Anyone using a Apple Mac with Hoster

[Deeter]

The more I look into this the more I think the way to go may be to use Bootcamp, install a Windows partition and Windows 7 and install 3.321. I never had problems with the lyrics lagging with 3.321 and I believe it uses less resources than 4.1. I'll try when I get back....

[Deeter]

OK update time. Uninstalled Parallels and ran Boot Camp and reinstalled Windows 7. Went through all the updates, etc and reinstalled Hoster. Since I didn't quite allocate enough space to the partition () I left the KMA files on an external drive and pointed to them and rebuilt the songs database. Fired up a particularly "fast" song and it looks like it's tracking perfectly. So 4.1 seems to be working fine. I've ordered and backordered and cancelled one place for the ESI Gigaport HD external USB sound card and still waiting on it to come in. Then it will be time to pull out all the equipment and give it a full run through.

[Deeter]

Update-
I'm glad to report that I have Hoster running perfectly on the MacBook Pro using Bootcamp and Windows7 Pro. Video out works using a simple VGA Y-splitter cable ($4.99) and one 75' cable run and another 15' run to two separate monitors- one being a Sony Bravia 52" LCD. I tried a USB external sound card (Audio 2 DJ) but cannot get the sound completely right. There is an intermittent "crackling" that persists throughout the songs and even background audio MP3s as well. Interestingly, the crackling is not present in WMP or Winamp, only in Hoster. Booting in the Mac using Snow Leopard and kJams the crackling isn't present so I believe it to be a Windows Audio 2 DJ driver issue? Anyway, sound is fine using Hoster and going out through the headphone jack through a rolls-off type filter and then into the Mackie mixer.

[ddouglass]

Good work Deeter.