How a Belgian Porno Game Company Employee Changed Modern Music

The Story Of Fruity Loops, a report by the excellent Vice magazine. No porno pics included!

No less than eight pages explaining the story of one of the most popular software among young producers of electronic music.

Although he namedrops the software quite a few times throughout the video, the fact alone that he references a “demo version” of it would give most millennials enough of a hint to know what he’s talking about.

After all, it was the accessibility of the popular beatmaking program FruityLoops that first drew an entire generation of kids to it in the early 2000s.

With a quick click on file-sharing applications like Napster or Kazaa, we were allowed access to a full-scale music generator, albeit a version that we couldn’t always save.

You didn’t have to buy an instrument or an MPC; you didn’t have to know how to read notes.

All you needed to do was drag together colorful blocks of sound to create compositions. It was easy to use but sophisticated, an entry point for anyone with any sort of music production ambitions.

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