[Ardour-Dev] ardour as audio backend

[Thomas Vecchione]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I inteded to try out ardour3 to see what the current situation is wrt synth
> plugins, but it seems like the OS X building process is even more tricky
> than
> usual because the GTK patch doesn't apply cleanly to current libgtk 2.20.1
> (not
> surprising if it's really 2 years old), and that it still hasn't been
> applied
> upstream (!? really?).  I might be able to muddle through but it looks
> different enough to be somewhat painful and maybe there's an updated patch,
> or
> maybe it's no longer necessary?  Or maybe the OS X build process has
> bitrotted
> for ardour3?  If a working build is a prerequisite for doing any mac
> hacking
> then I suppose I could try to help out with that too.  I've been poking
> around
> in libardour's ardour/plugin.h and whatnot trying to figure out what
> ardour's
> concept of an audio graph is like and how it's configured, but it's always
> easier to actually have a running binary to prod and inspect.
>
>
To give even a little more detail to what Paul did, as one of I think two
people that has ever built A3 on OS X, I can tell you that it is not
actively developed AT THIS TIME.  Also as Paul mentioned it will be actively
developed in the future, and both myself and I believe it was trutkin who
have on occasion updated A3's build system and submitted patches that have
been accepted to allow A3 to build on OS X, it is not however an easy
process and will require hacking not only on the build system but also on
the code itself.  If you feel up to it I would personally say go ahead and
submit patches, but don't expect current development efforts to concentrate
on OS X compatibility.

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