Jamstix for Mac?

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:51 pm

hey, i can buy Windows Xp home for about $100.

with that i could run Bootcamp, and thus Jamstix.

is it worth it? what i mean is, aside from the cost of $100, is there any downside to running Jamstix via Bootcamp on my iMac?

i don't like to throw away $100 but if i can run Jamstix properly, it's worth it.

unless the Mac version is like a few months away. which i doubt.

cheers.

spitfire31 · Post by **spitfire31** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:10 am

I'm running Jamstix on my Macbook Pro, with a Bootcamp Windows XP home edition, just fine.

Best,

Joey

Xeiver · Post by **Xeiver** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:12 am

Just wanted to say that here is another one waiting for Jamstix OSX cause I want to switch from PC to Mac!

Lud_wig · Post by **Lud_wig** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:36 am

Dewdman42 wrote:jamstix works pretty much fine under wine. Personally I use a commercial version of Wine called "crossover mac" and it works. The way I would reccomend using it is only as a midi drum part generator. pipe midi in/out of jamstix and host some kind of drum sampler such as BFD or Superior2 in your Mac DAW. it doesn't matter which DAW you use. It will work with any of them.

Basically, inside wine, the midi ports of your mac are exposed and available to windows programs that are running under wine. So you you can run Reaper, or EnergyXT or some other simple VST hosts under wine. I've also gotten Cantabile to work too. But I prefer to use EnergyXT for this purpose. VSThost will probably also work but I have not tried it and I don't know if it will output midi.

In any case, you can do that and pipe the midi back out to an interrapplication midi port on OSX so that it will show up to your mac DAW that way, then pipe it to your sound source. that is one way

Another way to handle it, if you want to use the sounds of Jamstix, you can use Wineasio in conjunction with JackOSX which will allow you to pipe audio out of Jamstix and it will be available to your DAW...again it will work with any DAW. one downside of this, is that its not sample accurate. But the latency is very very low, so it may be fine. Piping out the midi is not sample accurate either, but its less data to pipe around, so I feel probably a bit more efficient. You can always drag and drop the midi patterns into midi files within wine to save to midi file and then open them in your mac daw too to get completely accurate timing, but frankly you may not have to, the timing is very tight using wine and jamstix.

I wish I could get some of the jamstix expansion packs as only the styles since I basically am not using any of the jamstix sounds, but I will just keep hoping.

Could you possibly guide me step through step using Leopard, Logic 8, Crossover Pro, BFD (or superior), EnergyXT (or other) and Jamstix 2 because I'm about to give up.
I can get Jamstix to show up in EnergyXT inside Crossover but I don't know how to route the MIDI so I have no input/output in Logic from JS.
Also, does Jamstix react properly to the host (or your playing) when using this method?

Thx in advance lad

ps. To Rayzoon: Probably half of the Mac users are waiting (or gave up) for a Mac release. Seeying this app is very intelligent it should speak for itself that there should be a mac version, even before windows

I've been looking for a very long time for an app like this and now when I finaly found it, it turns out to be Windows only :/

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:08 pm

hey, as a Mac guy waiting for the day/year/decade Jamstix goes Mac, here's a simple question:

what's the downside to getting Windows running via Bootcamp and then using Jamstix?

other than the cost of buying Windows XP home sp2, why aren't people doing this?

Lud_wig · Post by **Lud_wig** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:06 am

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 · Post by **Lud_wig** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:57 am

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 · Post by **BoxOfSnoo** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:32 am

Jason wrote:hey, as a Mac guy waiting for the day/year/decade Jamstix goes Mac, here's a simple question:

what's the downside to getting Windows running via Bootcamp and then using Jamstix?

other than the cost of buying Windows XP home sp2, why aren't people doing this?

Because boot camp means giving up one of the best features of the Mac. I've done it but you can't do anything else at the same time. It's workable though.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:26 pm

"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 · Post by **BoxOfSnoo** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:31 pm

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