I use a Mac and want some software to help design crossovers. I downloaded Passive Crossover Designer as it is an Excel based piece of software, but the macros don't work on the Mac version of Excel. I especially liked the look of PCD as you can load in the frequency response curves for your drivers etc.
Is there anything else out there like it that will work with a Mac?
I know I could use it on Windows running on a virtual machine on the Mac, but I would prefer a mac piece of software if there is one out there.
Is there anything else out there like it that will work with a Mac?
I know I could use it on Windows running on a virtual machine on the Mac, but I would prefer a mac piece of software if there is one out there.
Not ideal, but check out Crossover (converts it to a sort of native mac application).
Ive tried a few, and running windows with parallels makes life so much easier...
Can't help with your actual question though.
Ive tried a few, and running windows with parallels makes life so much easier...
Can't help with your actual question though.
I use VMWare if I want to run the dreaded Windows operating system. I suppose I will have to use it to be able to run PCD.
I'm afraid so... after a decent amount of searching this was the conclusion that I came to. PCD is a great program, worth the effort of running windows on a Mac for.
I keep saying that Mac speaker modeling and design software is a space where someone with the requisite knowledge and coding skills could make real money.
Alas, nobody with said skills seems to have listened thus far though....
Alas, nobody with said skills seems to have listened thus far though....
Back in the OS 7 to 9 days when the OS was far removed from other OSes we had Mac SLM for frequency measurements as well as MacSpeakerz and Mac Box for calculating boxes. This at a time with Apple in really bad trouble, finances and strategy in shambles.
Now with unix BSD foundations making the jump from Linux shorter there is FuzzMeasure and that´s it. And as I understand Apple is making some money also on the mac/OS X stuff... A quick search for linux loudspeaker software showed a bunch of programs that has not been updated in many years, to bad.
Now with unix BSD foundations making the jump from Linux shorter there is FuzzMeasure and that´s it. And as I understand Apple is making some money also on the mac/OS X stuff... A quick search for linux loudspeaker software showed a bunch of programs that has not been updated in many years, to bad.
MiniDSP and their software runs on mac, you can design the crossover actively and in real time? only $80 for the basic board.
What version of office for OSX are you using? They had removed macro support in Office 2008, but brought it back in Office 2011 and later.
I'm using Excel 2011 (ver 14.1.4). It asks if I want to enable the Macros, which I do, but it doesn't work.
Unibox works fine, so I thought that PCD7 would also work. For example, if I click any of the 'Load' buttons, I get a runtime error.
Unibox works fine, so I thought that PCD7 would also work. For example, if I click any of the 'Load' buttons, I get a runtime error.
I think I may install Snow Leopard in VMWare so I can run PPC apps under Rosetta. I could then run MacSpeakerz......If I can find it anywhere
For MacSpeakerz you need to be alble to run Classic, which means a PPC running Tiger or a functioning Classic emulator -- not something i have tried yet.
dave
Apparently if you install Snow Leopard Server on a virtual machine, it will allow you to run PPC apps.
Installing Snow Leopard (and Rosetta) into Parallels 7 in Lion - MacRumors Forums
Installing Snow Leopard (and Rosetta) into Parallels 7 in Lion - MacRumors Forums
I wasn't explaining that properly. VB IS supported in 2011 or later and not in 2008. That used Applescript, OSX's scripting language for macros.
portreathbeach said:
I'm reasonably good with VB and I have Office 2011 on my MBP at home, I'll give it a try and see if I can figure out what the problem is.
AFAIK MacSpeakerz is 68k not PPC, and you need to run it under OS9 (or earlier). PPC Tiger is the last OS X that runs Classic
dave
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