I was talking to some friends about production they all use abelton and i use FL, and i got some slack for using FL studio. So the next day i was using ableton trial and after 8 hours locked in my room and getting a handle on abelton i think abelton is overrated , there so much you have to get like the synths that cost $130 a piece. And i cant say because ive been using FL studio because i started producing a week ago. What do you guy think sould try harder with abelton or stick FL studio.
I dont know about you guys but FL is like looked down apon i think , well thats just me rambling .
ive tango’ed with both and i believe Ableton is the better one. theres tons more possiblilities and tools inside ableton. and not everything you have to pay for. the Ableton website gives out free sound kits all the time, and theres dozens upon dozens of free VSTs out there.
FL Studio is quicker because its less. theres less to learn and less to use and less everything really. Ableton takes a while, months even, to master fully. i personally have probably 3 Gb of drum samples ive never used mainly because i havent had the chance.
I prefare fl studio I play and produce house and electro house so its perfect for that (convinced thats it was designed for) Ive used: logic, cubase, ableton, reason, fl studio and samplitude in the past and think ableton has the steepest learning curve and even my music tech teacher didnt think it was that amazing (could do the same with all other programs) these days I use fl studio for edm and samplitude music studio for recording live music and pro tools the odd time for mastering. The think I liked about fl studio when I started was you can get stuck straight in… ableton allways seemed too much of a pain to setup to get it working but I guess its down to personal pref.
samplitude is simple to use for recording stuff since theres not soo much going on, less buttons to press and less stuff to distract… I find a lot of the top programs try to include everything but it makes people get distracted finding new function while halfway through a masterpeice.
you can indeed, I used to get computer music magazine which came with a lot of free plugins that helped my collection and ask away, its the only way you learn
Though I got to tell you, you shouldn’t say something is over- or underrated, just because an application will not fit to your creative workflow/process.
If FruityLoops meets your requirements better, it just states something about your workflow.
For me Ableton fits best to my creative workflow.
(And I have tried Fast Tracker, and a few other trackers, for three years (in the 90ies), 4 months FruityLoops, 1 year Reason, 2 year Cubase and Ableton since 2004.)
You can make good music in both of these. I know some people that swear by Fruity Loops. It is really easy to sequence in Fruity but harder to do more advanced stuff. Ableton is easier to do advanced things but not as straight forward when just kicking a beat. Ableton is way better with sampling and when you slice a track it puts each slice on it’s own sub channel. Ableton effects are way better and it sounds better. Fruity needs some manipulation to get the tracks to sound good. If you are patient with learning Live’s interface it will payoff. You can also rewire Fruity in Ableton. I have had Fruity and Reason both rewired into Ableton and it works great. Just have to open up the programs in a certain sequence.
FL Studio is perfectly competent, but it does some weird things and isn’t one of the top-end DAWs. I don’t think it’s underrated at all, but I also am fully aware that a lot of people have gotten signed off of it. Tools < Talent.
But…Ableton isn’t overrated. It’s really good, and it’s the only full-fledged DAW that can do what it does live. The only reason I’d say it’s possibly overrated is because it doesn’t understand the protocols used by the high-end stuff (Logic, Pro Tools, Cubase, Nuendo, etc.) can…which means that there are some high-end controllers that it will never work with. Still: Tools < Talent.
ah I just dont like its layout I know many people that love it though