User Guide

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Use Polling option can also improve latencies for some operating systems (keep it turned on if you use
Windows 95 or 98, but try switching it off in Windows 2000 to see if it brings better performance).
4. The Main Screen. After you close the Environment Settings window, you'll be looking at a screen
like the one below. FL Studio is all about windows within windows. So you're looking at the outer
Main Window with its Tool Panels at the top. Then within that you're looking at the Browser (left)
and the Step Sequencer (right). The panels might be arranged differently for you, but that doesn’t
matter.
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Press the Play Switch. This is the button on the Transport panel (next to the stop and record buttons).
You'll hear the FL Studio 3 demo song. If this is not the first time you've run FL Studio, you'll have to
reload this demo. Select Open from the File menu in the top left and double click the file NewStuff.flp in
the Loops directory.