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BC · Post by BC » Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:45 am

I realize FLS doesn't have the market-share of say REASON but a 'how-to' book woulds certainly be welcome. The web-tuturials are helpful but I'd sure prefer a book of some sort.

blakereary · Post by **blakereary** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:41 pm

BC wrote:I realize FLS doesn't have the market-share of say REASON but a 'how-to' book woulds certainly be welcome. The web-tuturials are helpful but I'd sure prefer a book of some sort.

There's one coming..

-Blake

self · Post by **self** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:51 pm

Tip1: rightclick everything
Tip2:Learn the frikkin shortcuts
tip3:just play round and dont consider the end result, good things happen

BC · Post by BC » Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:52 pm

[quote="blakereary"
There's one coming..

-Blake[/quote]

Well that's good news. I've more-or-less sat on FLS for over a year now. I can wait another however-long.

Went to BORDERS yesterday and saw 4 different REASON books. I was mildly tempted to buy one and fire up my copy of REASON-ADAPTED - but frankly I don't want to get into yet another piece of music-software.

Modeler · Post by **Modeler** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:57 pm

The fact that you cannot save your work in the FLS demo kind-of makes it difficult to evaluate the product.

Much of the 'must have' features do not present themselves until you really start playing with the thing, something you usually would only do once you had a project on the go, not during a one-sitting piss-about.

A time limit would be far better IMO. I bit the bullet and bought the XXL package, never looked back.

Mighty_Hero · Post by **Mighty_Hero** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:07 pm

You can also gradient color and make groups. This is helpful once you have many instruments loaded.

Studio just makes sense to me and I only compose in studio.

BC · Post by BC » Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:30 pm

Ahhh - is this the book?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 5V95SJGYIC

Sweet.

Mighty_Hero · Post by **Mighty_Hero** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:33 pm

Cheat Mode wrote:The fact that you cannot save your work in the FLS demo kind-of makes it difficult to evaluate the product.

What? It's awesome that you can do anything in it, EVEN bounce down the audio. If you're on XP, just leave the demo open and you can come back to it all the time. It's one of the best demo's I have ever seen imho.

Ization · Post by **Ization** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:10 am

j.ho wrote:
normal wrote: the strength of FLS , imo , is the piano roll ... easy to use , record to , and edit ...
Is there a list of keyboard shortcuts for the piano roll? For instants, a shortcut for switching between the editing tools, etc etc.

Thanks! I've been messing with FL a few days and I like the sequencer thus far and it rewires into my fav programs.

I just picked up an old issue of Computer Music (oct 04)today and it had a full page of shortkut keys for FL.

Piano Roll

P - select the draw tool

B - select the paint tool

D - select the delete tool

C - select the cut tool

E - select the select tool

Z - select the zoom tool

Y - select the playback tool

AltGr + Q - Quick quantitize

Ctrl + Q - Quantitize

I hope this helps!

Justin

JMC · Post by **JMC** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:22 am

BC wrote:I realize FLS doesn't have the market-share of say REASON ...

The numbers are about the same (even adding the Mac + PC Reason sales).

It's just that as half of our sales are download only & not having a Mac version (impossible for us) excludes FL from quite a lot of magazine / keyboard bundling deals, making FL look less apparant.

Anyway : A book is coming up.

See ya,

jmc (FL Studio)

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:29 am

BC wrote:I realize FLS doesn't have the market-share of say REASON but a 'how-to' book woulds certainly be welcome. The web-tuturials are helpful but I'd sure prefer a book of some sort.

Seriously? I think the Help is very well-worded and helpful enough.

Unless you are talking about technique?

idobs · Post by **idobs** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:30 am

Somebody sound the alarm! We've finally found someone at KVR who isn't a gearhead drooling for the next big thing to come out!!

BC wrote: Went to BORDERS yesterday and saw 4 different REASON books. I was mildly tempted to buy one and fire up my copy of REASON-ADAPTED - but frankly I don't want to get into yet another piece of music-software.

soulkraka · Post by **soulkraka** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:43 am

BC wrote:Ahhh - is this the book?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 5V95SJGYIC

Sweet.

ya....ummmm...love the cover!!!

BC · Post by BC » Mon Jan 24, 2005 4:24 pm

I'm almost the opposite of the gear-head.

I want to use the minimum number of tools I have to and I want to understand those tools I do use. I *hate* having a huge list of VSTi/DXis and FX's to scroll through etc.

I'm happy with my primary host (SONAR4) and I find myself doing 99% of everything in there. However, I find the MIDI editing/sequencing tools in S4 a bit limiting (Ironic, isn't it?).

REASON is too much. FLS may be 'just right' but I can't get my head around it yet.

Rabid · Post by **Rabid** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:02 pm

Jim Aikin put one out last year that is on Amazon but I think it is very basic. It is hard to do a good book on DAW's because by the time the book is out, the new version of the DAW comes out.

Robert

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