@hisefilo but it sounds great.... so worth the brain fry.

is this turning into a feature request? Okay!

I know I can build send with the containers but its awkward and frustrating, so a nice send module would be nice.. Okay feature requests OFF....

@christoph-hart yep good work.

@dustbro thanks mate - let me know how it goes, Im assuming you will be compiling HISE from the source?

OK, well I'm still confused.

I realisie I need Xcode 8.x - Fine.

What is the most up to date OS I can have and still have Xcode 8 function?

..s o can I get some sort of clarity then on this @Christoph-Hart ?

@hisefilo Woah.... what? If I buy a new Mac I cant compile the HISE source?

Ok whats the most recent Mac I can buy then?

I'm confused when @Christoph-Hart suggests he's running High-Sierra whats he running that on?

So maybe I need to be clear.

I DONT need to know the cheapest way to build HISE plug-ins for the Mac, I think I know this - @Christoph-Hart has said - it's a Mac Mini, what I want to know is whats the cheapest NEW Mac LAPTOP I can buy to build HISE plugins?

And now I think and addendum question - is it even possible to build the HISE image on a new Mac?

@d-healey yes, more than willing to do "complementary-compiling", but the need for a mac for testing as well and "that other need" isnt going away, so I will need to get one anyway. But you are right all the heavy lifting will get done on the win platform, and all will be doing with the Mac is loading up the source code, compiling and starting to test...so I'm hoping a slightly-less powerful mac might work OK.

The spec seems to be:

1.8GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, Turbo Boost up to 2.9GHz

..of the most basic kind., as I'm a windoze dev. for like ever. So apologies as this isnt very code related ...

So I will need a Mac to roll out plugins and I know next to nothing. I've read here that the Mac mini with i7 processor would work fine, and would seem to be the best price point. BUT.....

I need to amortize the cost of this across a couple of functions and the other need is for this to be a laptop.

So its going to have to be a "new" machine, so I'm thinking of a 13" MacBook Air... would I need the i7 processor here? or will the std i5 do me?

@hisefilo you may be right....