DK+ on OS X?
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- KVRian
- 500 posts since 13 May, 2003 from Mostly in NSW Central Tablelands, Australia
I don't recall seeing this asked before (though it may well have) and a quick KVR search didn't show anything obvious, but are there any plans for an OS X port of DK+ (seeing as DKS Pro is cross-platform)? Now that I've got a Mac, I'm looking at only getting plugins available on both platforms.
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- KVRist
- 238 posts since 31 Oct, 2000 from Italy
Hi.
I don't think that DK+ can be easily ported to Mac.
The code base (which I wrote about 8 years ago) was not written with portability in mind.
DK+ is an entry level product and the big numbers are on the Windows market, I suppose.
This is just my opinion, I don't work on the DK+ anymore.
Do you think that could be space on the MAC market for a similar entry level product?
I don't think that DK+ can be easily ported to Mac.
The code base (which I wrote about 8 years ago) was not written with portability in mind.
DK+ is an entry level product and the big numbers are on the Windows market, I suppose.
This is just my opinion, I don't work on the DK+ anymore.
Do you think that could be space on the MAC market for a similar entry level product?
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 500 posts since 13 May, 2003 from Mostly in NSW Central Tablelands, Australia
I don't really know, because maybe a lot of Mac users are used to paying for better than entry level products. What I do know, now that I've had a bit of a look around, is that I can find no entry level universal binary sample-based drum machine for OS X. There are maybe some older ones, but they appear to PPC only. So for my new Intel-based Mac, all I can see is RMIV and Battery, which aren't exactly entry-level.Aldo wrote:Do you think that could be space on the MAC market for a similar entry level product?
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- DASH Guy
- 8160 posts since 20 Sep, 2001
good points blurk, and thanks for you feedback,
unfortunatley as Aldo wrote the DK+ code is based on an old Widnows only project,
maybe it's possible to build a UB version with less features od the DK+, E.G. is step sequencer needed?
you wrote
you would need in such a plugin?
unfortunatley as Aldo wrote the DK+ code is based on an old Widnows only project,
maybe it's possible to build a UB version with less features od the DK+, E.G. is step sequencer needed?
you wrote
may you please list the essential features of the DK+I can find no entry level universal binary sample-based drum machine for OS X
you would need in such a plugin?
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 500 posts since 13 May, 2003 from Mostly in NSW Central Tablelands, Australia
Well, I'm a software developer by day, too (though unfortunately I haven't done audio software), so I know about portability and the lack of it.liqih wrote:good points blurk, and thanks for you feedback,
unfortunatley as Aldo wrote the DK+ code is based on an old Widnows only project
Well, funnily enough I have just replied to Aldo in another thread where he asked for feature requests for the step sequencer in DKS Pro. I asked for it to have a MIDI out so that it could drive other plugins in a modular host (I use Bidule). So..., if DKS Pro gets a step sequencer that I could connect to a possible trimmed down Mac version of DK+ (maybe call it DK-liqih wrote:maybe it's possible to build a UB version with less features od the DK+, E.G. is step sequencer needed?
) then DK+ wouldn't need the step sequencer at all.I guess all I would need is:liqih wrote:may you please list the essential features of the DK+ you would need in such a plugin?
- Simple sample playback per pad, no need for it to be pitched.
- Panning of each pad.
- User-loadable samples (wav format).
- Saving kits.
- Velocity layers and choke groups would be good.
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- KVRist
- 238 posts since 31 Oct, 2000 from Italy
blurk, the DK+ without the step sequencer is the old A0 DK1.
No need to call it DK-
No need to call it DK-
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- DASH Guy
- 8160 posts since 20 Sep, 2001
you should pull away some more than the step sequencer, no?, <grin>Aldo wrote:blurk, the DK+ without the step sequencer is the old A0 DK1.
No need to call it DK-
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- KVRist
- 238 posts since 31 Oct, 2000 from Italy
Sure! I was mainly referring to the features that blurk would need.
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- DASH Guy
- 8160 posts since 20 Sep, 2001
that's really the minimum, <grin>blurk wrote:I guess all I would need is:liqih wrote:may you please list the essential features of the DK+ you would need in such a plugin?
- Simple sample playback per pad, no need for it to be pitched.
- Panning of each pad.
- User-loadable samples (wav format).
- Saving kits.
- Velocity layers and choke groups would be good.
of course that would be almost totally unsellable on
Windows due to the freeware abbondance
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 500 posts since 13 May, 2003 from Mostly in NSW Central Tablelands, Australia
So you would have to add more to make it sellable.liqih wrote:that's really the minimum, <grin>
of course that would be almost totally unsellable on
Windows due to the freeware abbondance
Another thought...
Since half the people here seem to be confused about the name DKS Pro, maybe you need to create a DKS+ Pro that combines the two. I know that defeats the point of DKS Pro being synthesised only, but once it gets a step sequencer perhaps all it would need is an option for the pads to be Osc1 + Osc2 + Noise vs Sample, and I'd be set. Though I'll wonder if maybe allowing Osc1 to be a waveform or a sample would be interesting.