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Just for the record.. I downloaded the VST called PQN Mopar on the link I posted earlier... it works BRILLIANTLY!! You are a genius, falkTX! You have made one sweet platform!

brian

falkTX wrote:see? that is the exact support I won't give - I have no idea whatever that will work or not, as with 99% other plugins.
some synths in there seem "vintage", have you tried Bristol?

Speaking of Bristol: do I have to open it at the command line? I don't see it in Carla..

brian

tried Phasex?

Capoeira wrote:tried Phasex?

Yes. I like it. Lots of parameters to adjust.
--However, I did have a problem opening it the other day. Don't know why; on Ubuntu Studio it worked fine.. Maybe I have to try Claudia (haven't done that yet)..

brian

falkTX wrote:

briandc wrote:

falkTX wrote:see? that is the exact support I won't give - I have no idea whatever that will work or not, as with 99% other plugins.
some synths in there seem "vintage", have you tried Bristol?

Speaking of Bristol: do I have to open it at the command line? I don't see it in Carla..

brian

Bristol are special types of synths.
If you're running the latest KXStudio updates, start 'klaudia' (or the new 'claudia-launcher') and take a look at the bristol tab.

The official page has very useful information about the various modules:
http://bristol.sourceforge.net/

Thanks! I'll try it tonight. I'm having so much fun with KXStudio, you have no idea..

brian

also, you might like amsynth

I tried running Bristol in Claudia, but I got a "closed unexpectedly" message. So I tried at the command line, and it would work, except the audio isn't coming out. I've tried all the connections in Jack; midi works fine, but no sound. The same happens with Phasex. It opens, but no audio. Any suggestions?

brian

Any help appreciated regarding Phasex and Bristol. I don't know why I can't hear either of them. Am I doing something wrong in Claudia?

brian

briandc wrote:I tried running Bristol in Claudia, but I got a "closed unexpectedly" message. So I tried at the command line, and it would work, except the audio isn't coming out. I've tried all the connections in Jack; midi works fine, but no sound. The same happens with Phasex. It opens, but no audio. Any suggestions?

brian

doesn't make sense

or you didn't connect the synth out to soundcard
or you didn't connect your keybord to the synth

Capoeira wrote:

briandc wrote:I tried running Bristol in Claudia, but I got a "closed unexpectedly" message. So I tried at the command line, and it would work, except the audio isn't coming out. I've tried all the connections in Jack; midi works fine, but no sound. The same happens with Phasex. It opens, but no audio. Any suggestions?

brian

doesn't make sense

or you didn't connect the synth out to soundcard
or you didn't connect your keybord to the synth

I discovered that Phasex wasn't finding any patches because they were under /usr rather than under /home. I also disconnected all previous connections, and manually reconnected; now it works.

Bristol is a bit of a problem, in the sense that a) not all the emulators have good volume levels (I have to turn my stereo volume up a bit), and b) I can't seem to find the patches for any of them. I'll do a "locate" command and see if there are patches anywhere. For now, each emulator only has its initial sound.

brian

I can't seem to find any presets for the synths in Bristol. Are there banks available somewhere?

Also: how do I open sfArk and gig files?

Much thanks in advance,
brian

sfArk: Afaik, you have to decompress to sf2 by using some windows program (that should work with wine). Then use fluidsynth (via qsynth for example) to play sf2.

gig: Use linuxsampler. There are two gui frontends, jsampler and qsampler.

http://falcony.googlecode.com/files/sfa ... x86.tar.gz

That's a (32bit only?) Linux version. You need libstdc++5.

Thank you for the link. I knew that I needed that file, but I couldn't get access to it on the sites I found.

I've been having other difficulties.
I have been using Festige, which is wonderful, and opens most VSTi's just fine. However, these VSTi's sometimes don't have sounds in them, and although I find banks of sounds for them, and I put them unzipped into the related directory, I don't know how to open them. Only Synth1 has a window at the bottom where banks can be loaded in. Is there a trick?

Also, I downloaded a bunch of .wav files, hoping to open them and play them on my MIDI controller, using QSampler or Specimen. But QSampler won't open (says can't start server), and Specimen won't open the files.

Brian

I followed the instructions (the libstdc++5 file is already installed) that I read here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Midi/ ... hesisHowTo

which just says to run: , but this is what I got:

brian