To the OP however, I would not recommend FL and parallels. If youre gonna do it, do it right and use bootcamp. FL studio had a beta test in winter of 2011 for a mac version of FL (or at least it used a wrapper). But I heard there were some issues and no release date is out yet AFAIK (or any statement that there will ever be a release date).
Being an avid Fl Studio user, many people are wondering why they havent made a version for mac. After doing some research, we found out that a compatible version for mac osx is not coming anytime soon. This is a nuisance to many mac users who love their OS.
SO WHY ISN’T IT COMPATIBLE WITH MAC?
Here are three main reasons Image Line states on their website as to why it cannot be done:
- I run FL Studio on a Late 2013 Macbook Pro with 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 and 16GB RAM (the top spec-ed Macbook Pro at the time) via Bootcamp with Windows 10. I have no issues at all. My Macbook Pro has a 500GB SSD and i partitioned it so that 300GB is for the Mac OSX side and 200GB is for the Windows 10 side.
- FL Studio on Mac via Bootcamp. Posted by 3 years ago. FL Studio on Mac via Bootcamp. Thinking of downloading FL Studio on my Macbook via bootcamp. How do third party plugins work for this? Will I need to redownload windows versions of the plugins or will the mac versions work? New to the forum- thanks guys.
- After a week of running FL Studio on BootCamp on rMBP (fully upgraded), I decided to retire my 2012 beast of a hackintosh (sold most parts already). This latest macbook pro is just what i needed. To host my large sound libraries (EastWest, NI Komplete, etc) I use a Pegasus J4 with 1TB of SSDs.
Bootcamp Windows Onto Mac
Delphi:
FL Studio is written in Delphi with in-line assembly for the DSP code.
Since Delphi is Windows / PC only is virtually impossible to port to Mac.
A possible solution would be FreePascal but (providing we could get it compiled for Windows) we’d still have to solve the other issues below.
Windows API:
FL Studio is completely dependent on the Windows API that takes care of moving, minimizing, maximizing windows, detecting cursor position, drag & drop, opening windows dialogs, clipboard functions, decoding MP3s, … so a port would require all system dependent calls to be isolated & replaced by bi-platform dependent functions.
Instead of calling a function called ‘WindowsGiveMeTheMousePostion’ you call a function called ‘GiveMeTheMousePosition’ which is a generic function that has the system dependent code to get the mouse position for each of the OSs you support.
Just getting all this system dependent code from Deckadance (which was created more or less with porting in mind) and replacing it with bi-platform versions took almost 6 months. So we could multiple this by 50 for FL Studio.
Historical growth:
FL Studio grew from a simple, midi only drum sequencer to the fully fledged sequencer it is now.
FL Studio was started 12 years ago at a time when wav files were considered ‘hi-tech’ and VSTi plugins didn’t even exist yet then.
Download fl studio mobile full apk free. It would be illogical to drag along decisions that were made over a decade ago in a new project.
SO HOW CAN I GET IT WORKING ON MAC?
Luckily where there is a will, there is a way! We found a loop-hole one can use to get it working on your mac, and that loop-hole is called BOOTCAMP
The only way to get FL Studio running stable on your Mac would be to create a Windows partition with help of Bootcamp and install FL Studio on that. You can find the free download on the apple website here:
Bootcamp Assistant – http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
After going through the installation process you can install FL Studio 11 and your favorite plugins on your Windows partition and boot up Windows whenever you want to use FL Studio. It is wise to use an external audio interface, because Mac’s Core Audio doesn’t provide the best latency and performance under Windows. Other than that, FL Studio runs the same under Bootcamp as on any other Windows PC.
And there you go! FL Studio running smoothly on your mac!
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