Arm version on Mac

[David Eagle]

Hi Pete and co. I tried installing the Arm version of the MalMuzik app on my Mac, as that is using a none intel chip, however I just kept getting messages that the installer was damaged and needed to be ejected. I then tried the Intel version and that worked just fine, well it did after I convinced Apple that it was safe to open by going to the privacy bit in settings and choosing open anyway.

Another thing of note, which may be useful for others, is that I could not get the IAC midi device to move from offline to online. Nothing I pressed would work. Eventually I put the problem to Google gemini which suggested that I press command A to select all and then press command I to go to the info bit. Oddly this worked. I then hit apply on all the devices I wasn't interested in and then I got taken to the options for the IAC device, which I could then toggle to online and create a midi port. I think I forgot to name it MalMuzik, as suggested in the help text that comes up when the scripts are launched, but it seems to be working just fine.

Thanks.

 

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[Joe Green]

Thank you so much. This is one of the issues I was having. At least with my Mac. Now though when I open up the virtual DJ, it says no songs and then that is it. I’m relatively new to the Mac so any help is appreciated.

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[Peter Mallard]

Hi 'David,

Not sure why that happened with the ARM version. i have re-uploaded the DMG file in case it was corrupted. if you get chance re-download and try again.

Yyes, that setting up of midi ports is a pain. but I am currently testing a version that does not require you to create a midi port on the Mac, as the current test version i am working on does this programmatically, so in the future creating of a virtual midi port will not need to be done. 

watch this space lol

Pete

[Michał Dzienisowicz]

If you see the message “VDJ Midi2Speech is damaged and can’t be opened”, it’s usually caused by macOS security (Gatekeeper), not an actual file issue.

Solution (Terminal):

1. Open Terminal
2. Run the following command:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/VDJ\ Midi2Speech

3. Replace /path/to/VDJ Midi2Speech with the actual file path
   (you can drag and drop the file into Terminal to fill it automatically)

This removes the quarantine flag and allows the app to open normally

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[David Eagle]

Hi Pete, you’re an absolute star. I’m sure that auto midi port jiggery pokery will be of great help if you can get it working. Alas the Arm installer gives me the same error message. I don’t seem to be given any way of overriding it and installing anyway, unless I’m missing something. Sorry to be the barer of bad news. The intel version works like a charm though. Thanks. 

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[David Eagle]

Hi, that probably just means there are no songs in the folder that you’re in. Press left arrow to get to the folder list. Then use up and down arrows to see your different folders. Press enter on the folder you want. When you get to your chosen folder which contains your songs, press right arrow to get back to the songs list. Pressing the letter L will load it onto the selected deck. There are help articles which can be found in the VDJ MalMuzik app. Go into the VDJ accessibility app and VO M and right arrow to help. But of course feel free to just post in here. To be honest, your question actually helped me because I’ve just carried out those steps for the first time on my Mac, just to check they were the same before writing them down here. HOPe the transition to Mac isn’t proving too stressful. I vacillate between thinking it’s great to absolutely hating it. We’ll get there, my friend. 

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[David Eagle]

Hi, I just tried that. I typed in xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Users/davideagle/Downloads/MallMuzikMidi2Speech.dmg and pressed enter. It asked me for permission for terminal to access the downloads folder. I then tried installing again, but got the same error message. I don’t really know anything about Terminal so may have done something wrong. Thanks.

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[Alessio Dj]

You need to use sudo to give admin permissions to remove the quarantine attribute from the dmg.

The command should be

sudo xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine /path/to/file

Then terminal will ask for your computer password, type it in and press enter and you should be good to go.

HTH

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[Michał Dzienisowicz]

You need to apply the fix to the actual app/plugin, not the .dmg file.

Steps:

1. Open (mount) the .dmg file
2. Copy VDJ Midi2Speech to your Applications folder
3. Open Terminal
4. Run the command on the copied file, for example:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/VDJ\ Midi2Speech

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[David Eagle]

Ah sorry, I did all that and indeed it did ask me for my password, but alas I was not good to go. Same error message. Apple do like their security, don’t they? At least the Intel version works.

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[Michał Dzienisowicz]

Run this command without sudo.

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[Joe Green]

I don't think so because I have an hp omni book 5 with a  windows on arm, and an hp with and amd processor I can download the mall music file but when I rund it it says the file is corrupted please make sure you downloaded it from www.virtualdjaccessibility.com, I do want to thank all of you because it is now finally working on my m4 MacBook Air. 

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[David Eagle]

HI Pete, just a quick note to say that the latest version of the Arm app is loading and working. Thanks. 

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[Joe Green]

It also shows this on Windows on Arm as well

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[Peter Mallard]

there isn't a public version of MallMuzik for windows ARM. The issue is that i don't think there is a working virtual midi driver for ARM on windows, as they are all intel. and run as low level kernel drivers that the ARM intel emulator does not do. I tested these on a virtual machine on MacOs that is running windows ARM, and all the Virtual Midi drivers I tried failed. although I have not tested on a actual ARM based windows machine. 

if you do come across a Virtual Midi driver that works on ARM, I do have a version of mallmuzik for arm, that you can try.

I do keep checking if any of the current Virtual Midi drivers have been updated for ARM, so as soon as one is available, I will let users have the windows ARM version

Pete

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[Peter Mallard]

Hey 'David,

Sorry about that it wasn't intentional. seriously though I'm glad it now works, although that is odd.

guess all that jiggery pokery (I think that's what you called it, although that sounds more like a type of dodgy dance.) to get the new internal Midi port, and VoiceOver output working has a desired side effect.

still not sure why you couldn't get the ARM version working before though.

Pete

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