Anyone using a Apple Mac with Hoster

[rmryanjr]

Originally Posted by Deeter

I'm wanting to know the same thing. It's time to upgrade the old laptop and if Hoster will run on a Mac I'm headed that way. My only concern is finding a good external sound card to replace my Audigy IIGS I'm using now.

Deeter, I use the iMic from Griffen Tech... Stereo, in and out full duplex. I record all singers and burn CDs for them.

never had a problem at $29 bucks (just found it on sale). it opens nice features in XP and Vista sound properties.

http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic/

Bob

[Deeter]

OK so I'm typing this right now on my new Macbook Pro with Parallels desktop running Windows 7 Pro. I got Hoster all installed and migrated over from my old Vista laptop- all my songs are there and my singers are as well.
Should I disable UAC since all my songs are on the hard drive- not an external drive?
Any suggestions for graphics settings? I think Aero is on. I tried couple of songs and they are sweeping way slow at -.5.
I set up the virtual machine memory at 2 gigs ram. I could push it farther since when I use Hoster I won't be running any other programs.
So far everything looks great if I can resolve the graphics sweep slowness. I have a USB external sound card on the way so can't wait to see how that works.....

[ddouglass]

Look at the same webpage for Vista settings. It now has the differences on it for Windows 7 as well.

[Deeter]

Found it - thanks

[Deeter]

OK so I made all the changes recommended for Windows, turned off Aero, etc. and Hoster is still sweeping slow. On the default "0" the music is so far ahead of the lyrincs the singing on a known song has started before Hoster stops drawing the song splash screen. I've tried setting the offset as far as it will go negative and it's still behind the music. I really had hoped to get this to work. Anyone out there have any suggestions?

[ddouglass]

Deeter, you are in "uncharted waters" here. MTU doesn't support any Mac operating systems. This set-up (Parallels desktop running Windows 7 Pro) may be ok for things that do not require hi speed syncronization. Consider that when you are running this emulation you also have the Mac O/S and who knows what else running in the background to acomplish this.
We don't even know if the controls for this emulation are the same as an Intel Windows 7. If some of those controls are not turned off your sync will be off.

[Deeter]

Yeah, I realize I am in the tall grass here. Since I am purely a recreational Hoster user, it's not super-critical to get this working immediately. I am on the way to China for 3 weeks, but when I get back I'm going to try to get Hoster going- maybe using bootcamp and XP if I have to. I'd sure like to make this work on the mac, but if I have to I'll pick up a barebones laptop just for Hoster.
If anyone has any helpful hints about how best to configure Parallels, I'm all ears!