Please could you check out my music and give me feed back if its good enough to sell http://www.reverbnation.com/kcswagger

 This site is well worth a look, great plugins, loops and refills available - please donate to help keep site going.

http://www.amvst.com/index.php

 http://www.modernplugins.in-tw.com/

Great selection of pro look effects. A must see.

 If you are unfortunate enough to not have a pro version of FL Studio you will realise that you can't record live tracks. I can't test this but I thnk that this lovely little plugin from Silverspike could help you out. You need a license for TapeIt2 but version 1 is still available as a free download.

http://www.silverspike.com/?Products:TapeIt

 Looking for a good free vst sampler? 

http://www.vemberaudio.se/shortcircuit.php

Sampling is supposed to be fun
Prior to shortcircuit it wasn't as fun as it could be.

Shortcircuit was created as a reaction against the ongoing trend where software samplers are being designed with the primary intent of library playback. It is intended for people who, like us, consider a sampler to be a musical instrument in its own right, and not just a way to emulate other instruments. It has been a very high priority to make sure that adding and editing individual samples is as fast and logical as possible. 

The sample hierarchy in shortcircuit allow you to place samples directly at the highest level of the multi, without having to deal with instrument hierarchies and patches. Want to add a sample to your song? Just drag & drop the sample into shortcircuit and you're ready to go. Samples can be put in groups for multi-sampling and kit-building, but the complexity is only there when you need it.

 Here's a great collection of free VST plugins.

www.ugoaudio.com

Free Vocoder

This tutorial is going to breakdown the basics of using an audio filter in FL Studio along with some tips and trick you can use in your Fruity Loops music projects.

Basically an audio filter is just as the name says; it filters out audio either above or below a certain frequency--called the cutoff frequency. The two we'll learn about in this tutorial are the "low-pass" & "high-pass" filters. A low pass filter allows all the audio below the cutoff frequency through or to "pass", things such as kick drums, bass guitar, and other low end instruments; likewise, a high-pass filter will let all the high frequency audio through; for example, cymbals, high ringing synths, ect... In this lesson we will be working with the Fruity Filter. The best way to learn this is just to open up FL Studio and tweak around with the settings on the filter.

So, start Fruity Loops and either lay down a basic beat or load up a project or one of the demo songs. Try to use something that has a full range of sounds, including kick drums, bass guitar or synth, snare, cymbals, hi-hats, maybe some guitar or samples.

Now pull up the Mixer (either by selecting it in "View" at the top nav-bar, or pressing F9) and select the Master channel in the Mixer. Over in the right hand side in an effects slot, click the little down arrow choose "Select" and stick in a Fruity Filter.

In Fruity Filter you will see 6 controls (Cutoff freq, Resonance, Low Pass, Band Pass, High Pass, and x2). Our main focus here will be on the Cutoff Freq, Low Pass, and High Pass knobs. Start by turning all of them all the way down to the left, now if you press play in Fruity Loops you will probably hear nothing, as the filter is filtering out everything and not allowing any audio to pass through.

First turn up the Low Pass knob all the way, this basically turns it on. Now slowly start to bring up the Cutoff Freq knob. And you should now start hearing the audio come through mainly the low end things like kick drums, bass, ect. As you can see when you turn on a low pass filter everything under the cutoff frequency comes through while blocking everything above that cutoff. This is great for pulling bass-lines out of a song or sample. Also you can use this as a cool frequency based fade in or out effect on your music tracks. Just start either full off or full on and slowly twist the cutoff knob from one extreme to the other.

The High Pass does the same thing, but it only allows sounds higher or above the cutoff freq to pass through. Turn the low pass all the way down and bring the high pass all the way up. Now as you bring the Cutoff freq up you will hear the bass tones drop out and only the high end stuff such as cymbals will be coming through. High pass can be used for many things including giving your tracks that lo-fi played through a radio or tiny phone speaker sound. 

You could also automate these filters while recording in Fruity Loops for some great WahWah type of effects. If you turn the x 2 knob On and the Resonance up you will get even more pronounced filter effects on your audio. Now that you know the basics experiment with these filters on your own projects and you'll soon master them and have another weapon in your Fl Studio arsenal. And just about every VST or hardware based filter will have these same control, so you will be able to jump right in and start filtering your music projects.

Fruity Loops - FL Studio REsource

I've gotten some emails asking where to find the Fruity Loops manual PDF. After some searching online I haven't really found the PDF manual yet, but here is a link to the full FL Studio 7 Reference Manual online in HTML. 

Fruity Loops Manual

Although it can be a little dense and overly complex at explaining things; look it over when you need general advice on using certain features in Fruity Loops then come here and check out my tutorials for help with specific creative applications in a more step by step format. If anyone has a link to the FL Studio manual in PDF send me the link at audio.resource@gmail.com and I'll pass it along to other users looking for it. Keep the music flowing...

Fruity Loops/ FL Studio REsource