One of the most intriguing SC projects from the last decade… http://www.ixi-audio.net/ixilang/
The homepage for the self-contained app, or the GitHub version for use directly within SC, both are “Cocoa only…” and so, only a legacy setup of SC & OS X will be able to run the direct calls to the graphics framework.
It has a sense of allure, from a distance…
Still using some of the ixi apps on Windows. It’s a bummer they don’t work on OSX anymore.
There was an update of ixi lang in progress - I don’t know if it was ever finished.
I don’t see any reference to an ixi quarks update, however.
Some people are still thinking about porting IXI Lang to modern live-coding interfaces. There was once an experiment to port IXI Lang to Sonic Pi. You can still try it if you open a modern version of Sonic Pi:
ixi_define :a do
sample :bd_haus
end
ixi_define :b do
sample :drum_cymbal_closed
end
use_bpm 120
ixi "foo1 -> |a a |"
ixi "foo2 -> | b |"
I think that it is pretty much it for describing this embedded IXI mode. I would love to try it inside SC, in the way it was intented to be used.
Interesting, ixi is one of the most in retrospect…
Cocoa is explained on Apple’s developer’s page as “a set of object-oriented frameworks that provides a runtime environment for applications running in OS X and iOS.”
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I’m currently stuck with an excellent laptop, however, one that is mostly geared towards using Windows…& I for one would be very interested regarding the true nature of:
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I may be wrong, but I think this referred to the original GUI objects vs Swing. We used to refer to the first GUI as Cocoa (pre-Qt days)
Quarks.install("https://github.com/scztt/ixiQuarks.git", "topic/update-to-current-sc");
I fixed a few things keeping ixi from running on current SC, You can now launch by running XiiQuarks() - most of the UI seems like it’s working, and I can get sound out of a few instruments. I won’t probably work on this anymore, but please feel free to fix issues you find, I’m sure Thor would be happy to take a PR to his original repo.
The ixi apps that have been working well for me so far on Windows are Lauki, Tree, Shell and Slicer. I did have to make some system adjustments to get Shell working though. As for the rest of the apps I still need to download them and give them a try.