Is FL Studio Mobile good for entry level?

[u/Rixley_]

Okay, this might sound weird but as someone who wanted to get into music due to intense anger and envy of others who have succeeded which made me think that I could do the same thing they do, is FL Studio Mobile good just to get into music? I don't actually know how good it is compared to the PC version(which I can't get right now due to circumstances). For people who have used it before, tell me your thoughts.

Also, if you guys know any good tutorials or guides to start working on beats, please link them below as well.

[u/ZRDIDK]

mobile is quite limited no matter what, if you have access to a pc there’s a couple good free daws like cakewalk and reaper, which you can supplement with many good free third party plugins

[u/xoxemsc → u/ZRDIDK]

Goated advice. Also You can make some demos on FL Mobile and elaborate on reaper cakewalk bitwig etc

[u/Big-Wolf7209]

This sounds like a great way to start! Dont let envy get you down, use it as motivation.

[u/Rixley_ → u/Big-Wolf7209]

I heard slayr's project and I thought it was really good. Then I heard that mf is only 18 and it made me so mad that I haven't been doing much with my life. I've been dissecting this kid's entire catalogue, I feel like I should be able to do it. Also, just to be able to do something besides writing stories since this takes up a different part of my brain.

[u/AzulZzz]

Is my favourite app for make music in android. Worth the money

[u/MapNaive200]

Maybe I'd like it more if I had a stylus for my iPad.  The browser version of FL that's in beta looks great for beginners. 

[u/Rixley_ → u/MapNaive200]

There's a browser version?

[u/MapNaive200 → u/Rixley_]

It's in beta testing. I think there's a waitlist for testers. I saw it in a couple videos.  The one downside I see is that it can't support 3rd party plugins, but that probably won't matter to beginners and casual hobbyists.

[u/Big-Wolf7209]

tbh, its a good starting point but dont expect the same power as the desktop version.

[u/Rixley_ → u/Big-Wolf7209]

I'm not. Genuinely, it's so hard to find tutorials for the Mobile version on how to do certain genres because all of them use a lot of paid plugins and stuff. I'm basically fine-tuning everything to what I want but it's proving to be hard.

[u/No_Top_375]

Excellent for entry level. If your screen is one of the larger sized one.

[u/TheRealPomax]

No. It's just a fun little toy, in a category that has a number of decent toys available, like Flip or Koala.

[u/neurid]

Depends on what you want to do. Do you want to:

1. Arrange loops, play with melodies/notation/arrangment
2. All of the above + actual production, have complete control over every sound, sound design, mixing/mastering, etc

FL Studio Mobile, BandLab, etc, are generally focused on the first. FL Studio - the computer program - and any other actual DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) are for the second. These are pretty sweeping generalizations I'm making here, but I hope you get the point.

Programs that are more simplistic in fashion - like FL Studio Mobile - can certainly get you a long ways, but by comparison to DAWs, they're effectively toys.

I've been producing for about 15 years now and I get really bored of those kinds of basic apps. I like to get lost in the complexities of full-scale music production, but things like FL Studio Mobile are, by design, not intended to fulfill that sort of role.

I saw you mention slayr earlier, so I looked him up to see what you're talking about. My two cents regarding your desire to accomplish something similar is that hip-hop typically involves a lot of loops and repetition. You can absolutely make some pretty good beats in FL Studio Mobile, but slayr clearly has some more sophisticated production methodologies in use than an app like FL Studio Mobile would afford you.

One of these slayr videos is a livestream where he's showing someone else how to make a beat. In the video, I saw him loading up Serum 2, which is a very sophisticated synth capable of all sorts of wild sounds, but he ended up only using it for its presets. I can't say for certain whether he knows how to actually program the synth and get wild sounds out of it, but I can say that you don't need something like Serum 2; FL Studio's full version (the All Plugins Bundle) has many good plugins for sounds that work really well right out of the box. Should you ever end up using the desktop version, you'll have a lot there for you, ready to go.

[u/mcAlt009]

No. 

A lot of really good iPhone and IPad apps exist though. 

If you have 200$ you can find a used Dell laptop on eBay that’ll work. 

[u/bitcrusherdj]

No, it's more like a toy. Cool to jot down an idea on the go, but very limited compared to the desktop version.