Sunday, April 8, 2012

Spent the last two months doing me some learnin

I started out using Sony's Acid Pro for music creation (actually it was called Sonic Foundry's Acid Pro when I bought version 2.0) and now have decided to never use it again. It sucks. Well, it sucks that I spent so long never really educating myself on how in depth it is and it sucks that I barely used it's capabilities. What DOESN'T suck is Imageline's FL Studio. I first started using it just to program drum loops that I would use with Acid Pro. It was called Fruity Loops at the time. Now there's no reason for me to ever use Acid Pro again except to complete the many unfinished songs I started with it. I gave Sony one more shot for old times sake but after getting pissed at the lack of online tutorials and official support, I'm saying goodbye to its laborious program. Imageline has over 400 online tutorials on their Youtube channel and I've watched about 50-60 of em in the last couple months. They use the catch phrase "the fastest way from your brain to your speakers" and they ain't exaggerating at all. FL Studio is an "open environment" and is "intuitive" ass well. It's mind blowing how AWESOME it is. I grew up bouncing stereo tracks back and forth on magnetic tape and having to use hardware based effects. It took me a while to rap my head around digital signal flow and I often found myself shouting out loud: "No fucking way!" on how easy it is. Basically, if you can think of an idea musically, FL Studio can do it a million times over.