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The gear[censored]z guys seem to really hate its development through the years. Is it still a good deal?

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This is just lame, can't even have a sequence of censored characters in a url field.

Use http://tinyurl.com/, perhaps?

(I assume it wouldn't be working-around forum rules in this case...)

It has its place in the world of music production, but if you were going to rely on just one DAW I wouldn't recommend FL Studio. There are other, better programs out there.

Just enter electronic-music-instruments-electronic-music-production/598686-fl-studio-10-major-disappointment.html in Google. The links are there and it saves having to work round the forum censor.

You're basing your opinion of the software by a post by some guy on a forum called Gear[censored]z?

Reaper is a better program. FL Studio is lame in comparison. That is my opinion as I've related to you before, MO54.
You just have to learn how to use it.
You would have to learn to use FL Studio also....btw.
Reaper is the better and more versatile AND CHEAPER....daw.

[edit] Folks don't leave Pro Tools, Cubase, or Sonar to make FL Studio their daw of choice.
The same statement is not true for Reaper.

Actually I'm trying to find a sampler to load the .nki or halion3.fxp files. Finale and Reaper can't do that. I don't want to buy the full Kontakt with a gigatic library that I can't use.

You'd be better off in the long run doing exactly that.
Kontakt is a sampler vst (or vsti) plugin that will load into the Reaper environment. Kontakt 4 is a free player. It will load .nki files. (it should).

You could even load FL Studio=(Fruity Loops) as a plugin into Reaper using re-wire.

You'll figure it out.

Fruity Loops svcks! (as a serious DAW).

There is a 15min limitation with the kontakt 4 player, and something about not being to save. Does that apply to my needs here? (i.e. just using it to load the files into another DAW)


Can FLstudio load .nki libraries?

FLStudio is a great DAW. Not the best if you want to do live recording, but for anything else production-related it's just as fine as any other. The strength lies in the intuitive interface. What could take minutes to accomplish in another DAW, you could do in seconds in FL. And the piano roll is pretty much the best one out there.

FL sometimes gets a bad rep because it's very accessible and thus a lot of beginners would rather start out with FL than Reason, Cubase, etc. But it's just a tool and the tool does not become better than the user behind it. I made that classic mistake early on, thinking switching to a more industry-established DAW would somehow magically turn me into a pro. But it's not what you use, it's how you use it.

Does anyone have any experience with the directwave program sold as a FL plugin?