Today, the Internet was set ablaze as there was an announcement of the famed digital audio workstation Fruity Loops Studio (or FL Studio, for short) being available for the Mac operating system sometime in 2015. For the die-hard Mac users that really liked the ease of use in FL Studio, they had to basically use programs that would allow you to run Windows programs on your Mac like Wine, Parallels, or Crossover. There were chances to check out FL Studio on OSX with a beta testing registration floating around a few years back, but to a very limited group of people (i.e. you had to be a die-hard user from FL 1.0 to really get the scoop).
There was also an article that has been circulating around the internet earlier regarding the “hampering of [FL studio’s] progress” mainly because you had to install more software on your Mac just to run the program–quite the contrary, as Scott Fisher, Communications Manager for Image-Line states: “FL Studio is in no way hampered (remember 90% of the installed desktop user-base is running Windows). We have one of the largest (if not the largest) installed user base of any music production platform thanks to FL Studio’s innovative and unique design… The installer is downloaded over 30,000 times per day”.
For those that are still in the dark (or wondering what the crap is taking forever), it’s very simple:
The entire FL Studio program is written in a coding system called Delphi that was mainly made for Windows systems, and recently the coding program got ability to write OSX code. It is still a very early coding process, and as with any application in its primary stages, there will be bugs. In addition to that, they have to port over all of the standard elements of the Windows functions (minimizing, maximizing, sizing, etc) over to the Mac standard–not to mention the millions of lines of code they have to make sure are 100% working.
So there it is Mac users–you have just a little bit longer for this program to port over, but when it does, rest assured it will be well worth the wait.
You can read Image-Line’s full statement regarding the Mac OSX port. Until then -- patience, grasshopper.
