Nabeel Ansari

I'm not entirely sure it would work, but it wouldn't hurt to try, right?

Have you ever had any other FL Studio errors with your laptop? If so, your laptop could be having issues with FL Studio (did you try reinstalling FL Studio?)

And you've tried "Rescan MIDI devices" and reinstalling the drivers? If it works fine on your desktop and reinstalling the drivers doesn't work, your laptop probably is just derp.

You misread AGAIN. You said it YOURSELF, each VST authorizes differently. I'm not gonna keep trying to reword what I say because you don't seem to be able to take my post the right way. Also, you're saying "What's the point?". That's exactly what I'm trying to say. I'm describing the only way it would work right, and just like you said, yes it's pointless.

I think you should reread what I said, you might've misunderstood. You need Steam to run Steam games because they (the actual games) are configured a bit differently. For VSTeam, it would have to be similar. In other words, you'd need to run this application at the same time as running your DAW in order the authorize these VST's, and in order to authorize them, like you said, is a pain in the rear,. If they wanted to run VSTeam in conjunction with a DAW, it would either be a background service feeding an authorization code for when the DAW opens the VST, or it would have to be an integrated service in the DAW. Thus what I said a few posts ago: a vst that opens vst's.

A good mixer is one that satisfies you for a long time. It's very nice and works well for what you do, and it revolutionizes your workflow.

Lemme guess: Ears blown out from metal concerts?

Actually, I think it's just a matter of conserving MIDI from wrapper to wrapper.

I'm not a genre nazi per se, but I DO get pissed when idiotic teenagers with no concept of music comprehension classify ALL electronic music as "techno" and that nerds listen to it. Sure I'm a nerd and I assist the stereotype, but there's a vast difference between 90s eurodance that everyone thinks of when you say techno or electronic and Pendulum DnB beats or Zircon downtempo breaks. There are way too many sub sections (large ones, at that) of electronic music to generalize it. I'm sure if everyone listened to every type of electronic music, everyone would find something they like. Unless they hate synths. Then they've probably haven't heard much of what you can do with a synthesizer. If they honest to god have heard every type of synth timber and still hate it, I give up.

At least PC Games work generally the same. VST's send sample content and patches to different locations (sometimes even from each other) so reconfiguring EVERY EFFIN VST to work with this system would be a huge project that no one would feel like working on. Also, there's the thing about launching these if you DID change them. Steam games you NEED STEAM to run the games for the game to understand how to be run, so you would also have to reconfigure all the DAW's to comply with this VSTeam system because they all currently handle VST's differently. Or you would make the service itself a VST to be plugged into a DAW to handle the VST's. Fruity Wrapper inside of Fruity Wrapper, anyone?

I'd love to, but I need to learn self control and not blow all of my savings on stuff I saved for (ironic, huh). I just bought Kontakt 4 a few months ago.

This whole thing is over compressed. There's too much reverb everywhere, though. The guitars sound really weak. The synth lead is nice, but it's the only thing here that stands. The drums sound really thin, fake, a quiet. The hi hats are also really mechanical, you could vary the velocities on them to make them sound more human. Also, try the Addictive Drums demo to replace the drums in this song. Nice arrangement but please, PLEASE remove that original source at the end. It sounds really cheesy and doesn't fit at all. This song REALLY has potential and is more than amazing for a first start.

Good luck.

He's not talking about real STEAM, he's talking about a service of online distribution of VST's similar to Valve's PC Game store called STEAM.

The thing about this is that not every VST installs the same way. Some of them you drag and drop a .dll to your VST folder, and some would take you through an installation process to help you decide what components to install. It would be hard to create a flexible service that can handle all of these different installation methods and do it for you. The most it could do is download a file for you and you install it yourself. It is a good idea, but I'm sure you understand that it's magnitudes harder than video games (because everything is different unlike with PC games). As far keeping track of what we own, it's a bit ludicrous to suggest we can't do it ourself or keep our own back ups. Unless you could work around the installation thing, it's no easier than keeping your installation DVD's or exe's.

OKAAAAAAY: 1. Legal license of FL Studio Sig Bundle and Harmless & Gross Beat so I can sell this album I'm semi-working on (it's exceeding my CPU's limits so I've stopped) for some cash. I prefer this over everything else in this list 2. Zebra 2 (don't need this any time soon, but I really dig the way it works from the demo) 3. Komplete 7, again, don't need anytime soon 4. An XLR microphone. Vocoded vocals in electronic tracks or recording FL Studio tutorials. I would prefer not to have this any time soon (my voice is still teenager esque). I have a USB webcam mic, but I can't use it and my audio interface at the same time. 5.The entire Impact Soundworks catalog except for Shreddage (I play electric guitar) 6.Build a PC (this might be this summer, I talked to my dad about it and if I can keep my grades up then I will) 7. East West Composer's Collection. Kontakt's samples are outstanding and I'm more than satisfied, so this is probably the one thing on this list that I need the least. (and would consider everything else before it) 8. An 88 key midi controller so I can self teach piano on Synthesia. 9. An Agile AL 2000 Silverburst electric guitar with two humbucking pickups and the cool lookin pick guard. First Act guitar sounds great in Guitar Rig 4 Pro... but it's possible this might be better.

But what's wrong with that? It still looks cool. If you don't want to be considered a graphics whore, stop complaining about graphics. The only time complaining about graphics is warranted is when it's an eyesore (like Goldeneye for Wii. Jaggies everywhere, textures unclear, etc. at least that's how it was at NY comic con. Pulling up images, it's a bit better). Complaining about the style is just subjective. In other words, even if you say cartoony is cool, you're still being a graphics whore.

Yep, me too.

Try his suggestion and see instead of asking if it works.

MIDI Patterns aren't bad at all; it's the entirety of my workflow. It's also kind of what FL Studio is designed for; that is easy midi sequencing.

You can choose not to download it.

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Sound it out. Sound cards are never bottlenecks until you want to record. I think buying an expensive sound card is an extremely haphazard choice just for MIDI. If you're running an i7, then using your keyboard's USB connector (if it doesn't have one, you can get a converter) with ASIO4ALL at a lower buffer rate should get you the latency you need. If you REALLY want dedicated I/O for recording, I suggest the USB (firewire is "faster" but USB is fast enough for the # of I/O's on this one) Audio Kontrol 1. Has MIDI I/O, one XLR OR 1/4" and one 1/4" inputs, 2 pairs of stereo 1/4" outputs, a headphone jack, and phantom power for mic. Also has a few buttons and a big knob. You can asign these to do whatever the hell (including combinations of different buttons pressed or turning the knob while pressing a specific one).

I don't understand why everyone says the Water Temple is difficult. 0_o It was pretty easy for me, got through it in a few hours, I had more trouble with the forest temple than I did with the water.

No, because again I am not asking about how you write your music. I am asking about how you use FL STUDIO. How you write your music is irrelevant. The point of this thread is to teach newbies how they can use FL Studio, because unlike all of the other DAWs that you are pointlessly defending (because I am not even attacking them), they only have one way you can work with them. FL Studio doesn't, and this thread is for the people who get intimidated by it's lack of guided flow. If you want a how to write music thread, there's a music composition & production forum with a shiny New Thread button on it. I am getting worked up, by the way, because you don't seem to understand that I'm not disagreeing with you. As for why restrict the discussion, I am restricting it because this thread is in the FL Studio forum. You know WHERE YOU TALK ABOUT FL STUDIO?