Free Trial and Licensing

FastTracker is free to try for 14 days of use, with everything unlocked. After that it is play and view only until you enter a License Key. There is no subscription: buy it once, enter the key once, and you’re set.

The Free Trial

Download FastTracker and open it. For 14 days of use you can do everything: record, edit, save and export. There is nothing to sign up for.

• Days of use, not calendar days. A day counts once if you opened FastTracker that day, however many times you opened it. Days you don’t use FastTracker are not counted.
• You always know where you stand. At the right of the status bar, the bar along the bottom of the window, it says Free trial: 9 days left (or “1 day left” on the last day). In the last three days the words turn orange.
• The About box says the same thing in a line: Unlicensed trial version, 9 days remaining. On a licensed copy it says Registered to and your name.

When the Trial Ends

The first time you open FastTracker after day 14, one friendly window says Your 14 days of FastTracker are up. You can still play and view everything you’ve made. Its three buttons are Buy FastTracker, Enter License Key and Continue Viewing. That window shows once; after it, only the status bar reminds you: Trial ended: Buy · Enter License Key, and both words are clickable.

The count changes only when FastTracker opens, so a session you already have open finishes normally. The next time you open it, it is play and view only.

Nothing is ever deleted. Your projects and recordings stay exactly as they were, and you can still:

• open projects and audio files, and play them;
• move the playhead, mark a selection and zoom;
• use the Keyboard Guide (K), Help and the “How do I” box (if your Mac has it);
• mute, solo and move the faders;
• open the License Key window.

What waits until you enter a License Key: saving, Save As and exporting, recording, any edit, adding audio, changing markers, adding or removing a script, ClipView changes, and saving or applying in the Effects Deck. If you try one, FastTracker beeps, flashes the edge of the status bar once, and says in the bar: Your free trial has ended, so FastTracker is play and view only. Buy it, or enter your License Key, at the right of this bar.

Buying

Click Buy in the status bar (or Buy FastTracker in the window above) and your browser opens the FastTracker page on our website. The License Key is emailed to you along with your download link when you buy.

Entering Your License Key

1. 1Choose FastTracker ▸ Enter License Key…, or click Enter License Key in the status bar or in the trial-ended window.
2. 2Type or paste the key. Dashes, spaces and capital letters don’t matter, so paste it however it arrived.
3. 3Press Activate. A success message appears, and FastTracker unlocks at once, even the project you have open.

If the key isn’t right, FastTracker says so and you can try again. Closing the window without a key leaves FastTracker as it was: still on its trial, or still play and view only.

Once you have entered a key, the “Free trial” note goes away, the Welcome Window reads “Welcome to FastTracker!” and offers a Don’t show this screen again box (more).

Checking or Changing It Later

Choose FastTracker ▸ Enter License Key… any time to see or change your key.

The key is checked online once, then remembered on that Mac, so FastTracker keeps working even when you’re offline.

If the Key Isn’t Accepted

• Make sure you’ve copied the entire key, with nothing extra.
• Check that your Mac is online for the first activation.
• Still stuck? Email support@tunetrackersystems.com and we’ll sort it out.