But, isn't that a good thing? A program that makes things...easy?
FL's piano roll is frowned upon by so many, but it's a great tool. And the 1st time I ever opened FL(3.56) I already had an MPC 2000XL, Yamaha DJX 2, Triton Rack, Ozone keyboard
controller,
Cakewalk Homestudio, and tons of hardware. My son was about to be born and the room that was once
a studio was gonna become his nursery so I had to downsize to a corner of the garage.
Music Creator was cool for multitracking, but after being introduced to FL, I realized there was an entire
world of production through software that was EASIER. While trying any piece of software since FL, none could compare to it's ease of use while performing
professional functions like note panning, the piano roll, even the way you set up a vst instrument with 2 clicks and not type of additional midi channels was lightyears ahead of other programs for a long time. Tons of other stuff programs are just now catching up to. Stuff like the functionality of the step sequencer still hasn't been tackled. Just like any other program, it has it's flaws, but lets not pretend ALL music programs aren't with their share of shortcomings.
I just find it odd that FL get's ridiculed for making things easy. Then dudes jump into a program like Ableton and make a repetitive 4/4 drum pattern that doesn't switch up in any way thru an entire song, but feel like since they did more to make that pattern they can frown on the guy in FL with a well arranged SONG. Not directed at anyone, just an observation that holds true from what I've heard come out of Ableton. In the right hands, any program is sufficient, but that's the point of my rant.
I give 2 f**ks anyway, i use
Reason...after I tweaked a template so I can start programs similar to how I would in FL, go figure.