Is It Possible To open Muse in Safe Mode?

[mdiemer]

Muse won't boot, due to something I did (installed Windows Vsts). It was working fine until I added some scan paths to the plugin directory, and now I get error messages that it can't find the directories and I should reinstall. If I could just get it to open, I could then undo the changes I made. but it won't open, or is taking so long that it appears it won't open. how can I open it in this state?

[oscillator]

Hi!

MusE has several command line options for not loading plugins. You can see them all by typing

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man muse4

For your problem you could try

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muse4 -V

which prevents MusE loading any VST plugins.

You can also edit the paths in the MusE settings file, it is in XML format = human readable:

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~/.config/MusE/MusE-seq.cfg

The paths seem to be stored at the top of this file and are easy to find and edit/remove.

[spamatica]

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man muse4

For your problem you could try

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muse4 -V

Nothing wrong with looking at man pages but I realize the man-page we maintain is horribly out of date. And it seems the -V parameter is wrong even.

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muse4 -h

will give a more complete list of parameters to try.

In the case of skipping VSTs the parameter is -N for muse4. No idea why it has changed, we normally do try to not make breaking changes.

Apart from the above there are a number of other "Don't load" parameters listed that you can try.

Another thing to try is starting muse4 with -D, this will turn on a lot more debug printing in the terminal (if muse is started from a terminal), the last lines in the log may give some indication where and why it crashes or locks up.

If you can't figure it out on your own, you are welcome to post the log here.

[mdiemer]

None of the commands will work for some reason. I couldn't open Muse 4, but I could open Muse 3. So I went back to Ubuntu Studio, on a different drive. (I was on AVLinux when the problem occurred). Now have Muse 4 going, and plan to keep using that, applying what I learned so far. Everything is working out this time, but the big step will come when I rescan my VST plugins in Muse. I used LinVst last night to convert them and they are all in the right places. Hopefully the result will be better this time.

[mdiemer]

I succeeded with the plugin scan, and now have GPO working on the Aria Player. I'll stay with Ubuntu Studio so this this can be considered closed.

[andropogon]

Made a project using iem-plugin-suite-vst and saved it in MusE3 with EnergyVisualizer opened. Now when I try to open that project in Muse4 it crashes right after EV appears.
When purge the plugin, everything works fine, but it warns that the plugin is not loaded and will disappear if saved.

[oscillator]

If you open it with EV purged, then add it in MusE4, does that work?

I had to wipe the settings when I upgraded to version 4 (~/.config/MusE), you can try and just rename it and see what happens.

[andropogon]

I'm using AppImage.

[oscillator]

Well, I think you can try deleting the settings (or rather, rename them) anyway.

Give it a try, it has solved issues for me before!

[andropogon]

Thanks @oscillator I'll try.

Anyway I consider MusE as the coolest libre DAW (well I just can't figure Ardour out )
Huge amount of respect to you and every guy who makes this diamond.

[oscillator]

Yeah, I tried Ardour once, but found the MIDI tools lacking (and it is not the focus of the application), and I was REALLY confused! It all boils down to what kind of music you make, and what kind of workflow you are used to.

My contributions to MusE is mainly as a user. @Tim E. Real and @spamatica and @kybos have done an awesome job! (And others that I don't know.)

I am glad you like it! Keep up those questions!