[Abc-discuss] midi synthesizer on MAC OSX Catalina

[Larry M. <hip...@gm...>]

Hi ABCers,

I'm in the 'weighing up' phase of a rework of musciraft's MIDI playing,
which is currently less than portable. It seems that a move away from
'portmedia/portmdi' to (python-)rtlmidi is the right direction. More of
that later.

For now, I'm looking for MIDI-synthesiser software that will work on MACOSX
Catalina. I've found https://github.com/matlimatli/simplesynth whic
purports to work on Mac OSX catalina, but it seems I need to use xtools to
build it. I am doing that now and its not a quick process! For wider
deployment I really want a MIDI synthesiser that can be easily installed by
anybody. I'll be providing the GUI within musicraft; I just need something
that provides the midi devices.

I will also look into the possibility of using Timidity for this. But
perhaps someone has some better suggestion?

Larry