Using Jamstix On OSX

spikey · Post by **spikey** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:08 pm

Way back in the deepest darkest of Rayzoon's experimental dungons.....

Any "new" mad scientist mac/ JS news i wonder??

willowhaus · Post by **willowhaus** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:59 pm

Also wondering about that...just got a Mac, and I'm putting my music stuff on it. Would LOVE to see jamstix & jamcussion come along for the ride! Till then, I guess I'll try the dual-boot thing (I use REAPER, so I can switch fairly easily).

If you need any beta testers, Ralph, please keep me in mind when the time comes!

Dewdman42 · Post by **Dewdman42** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:18 am

Supposedly he's working on it. For now I can report that Jamstix3 works on Snow leopard using Crossover Games 9.1

spitfire31 · Post by **spitfire31** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 4:24 am

Dewdman42 wrote:Supposedly he's working on it.

Not just supposedly, either. I can't find Ralph's recent post in a hurry but in it he said that the rest of the year will be devoted to getting JS 3 working on Mac OS.

Just some patience neededâ€¦

/Joachim

pjl · Post by **pjl** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:58 am

spitfire31 wrote: Not just supposedly, either. I can't find Ralph's recent post in a hurry but in it he said that the rest of the year will be devoted to getting JS 3 working on Mac OS.

Just some patience neededâ€¦

/Joachim

Patience!? Anyone know where am I can get hold of some.

Seriously, I'm looking forward to Jamstix for OSX to complete my transition to Mac. Downloading WaveLab 7 for Mac as I type.

pjl · Post by **pjl** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 11:14 pm

I've taken the more obvious approach to getting Jamstix working in my Mac-based studio. I haven't got a lot of spare cash lying around for software like ipMIDI - I just used it to buy the JS3 upgrade and Jamcussion (and very nice they are, thanks Ralph).

However, I do have a lot of old hardware lying around so I set up an old PC with sound card (Lynx 22) and MIDI Interface (MIDISport 2x2) and dedicated it to Jamstix. Logic is the timing Master and the PC slaves to it via MTC. I can use the JS MIDI Out to drive a virtual instrument on the Mac or use the JS internal sounds and either record them directly or bounce the audio on the PC and import it into Logic.

This solution, in theory, should have cost me nothing. However, I was having troubles with dropouts running JS in my PC host (SONAR 8) - even when JS was in MIDI Only Mode!. The simple solution was to download and install Reaper and all seems to be well. I've sent them the $40 for a licence because I'm not into piracy and at that price it really would be criminal not to pay.

random_bastage · Post by **random_bastage** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:13 pm

I was wondering if there is any 'new' news on the official Mac version of Jamstix.
Steve Jobs called and asked me if I was ever coming back to Mac and I told him as soon as he gets his narrow ass over to Rayzoon and gives Ralph whatever he needs to make Jamstix work I'd buy his biggest baddest Mac. I don't suppose you guys have spotted him lurking about have you?

Post by **Ralph @ Rayzoon** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 8:05 am

Unfortunately no 'new' news other than we're working on it.

pjl · Post by **pjl** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 8:18 am

Ralph [RZ] wrote:Unfortunately no 'new' news other than we're working on it.

Well, Ralph,

That's a whole lot better than "we're not working on it any more"

I wait in anticipation.

spikey · Post by **spikey** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 10:00 am

Unfortunately no 'new' news other than we're working on it.

Well Hurry up will ya?!?

Im holding out for a Mac version, yea I know....