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At 6/10/10 01:11 PM, Supersteph54 wrote:

At 6/10/10 01:07 PM, InvisibleObserver wrote: Is your soundcard integrated / a piece of crap?

Integrated and a piece of crap, although I had the same soundcard when this retarded problem hadn't come up yet and it still worked fine.

A4A tends to rape your entire system whenever the buffer overloads (processing power, affects the whole pc).
Is it full duplex or not?
Does this insane lag happen if you'd set the buffer to 8k samples?
Also is the lag as extreme if you run everything with multithreading enabled?

I'm running a DX based full duplex ASIO driver and it beats the crap out of A4A on my intergrated card.
I never lag at all with it. :S

I just bought a new laptop and downloaded FL 9 on it and transfered all my projects form my old computer on my new one but for some reason when I try to open one of the projects it says Fl Studio engine launcher has stopped working. I did download a torrent of FL but i downloaded a torrent of it on my old computer also and nothing like that ever happened. What could be the problem?

At 6/10/10 11:55 AM, InvisibleObserver wrote:

At 6/10/10 04:16 AM, Methreee wrote: can you change the speed of a sample in slicex?

Yes.

thank you. that's exactly what i was looking for.

At 6/10/10 07:11 PM, cgizzle wrote: ........for some reason when I try to open one of the projects it says Fl Studio engine launcher has stopped working. I did download a torrent.................... What could be the problem?

It means your crack fucked up.

I was wondering how to get "fade ins" of effects. Say I have a pattern and I want to make a pattern on the playlist fade in. By fade in it I mean a dulled effect and it slowly gets clearer (Refer to example to below)

Here is what I mean, listen to the first 15 seconds and hear the melody, how it fades in oouder and clearer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouBJTv_Oq JA

At 6/11/10 08:25 PM, lron wrote: I was wondering how to get "fade ins" of effects. Say I have a pattern and I want to make a pattern on the playlist fade in. By fade in it I mean a dulled effect and it slowly gets clearer (Refer to example to below)

Here is what I mean, listen to the first 15 seconds and hear the melody, how it fades in oouder and clearer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouBJTv_Oq JA

I believe what you want is to automate a cutoff filter. Do you know anything about automation, mixer channels, etc.?

At 6/11/10 08:25 PM, lron wrote: I was wondering how to get "fade ins" of effects. Say I have a pattern and I want to make a pattern on the playlist fade in. By fade in it I mean a dulled effect and it slowly gets clearer (Refer to example to below)

Here is what I mean, listen to the first 15 seconds and hear the melody, how it fades in oouder and clearer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouBJTv_Oq JA

just look for the fruity fast LP and automate the cutoff and resonance like the last poster stated. It's pretty easy after the first time you do it.

Does it consistently and predictably occur?

Consistent and fairly predictable. There hasn't been a decent song I've made ever since this problem started happening which didn't go into retarded mode at one point, and by fairly predictable, I mean that I'm quite sure that when a song reaches a certain CPU-intensive part in a song, it turns into retarded mode.

Random bits I didn't notice above... Is visual smoothing off? No wave candy? Intense dynamic effect on the master? (Soundgoodizer, Maximus, Parametric EQ2) Run the Auto-disable then re-enable for delays, reverbs, or synths with a long release. VST Sample your Sytrus into Direct Wave, or freeze it. Gol built Sytrus to overload even the best of today's computers, given you want to use every feature. I don't know how relevant scheduling the processor for background services is when using A4A. Try using extended memory mode if you have 3gigs of RAM. Give me a bit and I'll try to think of some other overlooked annoyances.

...cheap ASIO compliant card?

At 6/14/10 08:25 AM, Supersteph54 wrote: Note that I have a CD with Windows 7 that I've been meaning to install. Do you think the new OS might fix the problem?

Who cares if it does or doesn't, its a way better OS.

Though I'm leaning towards "does" fix issue.

Nope, no wave candy.

Hit F12 before playing to hide everything btw. That eliminates almost all screen drawing.

Intense dynamic effect on the master? (Soundgoodizer, Maximus, Parametric EQ2)

The only effects I've ever had on the master are Fruity Reeverb and Edison, and I rarely do anyway :(.

Reverbs CAN be intense, particularly on the master with a lot of sub-mixes. Putting one on the send channel can be very useful. Edison on the "current channel" saves having it always listening if you select an empty channel. Make sure Edison's display resolution is 1024 or below unless you're doing detail work.

Run the Auto-disable then re-enable for delays, reverbs, or synths with a long release. VST Sample your Sytrus into Direct Wave, or freeze it.

Tools>Macros>Switch Smart Disable. The option for manually switching is in the menu in the top left corner of every native and wrapper plugin. In fact, get to know this menu, it's where any random guess and check modification suggestions would occur, were I to lend them.

, I only used East/West Symphonic Orchestra and drum samples, but the problem is still there,

I don't know any more than the ad i saw, but if it prefers 64bit but will deal with 32, it's probably rather intensive. I might look for an alternative. Fruity offers a good array of orchestral samples for free and a lot more for a nominal fee... if you have a legit copy... which plug perfectly into directwave. But as I said above, the magic combination of settings that might fix it are in the top left menu of the plugin. Because it's not native, there will be two menus. The one that looks like a gear will be more useful in this situation. RTFM on the Wrapper for details.

Note that I have a CD with Windows 7 that I've been meaning to install. Do you think the new OS might fix the problem?

I would imagine there are as many pros as cons, but I've had the same XP for 8 years. I don't even have a multi-core. You should have every advantage over me and I run intensive plugins at 10ms latency. Do you play a lot with mixer routing? Check the mixer's settings in the top left.

Cheap soundcard with ASIO. Internal or external I'll bet you could achieve that for under $20. Just to see.

We'll get through this.

And one more thing I just noticed when I re-read. I've been too lazy to ditch it, but AVG doesn't always get along with Fruity. I recommend Avast! if for no other reason than that you can completely disable it while you are Flooping and then re-enable it.

And make sure any unnecessary MIDI options are off. "retarded mode" happens to me when I get a little too MIDI happy with my synths.

How can I export/render tracks as a loop in fruity loops? (I don't want that extra silence at the end of the track)

At 6/15/10 03:50 AM, BlkAce wrote: How can I export/render tracks as a loop in fruity loops? (I don't want that extra silence at the end of the track)

Set the export setting to "wrap remainder". This should resolve any issues.

In the event that theres a spec of space, or its not working forwhatever reason, within the playlist of loops; highlight from the very first bar to precisely where the song ends and should loop. Export the selected area (play setting set as 'song'), as you would normally and wrap remainder.

This basically tells FL precisely what you want to export, and to loop the fade out onto the beginning of the audio clip.

i have a question ... in fl.. is there anyway that i can add an effect to only the delay of an instrument? like for example? idk maybe i would put a flange or maybe some automating with a high pass filter on the delay but not the instrument ... any ideas?

At 6/17/10 09:42 AM, MrFijiWiji wrote: i have a question ... in fl.. is there anyway that i can add an effect to only the delay of an instrument? like for example? idk maybe i would put a flange or maybe some automating with a high pass filter on the delay but not the instrument ... any ideas?

Send your instrument to a mixer channel. Send that mixer channel to master and a second mixer channel. On your second channel add a delay at the #1 slot (unless you wantto compress/limit/eq it first). Set that delay to have no dry mix in (FL delay 2 works). Then add flange.

How do you make laser beam type sounds like in this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exVr1xEDq jw&feature=related

At 6/17/10 08:10 PM, KingDerekx wrote: How do you make laser beam type sounds like in this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exVr1xEDq jw&feature=related

the laser sound sounds like its made with a sine or a triangle, which has a ADSR envelope on the pitch.

basically open up 3xosc, turn the volume for two of the oscs to 0 and set the one thats on to a triangle or a sine and approx at the pitch the laser its at. go to the INS tab, then the pitch tab under that, turn the AMT knob all the way to the right.

set:
DEL all the way to the left
ATK all the way to the left
HOLD all the way to the left
leave the DEC knob
SUS all the way to the left
and REL all the way to the left

you should have a laser kind of sounding sound, play with the DEC knob to get it right. you might want to click on the TNS above the graph and increase the DEC tension to get it right.

At 6/17/10 08:10 PM, KingDerekx wrote: How do you make laser beam type sounds like in this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exVr1xEDq jw&feature=related

I don't know which sounds you refer to as laser sounds... the opening sounds, which I think have a certain laser sheen to them sound like physical modeling. If so, try Drumpad. If you mean the more elctroish blip laser, play with Fruity Kick to start. There are A LOT of synthesis methods going on in this track. I might have me another listen.

This is more of a plugin question...

But ROM Synthesizers, like Nexus, Hypersonic, and such... Where do they create the sounds from? ARe they sampled from certain hardware, or what?

At 6/24/10 02:49 PM, leftBrain wrote: In FL Studio 9 demo version, in the right-click drop down menu of one of my channels, the 'clone' option is grayed out. Why is this, and how can I get it active?

I know it seems like a small problem, but it is making the workflow significantly more difficult. I'm assigning different melodies of the same timbre to different patterns, and the timbre has a lot of custom channel settings made by myself, so yeah... it's a real annoyance. Any info about this would be much appreciated.

Maybe it's because you are just using the Demo? I don't see why they would not allow that function in the demo but that might be the problem. Other than that I couldn't see why it would be grayed out?

At 6/24/10 02:49 PM, leftBrain wrote: In FL Studio 9 demo version, in the right-click drop down menu of one of my channels, the 'clone' option is grayed out. Why is this, and how can I get it active?

that shouldnt happen. you could try re-installing.

also i vaguely remember someone else having a similar problem to that, you could try looking through the pages in this thread for it.

At 6/19/10 04:10 AM, mmmburgers wrote: This is more of a plugin question...

But ROM Synthesizers, like Nexus, Hypersonic, and such... Where do they create the sounds from? ARe they sampled from certain hardware, or what?

romplers are kind of like synth/sampler hybrids. i know nexus has synthesis capabilities but they are locked, that combined with multisamples, sampled from wherever really. it could be recorded hardware, real instruments, or soft synths.

I feel like a total noob asking this, but here it goes...

I've been using FL for almost 2 years now and there is always static that plays whenever I listen to my song. But when I export my song, the static goes away and everything is fine, but it REALLY bothers me when I'm making a song.

Is there a way to get rid of the static?

At 6/24/10 07:00 PM, UncleSqueezins wrote: Is there a way to get rid of the static?

Fiddle with the buffer time, underuns drop sound and make things click in a static like manner.

At 6/24/10 07:07 PM, InvisibleObserver wrote:

At 6/24/10 07:00 PM, UncleSqueezins wrote: Is there a way to get rid of the static?

Fiddle with the buffer time, underuns drop sound and make things click in a static like manner.

Thank you so much! :D