[Jack-Devel] MacOS support

Stéphane Letz letz at grame.fr
Thu Feb 1 17:42:28 CET 2018


> Le 1 févr. 2018 à 17:33, Kjetil Matheussen <k.s.matheussen at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Chris Caudle <chris at chriscaudle.org> wrote:
> On Thu, February 1, 2018 10:08 am, Michael wrote:
> > I am still using Mac OS 10.9.5 because of Jack. If Jack can be updated to
> > a newer OS, then I can finally upgrade.
> 
> I think one of two things needs to happen:
> 1) the jack users who want Mac OS support to get cleaned up need to
> recruit some Mac developers to help work on this
> 
> 2) buy a new Mac for some of the current jack maintainers to use for
> development and debug
> 
> As far as I know (and Filipe can correct this if I am mistaken), the
> developers who originally worked on the Mac port of jackd have moved on to
> other projects and are no longer actively involved in jack development (or
> at least not much).  Previously Harrison had some interest in keeping the
> Mac port usable, but now that Mixbus has the native audio backends from
> Ardour, I don't think that there is any commercial entity supporting jack
> on Windows or Mac, and the current maintainer is primarily a linux dev
> working on jack as a volunteer, so users are going to have to step up and
> find a way to keep this going.
> 
> 
> Radium only has a Jack backend. If jack stops working on MacOS I will
> certainly look into it, but I haven't noticed jack not working on any version
> of MacOS (including high sierra), and I haven't heard any user compaining
> about Jack not working on OSX before now.
> 
> Stefan, can you try to install Jack included with Radium instead of using brew?
> http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/demos/macosx/?C=M;O=D
> 
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The lastest JackOSX.0.92_b3.zip work indeed  up to high sierra, with the restriction that JackRouter device cannot be used as « Audio default device » anymore for CoreAudio application (known issue since Yosemite 10.10 I think)

Stéphane 





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