FLstudio Vs. The World of hate
G’day DJTT I’m using FL9 and have been for about a year, I’m just wondering in the ways of producing an electro house track and really all electronic music what makes people say “ableton live is soooo much better FLStudio is for noobs.” Basically can someone tell me the sorts of things that make Ableton “supossedly” better than FLStudio. (or any other DAW) thanks guys.
I’ll take a go at your question. I have used Fruity Loops and Ableton Live. Personally, I started making beats with Fruity Loops and CoolEdit years ago. Fruity Loops was my noob program, and that product line has stayed in the “beginner” category of my mind. I mention this because I believe that to be a summation of the stories many other young producers know. That is my theory to explain a portion of the demographic that maintains the idea FL Studio 9 and ImageLine products are for noobs. As to the direct comparison between Ableton Live and FL Studio 9, I believe the quality debate to be rooted in the observance of the subtle differences in features. Each program can manipulate digital audio, sequence, and create sounds. Ableton offers its product to both PC and Mac users while ImageLine doesn’t. Also, I have find Live, as have others, to be more stable a “live” situation and wouldn’t rely on FL Studio 9 to do the same. Exceptional cases my break from what I assume above, or I might be the exception. This is my attempt at an objective response. My subjective opinion is that no software is king. It’s the human being knowing his/her tools to make the sounds, not the software.
I used FL to produce for several years before I decided to make the move to Ableton. There are a handful of professional producers who use FL (Google is your friend, I can’t remember specifics). A huge chunk of the reason (in my opinion) that FL gets so much hate from producers is because it is the DAW of choice for super-noobs to create really bad tracks/remixes and then stick them up on Youtube/Soundcloud.
That being said, I would never go back to FL. It’s hard for me to come up with a concrete list of reasons why, but here are a few of my personal reasons.
Live is more “playable” than FL. You can use controllers to play out your songs on the fly and try out new ideas.
Automation is Ableton is far more intuitive than in FL.
The way tracks are put together in Ableton just seems to make more sense for my workflow.
Those are just three main reasons I can list real quick. There are some things I miss about FL… 3xOsc being one of them. Ableton comes with not very good instruments so you’re pretty much guaranteed to have to also buy a least one or two VSTi’s.
Anyway, the conversation has been done a million times. The bottom line is that you need to choose whichever DAW works best for you.
hey thanks for the reply, I think i’ll give ableton a try when I get the money for it. I like the sound of more in depth automation and midi control.
You can download a free trial of Ableton if you’re really interested.
But if you’ve already been using FL for a year and you’re happy with it, then why even entertain the notion that you might be using an inferior DAW based on what “people are saying?” Unless there’s something about FL that you really don’t like, then forget what the notoriously narrow-minded and ill-informed people of the internet have to say.
Don’t let people say get to you. If you’re happy with FL, then prove all of them wrong by making a phenomenal track exclusively with FL.
It’s not what you use, it’s how you use it.
(Okay not always but usually)
It’s more about what else I can do with Other DAW’s I can’t really imagine doing to much more with ableton but maybe because I don’t fully know what I can do with a ‘Higher end’ DAW. I think I don’t know what I like until I’ve got something to compare to.
There is nothing wrong with FL, especially if you enjoy using it.
It’s worth trying another DAW and seeing how you get on with it.
Often people jump between 2 or more systems as they prefer different aspects of each.
i have used ableton, fl, acid, nuendo, cubase, reason, protools, ardour you get the idea.
they all do the same thing make music, they all sound different, for instance ableton and reason have the best instruments hands down… ardour and nuendo have the best audio quality and fl, acid are the easiest to use its all preference…
p.s. ableton is better then FL hahaha
If you like FL’s work flow, just use it. Ignore all the postings about what’s good and bad. Usually are based on fan-boys proclaiming that their investment is the best, period.