This document describes how to deal with various MacOS issues regarding the installation of Stargate DAW.
Double-click the .pkg file to open the install wizard.
Note that you may get a warning about unidentified/unverified developer. This is because presently we are not paying a yearly fee to be part of the Apple Developer program. To get around this, you can use Google to find instructions such as this
Long story short: Easiest way to disable Gatekeeper just for this application is to drag+drop Stargate to /Applications, then open /Applications in Finder, right-click->Open, Cancel, then right-click->Open again, then Open. Recent macOS versions require doing the right click + Open twice to show a button offering to open it, older versions may only require one attempt.
At the moment, it will not be possible to request microphone access from Stargate DAW, however, there is a workaround. You can open a Terminal and run Stargate DAW from the terminal, and grant the terminal access to the microphone when prompted. This is the command to run Stargate DAW from the terminal after installing:
/Applications/Stargate\ DAW.app/Contents/MacOS/stargate
We do our very best to support Stargate DAW on the earliest Intel Macs. However, we do rely on various open source libraries that come from package managers such as homebrew, pip and pkgsrc. Sometimes, these libraries may be compiled targetting a more recent CPU architecture, which results in "illegal instruction" crashes on, for example, Core2 Macs that have installed more recent macOS versions such as Catalina using unsupported installers.
We will attempt to address these problems as we discover them, but at some point, supporting ancient Mac hardware will become untenable, even if Stargate DAW is fast enough and capable of running on 2009-era hardware.
NOTE: It is recommended to use an exFAT formatted flash drive, as other formats such as FAT32 do not support UNIX permissions to set the executable bit, and others are not compatible across all 3 major desktop platforms.
If you would like to install Stargate DAW for MacOS to a flash drive, or you
just want to store your projects and configurations next to the app bundle,
simply place the app bundle in the desired folder, and create a file called
_stargate_home next to it. Note that the MacOS app bundle can be installed
alongside a Windows portable install and a Linux AppImage to create a
(nearly) universal DAW flash drive.