Ardour is crashing when I try to load my current project. It was working on Friday. Other projects are loading just fine. The only difference I can think of is that I have two tracks with Decent Sampler in the project. I had already finished creating the music for the first one and it was working. Then, I added a second one right before I quit that day. Nothing seemed wrong at the time, but when I tried to reload my project today, Ardour goes through the whole process of loading and comes up with my project, then immediately crashes. I am looking at needing to restart my project if I canāt solve this.
By the way, I was recently looking for a sampler, and I was quite annoyed that Decent Sampler was trying to force me to make some āfreeā account to use it. -___-
So I ditched it completely and found and went with this instead: the TX16Wx Software Sampler
All is good so far.
Itās a bit complicated to navigate at firstā¦
But it works well!
Just yesterday while beta-testing Mixbus 11.1, I found that it would load a project with decent sampler on one track, but the plugin GUI would open with default pale background but otherwise unpopulated. I updated decent sampler to the latest version and then it worked again.
I also am annoyed by the need to create an account there, but IMO thatās still more ālibreā and gives you access to a whole bunch of nice gratis multisample sounds, and with the ability to create and share your own, in the end I much prefer that, compared to the TX16Wx distribution model.
I ended up using sfizz with virtual playing orchestra, as UNFA recommends, because I was mostly needing a violin and cello. It turned out pretty good for free MIDI instruments. I did use Decent Sampler for a pad and some effects. The organic orchestra in DS is pretty cool! I created the MIDI track for them using DS, then exported and imported them as an audio file so that I could delete the DS plugin from my project. If I have more than one DS plugin active, it crashes Ardour on start-up.
