how to record my bass guitar in fruity loops

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I have been messing with fruity loops for about 2 months now, so now I want to plug my electric bass in and start recording some bass lines. Who has experience with this and what do i do once i have my beat going and am ready to start thumping my bass.

I have tried to find tutorials in fruity loops and I have not found much info
 
Fruityloops isn't really used for recording actual audio input, it's a sequencer, it's made to arrange peices of already recorded music and those made on the fly by generators.

You'll want something like "Audacity" (free), it records incoming sound from your sound card and can store it in .wav format. Then you just need to get a cable that goes from 1/4" male to 1/8" male. Generally the easiest way is to buy a cable with two 1/8" male ends and getting an 1/8" to 1/4" adapter (comes included with most headphones. Then you just plug one end into your line in on your sound card, the other end into your bass, adjust the volume, and hit record.

Then you import that wav file you made into fruityloops and you can track it on the bottom half of the song roll as an audio clip.
 
FL studio records audio very well. The only thing I don't like about it is the little disk thing you have to click every time.

BTW. Get a recording software to make things easier but it can be done with FL. And a audio interface. I would not recommend pluging your bass into anything that was not designed for such.
 
I don't think you can just plug your bass into a soundcard. Don't you have to plug it into a preamp first? I know when we record gutiar in my studio, we plug it into the preamp trs and not the soundcard trs input. A 1/4 to 1/8 jack will not work. Correct me if im wrong please.
 
It is best done through a preamp and/or a DI box into an audio interface, but I assumed from his post he was looking to do it without spending any money, which in this case he could plug in his guitar and turn the input gain way up. Instrument level is quieter than standard line level, but it's not as low as mic level, so it will work, it just doesn't sound high quality.

Trust me it works, I've used computer speakers as an amp at my girlfriends house several times.

If anyone doesn't believe me, they can try it. It doesn't take but a few seconds.
 
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