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Hello, so I've been experimenting with running FT under an Oracle VirtualBox WinXP machine on my mac (I'm doing a work flow between FT on the VM and Logic in OS X and it works beautifully as long as you increase the audio buffer slightly in FT (about 80-100ms). It's a very nice workflow which is much preferable to installing it on a Windows partition and booting directly due to the ability to drag and drop files back and forth quickly between the VM/FT system and the DAW and make changes on the fly without having to reboot (I have not been able to get FT to work in a Wineskin wrapper to run it on my Intel mac Natively)
The only problem is that it can get a bit confusing as the visuals don't sync with the delayed audio and it gets more and more confusing as the buffer increases, especially when going 1 to 1 with a fast tempo (the visuals when playing are almost meaningless because what you're hearing has no relationship to where the play cursor is). In a lot of DAWS, the visuals will follow the audio buffer length so that when you hit play it's displaying what you're hearing.
Is there a way of adding an option for the display to be delayed the same as the audio buffer so that no matter what the event that's playing is displayed as if it were a lower buffer setting? (like maybe having an option to delay the visuals by the same ms value as the audio buffer) Maybe it could even be made an option that is able to be toggled for people who don't want this?
It would make it infinitely easier for editing, thanks!
You may soon be able to run FT 0.4.1 natively. I'm working through an SDL issue now which is affecting Linux [but not Windows...which is weird], but otherwise, follow the postings [url=http://famitracker.com/forum/posts.php?id=4901&highlight=]here. I have seen a screenshot from at least one person that has compiled this in OSX.
Fantastic! That'll be an even better option. Thanks for the info. I'll check it out.
Still wouldn't be too terribly bad to have some sort of audio visual sync option for people running really slow computers that have to run at high audio buffer rates even if a native OS X version becomes possible.
BaronLu: you could also look at using either Parallels or VMware Fusion if you also run other Windows-based programs on your Mac. This said, cpow's FamiTracker Qt port is well worth it.
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I have VMware Fusion installed. I've read that Parallels can do similar to Wineskin in that it can wrap an exe into a mac .app file. Does VMware do the same? I actually found that VirtualBox was able to get away with a slightly lower audio buffer rate in FT for (what I can tell) the same performance than VMware running the same version of WinXP (from the same install disc).
I'm going to check out the QT port a bit more in depth. That said, I was able to get wineskin to ALMOST wrap FT but it gave me an audio driver error before quitting. (I saw the FT UI for a split second in a mac window natively before it crapped out). I'm not really an expert on that sort of thing, but I've skimmed some unrelated forum posts elsewhere on the interwebs with people claiming they could fix that error with other software, so It could be possible (I think).
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