No GUI for ZynAddSubFX

[lilith]

After a complete system crash last week, I switched over from Debian to Ubuntu Studio and I almost have everything running again.
As officially it's not advised to install the KXStudio repos ontop of UbuntuStudio I donwloaded some plugins by hand and copied them into ~/.vst

ZynAddSubFX comes with Ubuntustudio, but when I load the plugin there's no GUI.
In .e.g Renoise it looks like that:

https://imgur.com/4vxmSuq.png

The plugins is located in /usr/lib/vst. Am I missing something and how can I find out what the problem is?

[tripomatic]

on commandline you can execute ldd command.

Via this command you can see the dependencies of zynaddsubfx. Probably you miss some libraries i think for the GUI.
New zynaddsubfx makes use of 'zest' as i see on the website.

so 'ldd zynaddsubfx.so' in case of vst will output a list of the dependencies.

What is not found you will have to search and install.

[lilith]

Hi,

I executed the command in /usr/lib/vst and this is what I get:

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ldd ZynAddSubFX.so
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffeecde0000)
	liblo.so.7 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblo.so.7 (0x00007f1a9450b000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f1a944e8000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f1a944cc000)
	libfftw3.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfftw3.so.3 (0x00007f1a942c6000)
	libmxml.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmxml.so.1 (0x00007f1a942b5000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f1a940d4000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f1a93f83000)
	libmvec.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmvec.so.1 (0x00007f1a93f57000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f1a93f3c000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f1a93d4a000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f1a94708000)

I think everything's available, right?

[tripomatic]

Seems like it yes if not it, you would get message 'not found' for certain libraries.

Maybe it has something to do with renoise. If you startup reaper from commandline with somekind of verbose option(if possible) do you get something when opening gui of when you add zyn plugin to a track?

I don't have renoise so just guessing now.

Did you try it in other daw's to?

[lilith]

Yes, I tried several DAWs and in no one I get the GUI. Also when I excute Reaper from the Terminal there's no error message.

[tripomatic]

just notice something.

In original post you said you placed zyn in ~/.vst , but you did ldd command in /usr/lib/vst ?

[lilith]

just notice something.

In original post you said you placed zyn in ~/.vst , but you did ldd command in /usr/lib/vst ?

No it's in /usr/lib/vs as I intalled it from the official Ubuntustudio repository. I tried also zynfusion in ~/.vst, but it also didn't work. I think it's also not possible to use both.

[sysrqer]

I had this problem ages ago, before the new UI, but I'm afraid I can't remember what the solution was. Is it running sandboxed in Renoise?

[lilith]

Nope, no sandboxing.

I talked to falkTX and he suggested to download Zynfusion from the KXrepository site. Important is that the data package should be installed first. I tried, but if I execute the deb file it wants me to deinstall ZynAddSubFX. Still trying ...

[lilith]

Ok got some help from falkTX:

In order to install Zynfusion on Ubuntustudio from the KX website (not from the respository!).

First deinstall the lv2 and if installed by default the vst versions of the zynaddsubfx plugin from Ubuntustudio.

Then install the data package and the zynfusion package at once with, e.g. (depending on your machine):

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sudo dpkg -i zynaddsubfx-data_3.0.5-1kxstudio6_all.deb zynaddsubfx_3.0.5-1kxstudio6_amd64.deb