[LAU] Is QMidiArp broken?

[Len Ovens]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2016, Yassin Philip wrote:
> This morning I can't seem to get QMidiArp working.
> 
> The custom UI isn't available anymore, for starters. No "Edit" in Qtractor's
> menu, only "properties" witch would not be a problem (on the contrary, I like
> generic UIs) if it was working :/ Note that there does not seem to be a way to
> write patterns, like in the custom UI, the text field for that is not present in
> the generic UI.
> 
> I'm used to QMidiArp, I've been using it for years, I know that you have to tell
> him the MIDI channel ins and outs and such, but still, no luck.

You are doing much better than I am then. I didn't realize that qmidiarp 
could be used as a plugin because I had not seen it listed... neither 
lv2_list nor lv2ls show it on my system. Yet when I use synaptic to see 
which files are included in the package... there are the vl2s. But I don't 
think they are supposed to be in:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lv2/qmidiarp_arp.lv2/qmidiarp_arp.ttl
So perhaps you have added that path to your qtracktor setup and:

> I tried building it from source, that went pretty well, now I'm pretty sure I
> have the last version installed, but still no luck.

When you built it from source they were correctly put in /usr/lib/lv2/ 
where they should be... but qtracktor is still seeing the old ones. Try 
removing /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lv2/ as a path from qtracktor. Or at 
least confirming that the home built ones are still going there...

The other thing to look at is that both qtracktor and qmidiarp use the 
same version of qt. (your repository should already have packages built 
with the same GUI versions)


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Len Ovens
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