I have the exact same situation as you. If you are used to fruity loops, garage band sucks. I havent found a program that allows for the kind of creativity that you find with fruity loops. However, you can download a program called bootcamp which will allow you to run windows on your mac. This is the only way that I know of to do it. Just make sure you do your research because it is a bit confusing to set up. I got all the through it and opened windows xp as well as fruity loops on my mac, but I couldnt seem to find the correct drivers needed to support sound when using windows on your mac. Also, dont be connected to the internet if you do open windows unless you have windows antivirus software to install first. I recommend just disabling your wireless before booting up windows. let me know if you find any other programs that would be comparable to fruity loops, and if you try to do bootcamp let me know if it worked for you because I wasnt able to get it the sound working, but others have told me it worked for them. peace