If you teach me C++ and how to use JUCE in a few months then there will be a mac version ;) If not, I am stuck with FlowStone which is PC only

 

Maybe you could support running it inside Crossgridder. It is Audiogridder installed in a Crossover bottle, used to run Windows plugins on Mac. Many Windows plugins work already without modifications; but a developer might be able to easily fix the ones that don't for the purpose. If you already have a Mac.

 

One problem with that, is that the developer has to fix it against quickly changing WINE versions and DAWs.
yabridge (https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge) has started doing this years ago with zillions of specific fixes and it's an never ending uphill battle. Pretty much all ilok R2R cracks I have used worked on Linux fully or with minor glitches. It's a more elegant way to use plugins without Crossover,Crossgridder,Audiogridder, because it just re-routes one Windows vst3 to a Linux vst3 one through wine and also looks like a native plugin to the DAW. Standalone might work without a bridge.

 

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Yeah, but there would not be any of R2R's magic to deal with iLok. His plugin does not use iLok. No need for Linux at all, or you may as well just run it on the PC under Windows with that machine setup to dual boot. Like a project for a rainy day.

 

True dat. I phrased that a little confusing and mixed that word salad up with other things that the bridge can do. Linux isn't relevant for sure, just saying that bridge works well including ilok. That topic came up before.
The dev of Viper could test it against a version of wine , preferably the one that comes with current Crossover, and state it as a feature without giving gurantees, to make sure a customer doesn't buy it under the premise that it will work on any version and then it would also work with the "gridders".

Another thing: the dev could maybe test it in a VM and doesn't even need a Mac. It just has to run. I don't know what macOS version work on a PC Windows VM, but that might be an easy way to do that and get some extra Mac and Linux customers.

 

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