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curiosity question #4

Closed mightgoyardstill closed 1 year ago

mightgoyardstill commented 1 year ago

what type of considerations would you recommend if i was to try and run this on mac?

i understand there are some linux specific dependancies for audio routing?

is supercollider built with the application or is it run as a background process?

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p3r7 commented 1 year ago

you might get a better answer from Brian, but i guess i could share what i have discovered.

i understand there are some linux specific dependancies for audio routing?

i guess so, it depends on ALSA which i believe is Linux-only. but this library is only used for MIDI I/O here, so i guess it wouldn't be tremendously hard to support other OSes w/ platform-specific implem for this specific part of the code.

idk if some of the other required libs are Linux-only, though...

is supercollider built with the application or is it run as a background process?

i believe you have to launch the supercollider server yourself, isms doesn't spawn it for you. your isms scrips can communicate w/ supercollider by sending osc messages (which is also how Supercollider IDE interacts w/ its server).

tehn commented 1 year ago

midi would take effort to be portable, for the reason mentioned. i'm not terribly familiar with working with midi on macos or windows.

device detection in general is very linux-specific as udev figures in prominently. for multi-platform grid detection, serialosc provides a model though to me it's far too complex.

this project itself does no audio. think of it as a lua environment with support for grids, midi, osc, and screen/keyboard (via sdl).

unless you're interested in actively developing cross-platform capabilities (which is an engineering challenge) i might recommend trying it out on a raspberry pi, which should work fine.