newbie sequencer software?

[rdlaing]

hi all,

I have a demo of fruity loops and am finding it very complicated to use. I have very rudimentary understanding of music production.

I am looking for a maybe simpler and easier to use program that will allow me to do very simple beat slicing to take sampled grooves and match the timing to the other tracks in a song; loop samples together on different tracks to make a song, import sampled instruments, etc. Very basic stuff.

Any suggestions? Should I keep struggling with Fruity Loops?

thanks!

--rd

[csamuels]

http://www.sonicspot.com/fasttracker/fasttracker.html - edit: opps, shareware

free - www.modplug.com

[reboot]

Another excellent freebie: http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/ind...ection=details

[rdlaing]

great leads, i will check these out.

they don't seem to have any beat slicing feature though -- for taking a sampled drum beat, synching it up to other beats in the song before looping it into the background.

is there a sequencer that does this, or can I get something that will slice beats specifically? maybe shows bpms of different loops so that they can be matched?

thanks for the help.

--rd

[rdlaing]

hi again, it looks like those programs don't work well with looping or have time synching/ time stretching for matching up tempos of different tracks.

any suggestions of programs that do?
thanks!
--rd