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"I must be going mad...."

... but I can't find a demo of the latest Cubasis software anywhere.

I'm trying to search while really busy at work, and I seem to be going round in circles.

Can anyone help? Or am I being too lazy....

That's a very good idea. Thanks very much :-)

Sneaky way round that.

Get a double headphone jack wire and feed your speaker socket into your input/recording socket in the back of your PC (green to red I think on most PCs) thne you can play your composition and have another programme record it.

Providing your soundcard's pretty good you should get a decent recording.


I had to use this idea when one of my programs failed to export a tune without adding a little whine in the background.

I haven't had chance to look into it properly yet, will try and give it a go on sunday.

Because you can't save in the demo, you need to put a couple of hours into it at one go, which I haven't had as yet.

So how's it going then?

Been using FL3 to make some samples today myself.

Depends. I've used a midi keyboard with it and it's good but you can get a lot out of it simply by manually placing notes and creating things with the mouse.

So do I have to connect a keyboard up to it to get the most out of it, or not?

Any tips or info that I'll need before I start properly?

Yeah it is quite complicated, just start with something simple and play about with the other stuff to see what it does. :)

It you think FL's bad then you should see Reason!

I've just printed out the 84 page "Getting Started Guide" for FL5 - no wonder I couldn't really get anywhere last night, it looks ridiculously complicated!

I've got a demo of FL5, which I was playing around with last night - looks quite good but you can't save anything in the demo.

Need to get a MIDI interface so I can hook the missus keyboard up to it. Thing is, I don't know if I'll be getting into this enough to warrant spending $150 on the full version....

Fruity Loops is quality. I have Fruity loops 3 and FL Studio, good stuff but they don't have time-stretching.

For that you should check out Making Waves/ACID aswell.