Decent Sampler closes Ardour instantly

#21

Same here, but with a workaround.
If I create a MIDI track without a plugin (i.e. I select “-none-” in the Instrument dropdown) and then add DS, it works.

If I select DS within the Add Track/Bus/VCA dialog or if try to replace a plugin in an existing track, it crashes.

#22

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#23
#24

There’s a new version of DecentSampler .(1.12.6) … I tested the statically built VST3 here and it worked without any issues.

I can no longer login to the DS bug tracker so it would be great if someone else could confirm the fix and then let Dave Hilowitz know.

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#25

Hi Paul, I’ve let David dhilowitz know on bug tracker that at least in my case both work.

I’ve tried both versions

Decent Sampler v1.12.6 Linux (x86_64 - Static build)
Decent Sampler v1.12.6 Linux (x86_64 - Dynamic build)

on Ardour 8.10.0 “Sonora Portraits”(rev 8.10)
and both work without any apparent problem, on my system
which is the following:

Operating System: Ubuntu Studio 24.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.13
Kernel Version: 6.8.0-49-lowlatency (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

Regards

#26

Any plugin which loads dynamic libraries is just waiting for trouble. If you use pre-built Ardour (rather than distribution version) eventually the distribution library version and Ardour library version will differ and you can get crashes again. If you always use the distribution build of Ardour then presumably that isn’t a problem because the distribution Ardour and the plugin will both be using the distribution library.

#27

Hi Chris ccaudle, I’m not a programmer, but I’ve read something about it in previous versions of both Ardour and decentsampler, and I’ll follow your recommendation to use the static version, since Paul has commented that he has tried the static version and hasn’t commented anything about the dynamic version, I understand that it’s better to use the static one.

Since decentsampler has been giving problems lately, I’ve been testing it as both Ardour and decentsampler were updated and that’s the reason for having several versions of decentsampler installed, but if the “correct” and stable thing to do is to use the static one, I’ll do so.

That might explain some of the instability “crashes” of ardour in projects made with previous versions of both Ardour and the sampler.

In short, one version that works well is enough.

greetings