PC DAW FL Studio Coming to Macs Next Year

Mac fans rejoice! DAW — Digital Audio Workstation — FL Studio is officially coming to your device next year, via Resident Advisor. Formerly known as Fruity Loops, FL Studio has been the preferred DAW for PC users for years, while Mac users have produced with the software Logic. Though Macs have the capability to go into "Boot camp" mode and allocate some hard drive space to PC software, speed is at a premium when producing a track with potentially more than a hundred channels. Now the news that FL Studio is being released for Macs will have producers ecstatic that they have a choice of music software.

In a statement released on Attack Magazine, the company behind FL Studio, Image-Line, explained the reason behind the adaptation for FL Studio 12 and why it took so long to make the change. A Mac OS X compiler for Delphi, the language the programming code FL Studio is written in, only recently appeared.

"Before this came along, we needed to port well over 1 million lines of code to another language. We never thought that was a good idea, and it's why we never did it before. But, things have changed, so let's call this progress," the statement read.

There is still a lot of work to do, including replacing all "operating system dependent calls" with "By-platform dependent functions," which Image-Line cautions will be time consuming. There has not been a timetable for the release of FL Studio 12 on Macs, but Image-Line urges Mac owners to be patient.

Apple has been the traditional choice of hardware for creative people, whether that person is a graphic designer, photographer or music producer. Apple should not be too worried about Logic users switching software because of how time consuming it is to learn a totally new DAW when you have become accustomed to working within one. This could affect new sales with new producers, notably now that everyone wants to be a producer/DJ.

Below is a video of the beta for FL Studio 12, so Mac users can get a taste of what they might be getting in 2015: