VG99 software with M1 Mac - anyone managed it ?

Started by Headless68, August 30, 2022, 05:07:26 AM

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I know if you upgrade with the VG software already installed onto some of the newer OS releases it still worked, but you cant do that with an M1 / M2 machine because they don't run old OS versions.
I also have seen Luke on the forum has tried parallels and a Win11 VM but that also didn't work.

Anyone managed to hack a way to get it working? (....written on my 2013 MacBook with Mojave, just because I cant use my M1 for the VG99! )

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Free "GR-55 FloorBoard" editor software from https://sourceforge.net/projects/grfloorboard/

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Yes, it works under CrossOver from CodeWeavers which is basically a Wine wrapper. This is the most elegant solution as, in my case, the VG-99's audio/MIDI are running through the same audio interface and the VG-99 software can easily recognize the port name. Also other MIDI functions are accessible (i.e. guitar to MIDI, remote controlling the VG-99) as the macOS ports are not overridden by CrossOver -- the ports are available to both the host and virtualized OS simultaneously.

Also, I had the editor working on Windows 11 (ARM) in Parallels 17 just the other day. Work's fine -- it's just very limited in application. I had given up on it at one point but seems I was overly hasty. The only problem is that you can't connect your VG directly to the virtualized Windows and get it recognized. I had to use a third party interface. The Roland devices (VG/Um-One) won't connect and do their auto driver location thing in Win 11 (ARM). However my iCA4+ interface does connect and finds the MIDI ports the VG's DIN ports are linked with. But, of course, then I can't use the interface in macOS! So it's not really useful to me.

The trick before was that you could connect a UM-One to macOS and then use network MIDI to transport MIDI to/from Windows via RTPMIDI. But RTPMIDI cannot be installed on Windows 11 ARM. It's such a niche OS that I think no developers will ever support it.

Now I've solved my VG-99 and Liquid Foot controller M1 connection issues, I don't need that old MacBook anymore and can finally sell it for some spare music money or give it to a family member who could use it.

BTW, getting the the LF+ to work in Parallels was also quite a wild adventure. Amazingly it is now fully operational.

EDIT: I should mention that CrossOver has an annual fee for use. You might be able to get the standard Wine release to operate. I haven't played with it enough to know much about it.
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One thing i forgot to mention, if you try CrossOver...try to get version 21.X.

Since I updated to version 22 it broke the editor. Reverted an all is fine now.
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