FL4LINUX
A Guide on getting FL Studio (and some VST's) running on linux
A Beginners guide
Firstly, Make sure wine is installed, Also make sure you are not on version 9.20, If you are then update wine
If you don't have it installed, check WineHQ
Do NOT install wine from the debian or ubuntu/mint repos, they are old
Now, install winetricks and install corefonts, this will fix missing fonts
$ winetricks corefonts
Then Install FL Studio, it should go without any issues
How to fix FL Studio Crashing
On FL Studio 21 it will crash once you open menus at times, to fix this turn off ultrasmooth
Options > General Settings > Turn Ultrasmooth off
For other crashes, its just FL Studio being weird,
FL Studio will crash at times, but this happens on windows too
My VST Doesnt work!
Some VSTs may not work or are broken, this is how you can fix some of them
On FL Studio on wine, 32 bit VSTs will break due to FL Studio not being able to render it as a native widget, so try to only use 64 bit VSTs as much as possible
However you can get 32 Bit VSTs by changing regestries
\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-0-0-0-1000\Software\Image-Line\Shared\Plugins\Fruity Wrapper\Plugins
Find the VST developer name and add a DWORD key named BridgedExternalWindow with value 1
For example Serum will have rendering issues unless if you disable d2d1 in winecfg, This wont work for Serum 2 though as it needs d2d1
$ winecfg
Libraries > d2d1 > Edit > Disable
Also set gdiplus to "Native, Builtin"
Libraries > gdiplus > Edit > Native, Builtin
Known Issues:
Vanguard and Nexus are broken for some GPU's, the gui doesnt update, however sound works
Tested Versions
20, 21, 24.1.1, 24.2.2
Note that these versions are the ones i tested
Also, Its a good idea to look at the
FL Studio page on winedb