Well.
After reading all of the comments I must say I agree with a good portion of you who agree that Fruityloops is a lunatic program. It's straight water. And for those of you lost on the meaning of those terms, it's a fantastic program.
Yes, it favors electronic composers (house, hip hop, trance, drum n' bass, pop R&B, etc) but for wht it does, it is a truly powerful program.
My only beef is the fact that people who go out and buy expensive hardware and then trash on programs like Fruityloops (which is the only thing I don't like..the name), Reason, Orion, and the like saying that it can't produce sounds like a JP8000 or 8080, or Kurzweil, or Triton.
I think any wise music producer will use whatever they need to get the job done. Doesn't matter if you have a Kurzweil or Triton or MPC or Nord Virus. What matters is can you produce a dope track.
This whole debate on hardware vs. software is ridiculous in my eyes. I've heard people with expensive Pro Tools equipment and Triton sequences that simply sounded like crap. I've heard compositions in Fruityloops and Reason blow me away.
So what's the concensus? That the most innovative and creative people often make dope tracks with whatever they have. It's not because of the equipment, it's because of them.
So learn how to produce. Learn how to mix, arrange, write compelling lyrics, and generally compose. It doesn't matter what you use to the average consumer. That only matters on miniscule forums like this. Consumers want to be touched and influenced by your music. All they care about is does it sound dope. Was my money well spent? If they can say 'Yes', they'll buy the next one. Having a repeat customer, and lots of them, is more important than what you use.
So Fruityloops gets the big thumbs up. Great program for what it does and for those of us who are innovative, can do whatever we want it to do.
God bless.
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