Subject:Fruity Loops as Acid 4 Plug-in

Posted by: oZZion

Date:10/11/2002 11:02:52 PM

Hey,

I've been playing with fruity loops as a plug in using simsynth as the softsynth. So far that's about as far as I've been able to get with it. Anyone else had a chance to get it to do more?

oZZion

Subject:RE: Fruity Loops as Acid 4 Plug-in

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:10/12/2002 2:17:36 PM

You mean you've got Fruityloops working as a VSTi but can't seem to do anything with it?

You'll need to input MIDI somehow or use an existing MIDI file to route to Fruityloops. If you'd like a quick MIDI file to play with just to get it going, email me.

HTH,
Iacobus

Subject:RE: Fruity Loops as Acid 4 Plug-in

Reply by: pwppch

Date:10/12/2002 5:42:00 PM

Actually Floops doesn't need any MIDI input.

Load in one of the demo songs that came with Floops. Hit play in ACID, and it will start playing along with ACID.

Peter

Subject:RE: Fruity Loops as Acid 4 Plug-in

Reply by: fuzzy

Date:10/12/2002 5:53:32 PM

You'll need to input MIDI somehow or use an existing MIDI file to route to Fruityloops.

Not true. The only MIDI required for Fruity VSTi is ACID's MIDI clock, which requires no setting up by the user - it's automatic. Create a Fruity pattern/song inside Fruity's stand-alone version, save the .flp and open it in the VSTi and it will play along with ACID.

Be aware however that there is a sync issue in ACID that will be resolved in version 4.0b. Until then the Fruity VSTi is unusable in ACID (IMO).

fuzzy

Subject:RE: Fruity Loops as Acid 4 Plug-in

Reply by: Paulie

Date:10/16/2002 5:25:32 AM

If you do the following you should be able to work OK with A4/Fruity in a resonably predictable fashion:

1) If your acid song is in 4/4 time (default) then you need to start your Acid project at 3.1 and make sure the Fruity offset is at -4. This should get Acid and Fruity correctly in synch.

2) Every time you do something in fruity you need to save (Ctrl+S) before you exit back out into ACID. Otherwise ACID crashes when you exit.

3) When you restart your acid project you will have to click on NO twice then go into fruity and reload your FLP project (dont know why this happens).

Provided I do these things it seems to work pretty well. My main problem is when I then come to record audio. The whole thing turns to poo. Crash Crash Crash. I guess that I will have to render my midi parts to .WAV in fruity then do the vocals.

Keep going SOFO you are nearly there.

Paulie

Subject:RE: Fruity Loops as Acid 4 Plug-in

Reply by: SonyNateM

Date:10/16/2002 10:17:22 AM

Paulie,

1) Updates in 4.0b will allow you to correct this without having to "guesstimate" the offset and tweak to get things correct.

2) I do not have this problem. Can you give me an example of what you are doing in FruityLoops that causes the crash when you exit back to ACID?

3) What prompts are you clicking NO for? I do not have to go through any dialogues when I reload a project containing FruityLoops as a VSTi. However, you DO need to go into the FruityLoops plug-in and reload your file. You will also have to do this if you change your project sampling rate. This is just the way FL works, there no way around it.

I need to find ways to reproduce these problems if we are going to get them fixed for the next update. Can you please give me more details?

Nate

Subject:RE: Fruity Loops as Acid 4 Plug-in

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:10/16/2002 12:29:07 PM

I stand corrected. :)

I totally forgot about Fruityloops' sample projects. I was looking at it from a "brand new slate" perspective.

Iacobus