Why is there no Mac version of this interesting synth?

As far as I know, the only attempt to port it to MAC was done quite a long time ago (like 2005).



That link is no longer available but a snapshot of it (i think) is discussed here:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=370041

Yeah I know about that but it won't run on modern Macs. It seems strange that a Linux app can't be easily ported to another flavour of Unix (which is what OSX is).

hmm I wonder if this could fit the VST...

http://non.tuxfamily.org/wiki/NtkPatches
http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/zynaddsubfx-ntk.png

It's still a GUI based on multiple windows... I wonder how compatible this NTK is to the original FLTK and what dependencies are required...
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> It seems strange that a Linux app can't be easily ported to another flavour of Unix (which is what OSX is).

The issue is that no mac devs have seemed to be interested.
I'd imaging the porting would not be that difficult, but you do need some form of mac developer for that to happen.

Hi fundamental,

Do you know what other dependencies (if any) are required to use NTK?

> I wonder how compatible this NTK is to the original FLTK and what dependencies are required


NTK is a fork of FLTK, so things are very much the same, the largest difference between the two is there are some changes in the FL_BOX types (on the code level).
The only additional dependency that is added with NTK should be cairo.

It certainly *looks* nicer - a lot easier on the eyes, and more "modern-y".

On the UI front, one thing I have longed for is the ability to double click or right click a control and get a dialog to display/set the actual value in some useful units (dB, or mS, or Hz). When I am trying to do something like get the echo time aligned with the beat I feel like I am turning a dirty pot, but I can't pull the panel and squirt pot cleaner in My workaround is to keep the XML level set to zero so I can edit the values I want into the .xiz file directly - just waiting for the day that I inadvertently enter the missile launch code...

The other thing that would be nice would be to make each of the windows just a hair bigger - it is painfully obvious that a fair bit of stuff has been added to many of the panels, squeezed in between existing controls. If anyone is actually still using an 800x600 display, they need a gentle nudge into the 21st century IMHO

On this note, I just saw an announcement from Intel this morning that they are sampling their new Xeon "Phi" chip - 60 cores (yes sixty ) with a vector processing instruction set that will make FFT/IFFT operations run blindingly fast. Of course it is aimed at the high-end server market, but as we all know, today's high-end server chips typically land in high-end desktops within about 3 years.
<grins, rubs hands together, and drools>