Go to Settings and select input, then midi connection and pick your keyboard. It should appear in the drop down menu.

Each one of those numbers down the left hand side of the screen will hold a .wav file.

You click the square next to the number and select sound file and select a .wav file.

After you load a .wav file (big or small - whole loop or one shot) a squiggly line appears beside the .wav you loaded. Click the squiggly line and the waveform appears at the bottom of the screen. That's where you set your markers for the part of the .wav you want to play back.

Mid-way of the screen is a square that says play mode. Select "Notes" and a bar appears with a note on it, click that bar.

A screen with a piano on it and will appear. There will be three red icons, one for loop recording, one for step recording, one for real time recording. Click loop recording. Start playing your keyboard.

You keyboard will trigger the part of the way you selected in the wav form window.

After you get the jist of that, mess with the play length and then go back to the left hand side of the screen and select the next number [2], select audio effect, the effects that are built into the program will show up and you can apply those to what you played.

You can select the folder with your VST's or DX plugins and use those on what your played too instead of the built in effects. You can save everything in separate sections too by clicking Section Track on the number to the left and a bunch of bars will appear, click on the bars and name the section something. It's good to separate your drums from your other instruments or whatever.

If you apply an effect in lane number 1, it applies that effect to the whole song until you add a section track somewhere down the line.

After you do those things a few times. It'll make a little more sense.

Go to the next lane and load a bassdrum .wav. Click playmode and select percussion. Then just click in where you want your bassdrum to hit. Normally I begin on the boxes that have the little grey squares in them. Each one of those numbers on the left in the percussion sequencer represent 1 bar Use the next lane and load a snare. Then select percussion and click in your snares, then hi-hats....etc.


It looks like a lot typed out but once you load a .wav and make a little pattern and then load another one, you're on your way.

The main thing is to turn off the time stretch or you'll end up with everything you load stretched... like if you load a horn and it says burnppp! ... if you song tempo is slow, it'll say bbbuuuuurrrrrrrrnnnnnnnpppppp!

It seems too simple sometimes like you aren't really doing much but everything is created by you.

Here's a song I made with it a looonnnggg time ago before I even knew FP existed... It was for a rap about cutting off negative people - I didn't know much about beats then, I just needed something to rap over...The hook is cool though

Some guy made a number on U.K. record with it out of his bedroom. I used to hear the song on MTV commercials but that dude was a pro.