Understanding the Fruity Loops workflow - Make Music Right Now
When learning any new piece of software it takes a little while to understand things. The Fruity Loops workflow is the basic set of activities taken to make a tune.
Creating a choice music track in 5 steps:
- Instruments/ generators - These are used to make sounds and are arranged vertically in the step sequencer. The instruments/generators are shown to the left as Kick, Clap, HiHat, Snare ect.
Step sequencer:
- Composition/ sequencing - The musical elements are entered in to the step sequencer or piano roll. The step sequencer consists of the grey/red boxes in the image on the left. Highlight a box in the step sequencer to play a note on the corresponding beat.
Playlist editor
- Arrangement - Pattern blocks are arranged and can be looped in the Playlist window. The are shown on the right as long grey rectangles. Audio clips can be loaded in and arranged towards the bottom of the playlist editor.
- Mixing - The sound produce by the instruments, generators and/or audio clips pass through the mixer where effects can be appliend to them. Reverb, compression, eq and distoriton are just some of the many effects to choose from. The mixer can also be also used to set the levels of each of the individual sounds so that the overall sound is loud enough to a level that it doesn’t clip.
Mixer
- Exporting/ rendering - After a set of intruments have been programmed in the playlist to form a song, the sound data can be exported to a sound format such as .wav or .mp3 and played in winamp or burnt to a CD.This is a basic overview of the Fruity Loops workflow in its simplest form. So get to it - start a new project make a tune, convert it to mp3 and bounce around the room to your sweet new tune!Yeah well ok you might not fully understand Fruity Loops just yet but play around you will fill in the gaps for yourself, that’s how I started out
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August 11th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Nice introduction mate. Look forward to seeing some more posts.
October 6th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
I think that this is good for explaining stuff… but I don’t understand how one gets into the mixer? :S
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it’s prob. just me, being stupid -.-’
but, I’d like to say thanks for making for this program though because it’s quite a confusing program :S
October 6th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
LOL
I just realized I said something REALLY STUPID
I meant to say thank you for making a tutorial for this program.
ya, there I go again, being stupid.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:58 am
cool introduction. i think i like the way you explain it. not so tough for slow brain ppl like me.
keep up the good work!
November 21st, 2007 at 10:34 pm
one thing, i jst bought my fl studio 5, but really it’s fruity loops 4, anyway, the problem is, the kick, hi hat n snare boxes are red. the clap’s fine, it works. the rest dont make a sound when i try putting ‘em in a sequence. whut do i do?
i tried some of the sounds under “packs” but cud only hear a few like 10 sounds from all of them?
November 22nd, 2007 at 11:03 pm
This could be a problem with the location of the default drum hits. Just download some new drum hit samples and open them in place of the defaults. When ever a sample is coloured “red” it means that the sample has either been moved or deleted from your hard drive.
June 28th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
it just started and i dont know why it used to work