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Lud_wig · Junior Jammer Joined: 04 Oct 2008 Posts: 8

Hi m8, we all want to use Jamstix inside Logic (mac only) so that already answers your question I guess.
It's possible but I can't seem to get any further help into routing the midi into Logic.

Lud_wig · Junior Jammer Joined: 04 Oct 2008 Posts: 8

Slight update: I can play the keyboard in Cantabile now and logic plays the Superior Drummer sounds so that means I'm getting midi in. I've attached and loop played Jamstix inside Canatabile but have no MIDI output though.

Any ideas?

Update: Got it! I had to set the output to the proper bus (configured in Audio/midi in osx) in the rack inside Cantabile.

So all thats left now is routing the midi out from logic into Jamstix so it syncs with my host, if thats even possible.

*Lud_wig pats himself on the shoulder*

BoxOfSnoo · Jamologist Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 105

Jason · Jam Meister Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 87

"i've done it but you can't do anything else at the same time."

what else is there to do but make the best progressive thrash metal on the planet?

seriously, are you saying that you don't like it because you lose the Mac OS for other programs you're running at the same time as Jamstix?

if so, that doesn't apply to me. when i'm running Logic, that's all i'm doing at the time.

is that what you're saying? no offense, but why on earth would you want to run different apps at the same time as your sequencer?

thanks.

BoxOfSnoo · Jamologist Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 105

Because I fill in dead time during the working day with jamming here and there. Embarassed

Jason · Jam Meister Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 87

ah, fair enough. i'm, ahem, cough, working right now too.

but for someone just using their Mac with Bootcamp for one app at a time, there's no real downside, is there?

cheers.

BoxOfSnoo · Jamologist Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 105

Windows IS the downside.

I ran boot camp yesterday, to get updates and maybe play a game if I had time... it was horrible! The whole desktop locked up for minutes at a time because of a network change. Installing things required way too many reboots, and I didn't have CoreAudio. After about an hour of messing around, I didn't get to play my game anyway. I couldn't even play my iTunes library off the network in the meantime.

It's a bit different for full-time Windows users, they do all the maintenance stuff regularly, if it hangs up or needs updates, they probably have fixed it by the time they want to play music. Boot camp is an occasional thing, and going from "it just works" to "why won't this work?!" is a jarring experience. It's not what you want to do when you want to play music.

(And I do have a ton of experience in every single version of Windows since 3.1)

Dewdman42 · Grand Master Jam Joined: 24 Aug 2006 Posts: 326

Bootcamp is not the best way to use jamstix on the Mac. Checkout CrossoverMac. It works with that and will integrate with your mac audio software that way.

Brian · Junior Jammer Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 9

Hi,

I'm trying to use Jamstix 2 with Crossover Games. I've got it working except for one problem. The one problem I am having is that whenever I open a dialog box in Jamstix , clicking the "LOAD" button in the Kit window to load a drum kit for example, the dialog box slowly moves down my screen until it goes off the bottom. Even if I try to grab the dialog box or click in it it keeps moving down. Eventually it goes off the screen and the main window of Jamstix will not respond to any more mouse clicks. Has anyone else seen this? If so, how did you fix it? I have edited the .ini file with the line "BlockMouseMove=1".

I am running Crossover Games in a 2.16GHz MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.5. I am using Mulab 2 as a host (I've also tried Reaper) and I can send MIDI from Jamstix to Logic via the IAC bus.

Thanks,

Brian

ChrisW · Junior Jammer Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 5

Can I add my plea for a native Audio Units version of jamstix - I recently switched from PC/Cubase to Mac/Logic, and jamstix is the only thing I'm missing. I know there's a of development involved, but I'll live in hope.

Chris Smile

meeble · Junior Jammer Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 4

i'll add my request for a native Mac version...

but until that time - has anyone had any luck running it inside of Parallel's Desktop 4? I have that installed, but i'm not sure about routing midi from windows in Parallel's to Logic.

thanks

gustav · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject:

i'll add my request for a native Mac version too!

I'm going to try with crossover's demo but it's not free at all Shocked

spitfire31 · Jammer Joined: 23 Feb 2008 Posts: 41

Jamcussion is absolutely fantastic – it's saffron, chili, curry, whatever you need to spice up your rhythms!

And the good thing is that now that Jamcussion is out the door and Ralph is sitting around twiddling his thumbs – now is the time to finish the Mac version! Laughing

Seriously, now that MrRay and VB3 are Mac, Jam-stix/-cussion is basically the only reason I still have an XP partition on my MB Pro (I have no patience to start messing around with Crossovers and half-baked solutions like that).

So, please, Ralph – once the glitch fix Jamcussion is done, give us the native Mac version!

Many thanks for J-cussion and best regards,

Joey

BoxOfSnoo · Jamologist Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 105

A great start would be a Jamstix 2 sample player... "drum module mode only"... for now Smile

I could handle generating some MIDI beats in the Windows version and saving that for the Mac version - it would be more flexible than rendering it all the way to audio.

all_win · New To The Jam Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Posts: 1

I have now also converted to Mac and wish I could use the great drum tool of Jamstix, as I am use to in the PC world.