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Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: A Bit of Fruit on May 31, 2005, 03:02:45 AM
Hey does anybody know how to get a good metal style distorted guitar sound in fruityloops? Ive tried adding bood overdrive plugin to the Plucked guitar sound but it sounds shit...like i want it palm muted

Thanks
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: Rob on May 31, 2005, 03:39:57 AM
Use a real guitar. Even Slayer sucks the big one (although I have heard some pretty good stuff from it in the right hands). Blood overdrive & Plucked? Pfffft.
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: A Bit of Fruit on May 31, 2005, 03:44:52 AM
dude im writing metal...i need it to sound metal. Gimmie some help?
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: Exluddite on May 31, 2005, 08:29:27 AM
More cowbell.
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: Rob on May 31, 2005, 08:57:44 AM
Quote from: Farticus Senior
dude im writing metal...i need it to sound metal. Gimmie some help?


http://forums.entropysink.com/showpost.php?p=6639&postcount=2

As in "use a real guitar". Seriously.
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: A Bit of Fruit on May 31, 2005, 08:59:27 AM
i dont have a distortion pedal, yo
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: Rob on May 31, 2005, 09:18:23 AM
... or you could try a soundfont??

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88844
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: hans on May 31, 2005, 04:44:11 PM
What you need. I could try and play it for ya. I know the guitar stuff. Like virtuosos, trembalos, arppegios. And I can play pretty good way up high on the little tiny strings too.
If it's a plugin you really want, about the best one I've listened to was Virtual Guitarist.
http://www.bornemark.se/vg/

Seriously though if you've got it scored out I could give a crack at it and throw the wavs back to you.
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: aran on May 31, 2005, 10:36:38 PM
how the crap do you get soundfonts to work on FLStudio 4.5?

I can load them into the SF player, but i can't seem to get them to make a sound.
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: sand_man on June 02, 2005, 04:40:19 AM
Fruityloops blows man. You can't make good music with it. Get Propellerhead's Reason 3.0 and Cakewalk's SONAR 4.
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: Rob on June 02, 2005, 02:18:36 PM
Quote from: sand_man
Fruityloops blows man. You can't make good music with it. Get Propellerhead's Reason 3.0 and Cakewalk's SONAR 4.


Bullshit. Prove it.
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: groovitude on June 04, 2005, 10:19:43 AM
Quote from: Rob
Bullshit. Prove it.


 :nyd: Don't you be steppin' to my FruityLoops.  You tell him, Rob!

Honestly, though, Face, FruityLoops isn't what you're going to want if you want to write metal, unless you're just using it as a writing tool to then give to people in your band.  If you're doing that, I'd use a preset from Slayer and just work with that -- it's been working for me and my band for the last year or so.
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: aran on June 04, 2005, 09:04:02 PM
Heh.. i've been bending FL to write progressive rock for at least a year and half now. You can make some good stuff with it.

Still, how the FUCK do you get soundfonts to work (i.e. make sounds) in FL?
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: A Bit of Fruit on June 04, 2005, 10:09:37 PM
>> I'd use a preset from Slayer

Whats that?
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: groovitude on June 05, 2005, 12:12:52 AM
It's a guitar plugin that comes with it after a certain version.  If you don't have it under "Plugin presets," update your version of FL.
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: Rob on June 05, 2005, 05:12:02 AM
Quote from: aran
Heh.. i've been bending FL to write progressive rock for at least a year and half now. You can make some good stuff with it.

Still, how the FUCK do you get soundfonts to work (i.e. make sounds) in FL?


It shouldn't be a problem aran. It just works?

*shrugs*

I'll check out the details later.
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: Rob on June 05, 2005, 05:15:09 AM
Quote from: groovitude
:nyd: Don't you be steppin' to my FruityLoops.  You tell him, Rob!


lol.

Of course, you can make music with a matchbox full of pebbles, so you can sure as hell make it with almost any of the software studios.

/me goes off to try making music in Excel.
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: aran on June 05, 2005, 04:26:42 PM
Quote from: Rob
It shouldn't be a problem aran. It just works?

*shrugs*

I'll check out the details later.



I make a new channel with the FL soundfont player, and load the soundfont into it. When i open up the piano roll and try to use it, i get no sound.

I looked in the help docs, but there wasn't anything on the soundfont player.
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: Rob on June 05, 2005, 05:36:52 PM
What soundfont are you using, and what does it say in the patch / bank / soundfont textboxes in the middle of the channel window??
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: aran on June 05, 2005, 05:54:09 PM
All the boxes have names in them... that's not the problem.

The default soundfont works, but when i try to use these Easyrider drum/cymbal soundfonts i downloaded from one of the forums you linked to earlier in this thread, i get no sound.
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: Rob on June 05, 2005, 06:55:39 PM
Quote from: aran
...Easyrider drum/cymbal soundfonts i downloaded from one of the forums you linked to earlier in this thread, i get no sound.


Linky?
Title: Fruityloops help
Post by: groovitude on June 05, 2005, 08:20:49 PM
Test all the notes, Aran.  Some of them are finnicky and only let you use one or two of the notes in the soundfont, and you have to find them.

For instance, my tuba soundfont will not work at C10, for what should be obvious reasons.