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soultime · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:38 am Post subject:

is there an updated timeline for the osx version? cheers

Stuntnuts_30 · Junior Jammer Joined: 10 Jan 2011 Posts: 11

Mekanik Zain · Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:51 am Post subject:

+1 too ....

And why not on iOS ?
Too late, there is already DrumJam, very close to the JamStix feeling ...
So, I'm answer me if it should be fastest getting DrumJam on OSX !

sonicviz · Grand Master Jam Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 287

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brelic_ · Junior Jammer Joined: 12 Sep 2010 Posts: 11

Hi Ralph,

Any update on the OSX version?

Tech_DAWg · Jammer Joined: 07 May 2012 Posts: 21

Meicki · Junior Jammer Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

Hi, thanks for your direct words.

I've been hoping for any change for month, but nothing really working seems to happen.

I've got for sure a lot of respect for what Jamstix is and does and I'm still not looking for something else, because something else can't do, what Jamstix does.

But, we're waiting for more than two years now for a progress in any way.

More than a year ago I've suggested to take someone with knowledge of OSX into the team, because reprogramming everything is ceartainly hard. Even if it would come out to have to pay again for an outstandig program.

As you said, I'm even sick of waiting for any working release.

Very sorry for that, but still all my thumbs and more are up for Jamstix, cause there is nothing to compete with.

So, let things go on Ralph. We know, you can do it !!

Greetings

Michael

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

There is nothing else like Jamstix and the intellectual knowledge that has gone into it makes it something very special. Unfortunately Rayzoon is a very small team. So we are lucky that it even exists at all really and some day it may not exist anymore, we all need to accept the fact that big developers haven't been willing to take this on and Ralph hasn't made a million bucks on it either...so thank you Ralph for continuing to develop it on any platform at all and hope you can keep going for years to come.

From Ralph's messages, its clear they are working on it. It was a big leap for them to add mac. They had to refactor a lot of stuff with their small team. Its clear they have spent a lot of time already, so I'm quite sure they will get it done and get it out eventually. Its frustrating I know, I have also been waiting for OSX version for long time, well ever since I moved to mac in 2010.

In the meantime, the JamstixWine thing I made does work pretty decently to get the job done on a mac while Rayzoon continues to work on a true mac version that will run as a plugin.

Meicki · Junior Jammer Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

Hi Dewdman42,

I'm with you and your opinion for sure. Jamstix is and will be an outstandig tool and I will use it (I hope so) for years to come.

As said, there is nothing to compete with it and that is why I love it and keep it.

To blame myself I've never tried the workaround with JamstixWine, but will give it a shot shortly.

And, for that every user here may hate me, raise the price to get the money needed to implement tools from other developers for OSX to get it done.

For me it is worth the money, as I understood, that Ralph has to use 3rd-party-tools for Interface etc.

And at least you qoute, give me a bass-player. Here I am Wink

Robitaille20 · Jamologist Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 173

Hey Ralph!

Any chance that this the OS X version may be nearing a more open public Alpha/Beta? I'm working on a song right now for the first time in LONG time (think a few years) and I don't think I've ever been in need of Jamstix as much as I am right now.

I haven't tried the Wine solution mentioned in the other thread though. I'm on Mountain Lion and using Studio One in 64bit mode. Based on what I was reading..... Sounds like a pain in the rear.

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

its not a pain. Some people reported initially they had problems, but the problem was not ML it was the latest version of JackOSX. But there is a solution for that too, and its not that hard.

Tech_DAWg · Jammer Joined: 07 May 2012 Posts: 21

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

the problem isn't Lion or mountain lion. The problem people are experiencing is related to JackOSX 0.90 and wineasio, which is a component within wine that makes asio audio possible.

Basically, wineasio needs to see certain jack libs in a certain path. Wineasio was broken by Snow Leopard, when the location of certain libs changed. A sym link fix made wineasio work with SnowLeopard.

Lion and ML did not change that, but JackOSX 0.90 did make a change which again broke compatibility with wineasio. There is an easy sym link fix which will again fix things so that wineasio will work with JackOSX 0.90.

I know one guy that just installed 0.89 JackOSX with ML and it seemed to work, but my understanding is that JackOSX 0.90 has important changes for Lion and ML, so its better to use 0.90 and do this sym link fix.

You can read the sym link fix at this following thread on this forum and there is more explanation about it there too:

http://rayzoon2.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=38265#38265

I am still on 10.6, but several people told me its working for them on Lion and ML. So give it a shot. At least you can make some drum tracks while we wait for the real OSX version of Jamstix.