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Ardour on Mac !

[lepetitmartien]

I'm battling with it for 2 days in fact…

- install Jack Tools, X11 (on the OS X install CD/DVD)
- Ardour must be at the first level in the App folder, nowhere else.
- check all your plug-ins, remove the demo, Ardour seems to check the plug-ins folder and is very touchy. It'll block the start up until you remove them.

Now you have Ardour working but no plug-ins in LADSPA format… it's the place where i'm battling.

You must have you developer tools installed, along with the BSD subsystems (from the CD/DVD of OS X), if you're on panther, go to the apple developer site and update gcc to the latest version, the old is bugged it's free and it's easy.

to check the gcc version, in the Terminal type:

gcc --version

If it returns something less than 3.3, update now.

Then install Fink
it's an easy package installator, you'll need it

As Fink in the terminal is not that sexy:
install FinkCommander
its GUI app, it'll be way sexier

By using fink/fink commander you can install ladspa-cmt which is a collection of plug-ins in LADSPA.

You can control the CMT plug-ins are installed by typing in the terminal

ladspaplugins

you should see something like:

CODE

/sw/lib/ladspa/amp.so:
      Mono Amplifier (1048/amp_mono)
      Stereo Amplifier (1049/amp_stereo)
/sw/lib/ladspa/cmt.so:
      Ambisonic Decoder (B-Format to Cube) (1092/bf2cube)
      Ambisonic Decoder (B-Format to Quad) (1091/bf2quad)
      Ambisonic Decoder (B-Format to Stereo) (1090/bf2stereo)
      Ambisonic Decoder (FMH-Format to Octagon) (1093/fmh2oct)
      Ambisonic Encoder (B-Format) (1087/encode_bformat)
      Ambisonic Encoder (FMH-Format) (1088/encode_fmh)
      Ambisonic Rotation (B-Format, Horizontal) (1094/bf_rotate_z)
      Ambisonic Rotation (FMH-Format, Horizontal) (1095/fmh_rotate_z)
      Amplifier (Mono) (1067/amp_mono)
      Amplifier (Stereo) (1068/amp_stereo)
      Amplitude Modulator (1070/am)
      Analogue Voice (1221/analogue)
      Canyon Delay (1225/canyon_delay)
      Disintegrator (1846/disintegrator)
      Dynamic Sledgehammer (1848/sledgehammer)
      Echo Delay Line (Maximum Delay 0.01s) (1053/delay_0.01s)
      Echo Delay Line (Maximum Delay 0.1s) (1054/delay_0.1s)
      Echo Delay Line (Maximum Delay 1s) (1055/delay_1s)
      Echo Delay Line (Maximum Delay 5s) (1056/delay_5s)
      Echo Delay Line (Maximum Delay 60s) (1057/delay_60s)
      Envelope Tracker (Maximum Peak) (1080/track_max_peak)
      Envelope Tracker (Maximum RMS) (1081/track_max_rms)
      Envelope Tracker (Peak) (1078/track_peak)
      Envelope Tracker (RMS) (1079/track_rms)
      FMH-Format to B-Format (Discards RSTUV Channels) (1089/fmh2bf)
      Feedback Delay Line (Maximum Delay 0.01s) (1058/fbdelay_0.01s)
      Feedback Delay Line (Maximum Delay 0.1s) (1059/fbdelay_0.1s)
      Feedback Delay Line (Maximum Delay 1s) (1060/fbdelay_1s)
      Feedback Delay Line (Maximum Delay 5s) (1061/fbdelay_5s)
      Feedback Delay Line (Maximum Delay 60s) (1062/fbdelay_60s)
      Freeverb (Version 3) (1123/freeverb3)
      Granular Scatter Processor (1096/grain_scatter)
      Hard Gate (1845/hard_gate)
      High Pass Filter (One Pole) (1052/hpf)
      Identity (Audio) (1098/identity_audio)
      Identity (Control) (1099/identity_control)
      Lo Fi (1227/lofi)
      Logistic Map Control Generator (1849/logistic)
      Low Pass Filter (One Pole) (1051/lpf)
      Mixer (Stereo to Mono) (1071/mixer)
      Noise Source (White) (1069/noise_source_white)
      Null (Audio Input) (1084/null_ai)
      Null (Audio Output) (1086/null_ao)
      Null (Control Input) (1083/null_ci)
      Null (Control Output) (1085/null_co)
      Organ (1222/organ)
      Peak Monitor (1082/peak)
      Phase Modulated Voice (1226/phasemod)
      Pink Noise (Interpolated) (1841/pink_interpolated_audio)
      Pink Noise (full frequency range) (1844/pink_full_frequency)
      Pink Noise (sample and hold) (1843/pink_sh)
      Simple Compressor (Peak Envelope Tracking) (1072/compress_peak)
      Simple Compressor (RMS Envelope Tracking) (1073/compress_rms)
      Simple Expander (Peak Envelope Tracking) (1074/expand_peak)
      Simple Expander (RMS Envelope Tracking) (1075/expand_rms)
      Simple Limiter (Peak Envelope Tracking) (1076/limit_peak)
      Simple Limiter (RMS Envelope Tracking) (1077/limit_rms)
      Sine Oscillator (Freq:audio, Amp:audio) (1063/sine_faaa)
      Sine Oscillator (Freq:audio, Amp:control) (1064/sine_faac)
      Sine Oscillator (Freq:control, Amp:audio) (1065/sine_fcaa)
      Sine Oscillator (Freq:control, Amp:control) (1066/sine_fcac)
      Syn Drum (1223/syndrum)
      VCF 303 (1224/vcf303)
      Wave Shaper (Sine-Based) (1097/wshape_sine)
/sw/lib/ladspa/delay.so:
      Simple Delay Line (1043/delay_5s)
/sw/lib/ladspa/filter.so:
      Simple Low Pass Filter (1041/lpf)
      Simple High Pass Filter (1042/hpf)
/sw/lib/ladspa/noise.so:
      White Noise Source (1050/noise_white)
/sw/lib/ladspa/sine.so:
      Sine Oscillator (Freq:audio, Amp:audio) (1044/sine_faaa)
      Sine Oscillator (Freq:audio, Amp:control) (1045/sine_faac)
      Sine Oscillator (Freq:control, Amp:audio) (1046/sine_fcaa)
      Sine Oscillator (Freq:control, Amp:control) (1047/sine_fcac)

You will have a few plug-ins less, here the few example plug-ins of the developer package are installed too.

There are other plug-ins available, but I'm trying to compile them (it's dirty stuff in the terminal) but I have not managed to progress a lot. If I mange to, I tell you all whether you like it or not.

SooperLooper is a sample looper, it's an OS X app now and a LADSPA thingy. no problem to install this one.

And if you flee this post screaming, you haven't seen it all
(I know, I'm a geek, but i know some who are worse