Teksonik wrote:Ok I'll take the bait....
I actually didn't have you in mind at the time. Obviously you have watched it grow up so you've adapted as it's changed. This is the first time I've touched it in probably 15 years so I was pretty much starting again from scratch.
Using F6 to close the Channel Rack is a perfect example of how unintuitive FL is. Every other window has a little "X" button in the top corner, so when you see a window without that, you assume it cannot be closed. I think I might have closed the Track Inspector when I was trying to arrange all my open windows into something that sort of resembled the layout I use in Orion, which would be why I couldn't work out how to add effects.
You forget that I used to be a Fruityloops beta tester. I gave up on it because after more than a year of serious hard work, I had written a couple of tunes but I hadn't managed to get even one of my/our existing songs working in it. OTOH, the first week I spent using Orion, I managed to get two of those songs up and running and sounding almost as good as they did on my hardware - a Korg Trinity, Kawai K5000, Ensoniq ASR-X and DP/4 effects unit. I'd also tried Cakewalk (pre-Sonar) and Cubase and been similarly unproductive with them.Teksonik wrote:With all due respect I say give it some more time. Coming from Orion, FL Studio seems to "fight" you.
One thing FL has over Orion is it's constant development. FL will continue to grow while Orion is what it is and will forever be so.
I don't necessarily see that as a plus, to be honest. Orion already does way more than I need it to. OTOH, FL is already way too convoluted so adding even more stuff can only add to that problem.
fea wrote:Which DAW you find to be closest to Orion?
I think probably Reason but I'd never bother with it because it is too closed. Other than that, there isn't really anything. I've looked at others, like EnergyXT and the software Mackie used to sell (can't remember what it was called) but none of them let me work the way I want to. I just had a look at Caustic and I could never make that interface work for me. I've also just installed Bitwig but it doesn't have so much as a demo song so I am going to have to find a project or two to load so I can see what's what.
The problem is that Orion's mixer-centric workflow is pretty much unique, which I find strange because the mixer is the centre of any studio, from a bedroom set-up to the biggest studios in the world.