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Well first make sure you spell "Kontakt" correctly or people will have a very hard time understanding what you're referring to. XD Second, unless the guitars are by Native Instruments or by a third party company that NI lists as POwered by Kontakt, all third party samples will shut down after half an hour in the Kontakt demo. Also, you seem to misunderstand what those were. They are sample sets FOR Kontakt, they aren't VSTi's. So there's no way to load them unless you have some sort of version of Kontakt, and the demo/player will only load them for 30 minutes.

Happy birthday to that guy who likes to use Macbooks

I think FL pitch bends are much better than event controls, and I think VSTi's should support them. But they don't. It's something we as users of a DAW that has seemingly unthinkable and amazingly ingenious yet so ridiculously common sense features have to deal with. The rest of the music production world hasn't caught up. But to answer your question, no, your best bet is to use the event editor. Sowwie.

I'm stuck between Zebra 2 and Sytrus.

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This should've won, hands down.

Well there you go. Okay, I'll stop being a jerk. Pattern blocks are the rectangles you put down in the playlist that have been there for a long time in FL Studio. I'm assuming you haven't upgraded to FL Studio 9, where clips were starting to be used. Clips are the other playlist where you can put stuff in the playlist and see what's in the pattern.

This is a vague inquiry, because latency can be set by your buffer rate. I'm running a machine not much greater than yours and I can get a 2 ms minimum latency on my Audio Kontrol 1. I don't imagine there would be a gigantic difference between these two interfaces, but I don't know. I would say that for the most part your latency should be fine and comfortable if you turn the buffer rate down.

You've never used FL Studio before, have you?

See if you can go into your preferences and change the behavior of what your browser does with different file types. You should be able to find mp3 and set it to "download" or something like that. Firefox does this, I'm not sure Chrome does.

All FL Studio projects open in newer editions. It doesn't work the other way around, though. Also, after FL Studio 10 they're removing pattern blocks, so I guess I should amend my answer to: Starting at FL Studio 11, your old projects using pattern blocks won't be compatible.

Sorry but I have to put the obligatory slayer is the worst guitar sim I've come across.

http://newsletter.native-instruments.com/ov?mailing=1UVU4VK-JF019GO&m2u=CZIUF7F-1UVU4VK-122C17J0&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DJ+xmas+gift&utm_source=newsletter Self explanatory. The email is a bit misleading, you CAN download all six packs. Great for electronica artists, lots of cool loops. If loops aren't your thing, you should still give em a try if you have FL Studio's Slicex or a similar plug in to get the individual sounds out and program your own beats.

xD I'm just saying. I would've googled before asking, I'm not callin you out or anything.

Considering it's been advertised BY Image-Line and emails BY Image-Line and it's ON the FL Studio facebook page...

No, you're making it look like Reason is better than FL Studio by clearly "forgetting" that FL can do the same thing.

Do you have a soundfont player in FL Studio?

Either get used to clips (playlist) and forget about patterns or be prepared to be using FL Studio Version 9 for the rest of your life. They're taking out patterns in the next version, so you should be prepared for the workflow change. I welcome it, because clips give you better control of your tracks.

Who said you can't do that in FL? Now you're just making stuff up. Well the OP is "why more FL Studio users than Reason", I'm simply pointing out from an FL Studio user's perspective why they wouldn't ever want to switch to Reason.

You know that takes way too long? Holding down the right mouse button to delete notes is much much faster. To me the only "gross and dumb piano roll" is the one in Reason. It's really tedious to get things done as fast as you need to, plus it doesn't offer as much control for as little time.

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Uh, i have no problem with the rest of your post, but this bit I do. I'm not sure how efficient/workflowing the arrangement window is, but the piano roll in Reason is pure crap. Mainly because you have to hold a button just to draw notes. But I guess that's more a thing for mouse musicians, because I don't record and edit input from a MIDI keyboard, I just draw my notes and humanize manually. I just find it tedious that I have to select notes to and hit a key to delete notes rather than just click the right mouse button and sweep over notes that I don't want any more. Especially with the new 9.7 version lasso and zoom improvements, I think FL Studio has the best and easiest to use piano roll out there, and I've tried Reason, REAPER, Cubase (own it), and Garageband. I'll be delving into Pro Tools in my music production class soon, but I don't have high expectations for its piano roll if it's anything like the other "industry standard" DAWs like Cubase. For mouse musicians, I'd recommend a Reason ReWire into FL Studio rather than using Reason as a primary system. FL Studio's piano roll has kickass control types and sending the sequenced MIDI to Reason would yield the ultimate synth melodies. That's just my two cents on Reason's "MIDI sequencer".

I'm still a little disheartened that I seem to be the only one here within your suggested "poll range" to stand up for his own thoughts on past vs. present games. Going back to what Gario said, it makes me more of an exception than a "rule", which I guess means that all teenagers are call of duty loving freaks who spend all their time bashing the graphics of older games and sinking money to play death match on XBL. Consoles are pretty much covering everything discussed in this thread (mostly I've seen is SNES vs. Xbox 360) I think the handheld market is really reaching to not only little kids but to old people as well, and I see guys at school bring in gameboy colors and play the original pokemon games. I think that the handheld market is a little less of a generation gap. PC Gaming is an iffy term. Technically it's been around for a very long time, but the generation gap wouldn't be in what games the different generations are interested in, but rather what they define as "PC Gaming". I define it as playing MMO's and games like Team Fortress 2. This might lump me into a rule that teens only like online PC gaming, but whatever. (and I play Shatter and Droplitz, if that's worth anything. Previously I've enjoyed games like Civ IV, Portal, Jedi Knight 2 & 3, Torchlight, etc.) Also, interesting fact: Some girl in my biology class mentioned she was getting Black Ops for christmas, which I thought was neat and scary at the same time.

Oh, okay. I see then. I still disagree that the multiple mixer methods are faster than just selecting what other tracks to route to, but that's just me.

Okay, well, all I'm saying is that I think it's funny people say Reason is the "easiest" for doing this kind of stuff, when you have to create two mixers and do all this wiring stuff when in FL Studio you just click a button.