When you start looking for a multitrack recording software, you’ll often come across „FL Studio”. This topic is very controversial, some people will say it’s the best program they ever used, some other will tell you that it’s absolutely unprofessional and only the biggest amateurs use software like that. But I have to say I’ve been using it for years now and I’m very satisfied with the outcome. The first time I got in touch with this software was about 6 years ago when I looked for something to make my own beats to rap over, so I downloaded a demo version. I didn’t know about drum samples and how to make melodies, so I cut out some drum- and percussion-sounds out of instrumentals and sampled melodies from old songs from Billy Holiday. Back then this was really cool for me and my friends because no one of us knew how to make music by ourselves.
Sometimes I hear over the old beats and become embarassed. Everything has changed. Now I have thousands of drum packs, I can edit the characteristics of the sounds and I have synthesizers I can program completely new sounds for. You probably think it was hard work learning all this. Well it wasn’t! This stuff is easy as pie. Take the synthesizer plugin „BLUE” from Rob Papen for example: you have six oscillators to create the synth sound. Try it out, download a demo and play around with the different knobs and settings, you’ll see what I mean. Plus, this is really fun for me! I love these new sounds and the best part, it matches my style. When using presets, the music never sounds as I want it to. Click here to read more.. »