Looking for experimental granular synth software Hourglass

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  1. missing_music

    missing_music Noisemaker

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    Hi all,

    I've been searching for a while for a wonderful and powerful granular synthesis software for Mac called Hourglass by Xenakios. I have v1.4.5 which I cannot get working (possibly corrupt file)

    Does anyone have any working version for Mac?

    https://xenakios.wordpress.com/category/hourglass/

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    Thank you so much
     
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    i was long time ago only able to track down a windows version. the macOS version got lost sadly ...

    but maybe somebody has it still?

    Are you even sure there was an uptodate macOS version?

    otherwise emu windows and use the windows version.
     
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  4. Will Kweks

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    I'm not on my Mac at the moment so I can't try it out, but it appears that both Mac and Win versions are on archive.org, just search for "xenakios hourglass". Maybe that version works for you, best of luck!
     
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    Xenakios

    Posting this in the hopes this somehow ends up in search engine results etc.

    Download links for HourGlass are apparently still floating around somewhere, I occasionally get requests from Google Drive to get access. I am not planning on allowing the downloads again, and they would be pointless anyway, especially for MacOs users. The OS-X/MacOs build is hopelessly outdated and won't run on any new MacOs versions even if you bypass the binary signing/notarization required by Apple these days. (This was confirmed a few months ago.) I wouldn't expect the Windows version to work that well either anymore. No testing/development has been done even for Windows 10, let alone Windows 11.

    Source: www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=346040&start=210
     
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    needed to remove the hourglass icon, since i couldnt react to any answer here.
     
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