Demo mode and your license

Demo mode

Until you enter a license key, ComposerFlex runs in demo mode. Demo mode is the full program, with four differences:

• Each session lasts 20 minutes from when you start ComposerFlex. After 20 minutes the song fades out, and the yellow line tells you the session is over. Start ComposerFlex again for another 20 minutes. Demo mode never expires, so you can try ComposerFlex for as long as you like.
• Eight keys are left out of what ComposerFlex sends to a MIDI port: C♯1, F2, A3, D4, G♯4, B5, E6 and G7. Songs play in full through PianoFlex Player. With Output set to MIDI port, it reads MIDI port (demo), and the yellow line says "Demo: the MIDI port leaves out 8 keys. PianoFlex Player plays every note. Enter a license key to send every note."
• The MIDI archive is part of the full version. You can save songs in the Song Library and play them again.
• "(Demo)" appears after ComposerFlex's name at the top of the window, with the minutes you have left and two buttons: Buy…, which opens our website, and Enter license key…, which opens the license box.

Everything else works in demo mode: every preset and ingredient, Random, seeds, the Song Library, and saving your own presets, with their seeds. So any presets you make while trying ComposerFlex are still there after you buy.

When a session ends, the yellow line says so, and how to buy a license key: click Buy… at the top, or go to flexmusiclabs.com/buy.

Entering your license key

After you buy ComposerFlex, you get your license key in two places:

• The page you land on after paying shows it, with a Copy button.
• Your purchase email has it too.

A key is 16 digits, like 1234-5678-9012-3456. If you lose the email, flexmusiclabs.com/key finds your key again from your email address and the Payment ID in your receipt.

1. Copy the key, from the page after paying or from your purchase email.
2. In ComposerFlex, click Enter license key… at the top of the window. (It's also in the About box.)
3. Click Paste. It finds the key in whatever you copied, even the whole email. If what you copied holds your email address, Paste fills that in too.
4. Check that the email address is the one you bought with, or type it.
5. Click Unlock.

You can also type the key. Only the digits count, so dashes and spaces don't matter.

The license box closes, and the yellow line tells you who ComposerFlex is licensed to. The About box shows this too.

• You only need to enter the key once. It's kept for your Windows user account.
• If you bought a key for both programs, the same key also unlocks PianoFlex.
• There's no account to create and no online activation. ComposerFlex never connects to the internet. You may use your license on all of your own computers.
• On a new PC, enter the key again. Or copy the file license.txt from your old PC to the same place on the new one. To find it, type %APPDATA% in File Explorer's address bar and press Enter, then open the Flex Music Labs folder.

If your key isn't accepted

The license box tells you why:

• "This key has 15 digits, and a key has 16": a digit is missing or extra. Copy the key again, or click Paste.
• "A digit in this key is wrong, or two are swapped": compare it with your purchase email, digit by digit, or paste it instead of typing.
• "This key doesn't go with this email address": enter the email address you bought with, the one your key email was sent to.
• "No license key was found in what you copied": what you copied had no key in it. Copy the key from your purchase email again, then click Paste.
• "Enter the email address you used to buy" or "Paste the license key from your purchase email": one of the two boxes is empty.
• "This key is for PianoFlex, not ComposerFlex": you've entered your PianoFlex key. Enter it in PianoFlex instead.
• "This key is not for ComposerFlex" or "This key is not for this version of ComposerFlex": check that it's the key from your ComposerFlex purchase email.
• "The key is right, but it could not be saved": Windows didn't let ComposerFlex save the key. The rest of the message says why.

If it still won't unlock, write to [email protected] and include your purchase email. License-key problems always get a reply.