Proud PC/FL Studio Virus owner *ducks*

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Evening all ...

My name is Spencer Steel, im cracking on a bit - coming on 38 - I used to have an old skool dance band, back in '89, with a Korg M1, SH-101, Juno 106 and an old Akia 12 bit sampler - oh yeah, all on Atari ST with Cubase (can't remember what version)

I recently (2 years ago) got back into 'computer music' and have slowly been adding to my kit and just purchased my first Virus. It's moved on a lot obviously and very exciting.

I'm concerned about this forum though - I've read two or three threads and people seem really quick to critise around here ... I've read a thread where someone said 'if you don't know what the LIVE button does on your virus you should sell it." in response to the question 'what does it do?' - well it was me as well - I didn't know what it was ...

The next thing I read is someone helpfully posting about a PC plug that gets around limitations and he just got a load of mouth from Mac users ...

So ... let's get this out the way ... I use FL Studio. On a PC. Which I enjoy a lot. I'm worried this place isn't going to be polite to me ... FL is laughed at, and I gotta feeling so are PC's ...

It's pretty dissapointing to see - my early impressions of this site are ... HOSTILE !

Maybe I just got unlucky on my first trawl ... I'll keep quiet and stick around ... there's some good information here regardless.

Hope everyone is well - I'll up a little photo of my studio soon ...

S.S.

Win 7 64 bit | FLStudio 9 | 8 gig | Dual monitor | Virus Ti2 Keyboard | Edirol PCR-500 | Genelec 8020a | Lexicon U22 | se2200a microphone | Favourite plugs: Spectrasonics Omnisphere/RMX/Trilian, oZone 4

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Welcome to the forum and the wonderful world of Access virus!

1st thing's 1st:
FLstudio is an amazing software studio capable of 99.9% of the same things as a program like Cubase/Logic. I know this from extensive personal experience from working in all mentioned programs. And I'm not even gonna go into the mac/PC debate... the biggest bunch of BS created and fed by ignorant people.
So these things should not bother you at all. The FACT is you can make a professional quality track using FLStudio with no extra effort needed compared to other DAW's... as long as you know what you're doing and know the program well.

About the LIVE Button... AFAIK it lowers the latency of the virus plugin as much as possible. I never used it as it's not needed in cubase, but you should check the PDF manual for it's use; I think it's planned use is for Ableton Live, but not 100%. I think it's not needed for use with FLStudio. Your best bet is to open the .flp template in the virus folder and take it from there. Since FL doesn't have real-time delay compensation, you'll need to nudge the mixer channel timings to get them in sync, but this is really not a problem. The biggest problem with FL IMO, and this is why I switched to cubase years ago, is the lack of real-time export. This means when you have to record the virus channels separately and then bounce the rest of the project down. However, this is not a problem for everyone, but for me it was too much hassle.

So feel free to ask away, but for the bare bone basics I suggest searching to forum or the manual first.