I am currently working on Windows, using FL studio and reaper. Never used any of Apple's products.
Have been in my friend's studio quite often in the past few months, and trying out Logic as well as MacOS in general.

I really do like how MacOS feels. Already changed both of my phones to iPhone, and I would like to change over to MacOS as well.

Needlessly to say I don't know much about MacOS at all, but what are the necessary prep to do before completely moving over to MacOS? I do writing and producing on FL studio and mixing/production work on Reaper. Would the pirated plugins work on MacOS? or do I have to use all legit plugins?

Also I don't even know if I can move my project files to MacOS either. I really do like working on Logic from what i've experienced in the past few months, but i'm scared to start all the projects over. Unless I really have to start from zero, and keep my windows laptop as storage/backup of my old projects and recordings.

 

Fl Studio was long time Win only application. So it much better optimised for Win obviously. From my experience Reaper is more stable on Win also. And if you r using lot of stuff from sister sit, be ready not to find similar or have to pay for them.
There will be no difference in production, even minor, creativity matters only.

 

Moving projects from pc FL to mac FL is relatively easy if they are the same versions. You have to export them as a package, and FL will include all the samples and midi files zipped up along with the project. They put that feature in so people can collaborate on either platform.

Reaper will run fine on a Mac. It can actually make more use of Apple Silicon cores than Logic can. The only problem with running Reaper on a Mac, is that you are using Reaper.

You do not need "all legit" anything on Mac. You can find released alternatives for almost anything in about 1 minute of googling. But you will not find any plugins with ilok protection. Buy them or spend time figuring out what will work the same way instead.

If you are going to use Logic, it uses AU format plugins. You do not need to install VST copies of anything, unless you have an NI controller or something like it that wants to see VST plugins. You can use BlueCat's Patchwork for any Mac plugins in those other formats, but they almost never are only vst. None of the plugins you will have on a pc will work. don't bother copying them over because they will not work, you will need to get copies for Mac.

You want a firewall. You can use Little Snitch (payware or k'd) or LuLu which is free.

You will probably want to edit your Hosts file - https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/edit-mac-hosts-file/

Archive tools, get The Unarchiver and Keka. There are others but those are two of the more popular ones.

The Unarchiver: https://theunarchiver.com
Keka: https://www.keka.io/en/


If you use bit torrent: try Transmission: https://transmissionbt.com

You will need to install Xcode - https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/install-xcode-command-line-tools/ this will explain better than me.

You may want to install Homebrew. Put this in terminal:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

You will want to get Permissions Reset 2, BatChmod, or both:

https://ohanaware.com/permissionsreset/
https://batchmod.en.softonic.com/mac

You will need to figure out Dequarantine. This should help, it's easy: https://syntheway.com/safely-enable-au-vst-vst3-macos-screenshots.htm.

You can Codesign every plugin on the machine at one time; it can save a lot of time instead of one at a time:
paste this below in Terminal, It takes a little while, just let it do it's thing. You do still need to have xcode installed first. You can remove lines for any plugin formats you do not use, but leave the bundle related commands.

cd /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/

find . -name "*.bundle" -execdir sudo xattr -cr \;
find . -name "*.VST" -execdir sudo xattr -cr \;
find . -name "*.vst3" -execdir sudo xattr -cr \;
find . -name "*.component" -execdir sudo xattr -cr \;
find . -name "*.dpm" -execdir sudo xattr -cr \;
find . -name "*.bundle" -execdir sudo codesign -f -s - {} \;
find . -name "*.VST" -execdir sudo codesign -f -s - {} \;
find . -name "*.vst3" -execdir sudo codesign -f -s - {} \;
find . -name "*.component" -execdir sudo codesign -f -s - {} \;
find . -name "*.dpm" -execdir sudo codesign -f -s - {} \;

easy

 

So, if you really like how MacOS "feels"...

 

either keep your laptop or clone the drive to a spare external just in case you need something later.

 

learn to copy and past "mac version pliizzzz"

 

100% correct. Even when you go from one Mac to another, or use their Migration Tool; there is always something that you miss or doesn't work. And you never find out about it, until after you have no way to get it back.