Atte Andr? Jensen wrote: > Hi > > One of my friends has gotten quite interrested in my linuxbased csound > setup, but after talking a bit I figured I'd rather start him up with > something more "easy". He've only done some mild tweaking of presets in > wavetable synths. He's a bit impatient, I think he would rather prefer > to "just play", although he has some interrest in shaping the sounds. > > He's running osX (G4 laptop, 1.5Ghz or so), and would like something > open source that will: > * play samples, stuff like piano, rhodes > * do descent hammond, pref with leslie simulation > * a few synth sounds (pad, lead) here and there > * runs under osX > * is OSS > * can be controlled from logic > * can be used in realtime, controlled by keyboards > Gosh, If you find one package with all that in it, be sure to tell me. > I think it would be best for him if it was one package, since this gives > him less to learn. I think it should be gui-based to some extend > although I didn't discuss that with him. > > I promissed him to ask around here, so here goes: Is such a thing > available??? Or would you recommend other directions that I was thinging > of? > > If your friend is impatient, he may not be able to last the madness required to get some OSS apps to work on a Mac OS. First, the OS automatically rules out anything requiring ALSA. What your left with is JACK based apps, but JACK can be a PITA to get working correctly on a Mac. Secondly, even if you get it to work, I'm not sure how many jack apps will compile on a Mac anyway. (Not many I suppose) That leaves you with portaudio apps and apps that happen to support coreaudio. (Not many) Secondly, your friend will likely have to install a lot of dependencies such as X11, Qt/KDE, gtk/Gnome, etc. Also a mess to get working on a Mac for the impatient. I think your best bet would be to try wired. It doesn't support everything you listed, but I think it comes closest. You have to use the CVS version though if you want any decent functionality since it is a very young project.
