FL Studio OSX and Sylenth1 Workaround
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- KVRer
- 3 posts since 10 May, 2012 from United States
After toiling around with Sylenth and FL Studio for OSX I have a few workarounds to make the synth work with FL Studio OSX.
These aren't perfect and do not work all the time, but I think it's worth sharing them for users like me who rely on Sylenth for their sound design.
Method
The most obvious problem with Sylenth and FL Studio OSX is that the plugin registers fine but users receive a "Loading Plugin" screen that does not output any sound. This is the first I figured out how to make it work.
1. Quit all applications that are use sound (browsers, music players, etc).
2. Open FL Studio and Insert Sylenth into one of the channels.
3. The user should get the 'Loading Plugin' hang screen window. Once this appears, click on the gears icon on the top of the window. Locate 'DPI Aware' and activate it.
4. On a second channel reload Sylenth plugin. It should now open normally fully functional. Without deleting the first Sylenth channel, you can now add multiple instances of Sylenth and should all work normally.
4a. Rename the first Sylenth channel as "Dummy." Go to the second channel, and save the state within FL Studio. Once this is done, whenever an user starts a project, they can load a Sylenth channel that won't work followed by the saved Sylenth state within FL Studio. This ensures that every time Sylenth is inserted, it will retain the properties of the working channel.
Note:
1. THIS WON'T ALWAYS WORK. The user might have to open and close FL Studio several times in order for it to work. My workaround this was to create a Template with the 'dummy' and a saved state Sylenth so that it always opened with a working synth window.
These aren't perfect and do not work all the time, but I think it's worth sharing them for users like me who rely on Sylenth for their sound design.
Method
The most obvious problem with Sylenth and FL Studio OSX is that the plugin registers fine but users receive a "Loading Plugin" screen that does not output any sound. This is the first I figured out how to make it work.
1. Quit all applications that are use sound (browsers, music players, etc).
2. Open FL Studio and Insert Sylenth into one of the channels.
3. The user should get the 'Loading Plugin' hang screen window. Once this appears, click on the gears icon on the top of the window. Locate 'DPI Aware' and activate it.
4. On a second channel reload Sylenth plugin. It should now open normally fully functional. Without deleting the first Sylenth channel, you can now add multiple instances of Sylenth and should all work normally.
4a. Rename the first Sylenth channel as "Dummy." Go to the second channel, and save the state within FL Studio. Once this is done, whenever an user starts a project, they can load a Sylenth channel that won't work followed by the saved Sylenth state within FL Studio. This ensures that every time Sylenth is inserted, it will retain the properties of the working channel.
Note:
1. THIS WON'T ALWAYS WORK. The user might have to open and close FL Studio several times in order for it to work. My workaround this was to create a Template with the 'dummy' and a saved state Sylenth so that it always opened with a working synth window.
- KVRist
- 178 posts since 30 Apr, 2014 from Netherlands
In meantime we're also working on the 32/64 bit V3.00 Windows version which should be able to run without workaround on Mac OSX.


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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 3 posts since 10 May, 2012 from United States
Awesome! You guys are great!Ruben(LD) wrote:In meantime we're also working on the 32/64 bit V3.00 Windows version which should be able to run without workaround on Mac OSX.
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- KVRer
- 2 posts since 17 Dec, 2016
Could you post the working flp? I have tried at least 100 times but could not get it working..
- KVRAF
- 19896 posts since 16 Sep, 2001 from Las Vegas,USA
DCMedina has not visited KVR in over a year. I assume FL Studio OSX has advanced in the time since his post. Have you tried the ImageLine OSX forum ?
http://forum.image-line.com/viewforum.php?f=1965
And from a year ago.........
http://forum.image-line.com/viewforum.php?f=1965
And from a year ago.........
Ruben(LD) wrote:In meantime we're also working on the 32/64 bit V3.00 Windows version which should be able to run without workaround on Mac OSX.
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- KVRian
- 1330 posts since 25 Sep, 2006
Just follow these instructions to load Sylenth1 in FL Studio Crossover version:
https://www.lennardigital.com/support/osx/flstudio.php
https://www.lennardigital.com/support/osx/flstudio.php
