Thankfully though, you can at least find a way to get other sounds and instruments into FL Studio Mobile including through DirectWave as I just mentioned.
Generally speaking, FL Studio Mobile can’t install 3rd party plugins, including VST, VST3, AAX, and AUv3, however, you can download DirectWave (.dwp/.dwb) files, instruments, and sounds, and then load them into the “FL Studio Mobile” folder on your smartphone or tablet.įor a lot of people, FL Studio Mobile’s inability to support Apple’s AUv3 format has pushed them away to other applications and DAWs like the tremendously popular BeatMaker 3, Cubasis 3, and GarageBand iOS for smartphones and tablets. One example is installing 3rd party plugins, which FL Studio Mobile can’t really do in the traditional sense. That said, iOS, Android, and other mobile operating systems don’t have the juice, so to speak, to do many of the things we can do in the desktop versions of the most popular DAWs. Sure, most of us will have to take our files out of our portable DAW and transfer them onto desktop for the finishing touches, but I think a lot of people going forward will use smartphones and tablets as their primary workstations for 1st drafts. As I’ve said many other times, I think mobile music production is the future.