Hmm. I'd agree with everything that Fromem_Ory said, and that is also precisely how I started writing music. Had a 200Mhz Pentium, which could barely run one instance of TS404. Fruity has come on loads, and I still use it for coming up with one shot noises and ideas I'm probably not going to revisit. It is great for coming up with snippets.
I feel that being tied into patterns becomes ever more limiting, time consuming and complicated as a tracks complexity increases. I have major reservations about the mixdown quality of all iterations of FL/Fruity Loops - as far as I'm aware it hasn't changed much. Quite simply, tracks tend to sound different to what I monitored within the programme. If I had to define the nature of the sound, the word I would choose would be... asthmatic. I wish Steinberg would take a close look at how much better the FX channels (particularly the sends) are in FL. Some Native instrument plugins don't work correctly in FL.
I would like to reiterate, I use both FL and Cubase all the time. I sequence and mix in Cubase, because invariably, I get better results. I cook up sound nuggets in FL, because invariably, I get better results.
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