Customizing Your Fruity Loops Program

[Jon Linen]

So if your anything like me you are never satisfied with stock sounds in anything. As a producer you are constantly in search of new sounds to make your collage(music) with.

Fruity Loops hands down is one of the best programs for sequencing. It is a great workstation for beginners and pros. However the thing I hear most about Fruity Loops is that while you grow as a producer and start to acquire a taste for more complicated melodies, your growth can be stunted by not having a wide array of sounds. These Skills can help you. Using these exercises you’ll see how to customize your Fruity Loops Sequencer.

First add The Cool Kids Influence to Your Page
1. You can use a photo of yourself or a logo that you created. Save A picture file as “Title.png” / Also File Should be saved as (.PNG) format
2. Select Start/ choose my computer/ choose C: Drive/ choose Program Files/ Now select Image Line folder.
3. Once inside Image Line Folder/ choose FL Studio 8/ Choose Artwork/ Select The Folder That pertains to your software (ex.) Demo, Studio, Producers edition/ Drag New picture into the folder (side note you should also delete old picture of logo)
4. Next time You open Fruity Loops Your Logo Or Picture Will Appear.

Adding Wave Files (drums/samples)
A lot of people post free material online you can start by typing in free Drum Samples to any search engine. We will start by adding some new Drum Kits. "Tape Drums" to be exact. Courtesy of me These are some out of my library, all are found free through some of my blogs and either custom or tweaked.

1. http://www.zshare.net/download/20303763498500cc/
2. Once download is complete.
3. Select Start/ choose my computer/ choose C: Drive/ choose Program Files/ Now select Image Line folder.
4. Once inside Image Line Folder/ choose FL Studio 8/ Choose Data Folder/ Choose Patches/ Now select Packs
5. Unzip Downloaded Drum File and copy/move into the packs folder. Done. Do that to add all kinds of loops or samples that are waves. MP3 sounds will not play so make sure files are .wav

Also, Roland Corp. U.S. announced new MV-8000 drum kit downloads, available now on Roland's web site. Every famous 808 sound, complete with knob twists and nuances, has been captured in uncompressed, full-resolution audio.

Next Trick

Google search “Free VST Synths”
There will be tons of free VST plugins that you can choose from. All of them with different sounds that you can use. To Start: Try http://www.bostreammail.net/ers/lazysnake.html

1. To set up Download and install VST Instruments to your computer. They should show up in your Fruity Loops Program after they are set up.

Some good VST Instruments for PC that are Free: FM7(vintage sound), Abakos(Nice Analog sound), or Beatbox(download and see what I mean, lol crazy)

Most of the Instruments named and other are located at the website below. So stop saying money is holding you back! lol

http://www.freesoundeditor.com/VSTSyntheng.htm

(Now we take over the world)

[Monts! ter®]

Thanks Jon! I am dumping these in Reason!

[Jon Linen]

lol, you can do the same thing in reason, forgot to add that. lol

[Jon Linen]

there are some good effects on this site too.
http://www.audiomastermind.com/
all instruments are free as well.
Make Noise Monster.

[Monts! ter®]

"It's Nothing, Check It Out" ;-)

Thanks Jon.

[Chenyelu Bomani]

Many thanks Jon...am dumping into F-Loops!

[Kompozure (Zarrick Holmes)]

been MIA for a few days, this is a godsend! Ill reply as soon as I get home from work!!!

[Monts! ter®]

We will see you then.

[Kompozure (Zarrick Holmes)]

ok....so Im home from work now....LoL.

Working like a charm...1.ooo thank you's to Jon Linen!!