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Jono-60 · Jammer Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 33

I switched to Mac a while ago so I never really got to use Jamstix much. However listening to some old tracks i made with it reminded how impressive it is.

I am thinking of running Windows under Mac OSX to use Jamstix and various other tools I might need.

Is there a simple host which is very light on resources which I can use for Jamstix?

gmon72 · Grand Master Jam Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 207

give reaper a try. fully functional demo - www.reaper.fm

Saurez · Jam Meister Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 84

SAVIHost is easy and great.Works as a stand alone VSTi too.
And for free!
go www.hermannseib.com

Jono-60 · Jammer Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 33

Thanks guys!

wil · Jammer Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 38

energy xt is the most light sequencer and is not expensive
he has a modular view.
i use it always with synthesia for play my vsti with shyntesia.
http://www.xt-hq.com/download/
the demo don't save your work but is fully functionnal

Jono-60 · Jammer Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 33

Hey thanks for that.

Are you suggesting EXt1 or 2?

wil · Jammer Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 38

i suggest the version 1
but u can use both
versioN 2 have rex support and it's a little more intuitive but the 1 is more advanced for working with midi.
so u can try the both anyway.
this daw is awesome:
modualr view
browser
totally skinned (and very esay to make yours but there's thousand on the site.
very light
the soft open directly with no delay
don't need to refresh ure vsti folder ^^
and many....

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

+1 to EnergyXT.

I can also reccomend hightly Cantabile, of which there is a free version available. EnergyXT, however, does provide a sequencer of its own and I guess you should be able to drag and drop midi patterns into it.

Also check out using Wine on OSX (Darwine or CrossoverMac) and you can literally use Jamstix together with logic that way.

wil · Jammer Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 38

Just beware only the last version of energy xt (v1.41) can import/export midifiles.
(ext2 can do the job in all versions)

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

Yea that's good to know. I had some wierd problems with 1.41 anyway and the QWERTY keyboard. XT2 worked a little better. The nice thing about 1.41 is that there are a bunch of weird little midi plugins that can be used on it for filtering the data, but they don't work on XT2 or anywhere else. Anyway, Cantabile also works pretty spectacularly. I also tried Reaper last night...worked like a charm but used a lot more CPU for some reason.

Some day I'd like to try out Plogue.

wil · Jammer Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 38

Yep the midi channelizer and patcher in ext are awesomes.
i was try cantabile it's not so bad.
for reaper i was try also he has good unik features but for
midi ===>ext
and audio =====>tracktion
and for both===> ext plug in tracktion ^^
Ableton live is good also but i use the version 2 with just audio.

ext2 have a new release this week with good new features.