Fruity Loops ( FL Studio ) - Help Needed

[Jchunx]

Heya!

I was wondering if any of you here knew anything about FL Studio. If you do, and you are willing to help me with a few questions I have, or teach me a bit about it, could you please post or PM me your AIM/MSN? You can also just post the answer to the following question, here, if you know the answer.

Basically, I am trying to record a rap. I need to record the beat, and the vocal, on the same song. Would I have to first record the rap/beat, and then put the one I did not do first, on top of the rap/beat that I did do? Like, overlaying one on top of the other? Or would it be possible to do them both at the same time so that I can hear the beat while I record the vocal (and the beat)?

Also, I have a mini question. I'm using my SoundMAX sound card, and others can talk to me and hear my voice in Ventrilo, which means my microphone is working, but in FL Studio, when I go to select the sound card I want to use, I can select SoundMAX for the speaker, but when I click the drop-down menu for the microphone, it doesn't 'drop down', it just directs me to the help document. How come I am not able to click on the drop-down menu to select my microphone?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks a lot!
-Jchunx

[piller]

maybe you can find some info here

FruityLoops Tutorials

[Jchunx]

maybe you can find some info here

FruityLoops Tutorials

Thanks, m8, I'll take a look at those tutorials for as far as the 'teaching' goes, but I still need an actual person to help with the 'getting the microphone thing to work' thing.
I know exactly how and what I need to do to set up the microphone in FL Studio, but the drop-down menu doesn't actually 'drop down'. xD

Edit:
I guess FL Studio is more for making beats, not recording. I'll try out Audacity, and close this for now.