionality for the idiomatic context menu (the very existence of which, again IMO, remarkably often is a testament to bad design) and remembered the length of the last inserted note and made the perhaps unfounded but - over, and over, and over again - lucky guess that I might wish to make my next note the same length, were the key features that I enjoyed in FLStudio.
The transition to arranging the patterns onto the playlist (or whatever it's called now) happened relatively smoothly when you felt it was the time, because the iterative process of creating the first basic loops in the streamlined but at the same time constrained environment of the piano roll was so fast and efficient that if nothing else the claustrophobia pushed you out of there into the bird's eye view.
After that fast, pleasant, productive starting flow, FLStudio began to show its weaknesses; the navigation between the different windows and views, managing instruments, managing patterns/sequences, the automation lanes... all of it became a crapfest. But for me, it's easy to see why some people feel they get certain things done in that DAW faster than in any other, if the workflow accommodates the music styles they produce.
The step sequencer is still useless in the very literal sense. IMO as usual.