The long-established producer stable is finally getting a home on Apple computers.
One of the foremost go-to's for burgeoning producers and DJs since its debut in 1997, FL Studio, has announced its long-awaited expansion to the Mac system.
Image Line, the company behind popular software studio FL Studio, has released a user survey for its long-awaited Mac version. News FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music. Image Line FL Studio 20 Producer Edition Mac/Windows. FL Studio 20 represents today’s most sought-after tools in Audio production today. Take full control of your creativity today with powerful and easy to use multi-track audio recording, MIDI piano roll editing, and over 80 plugins effects and virtual instruments today.
Formerly named Fruity Loops, the system previously required Mac users to install a Windows system to accept the software. Luckily, for those who still wish to use the program with the Apple hardware, FL Studio's upcoming updated version FL Studio 12 will have fully enabled software ready to go for Mac and PC. Previously, the withstanding issue had to do with the programming itself. Delphi, which developed the software, was much more suited to work within Windows since its debut. Obvious technological advancements allowed the FL Studios team to move on from the previous issues.
No specific release date for FL Studio 12 has been announced as of yet.
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Image-Line, the developers of FL Studio, formerly known as Fruity Loops, has confirmed they’re developing a native version for Mac OS X.
The development was revealed through FL Studio’s knowledge base and brought to our attention by Attack Magazine.
The knowledge base states:
“A while back we started by testing a FL Studio Mac OS X BETA (Crossover Wrapped) version, with direct installation on Mac OS X. This was promising but it was still just a Windows program, wrapped by CrossOver, running on OS X. The interest in the wrapped beta, and the problems we faced supporting 3rd party VST plugins in it, lead the team to start work on porting our Windows-only VST plugins – Edison, Gross Beat, Harmless, Harmor, Maximus, Ogun, Slicex, Sytrus, Vocodex to OS X native VST format.”
It continues:
“The OS X VST plugin testing, was in fact, the stealthy beginnings of FL Studio native OS X compatibility development. These VST plugins use the exact same code-base as FL Studio itself, and if we could get these working to spec on OS X, then FL Studio would likely follow soon after.”
FL Studio is a popular digital audio workstation used by hip-hop producers such as Boi-1da, Hit-Boy, Jahlil Beats, Alex da Kid, Lex Luger, and Soulja Boy, and EDM producers such as Avicii, Afrojack, Martin Garrix, and Ummet Ozcan.
Image-Line hasn’t announced a release date but Attack Magazine believes it could be in 2015.
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