This is just me, 'Shad...im 18 now and FINALLY out of high school, been workin wit fruity loops for a while...its starting to frustrate me though...because all of the samples included are solid and chunky..e.x. the piano samples ...they don't really flow or create a melody thus creating extra work for I, the producer. I want to get a beat machine, but for one I don't have the ends/dough/paper/green..whatever you want to call it..and two..I would have to take the time to learn how to hook it up to my computer and learn the ropes...time which I dont have gettin settled in college (Tuskegee in Alabama, holla at me) and with an active social life...so hopefully, I'll get one someday...until then, fruity loops will have to do..