Hello all,
As you know, JackPilot cannot be launched anymore on modern macOS systems, and Stéphane
Letz told us he won’t work on it anymore.
I missed it so much (I never liked very much qjackcontrol on macOS) and feared that this
would be a sign that Jack would be abondonned some day on mac, so I decided to rewrite it
from scratch in Swift language.
So Jack Copilot is born,and I hope it will be useful for mac users that enjoy the use of
the Jack server on mac, even without JackRouter, which is my case on a day to day basis.
This is my very first mac app and my very first use of the Swift language, but I think the
jack developers and community gave me so much in the last years that it would be worth the
effort.
You will find it at
https://gitlab.com/ericbavu/jack-copilot .
For the mac users that do not want to compile the xcode project for JackCopilot, the
repository also contains a dmg
installer<https://gitlab.com/ericbavu/jack-copilot/-/raw/master/JackCoPi… for
JackCopilot and Patchage.
Of course it is open source, and I also discussed with David Robillard (drobilla) and
compiled a working version of Patchage 1.0.2 on Catalina and newer versions for use as a
companion with Jack Copilot.
Feel free to fork, patch, and submit a pull request !
The next step for me would be to add a menubar companion so that simple actions can be
accessed more easily, and to implement a save/recall settings, but so far the app works as
expected on Catalina and Mojave.
I’m interested by testers on BigSur also, but I won’t upgrade before 6 months to this
version so if anyone is ready to tell me if it works on this version (and with Apple
Silicon also), you’re welcome !
I’m still happy with Jack 0.92b3 compiled by Stéphane Letz, so this has not been tested
with the latest releases by Falktx, but I don’t see any reason why this should not work.
Of course testing is also welcome by the community on this front.
Best regards,
Eric Bavu
Maître de Conférences HDR - Acoustique
Laboratoire de Mécanique des Structures et des Systèmes Couplés
LMSSC / EPN 04 Bureau 31.0E.02, 2 rue Conté, 75003, Paris, France