Hello everybody!
As LinuxSampler didn’t run, I downloaded Highlife from the Distroh homepage (distroh.sourceforge.net). The stand alone program works fine: I can open samples as audio files (.wav or .mp3) or as SFZ or SF2. But after installing the plugin, I found out, that I can’t open any sample files in Ardour.
If I click file>import samples , nothing happens. In the LV2 version, but also as VSTi, no window appears. Is there a way to use Highlife in Ardour?
Highlife in Ardour
File>Import Sample(s)
Nothing happens.
Thank you for your help. I wish you a happy Labor Day!
Just to mention: Are you aware that the linuxsampler plugin works in an unsual way - you need to start a standalone version of qsampler or fantasia to load plugin instruments. The linuxsampler plugin which in the Ardour mixer strip does nearly nothing.
I tried highlife on AVLinux using a recent Ardour3 git build (3.1+GIT3.1-10-ged1f310-avlinux6-1) and qtractor. Highlife worked ok when a single wav file was loaded, semi-worked with a gig file, and basically did not work with sf2 or sfz files in both ardour3 and qtractor.
We are in dire need of a stable SFZ Plugin for Linux, I’ve resorted to using the Cakewalk SFZ Player Windows VST plugin in ArdourVST simply because SFZ use within a DAW using Linux is either extremely cumbersome (Linuxsampler) or flaky (Highlife).
I have reported the issue. Concerning linuxsampler plugin I don’t find it so bad once one understands that you have to start qsampler/fantasia to configure it. Once set up, you do not need qsampler/fantasia again. Well, this is not perfect, but not very hard to deal with. Concerning playing samples I think linuxsampler does a great job.
falktx responded to my bug report about highlife, that the highlife developers have abandoned it. so don’t use it… However it is still on DISTHRO webpage, however which I reported to falktx.
It ran one time, than I wrote, that it ran, but now, Ardour doesn’t load the GUI – it simply freezes. If I load a project with a Highlife track, it shows me an error while loading it: Found a reference to an unknown plugin. I also deleted the highlife.so and copied it again to the lxvst directory, but it didn’t help…
As I started Ardour from the terminal, I got the following messages: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “pk-gtk-module”
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module”
Could that be the problem? It also doesn’t wanna load the GUI of VOPM.
Highlife from discoDSP uses an older (or somehow different) version of JUCE to display the UI which is notoriously flaky with Linux, IIRC this is why it was recompiled and ‘fixed’ by falkTX, it seems that falkTX was able to improve the GUI performance but there are deeper code problems as you know with the actual sample library loading. It seems like they hit a dead end with Highlife and this is why is was let go into the Open Source world. It was replaced by ‘Discovery’ which also has major UI problems associated with JUCE under Linux. I used to distribute Discovery R3 but it had issues with Ardour and other hosts, I haven’t checked recently if it works any better than Highlife.
Program terminated with signal SIGKILL, Killed.
The program no longer exists.
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@GMaq:
Thank you for your explanation about the GUI. Do you think, DiscoDSP products will run with Ubuntu (I think, I’m going to install Kubuntu again, I hope that KDE 4.11 has a better stability than 4.8)? In Kubuntu, at least, LinuxSampler would run. But what about other discoDSP instruments? I thought about buying Discovery…
@jano: almost certainly JACK killed ardour because it was too slow. As mentioned on the debugging page, when running ardour inside gdb, you need to run JACK in non-realtime mode and with a long client timeout.
I’m sorry, I hadn’t access to the internet any more as I canceled my contract for the SIM card flatrate with BASE (I had to use a SIM USB stick to go online). There where a few problems with the DSL connection with O2, and at the Internet café they hadn’t got Ardour installed ;). But now, I have got a DSL connection.
I have installed Kubuntu now, and I installed Ardour from the repository. If I run “ardour3 --debug”, it says that the option “–debug” needs an argument ("/usr/lib/ardour3/ardour-3.2: Die Option »–debug« erfordert ein Argument"). If I run “gdb ardour3”, ist says:
