How can you record vocals over an instrumental?

Can you record live audio such as guitar, bass and vocals into fruity loops? if so. how?!?

• wanting to record live audio into FL as to add a more human touch to the sequenced sounds. Also looking to upgrade soon, what shalli go for? logic, reason, pro tools?

• Answer:

  Fruity loops now has a product called FL studio that is a full functioning audio workstation from what I've read. But I'm not aware of any version of Fruity loops acting like Pro Tools or Cakewalk etc. FL studio sounds like a pretty cool program. Although I haven't messed around with it to know if it has quirks or anything. But Fruity loops is fairly easy to use (Although a little frustrating at times), so I'd think FL studio might be a good inexpensive alternative to the Bigger more professional programs out there. A reliable affordable companion to Fruity loops in my estimation, would be Audacity (Just google it). It's a legit for free multi track recording application. Once you've set up your fruity loops, you can export the project as a WAV file. Then import that WAV into Audacity to add your live tracks. However Audacity won't handle any sort of MIDI or Virtual instrument integration. It will just help you capture your live tracks & do mixes. So you may have to go back & forth between Fruity Loops & Audacity if you choose to change your Loops. But any time you change the loop export wav file, as log as you maintain the original song length you can change anything in the fruity loops you want & keep exporting the embelleshments. Or you can even solo out sounds in loops & build track layers in Audacity. For upgrade ideas, not sure what would be best. It depends on your grasp for different software types + what you want to do. I was using Fruity Loops as a cheapie drum sequencer & used some of the synths for a while. But I got into using Native Instruments Battery for drums along with Sonar v4. I'm not very precise when it comes to tapping out rhythms, and Sonar 4 has terrible Quantizing. I upgraded last year to Cakewalk Music Creator, which is a lot like Sonar but has quantizing the way I need to use it. I've heard Logic is very powerful, but complicated. I know lots of people that use Pro Tools, it seems even better now that M Audio is working with them. I say just shop around and try as many demos as you can. Self Education is the way to go with software. Make sure you read as much negative reviews on these programs as possible. They're too expensive to toy with. Good luck