Open FL Studio, open the options menu and go to the Audio Settings and set the device to Focusrite USB ASIO. You'll also need to set playback tracking to either Hybrid or Mixer. You can change the buffer size from the ASIO Control Panel, which you can open by clicking 'Show ASIO Panel' Step 3. FL Studio 20 on Mac not completing plugin scan. I'm trying to scan my plugins on my Mac but once it gets to the AUs it takes forever and doesn't complete the scan. I only want the VSTs not the AUs.
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:
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.
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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I am trying to work with FL Studio 10 on my MacBook Pro i5, but it's not going very well.
When i try to right click with the trackpad, it will click left and right together, so i can't use it to delete a note in FL Studio.
Also i can't right click and slide together, when i do that, it will just right click once.
This makes it impossible for me to use FL Studio, i saw some artists using their MacBook Pro with FL Studio, so i was wondering how i can fix this?
All the Bootcamp drivers are already installed, and everything is working fine except for the trackpad.
MacBook Pro, Windows 7
Fl Studio
Posted on Dec 6, 2011 7:40 AM