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Will there ever be a Mac release of FL Studio ?
2012/10/05, viewed 127416 times
Since our new products such as FL Studio Mobile, Deckadance, Toxic Biohazard, Sawer, Poizone & Morphine are also released for Mac more and more people are hoping for a Mac release of FL Studio.

That's why we would like to explain some of the problems porting FL Studio to 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.

It would be illogical to drag along decisions that were made over a decade ago in a new project.


This said FL Studio will work perfectly on a Mac using BootCamp and also works to a high degree under Parallels.

The FL studio Support Team