Cakewalk Software Fruity Loops Pro 3

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Fruityloops, the #1 electronic music creation software in Europe, is now available in the USA through a partnership between Image-Line and Cakewalk.

Easy to use
This award-winning, organic groove generator is so easy to use, you'll be jamming out to infinite assortment of Electro-induced rhythms, fresh Hip Hop beats, and tasty Teknotic tracks, in no time at all.

Essential sounds you need
Fruityloops puts a room full of hard-to-find gear into one easy to use program. Even if you could get your hands on all the equipment that's modeled within Fruityloops, it would be near impossible to get them all to work together with such flexibility.

This wide variety of sound generators, sampled sounds, and emulated vintage gear will get you into the flow. You get 5 polyphonic synthesizers, over 3000 samples, and 250 loops.

There's no limit to the flexibility you'll experience in creating grooves because Fruityloops can support an unlimited number of samples and channels.

Included sounds
TS-404 for creating Roland TB-303-like analog bass lines
Roland TR808
Roland TR909
CR8000
CR78
Moog
Arp
Synth tones
Acoustic kits
Percussion
DrumSynth
3x Osc
BeepMap (image synth)
Fruity PanOMatic
Fruity NoteBook
Plucked strings
Many More

Get more with DXi soft synths
Fruityloops 3.0 supports DX Instruments (DXi) from Cakewalk, the new standard in software synthesizers and instruments.

As a bonus, when you buy Fruityloops 3.0 from Cakewalk you get the Dreamstation DXi soft synth.

Additional synths
Through DXi, you can additional software synths to Fruityloops from leading manufacturers, including Roland, Applied Acoustic Systems, read more Koblo, Native Instruments, Bitheadz, Seer, and many others.

Get rolling with automation
Automation is the essential tool for creating the dynamic sweeps, rolling bass lines, and texture changes that take your audience to a new level.

While your song is playing you can record movements you make on any wheel or slider in Fruityloops or on your external MIDI controller. Automate main sliders, volume, effects, oscillators, resonance, cut-off, panning, mute, effects sends, tempo, and more.

After recording you can edit it all in a handy, graphical event editor. You can also draw in automation data or use an LFO generator to automatically create fluent automation movements.

Create and mix on the fly
Create drum and melodic patterns using Fruityloops instruments and the included Piano Roll view. Then arrange your patterns using the Playlist view to create your own songs and mixes.

Tweak it with Direct FX
Fruityloops offers 16 auxiliary effects channels and one master effects channel where you can patch DirectX audio effects to customize your grooves.

Fruityloops also supports VST plug-ins and includes the following plug-ins:

7 Band EQ
Bassboost
Overdrive
Ultrafunk Compressor
Delay
Fast LP
Filter
SmartElectronix Flanger
Free Filter
SmartElectronix
Phaser
Ultrafunk Reverb
And more

Get connected
Fruityloops gives you even more power and flexibility by allowing you to quickly integrate your music creations in Cakewalk Club Tracks, SONAR, and other Windows applications that support .wav files.

Free beatslicer demo
BeatSlicer is a Fruityloops add-on that gives you the power to easily slice a .WAV file into its specific parts.

Change loops performed by a real drummer on a real kit into an electronic groove or vice versa, while still retaining the original groove. Take out samples and replace them to provide variety to your grooves.

Highlights
16-bit/44KHz stereo output (CD quality)

Export loops and songs to .wav, mp3, and MIDI

Integrated TS-404 bass line generator

Includes high quality sound generators

Unlimited number of channels

Pattern based sequencing with 4 to 64 notes per pattern

Piano roll view with chords, note lengths and slides

External MIDI control

Use your computer keyboard as a MIDI keyboard

Fully automatable wheels and sliders

Support for DXi software synths

Support for DirectX and VST plug-ins

Integrated sample browser

Control panning, volume, pitch, mix, and tonal characteristics for individual samples

Alter samples with included effects

Playlist view for mixing several patterns

Easy to use layout (with moveable toolbars)

Master clock capabilities for synchronisation with other applications

Peak meters

Skin support for custom graphics

BeatSlicer support
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Minimum system requirements
Windows 95/98/Me/2000
Pentium class 200MHz processor
32MB RAM
800 X 600 video display
Windows compatible audio hardware
CD-ROM drive for installation

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 888-CAKEWALK

Submitted September 30, 2004

Cakewalk Software Fruity Loops Pro 3 Customer Review

Overall: 5 out of 5 stars
(see rating details)
Sound
simply the best
Features
simply the best
Quality
very well
Manufacturer Support
it's don't the best
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