I liked it a lot. No suggestions, it's not really my genre but I heard no cheesy 303 that offended me at all.

FL isn't a professional application, and it sounds like you haven't got yours set up right either.

If it's just piano roll you're after, check out Live, Pro Tools, Cubase, Sonar or Logic, they are all pro apps that have piano roll (and host plugins) and are better for mixing.

Oh yeah, I just remembered that if you want you can run Live in the same linear fashion as Cubase, using the Arranger view instead of the Clip view. So you've got the flexibility to use live however you want.

I think the looping method is way easier to get started on, that's why fruity loops is so popular with beginners. With linear tracks like in Cubase there's a pressure to already know how the whole song is going to sound, you can't just jam some loops together and experiment. You've already got Live,...

Yeah the frequency isn't accurate enough to tune a musical instrument on, once it's through the power supply the AC voltage is split into various voltages, like +15, -15 and +5 for the digital stuff. You're lucky you live in the 110VAC part of the world, if we get voltage selector switches wrong the...

I don't like software instruments particularly, they don't inspire me at all compared to hardware. I love recording and editing in protools and live though. I don't think you can really ask who likes hardware and who likes software, it always ends up with most people wanting to say both.

- The MPC1000 is designed to also act as an external sequencer to drive external equipment (the ESX is not). In fact, it excels at this - it has two MIDI ins and two MIDI outs. How do you that? and why would you do that? As I said, I have little experience with samplers, but my thoughts are if you ...

Lots of fun, the audio input, chorus/delay and distortion on the EA1 are great.