Purchase, leach, swap, etc etc. They're the same sounds that many major producers use, so they are good. Of course a lot of people like Dre for example have their own drum sounds that they make by tweaking previous sounds or sampling something new, but you'll find things pretty close to it online, and fruity loops comes with the basics such as the 808 set.
i see i see. thats what ive been basically doing basically but now im looking for a new way because of quality issues. also when i buy a cd and i hear a kick or snare that hasnt been exposed through out the song, i usually rip the .wav from the cd and chop up the snare or kick so i can keep that .wav quality in mix project. but yeah i know exactly what your talking about..its exactly what ive been doing.
i acctually started out using drum kits on that i could download online which people put together themselves but the problem was that these kits were chopped very poorly and they weren't real .wav quality (from what it sounded like) and im pretty sure they were downloaded mp3's of songs which they later converted to .wav. quality is really important to me.
I started out using FL 2 + years ago..messed around with it for about 6 months without making a single beat..and then learning how to mix just a hi-hat, snare and kick together...and then slowly learned what the main elements were of making an instrumental..and then i learned what the effects were for, i learned how to assign effects to each of the instruments...i learned the difference between the two types of oscilaters when producing your own synth...pitch change, panning, eq'ing, when to add compression to an instrumental and when not to, etc...
ive also been using Sony Acid Pro as well to mix instruments, add effects, mix vocals, pan, volume, eq, etc, etc..
and im also fucking with .wav lab right now as well.
but the reason i want to switch to pro tools is because i learned that FL isnt good enough to process the final mix as other software like pro-tools. its not the sound quality its more of how everything just fits together...so thats one reason i want to switch to pro-tools.
for some reason i always thought that you could arrange and do everything on pro-tools like you could with FL. I thought you could acctually play and arrange like you could on FL.
so basically what ur saying is i cannot do that? that pro-tools cant provide that and im stuck with FL for the rest of my life?
i plan on going into producing music as a career and thats why im asking alot of questions. i plan on taking a pro-tools course in the near future after i finish my IT program. i was acctually looking at taking a music degree program because i love music, not just producing, but i like listening to classical, orchastral, etc, etc (not going out of my way to listen to it ofcourse..but if its on the radio or on tv...u might just catch watching it for the music).....
i am also big on 80s music...i bought a yamaha dx-7 almost a year ago...i bought it just for the rhodes piano because i luv rhodes piano....and the yamaha dx-7 was really popular during the 80's for making love ballads...and thats the type of music i like alot...
so basically myfinal question...is pro-tools the same thing as FL when it comes to arranging each note, etc, etc...is it capable of doing that? can i arrange different synths right on the pro-tools grid like i can with FL?
sorry for the long ass post...but its about time i switched to pro-tools because i already have alot of knowledge from using Fl and sony acid pro. ive learned the foundation of producing music very well and now i want to move forward. people dont take Fl so seriously and i dont like that. so if that means i have to switch to industry standard software...it doesnt bother me at all because im learning more too and i love music.