Sonar (Windows only) Cockos Reaper (Mac and Windows) Image-Line FL Studio (Windows.
Image-Line also has more info and details about their Apple M1 compatibility here. Some companies offer entry-level versions of their programs. You can read up more on the Apple M1 / arm64 architecture in my previous article here. ConclusionĮxcellent work Image-Line, and thanks for a swift turnaround on the upcoming Apple M1 compatible version. Also, existing FL Studio users can download the Mac version at no. I did load up a few more heavy demo projects from the bundle and they were all running smoothly. With the recent release of FL Studio 20, the DAW of choice for many is officially. While my project was mostly working with samplers, 3x Harmor instances, reverb and delays. In my first tests, comparing an Intel based MacBook Pro (2016) and the MacBook Pro M1 (2020), the intel was running at 18% cpu and the M1 at 35%.īut, after updating to 20.8.2, the M1 was only running at 11-14%. Intel vs Apple M1 tests with FL Studio 20.8.2 With FL Studio 20.8.2 we can load up heavy Harmor / Sytrus and even Patcher presets and they run like a charm. So we will probably see even better performance boosts once Image-Line have compiled FL Studio in a native arm64 build. 12930, 13233 FL Studio (Fruity Loops), 9495 Fleetwood Mac: The Chain, 1011 Flo Rida: Wild Ones, 56 Florida Georgia Line: Cruise remix. FL Studio Apple Silicon compatibilityĪnd boy is it running like a charm! Keep in mind that FL is still an x86 application. FL Studio 20.8.2 Apple Silicon Compatibility tests part 2.
