Just watched a half-hour clip of Dubstep's A-lister Benga, going through his process of making a beat.He uses FL Studio (formerly known as Fruity Loops) and Logic to produce his tracks, two of today's most commonly used DAW's. But while Logic is found in most professional production studios (frequently substituted according to preference by Pro Tools and Cubase), FL Studio is often bashed by producers as a "beginner's software" that produces a complementary sound. These people are usually surprised to hear successful artists of all genres (like Boy 8-Bit, Beastie Boys, Timbaland or Benga) working with it and creating crisp results. Yes, it is a simple program and anyone who uses its on-board samples will always recognize them in other songs. But combined with a controller, synthesizer, external plugins, own samples or other DAW's, FL Studio provides limitless capabilities. It remains the most user-friendly DAW on the market, which was always FL's key to success. Anyone who has an idea, can just sit down and realize it quickly. And you don't have to be Timbaland to do it.
Personally, I love Fruity Loops and the concept behind it. But since I came across Ableton Live a while back and Native Instruments' Maschine more recently (which has a very similar software setup to FL Studio), I've just been losing touch.
What's your favorite DAW? Any tweakers out there, let us know what you think!
Watch Benga working on a beat here.
Benga - Pleasure
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Hey gareth, alvin here from way back in OIS, Osaka. Will give Ableton Live a vote on my side :) Interface is a cinch on it.
ReplyDeleteas you mentioned fruity loops is great to start out with. If you are new to making your own music it is certainly the right tool for you and allows you to get an idea of how things generally work. Trying to get into ableton myself right now.
ReplyDeletecakewalk sonar for production. unreal software, so incredible. quite easy to use, once you get the hang of it. local software company (to boston area residents) as well.
ReplyDeleteableton live for mixdowns and live performance. very cool software. haven't done much production with it, but i've heard it's a great tool for that as well.
I've been sold on Ableton for almost a year now, awesome production toool!
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