All user reviews for the Image Line Fruity Loops Studio 4

Trs good piano roll to compose instinctively right clik to remove the notes very practical. Otherwise everything is easy to use in this program.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Pentium 4

OVERALL OPINION

Weaknesses:
The quality leaves a lot of sounds on offer DSIR, if lon compared with Reason 3.0. The synthsdorigine of fruity top are really not, you should download or use of VST plugins samples. Cest also a shame that lon may not assign keyboard keys selected functions by the user (start-up of filters, delay ...).
Now using Reason 3, Fruity I do affects more than to use VST synths.
Conclusion: Fruity is good for beginners, easy to learn, good interfaces, but its rotten and we quickly made the rounds of the effects. No wonder if everyone uses Reason to live in Tekno and composition ...

This is a great tool for creative minds. It has mircoscope control. It mixing on this is harder to hear depending on the monitors you have. You can easily walk away with a track you think is hot, then try playing it in your radio and it sound totally wack. It also has MIDI features.
Price paid

$100

This is pretty easy to use after a while just like any other beat making machine. It mite take you a period to learn how to use it. Take your time with it and you'll use it your own way. Nobody uses this program the same way to create stuff. It is pretty hard to use at first but, its childs play after a while.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

This Comes with crapy techno sounds. You have to put better sounds in it for quality hip hop, r&b, soul tracks. It could do well with Pop tracks but you still need to get another wave creating/ chopping program to use this program to you advantage. They don't tell you that when they give it a rating huh.

Its only as good as the producer. You can easiest make something new and fresh that other think is wack .Be careful

OVERALL OPINION

Me I love this program but I had it for a year before I was good at it. If you have the time and main frame you'll do ok. I plan to use this program to build my studio around. Holla front

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown ( 5-, 2003)

Fruityloops is pretty nice. It's very easy to learn. I've been using it for about two years now, and it's served me very well. I heard in FL Studio you can also lay down vocal tracks, which Fruityloops could not do and left users relegated to programs like Cubase.

Very easy to use. Made my first beat [horrible] in ten minutes. WIthin months, with practice, you might sound like a pro.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

It's definitely techno-based. Most of the sounds effects are for techno/rave type beats which make it hard for hip-hop producers. Import your own sounds because Fruityloops leaves you few options. And you can delete a lot of the crap they give you because you will never use it. Fruityloops 3.56 gives you a nice little hip hop drumkit, but nothing comprehensive. For a good "live drum" sound, you8 will have to bring in some outside sounds. Also, you will have to quickly learn the value of the letters E-Q!! As mentioned before, what may pass on the computer may sound quite wack on a CD. Use good monitors, big and small speakers so you get the full range of sound.

I've always just exported it to MP3, burned to CD and used it that way. Never needed customer support.

OVERALL OPINION

I love it...I suppose one could still consider me a newbie...however, I couldn't see myself using anything else until some of this music begins generating revenue. Even then I couldn't kick it to the curb...it'll definitely get your feet wet and you can get respect if you manage to squeeze quality out of it...which isn't hard.

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown (January 1-, 2003)

Good features.

Price paid

$99

Pretty easy to use. I just wanna let my fingers dance on real keys, not a stupid mouse and computer keyboard.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Stupid techno sounds, very little hip hop, that plus the instruments sound kinda fake, and there aren't enough good instruments.

Great quality for what you pay for. If you have a lap top you could take it to a gig i guess, if you really wanted to. this is just for producing at home though.

OVERALL OPINION

It's cool, but nothin like real equipment you can touch and mess with.. like i said i dont like clicking around for hours at a time...

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown (January 1-, 2003)

Although i'm sure it has a ton of nifty little knick knacks, i didn't feel compelled to explore them in the least.

not very intuitive...kinda odd. i'm sure with the proper time invested (which isn't even really worth it to invest) it could be functional and effective.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

The clarity is great....but i'm pretty sure that mainly depends on your soundcard/interface. The samples and synthstruments are soo insanely cheesy that it literally brings bile to my throat and an nauseous feeling in the pit of my stomache (seriously, no joke).

i noticed a lot of skips, crackles, and such (and i have a powerful PC taylored for music production). plus the layout is pug ugly.

OVERALL OPINION

Everytime i think of FL or hear 90% of the music crated on it, i get a wierd gag feeling (honestly). I realize this is a popular product, and the subject is heated when it comes to other users of it, but i truly don't believe that it can make pro sounding tracks. what really scares me is that more and more "bangers for the buck" mainstream hip-hop and RnB producers are accepting this as a viable means to make beats. Anyone who is really interested in making beats, the name says it all, FRUITY LOOPS.

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown (January 2-, 2003)

If want Techno...there it is but with Hip and Rap, there aint nothing there

Price paid

150.00

Real Easy, if you use the plug-in's....

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

It sounds okay, needs to be more realistic with instuments.
The quality is good. You'll get the free updates for FL Studio

OVERALL OPINION

Its nothing like Reason 2.0. Everything is different. The Next Fruityloops needs to come out with something besides Techno and Rave music...Needs a little bit of Everything. If not Just find something else..

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown ( 7-, 2003)

This program is fantastic, especially for the price. The earlier gripe about it being only for techno seems to miss the point. It is a sequencer/sampler, and it will play with whatever sounds you put into it. It will work well with any type of music. The bundled instruments are not really up to par with other 3rd party instruments, and I don't use them too much. But if you bring in your own samples, and some of your favorite VST instruments (such as Pro-52, or Reaktor), FruityLoops is Fantastic.

Price paid

100

Amazingly easy to use, especially with the new version. Good ideas just flow when I'm using it.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Sound is fine. I tend to use this program more as a scratch pad to work up ideas, and then move the project over to Cubase for further work and finalization.

OVERALL OPINION

I've been using it for years now, and getting the free upgrades all along, and it's gotten much better with each version. The FL Studio is a great leap ahead. It's one of the purchases in my life that I've made where I feel like I have gotten much more than I paid for. Great product.

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown (January 1-, 2003)

Decent features, comparable to software many times it's price,

Price paid

$100

Interface is easy on the eyes and intuitive to use. Decent manual/help files,

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Capable of good sound quality, the samples that come with it need some diversity as they are mostly techno/house type, and are mostly cheap sounding, but you can get better samples and synths to supplement it.

Never used at a gig, It is a generally stable program, their is support at the website and you get free updates.

OVERALL OPINION

I am officially addicted,

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown (January 1-, 2003)

Im not too keen on tha fact that its all dance and techno. Which isn't good for music production software......but other than that, tha features are great e.g. plug-ins, settings etc.....

Price paid

£99

This is the easiest peice of music production software i have ever used. The interface is layed out very well, very easy to navigate and control. I haven't read the manual....

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

The sound qaulaity is better than the earlier version, sounds more polished. The sounds are focused on Techno and Dance, which is a complete downer on tha product.. The effects are great, there could be more flexibility within the options, but i am happy.

The sounds of the insturments etc sound a lil phony, they could do with sounding more of a realistic feel. But unless you use your own samples, its great.

OVERALL OPINION

I love this programme, i use it all tha time, more than any other music software i have/use. I would recommend this to any newbie producer, or anyone who wants to start

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown (January 1-, 2003)

The only thing that really bugged me is that the step sequencer is a little too simple. The only tweaks on the step sequencer in Pan and Volume which makes it look corny as F***.

Price paid

$69.00

Its definetly easy to use, too easy.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

The sound quality compared to music industry standards is sub par. FL doesn't support 24bit sound, in order to reach the correct master volume of the song, you must compress the hell out of it. Luckily I am a master of tweaks and am able to get close to great sound. Strengths as far as sound, after the very necessary compression of a song, you can export it in a hi-def wave file, which still isn't industry standard clarity. Overall I say that FL produces very good not great sound quality.

OVERALL OPINION

It's aight.

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: MNK_D.S. ( 7-, 2005)

Lots of features. Very pleased with all the features except the lack of drum kits. The packs it comes with are kind of incomprehensive. But, you can fix this by downloading free kits off the internet or from this site.

Price paid

$20

Super easy to use. Paraplegic monkeys could make some hot sh!t. lol

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Sound quality is good. The packs that it comes with are kinda off pitch, but once you tweak them to your own preference it sounds good.

Comp software, so i guess the answer would be N/A

OVERALL OPINION

I like it alot, it has been a very good to help me express myself through music. Would definently recommend it for a beginning music.

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: The reel deel (January 1-, 2005)