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Well, now I know why this piece of shit is pirated so much. I paid over $100 dollars for the Fruity Edition, and now I realize that in order to use ANY of ImageLine's plugin synthesizers, you have to shell out EVEN MORE additional cash. I mean, come on. $79 for Ogun? $179 for Sytrus? $189 for Maximus? I paid for this; why are they trying to charge me these ridiculous amounts for VST's ALREADY included in the program? I mean, I bought FL Studio so I wouldn't have to pay the $800+ it takes to get Ableton Live.

At 6/11/12 03:31 PM, Morph94 wrote: Well, now I know why this piece of shit is pirated so much. I paid over $100 dollars for the Fruity Edition, and now I realize that in order to use ANY of ImageLine's plugin synthesizers, you have to shell out EVEN MORE additional cash. I mean, come on. $79 for Ogun? $179 for Sytrus? $189 for Maximus?

the upgrade from fruity edition to XXL is $300 and you get all of those plugins

At 6/11/12 03:52 PM, LaForge wrote: is there another way to record to the playlist from an input?

Yes! Open your mixer tab, select an input and arm the channel for recording (click for superior visual explanation). You can record multiple channels at once, record the same input through multiple effects and just record the output of any given mixer track this way. It's a little more effort to begin with but if you mess up a take you can stop recording, ctrl+z and record straight away without setting it up again, or move the playhead and punch in from where you left off.

At 6/11/12 08:55 PM, midimachine wrote: the upgrade from fruity edition to XXL is $300 and you get all of those plugins

ALSO any plugins they make that are included in XXL are also included in the lifetime free updates for that edition.

Seriously, $189 for a high quality compression plugin isn't expensive, and the argument that you shouldn't have to pay for it because it came with the program is just silly - the whole point of a demo is 1) so you can try something out 2) so the developer can cocktease you into shilling out for a license.

At 6/11/12 09:35 PM, TheZaaL wrote:

the upgrade from fruity edition to XXL is $300 and you get all of those plugins

AND UPDATE 4 LIFEZZZ!!! Seriously, it is worth that amount, Image-Line truly did a great job, it's a consumer-friendly company too.

Unfortunately, I'm poor. I'll just have to save up for a while, I guess. Entertain myself with free VST's until then.

At 6/11/12 10:09 PM, LaForge wrote: cool, but it seems that the mixer track disarms for recording after every take, and for some reason, even though i have "auto-create audio clip" selected, nothing appears in the playlist until after the take is finished.

Oh yeah, I forgot that auto-unarm is enabled by default. It's in the same menu as auto-create audio clip.

How did you get it to display the audio clip before you finished recording before? I assumed it was normal that it didn't appear until you stopped recording, haha. FL is wacky!

Hey, I'm trying to use a pitch shifter to record a vocal sample of myself for a chorus, but the pitch shifter also slows down my music. I just want the low voice without altering the beat itself... But whenever I try to with Edison, it either slows down my whole song, or it doesn't have the shifted pitch. Anyone know of anything I can do, or possibly any vst plugins that don't change the pitch of my beat? All I want is a 4 measure chorus repeated with the shifted pitch (which it didn't let me put down another sample, it only let me put one).
Please help!

At 6/16/12 03:59 AM, up2dtime07 wrote: Hey, I'm trying to use a pitch shifter to record a vocal sample of myself for a chorus, but the pitch shifter also slows down my music. I just want the low voice without altering the beat itself... But whenever I try to with Edison, it either slows down my whole song, or it doesn't have the shifted pitch. Anyone know of anything I can do, or possibly any vst plugins that don't change the pitch of my beat? All I want is a 4 measure chorus repeated with the shifted pitch (which it didn't let me put down another sample, it only let me put one).
Please help!

Nevermind actually.... As soon as I wrote this I found out how to do this, on the voice sample itself just pull down the pitch. Silly me. However, now in the beginning of the song theres the original voice sample with no pitch shift... Why is it there? I can't remove it because there's nothing on the playlist. How do i remove that?

At 6/16/12 04:21 AM, up2dtime07 wrote: Nevermind actually.... As soon as I wrote this I found out how to do this, on the voice sample itself just pull down the pitch. Silly me. However, now in the beginning of the song theres the original voice sample with no pitch shift... Why is it there? I can't remove it because there's nothing on the playlist. How do i remove that?

are there any patterns on the playlist? make sure you didn't actually click it into the step sequencer in any patterns.

also remove the edison VST if you still have it running.

At 6/4/12 03:31 PM, TheZaaL wrote: Woops, bug! stupid tab!

@Nechura sorry if I sounded like a jerk, but it appeared obvious to me.

So yeah, pretty much it, sorry for the commotion!

It was just a suggestion...

At 6/16/12 04:21 AM, up2dtime07 wrote:

At 6/16/12 03:59 AM, up2dtime07 wrote: Hey, I'm trying to use a pitch shifter to record a vocal sample of myself for a chorus, but the pitch shifter also slows down my music. I just want the low voice without altering the beat itself... But whenever I try to with Edison, it either slows down my whole song, or it doesn't have the shifted pitch. Anyone know of anything I can do, or possibly any vst plugins that don't change the pitch of my beat? All I want is a 4 measure chorus repeated with the shifted pitch (which it didn't let me put down another sample, it only let me put one).
Please help!

Nevermind actually.... As soon as I wrote this I found out how to do this, on the voice sample itself just pull down the pitch. Silly me. However, now in the beginning of the song theres the original voice sample with no pitch shift... Why is it there? I can't remove it because there's nothing on the playlist. How do i remove that?

A bit old but...

Edison has this bad habit of playing whatever sample is loaded whenever you play the rest of the song. It's a bit hard to realize because Edison tends to be mixed in with whatever you have in your mixer Fx Rack.

Just get rid of Edison if you aren't going to use it, or turn off that thing that says "Slave Playback to Host".

I hope this helped!

At 6/21/12 05:25 PM, LaForge wrote: any ideas?

Wacky... perhaps the device might still be in use by ASIO4All, 0r even as your default sound driver?
Try a reinstall, maybe. If there was any part where it was like "HEY ASSHOLE DISCONNECT THE DEVICE YEAH NOW RECONNECT IT AGAIN" then it might've fucked up if you had other stuff running. Did you install the driver off a CD?

I have a question, what's the main difference between the fruity version and the producer version?

At 6/26/12 08:41 AM, Blazirc wrote: I have a question, what's the main difference between the fruity version and the producer version?

how about you read it off the image line site you lazy shit

Producer Edition includes:

All Fruity Edition features plus...

Audio recording from external sources.

Direct-to-disk recording & offline rendering of Mixer tracks.

Audio Clips with waveform view & support for cue points.

Automation Clips with editable envelopes and LFO mode.

+ Edison - integrated audio editor/recorder.

+ Slicex - loop slicer & re-arranger.

+ Vocodex - advanced vocoder.

+ Synthmaker âEU" advanced everything!

Lifetime free updates to Producer Edition by download.

At 7/4/12 10:52 AM, LiquidOoze wrote: Just bumping this with my problems.

I used Edison to cut a segment out of a wave file and put it in a channel. I want the segment to repeat itself so I used the crossfade loop button. However I also want to pitch it up, and normally this works fine when I use this method, but now, when I play the looping sample and fiddle with the pitch knob, nothing happens. It also stays the same tone when I use the piano roll. I have no idea how this happens. Help?

In the sampler channel options under time stretching, select "Resample" from the drop down box.
If it's already set to resample then open the MISC and make sure "Add to key" is unchecked.

At 7/4/12 11:30 AM, LiquidOoze wrote: When I set it to 'resample' (I had it on 'auto') I still couldn't do it, although I noticed that the tone was a semitone lower. 'Add to key' was already unchecked.

Right click the knob next to the drop down box labelled "TIME" and select "(none)" or drag it back to zero. If it doesn't work after that then something wacky happened

BSoD

So I'm getting some awkward problem. I use a Lexicon Lambda interface which comes with its own specific lexicon asio driver. The driver worked wonderfully for the last 2 years or so. Recently I plugged the interface into my laptop so I could have a nice mic to videochat with. Regardless, when I switched back to the studio computer I started getting two errors. One was that the audio for videos would take a few extra seconds to load then the video (like on youtube and stuff) so it would play the video then pause a few seconds to wait for audio. Weird eh?

Well here's the SHIT error:
When I open up FL studio I tend to keep it on the primary sound driver until I get artifacts or buffering problems (or if I need to record), but when I switched it over to the Lexicon ASIO driver I immediately got a blue screen of death with the error IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Obviously the first thing I did was re-install my audio driver. That fixed the weird audio lag on everything but I still get BSoD if I use the ASIO driver in FL. This effectively stops me from being able to record which is a huge problem for my clients.

I've looked into the problem online and have yet to find someone else with the problem. Perhaps I'm being a bad googler, but here's to hoping you guys can think of something I havent. Here's what I've tried so far in order:

Reset Audio Driver Settings
Re-installed Audio Driver
Re-Installed FL Studio
Ran a registry cleaner with CCleaner

TLDR; My audio driver started randomly causing BSoD, what could this be?

Hey fellow dudes! :D I spend a lot of time making movies and I always use music from newgrounds! :) If you're good at making tension-kind-of-music with like drums and shit, and you think it'll fit our videos, please send us a message.... check out our YT-channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/HeDaEnt?feature=guide

AHA. So after basically trying every stupid computer thing I know to do with fixing software, I finally came across the most random and stupid thing that could cause a problem. I had never heard of this, but at least you guys can learn from me:

DO NOT PLUG USB AUDIO DRIVERS INTO USB3.0 UNLESS IT'S MEANT FOR 3.0

This is what was causing my problem. When I switched back from my laptop I musta plugged it into the 3.0 by accident. Now you would think that shit is fully backwards compatible, but apparently it aint.

At 7/4/12 04:59 PM, Breed wrote: DO NOT PLUG USB AUDIO DRIVERS INTO USB3.0 UNLESS IT'S MEANT FOR 3.0

Audio Devices* I meant

At 7/6/12 11:00 AM, LiquidOoze wrote: 'Nother quick question.

With Parametric EQ 2, if you put it on the master bus, and the signal is equal at every frequency, does that mean you have a 'perfect' mix? I've heard stuff like that, but I doubt it's true because when I do that my ears get killed by the amount of highs.

IIRC, Equal signal across the spectrum = noise, which is very fatiguing for the ears. I'd dare say that's neither a perfect mix or a pleasant one.

or maybe I'm misunderstanding?

At 7/6/12 11:00 AM, LiquidOoze wrote: 'Nother quick question.

With Parametric EQ 2, if you put it on the master bus, and the signal is equal at every frequency, does that mean you have a 'perfect' mix? I've heard stuff like that, but I doubt it's true because when I do that my ears get killed by the amount of highs.

what bounce said, kinda
like obviously they don't mean absolutely EQUAL but if your track doesn't have light & shade then it won't be a pleasant listen

with highs on the master i usually keep anything >16K pretty restrained, like a -3dB shelf at least - steep HPF at 20K for no reason other than i don't feel comfortable rendering without it, haha

probably people taking "eq a space for everything" too far?

At 7/6/12 12:02 PM, B0UNC3 wrote:

At 7/6/12 11:00 AM, LiquidOoze wrote: 'Nother quick question.

With Parametric EQ 2, if you put it on the master bus, and the signal is equal at every frequency, does that mean you have a 'perfect' mix? I've heard stuff like that, but I doubt it's true because when I do that my ears get killed by the amount of highs.

drag a song with a mix you think is perfect in fl, look at it in PE2

check it out yourself.

in general a well mixed edm song will tend to have something going on at every frequency, so yes a FULL eq tends to be a good EQ at climaxes adn loud sections.

I don't know if this has already been asked and answered (if so I apologize but I did not want to sift through 195 pages of questions, lol). I am still pretty new to FL but I want to start making things along the lines of The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers (though a bit heavier). I have found a couple plug ins and they were decent but they were more rap oriented and I was wondering if anyone could point me towards a good place for (preferably free) plug ins that are more aligned with what I've described. Really at this point I pretty much only have about 9 different drum packs, 2 vocal packs, a few bass packs and an electric guitar pack that I can't seem to get to sound remotely close to good.

Also, if anyone knows of any good tutorials, a point in that direction would be much appreciated as well. Thank you.