Re: [Rakarrack-users] Help needed: no distortion sounds with 0.6.1

[Ryan B. <ry...@gm...>]

I looked at the build log again, and nothing stands out.  There was only 
one warning about casting pointer to integer of a different size within 
the GUI code (rakarrack.cxx).  The rest were unused variables...this 
does make me wonder if the version of GCC you are using is optimizing 
some important things out of the code.  If we don't get any more 
definite ideas, you may change some of GCC flags to reduce the amount of 
optimization it is doing.

Does a pre-built binary package of rakarrack work properly?  If so this 
may indicate that compiling with a different gcc version may do the trick.

On 08/17/2012 07:57 AM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 16/08/12 08:59:06 -0700, Ryan Billing wrote:
>    
>> What do you mean by "distorted"?  It is hard to imagine, for
>> example, that the Chorus works but the "Distortion" does not.
>>
>>      
> I probably needed to be more explicit and say that the distortion effect
> does not alter my sound in any way and I my guitar sound disappears
> (looses gain), There are some other effects which don't work properly,
> but I was not able to test which exactly don't work.
>
> I tested it slightly more and if I try to create a new preset, the from
> all the default efects (Distortion, Overdrive, Chorus, Phaser, Flanger,
> Delay) only the Distortion and Overdrive don't work. Phaser didn't
> produce dynamically changing sound and it worked just like some
> equalizer preset. I tried some other effects, StompBox doesn't work as
> well, do not know why. It seems that if those effects are on the gain
> drops instead of increasing.
>
>    
>> 1)Your sound card mixer is mixing the input guitar signal directly
>> to the output.
>>      
> This is definitely not the case as I can not hear my guitar without
> rakarrack via software mixing. I can hear my guitar only if I route my
> inputs to the headphones, but this is done on the hardware.
>
>    
>> 2)  You did not activate Rakarrack with the FX On button.
>>      
> I did activate it, and there were some effects put on (e.g. delay,
> reverb).
>
>    
>> 3) You have not activated any of the FX.
>>      
> I did do this as well, hence the problem is not that trivial.
>
>    
>> It would be helpful to know what sound card you have, whether you
>> have 64-bit or 32-bit processor, processor speed, number of
>> cores/cpu's etc.
>>      
> I have a Thinkpad x200s running Arch Linux 64-bits. Processor is Intel
> Core2 Duo processor SL9400 (1.86GHz, 6MB L2, 1066MHz FSB), IIRC.
> I use jack2 via qjackctl on M-Audio FTP.
>
> Maybe rakarrack isn't checking the used libraries strictly enough? The
> dependency list for it is:
>      alsa-utils 1.0.25
>      jack 1.9.8
>      fltk 1.3.0
>      libxpm 3.5.10
>
> My thoughts about the cause of the problem are:
>
>      - The C++ libs you use and I use to compile the program are
>        different and mine do not have some functionality included.
>
>      - There is something wrong with dependencies...
>
>      - But this is just speculation....
>
> Hope this describes my problem more precisely.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ignas A.
>
> p.s. it worked on Gentoo previously with the same setup and Jack
> routing.
>
>