fl studio 5 user here. my uni has logic 6. something on their machines and its all a bit confusing for my fruity shaped brain. when i discussed production with some of the people in dj soc in soton uni, cakewalk sonar featured pretty well as one of those applications that you can just start up and get stuff done. easy as pie. i think floops is like that too.
i got ableton live delta with my soundcard and thats another application that you can just use without having to read the manual. very nice. it has alot of visualisation cues in the sequencer window and its very easy to swap loops into and out of a song that currently playing. those rotating visualisation things are really cool cuz you can tap your foot to the movement of it and it really helps you get into the rhythym easily, especially if you arent so good at counting beats. also, because of this feature, if you write tracks where the tempo changes mid way through the song, it helps to have a visual cue to show when this happens. very cool and unique. its also really easy to effect things while the song is playing and manipulate effects live. the interface is really uncluttered aswell so you dont have to fight your way through tonnes of sub menus and have to worry about clicking the wrong thing accidentally. i can see why they call it ableton live and i can see why some live musicians swear by it.
but im a fruity person at heart. as easy as ableton live is to get into, ive made so much progress in floops that it still feels like im taking a few steps back and having to relearn stuff again. so floops 5 is where i do 99% of my sequencing.
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