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Topic: CREATE synths on Mac? in Linux?

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swami_worldtraveler (Over 1 year ago) 
Need to know as part of my research for talk I will be giving.

I know that VIEWING synths is possible on Mac, and pretty sure in Linux, thru Silverlight. Even saw articles (including a vid) of Direct3D viewer running on Mac under VBware Fusion, plus mention of it running under BootCamp. But, can Mac +/or Linus users CREATE synths? If so, how?

TIA.
David (Over 1 year ago) 
Synthing runs fine on Bootcamp, and should work file, albeit slowly, on virtual machines such as Parallels, and VMware Fusion. We do not have a native synther for the Mac or Linux.
swami_worldtraveler (Over 1 year ago) 
Tnx for the prompt reply, David. I will share this info w/ my audience.
Nathanael (Over 1 year ago) 
Swami, you should note that Novell is still struggling to release Moonlight 2 from its beta which should run all Silverlight 2 apps (like the first Silverlight Photosynth viewer). 

Since the fall update for Photosynth, though, the viewer is a Silverlight 3 app and trying to run it with even the final build of Moonlight 2, I suspect simply won't work. The update to SL3 was very much needed + appreciated for performance but sadly cuts Linux users out when they were just months away from viewing synths.

For more on this topic, please see my petition here: 
 http://photosynth.net/discussion.aspx?cat=01b6f15f-42eb-49cb-a221-ed56615e1c47&dis=369bc624-2a83-4ba0-ac86-fc9865ed5973
swami_worldtraveler (Over 1 year ago) 
Tnx, Nate (as always:)
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