[LAU] Thoughts on Alsa Modular Synth?

[Ross Hamblin]

On 01/12/11 16:03, mark hadman wrote:
> AMS looks like the answer to my dreams, except that I've never been
> able to get it working - 3 different machines, 3 years, 3 different
> distros (all numbers approximate), it segfaults within about 5 minutes
> of playing around. Currently trying to get version 2.0.1 it working on
> Arch64 (AMD) with jack. First VCO appears OK. Second VCO causes a
> segfault, and a scope causes a freeze-up.
> 
> SO the question is - does anybody have a different experience to me?
> Fons describes it as 'incredibly versatile', which suggests he managed
> to get it to run for longer than 5 minutes without crashing, but is it
> actually usable for anything? If so, maybe I'll try again next year
> with a different machine and a different distro...

I don't know how versatile it is, not being much of a synth player, but
ams seems to work ok here on Arch64. I just installed ams 2.0.1-2 from
AUR and loaded a demo patch hooked up keyboard and all go. It did
segfault when I tried to load patch which used a plugin I didn't have
installed but worked fine after installed required plugin. Which version
of jack are you using?

Ross.