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Ok, I ended up giving up with Jack. It seemed to fiddly to set up. Instead I ended up using Soundflower from cycling 74.

soundflower

Easy to set up. This did the trick in that I can now record my Pico in Ableton .

I have to say , it is amazing . The BEST experience I've ever had with a digital instrument.
Thank you.

Hi there

If ever you have a problem with activation codes do please get in touch and we can always sort that out for you straight away.

Great to see you got it all sorted in the end!

Philip
Eigenlabs Support team

I wouldnt hold my breath for a native AU version, but Im only guessing. Better to consider other workarounds such as using a separate dedicated computer to drive the pico, or just use pico as a midi controller.

I hear you, its just that looking at the current state of the software does not give me cause to anticipate an AU version within a reasonable timeframe. I have read elsewhere on the net that they intend to opensource the software early in 2010 which will open up many possibilities, but even then it may take some time for anything wonderful to emerge.

This is why I am interested in workarounds that work today, of which there are several. Whether it be routing via virtual audio busses using soundflower, routing via sound card/mixer stuff, using 2 computers, or just using the Pico as a midi controller to control instruments that already play nice with the rest of your setup, there are solutions that will do for now. Despite the limitations of midi it works very well with the pico and my ears have had far more joy using the Pico with reaktor, massive & some other instruments than the native pico stuff in many ways. The present Pico midi implementation is not perfect, but I think it will be thousands of times easier for them to sort that than redevelop their software as a plugin.

Wahey, Im always delighted when my negativity proved unfounded :) Having a simple AU that acts as an audio bridge sounds like a cunning plan indeed, I was actually thinking about something similar in the bath this morning before my day job tore me away from the land of the eigenharp for many painful hours.

Hi Geert

Thanks for that post. We've been playing with AuNetSend here and it seems to work fine. It does introduce a little more latency, we're going to test this in the next week or so. Unfortunately, AuNetSend is a Cocoa AU and we don't yet support those, although Joe is working on it. This means that although one can load it in EigenD, it is limited to mono as the GUI doesn't display properly to allow one to configure it into Stereo. The other slight issue is that AuNetReceive is an AU generator, and these require special host support. Several hosts we've tried don't yet seem to support these, though Logic, as one would expect, is fine. Like Cocoa, it seems to be a newish thing in the AU world, and will take a while to be fully supported by all vendors.


John

[Bidule sounds very interesting, though I'm heavily invested in Max/MSP...]

Better documentation is always good but this is a consumer item - for musicians. People don't read documentation and they aren't very good at reading documentation and following instructions and a lot of the time your instructions aren't exactly what they're seeing.

Of course, this is a young product but the eventual goal has to be something you can give your older relative who has a computer but doesn't really understand it and they can plug right in and play along with their iTunes out of the box and do a little recording.

I think you should concentrate, in fact, on getting it to work out of the box with Garage Band - not that I have even ever turned that program on, but that's what people get for free in the system.

And ideally your installer should simply detect all the sound tools they have and install an interface to your noisemaker for all of them - just in the same way that when you install browser plugins like Real media it detects your browsers, asks you to quit them, and installs a copy for each browser.