[sdiy] OT ? Favorite Software Synths

[Jason Proctor]

regardless of what Apple's marketroids like to 
claim, Mac OS X is not even vaguely based on BSD 
or indeed any flavour of Unix at all.

the only similarity between Mac OS X and Unix is 
the fact that there is an emulation layer around 
the "real" system calls (which are Mach ones) so 
that software can be "easily" ported - and that 
emulation layer has a BSD flavour to it, as 
opposed to say a System V flavour.

furthermore, the audio parts of Mac OS X are 100% 
pure Apple proprietary APIs. apart from a slight 
similarity between OMS and CoreMIDI (because the 
same person designed both), there is no 
resemblance to any other audio API whatsoever.



>Quothe Charles Bisaillon, from writings of Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at
>01:25:21PM -0500:
>
>>  Try "Le Sunthé", it's a french EMS AKS emulation. Looks and Sounds good.
>
>Thanks for the link----"Le Synthe" sounds like fun, but I'm not using
>MacOS X yet; however, since I've upgraded and overclocked that Mac to
>run at 400MHz, perhaps I should be.  Hopefully the author will relase
>a Linux or FreeBSD version since he's using MacOS X which is based on
>FreeBSD.  What makes little sense to me is that, now that people who
>write software for the Macintosh have access to a FreeBSD/Linux-like
>programming environment, they still create MacOS X only software
>rather then writing code that's portable to other somewhat similar
>operating systems.
>
>Also, I forgot to mention Csound, which is a great software
>synthesizer, although it involves a steeper learning curve to work
>with.
>
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