Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?
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Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?
When I load a VSTi of a synthesizer then I can play it w/ the keyboard that appears in the dialog window when you press the little wrench icon. However, I cannot play the keyboard that appears on the bottom of the patchbay canvas. How can I use the canvas keyboard?
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?
Works out of the box here with DSSI, LV2 and (Linux-) VST instruments.Linuxmusician01 wrote:When I load a VSTi of a synthesizer then I can play it w/ the keyboard that appears in the dialog window when you press the little wrench icon. However, I cannot play the keyboard that appears on the bottom of the patchbay canvas. How can I use the canvas keyboard?
The instrument that's to be controlled has to be clicked once to be "activated".
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?
Okay. Can you tell me where to click? See picture below:bluebell wrote:Works out of the box here with DSSI, LV2 and (Linux-) VST instruments.
The instrument that's to be controlled has to be clicked once to be "activated".
Or should I click somewhere in this window (as you can see I clicked/selected the Model Mini VST once):
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?
That's weird. I have completely different elements in my Canvas in Carla-rack than you have. I have (see screenshot that I posted):bluebell wrote:
- System (playback)
- Carla
- System (capture)
- Main
- System (playback & midi)
- Yoshimi
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?
I have some jack-through instances (e.g. "main"), don't worry. Yoshimi is the instrument plugin that I loaded into Carla and connected its outputs to system:playback_1 and _2.Linuxmusician01 wrote:That's weird. I have completely different elements in my Canvas in Carla-rack than you have. I have (see screenshot that I posted):bluebell wrote:You have:
- System (playback)
- Carla
- System (capture)
There are 3 elements on your canvas out of view. Could you click on "Canvas -> Zoom -> Auto-fit"? I use Carla ver. 1.9.14 (2.0 RC4) from the KXStudio repository.
- Main
- System (playback & midi)
- Yoshimi
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?
Okay. Hmmm, still doesn't work for me...bluebell wrote:I have some jack-through instances (e.g. "main"), don't worry. Yoshimi is the instrument plugin that I loaded into Carla and connected its outputs to system:playback_1 and _2.Linuxmusician01 wrote:That's weird. I have completely different elements in my Canvas in Carla-rack than you have. I have (see screenshot that I posted):bluebell wrote:You have:
- System (playback)
- Carla
- System (capture)
There are 3 elements on your canvas out of view. Could you click on "Canvas -> Zoom -> Auto-fit"? I use Carla ver. 1.9.14 (2.0 RC4) from the KXStudio repository.
- Main
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- Yoshimi
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?
Please post a screenshot of your canvas with Yoshimi loaded.
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?
Here it is, I tried to make the connections as much the same as yours as I could:bluebell wrote:Please post a screenshot of your canvas with Yoshimi loaded.
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?
The keyboard is dimmed, that might indicate that it's not active.
Set Carla to "Multiple Clients" in Configure Carla -> Engine -> Process Mode
Then restart Carla and try again, maybe with yoshimi instead of Yoshimi-Multi, although both work here.
Set Carla to "Multiple Clients" in Configure Carla -> Engine -> Process Mode
Then restart Carla and try again, maybe with yoshimi instead of Yoshimi-Multi, although both work here.
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?
Did that and now it looks like this (notice that the "Carla" screen element is different now):bluebell wrote:The keyboard is dimmed, that might indicate that it's not active.
Set Carla to "Multiple Clients" in Configure Carla -> Engine -> Process Mode
Then restart Carla and try again, maybe with yoshimi instead of Yoshimi-Multi, although both work here.
Tried some other process modes of the engine too to no avail. Thanks for the help so far!
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