AudioGridder PowerPC

[G4fanboy]

I was wondering if AudioGridder that is working since Lion could be made to work on our machines.

GitHub says AudioGridder is a network bridge for audio and MIDI that allows for offloading the DSP processing of audio plugins to remote computers running macOS or Windows. This can come in handy when mixing complex projects or running CPU intensive instruments for instance. AudioGridder comes with a plugin and a server and supports VST2, VST3 and AudioUnit plugin formats. Plugins can be hosted and accessed across the network: simply run the AudioGridder server on a remote machine and connect your DAW using the AudioGridder plugin. This allows you to add remote insert chains or instruments into your DAW's signal paths. The DSP code of the loaded remote plugins will be executed on the remote machine and the remote plugin UI's will be streamed over the wire. With AudioGridder you get an experience very close to hosting the plugins directly in your DAW but not using your local CPU.

Maybe VST is not directly compatible with VST 2 or 3, but AudioUnits are almost the same since Panther AFAIK.

There maybe a coder is needed to wrap VSTs as VST2, but it is not needed for a pure PowerPC AU Grid

On macOS you can install AudioGridder via homebrew:

brew install audiogridder-plugin
brew install audiogridder-server

@kencu @alex_free @wicknix @z970 @Dronecatcher it came to my mind that being a brew it could be made a macport also, but I can be wrong.

 

[G4fanboy]

For a musician there is interest in use on Gigabit Power Macs because some PPC AU are unique and never translated to Intel.

Also for the Snow Leopard on PowerPC people, there should be some lazy software developer that could made universal SL plugins with an Intel installer but a true Universal AU.

I wish there could be a Panther, Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard version.

I know that Mac OS9 VST and Mac OSX VST are different, but some plugins installers from MacOS9Lives! include both

 

[G4fanboy]

AudioGridder is made with the help of JUCE but there should be older PPC versions.

Someone porting something to Panther + Tiger + Intel.