On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:35:29 -1000 david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote: This is really strange. I've just checked with a new build or 1.3.3 as published and it works perfectly. The only slight irritation (now fixed) is that with a clean install you should see "5. Arpeggios" in the dropdown window, but you have to select another (from a list of 22!) for the list to be initialised. After that you should have no problems. Can you check that "/usr/local/share/yoshimi/banks" exists? I'm wondering if they've left the banks out - I know there was some discussion about whether they needed to support both the yoshi and zyn sets. Try setting up some more root paths pointing to bank sets you know you've got. Form the root paths yes, The problem with the old way (although it's still mostly there) is that you have no idea which bank of which root you've got an instrument from. Also, two totally different instruments could have exactly the same name and ID but be in different banks, or roots. Similarly two banks could have the same name (but completely different contents) in different roots. With the new method you always know exactly where you're getting stuff from. Finally, I've got into the habit of doing a right-button mouse click. It closes one window as you open the other. Like that going up and down through roots, banks and instruments is just about instantaneous. A little bit of icing on the cake is that whenever you change roots it automatically selects the first bank it can find, so if you have fave sounds give them the lowest location in each bank :) You should find this a lot nicer. Adding new banks or instruments will *not* change the IDs of any existing ones. Thanks :) -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:31:24 -1000 david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote: OK, maybe we should add this to the default list. I think this is a historical reference to when a few banks were in the src directory. We should probably remove it now :) It looks like you are pointing the root path *into* a bank, you should point it to were the bank *is* So bank foo in {username}/mysounds with instruments bar1, bar2,bar2 the root path should be /home/{username}/mysounds. Traditionally all default bank collections have been in a directory called banks. There was a suggestion that this should be a hard requirement, but I didn't want yoshi to be that demanding! Do the instruments in your bank have the 4 digit number prefix? We've tested that the structure works correctly if some don't have a prefix, but I'm not sure how it would behave if none of a large collection were prefixed. This wouldn't be very stable anyway as any additions or removals would shuffle them around. HTH -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 21:56:05 -1000 david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote: OK, that settles it - it's going! I'll check the ID code. It seems that once it had IDd the bank it didn't recognise that all the instruments in it had gone via some 'external' means :p -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.