On 10/17/2011 02:29 AM, shane richards wrote: > I have scored a gig doing music for a feature film. > > They want us to use "...the same software that was used for the submission..." - yay for Linux audio! Wooha. Champagne! > Now, my singer has a shiny new mac laptop. I have a linux based laptop and a linux tower will be added on commencement of the job. We want to have a common application stack, and hook everything up with netjack. > > On my box I'm using latest dev sources, which I will freeze: > > Jack2 > Qjackcontrol jack2 on OSX comes with a GUI called JackPilot. The connection dialog is not as nifty as qjackctl's but it gets the job done. The Mixbus manual (free PDF download) includes a section about setting up JACK on OSX. > js_wrap requires glib.h - which is not avail OOTB on OSX. Otherwise straight forward to compile. > Ardour2 (Hopefully purchase Mixbus for the project) native OSX version available. > Rosegarden (scoring) There are (or at least were) some endeavors to port it to OSX; but I don't think there is a binary around. I am not sure. > QTractor (sequencing, instrument host) QT apps are usually very painless to port. But AFAIK there's no binary. > Hydrogen don't know. > Xjadeo native OSX version available. > ladspa/dssi/lv2/vst (win) VST may be a problem. Also I don't know any OSX binary packages for LV2 or LADSPA, but they can be compiled just fine. > What are the options here on the mac side? > Using netjack on the mac ... how? jack2's built-in 'netone' driver (aka netjack2) works OOTB. > Is there a gui? yes and no. JackPilot's preferences do not include the netone/netjack setup. I'm running 0.87 but I don't think this has changed in 0.88. The ardour2 "Audio Setup" dialog does include it but it fails with "invalid parameter" messages here. Launching `jackd -d netone` manually works just fine. > Is there any kind of session support on the mac jack2 includes jack_session support; but I don't know if it is compiled into the OSX binary. It is not yet listed in the news at http://jackosx.com/ and it is not available in 0.87. > or am I better off using shell scripts? shell-scripts can be copied easily over to other systems or OS. I don't know if you can migrate [jack-]sessions to/from OSX. Personally I prefer a shell-script in the work-folder to a session-dir in my $HOME, YMMV. > I have exactly zero experience with macs, it's all new. I do not want to use sources. You may not get around compiling a few plugins and js_wrap. All in all: installing GNU/Linux on the Mac will be easier! :) HTH, robin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
