17 Oct
2011
17 Oct
'11
4:43 p.m.
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