On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Jeremy Jongepier <autostatic(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: Hi Jeremy (+ LAU)! ( btw its Dan aka danboid please - dunno why the list doesn't 'see' my name as it seems to be input in my gmail settings? Anyway.. ) No, I did mean the LinuxVST version. I must admit I've not tried TAL-NM under qtractor compiled w/ Steinberg headers yet but I have the same problems using the lxvst plugin under A3 svn as I do under Renoise which seems to be regarded as the 'gold standard' of Linux native VST hosts. If you want to see the problem I'm referring to then you should try these presets: DR Kick Nuuuu TAL or DR Perc Tommer TAL Then see if the JACK connection to your host (qtractor) survives. These aren't the only presets that cause problems for me but I've yet to compile a comprehensive list or even try them all. Hmm! falktx didn't mention this to me. I'm not sure how well this would work and I think a proper LV2 port would still be for the best. I can't say I've tried compiling it myself under a 32bit OS yet although I certainly do get those dreaded wav chunk errors with every wav file I've tried when I compiled it myself under Deb Wheezy x64 and falktx seemed confident that exactly the same would happen if I compiled Highlife under a 32bit Linux- he insists Highlife is plain broke. We suspect the version available on DiscoDSP has had some extra patches applied by Kunitoki to fix loading of wavs etc. that never got upstreamed and as I said earlier Kunitoki has been non-responsive to my requests for info on this. I should've said - the first thing I need to do is have another look at composite. I can't remember now if it would only load Hydrogen kits or if it handled individual, regular wavs too which is basically what I'm after. It would make much more sense for me to try writing a composite GUI and/or adapting it to my needs that starting from scratch, for sure! I tried the Calf LV2 fluidsynth plugin a couple of months ago and it had a weird bug where when you re-load you session the soundfont is played back a couple of octaves higher than it should. I told Mr Foltman about it but he seems to have lost all interest in LV2s and offered no suggestions as to what could be causing the problem. So no, we still lack a simple, functional LV2 sampler complete with GUI! Thanks! Dan

Hi Leigh! On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Leigh Dyer <lsd(a)wootangent.net> wrote: Thanks for pointing out your guide Leigh - I'd not seen that. I think I'll have to have another go with LS to triple check it still irritates the hell out of me for at least the following reasons: 1 - Its not in the repos of most distros due to licensing probs 2 - Its a bitch to compile 3 - I never got qsampler to work 4 - Fantasia is a horribly slow, bloated java app - yuck! 5 - Like composite, iirc, it also lacks the ability to load simple wavs if thats all you want otherwise you need to mess about converting stuff to .gig or .sfz first Linuxsampler would be good for some use cases if points 1 and 2 didn't plague it but we still need a simple LV2 sampler that can be easily redistributed and packaged for people who just want to trigger wav drum sounds or whatever.

I posted to this list a few days ago bemoaning a bunch of probs trying to get the HighLife lxvst working under 64-bit - part of the problem being that I didn't know where to find kRAkEn/gORe's source that was used to build the plugin available on DiscoDSP's site as they failed to provide any link to the source and I don't think they've really had much if anything to do with the Linux port. So, yesterday I was delighted to find the juced Linux VST repository which includes kRAkEn/gORe/Kunitoki's Highlife source as well as the code for a number of excellent looking synths such as Helix, Vex, nekobee and drumsynth. I'm sure a number of you must've known about JUCED (certainly Mr Phillips and falktx would've at least) so I don't know why nobody pointed me towards: http://code.google.com/p/juced/source/checkout Kunitoki never replied to my mail and looking at the repo logs he hasn't checked it any code in over 18 months now so I hope he's OK? I did get a few of those plugins to compile but they didn't actually work (not tried drumsynth yet). I had a bit more luck with Highlife yet it still doesn't work properly. The menus are better behaved under the juced version of Highlife compared to the distrho code where they appear hanging off the bottom of the window but I still get the dreaded 'Unsupported Wave Chunk(s)' error when trying to load a wav file. falktx says he's going to look into this soon so one of us will let LAU know as soon as its fixed. I personally can't wait to try Helix or Vex (a 3 oscillator synth) under Linux. I've heard very good things about Helix and by the looks of things its gone commercial and now sells for $150 if I'm not mistaken!

On 13 October 2011 12:57, Leigh Dyer &lt;lsd(a)wootangent.net&gt; wrote: Although Petri-Foo development is currently on hold, I do hope to *eventually* create a LV2 version of it (but there is much more work to do on it first). Those of you on LAD will have seen the 'inter-process communication' thread discussing GUI<-->JACK data communication and something similar to that is where Petri-Foo will be heading when I next resume development of it. Unfortunately I left it in a bit of a mess but I had a quite intense period of time at the beginning of this year working on Petri-Foo and just need a break from it now, and to work on other things such as the pesky personal website. But Petri-Foo isn't dead yet, just in a coma ;-) James.