Atte André 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.