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From: Robert Jonsson <rj@sp...> - 2004-09-12 19:14:59
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Hi guys, It's getting that time of year again when the bugreports will start aflowin'. Ehm, actually I've been extremely lazy with MusE related things, got a long list of things I wish to take care of... I have however tried to use MusE a bit lately, so... I can atleast report back a bunch of bugs I tripped on. First of, I've borrowed a Yamaha EX7 that seems to have all the bells and whistles needed for testing sync. I've done a little work here. Basically I can confirm what's been said before. In slave mode MusE can track (some) relocation of the "play-pointer". But that is all that's possible, the rest is pretty much commented out. I'll dive in to this a bit more later on when I've built up enough energy ;). Secondly, I've done quite a lot of work with 0.7.0 and I can honestly say that it's the most stable release of MusE, ever. Infact it's quite usable :) I've ran it for hours at end with only minor issues. Hopefully this isn't just me. Thirdly, I've tested CVS MusE a bit, especially with respect to VST and here's a bunch of issues I've come across: ------------------ I can not instantiate vst or vsti plugins unless I stand in the actual directory they are in. I see that MusE by default looks in /usr/lib/vst and /usr/local/lib/vst, putting them there makes them show up but I cannot instantiate them. I get: SynthIF:: cannot load vst plugin /usr/lib/vst/abacus.dll fst signal handler 11, thread = 0x4000 fst signal handler 11, thread = 0x4000 fst signal handler 11, thread = 0x4000 fst signal handler 11, thread = 0x4000 fst signal handler 11, thread = 0x4000 fst signal handler 11, thread = 0x4000 fst signal handler 11, thread = 0x4000 (about 2000 printouts of the latter) The only thing that works is: export VST_PATH=. and then standing in the correct dir when starting MusE. This is most likely a wine.conf issue, but I've run out of ideas about things to change... --------- Good that it is possible to use VST plugins without the GUI since many plugs have fatal problems with the GUI. I argued previously about not having a default guy for synths. This does however seem like a very good reason to add one. VSTinstruments suffer from the same problem, rendering lots of them totally unusable since they crash on startup. --------- Metronome synth distorts to the point where it is unusable, when it just was added it worked... A GUI for this synth with visual beat marks and volume control would be a great enhancement. --------- Something changed with plugins. Several LADSPA plugs that previously where available as stereo plugs are no longer available. SC4 comes to mind as an excellent example. It is available in the [all] category but instantiating it leads to total havoc, only noise comes out. Ok, that's all for the moment, none of this is added to the wiki yet. I'll try to do that, as well as a dozen other things. 0.7 was good but 0.8 (or will it be 1.0 ?? :-) will be great! /Robert -- http://spamatica.se/music/ |
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From: <tmika@t-...> - 2004-09-13 05:47:49
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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:14:42 +0200 Robert Jonsson <rj@...> wrote: > First of, I've borrowed a Yamaha EX7 that seems to have all the bells > and whistles needed for testing sync. I've done a little work here. > Basically I can confirm what's been said before. In slave mode MusE > can track (some) relocation of the "play-pointer". But that is all > that's possible, the rest is pretty much commented out. I'll dive in > to this a bit more later on when I've built up enough energy ;). Oh yes, pleeeaaase :-) I am looking forward so much to switching to the new release. Because of my strange hardware that can only run as master, I cannot make any use of the new release at all. Thank you very much in advance, t. -- Thorsten Mika mailto: tmika@... Muenster / Germany +49 - (0) 251 - 200 76 83 Public Key ID: 41338C37 -- http://www.keyserver.net |