[LAU] No joy with AVlinux

[David Adler]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Robin Gareus wrote:
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> On 12/01/2010 02:29 PM, Batz wrote:
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>> Yoshimi looked really interesting. It looks as though you can use
>> samples as oscillators which could be what I'm after. Except that as
>> above, I can't connect MIDI into it. And even when using the little
>> keyboard applet/window, it crashes a lot. Usually it takes JACK out as
>> well. To the point of requiring a reboot. Because the frozen windows
>> lock themselves and I can't kill them. And JACK won't connect anything
>> after that. I guess I could find the process and kill it. I can't see
>> that being very helpful up on stage in front of an audience though. And
>> the last time it crashed, it seems to have crashed permanently. Yoshimi
>> will load and lock it self and that's all.
>
> AFAIK, Yoshimi is still under heavy development and not ready for
> prime-time, yet.
>
yes - yoshimi is experimental, though version 0.060.1 (the latest
"stable" one) runs well here, and it does not exhibit the locking
behaviour of some older versions.
For the older ones, 'killall -9 yoshimi' should remove the frozen windows.


best,
d