Then it is more or less impossible for Ardour not to find it. What did you search for in Ardour, and where?
drumgizmo , gizmo , drum. I searched with the plugin manager and the scan and discover in preferences
‘drumgizmo is already the newest version (0.9.18.1-1build1)’
is it the version thats installed, something wrong with that?
im on version 0.9.18. now. I was hoping once installed it would be an easy update. Could i do the stow thing with this version. if i get it working
How did you install Ardour ? Snap ? Apt ? Official Download ?
So, it is not listed in the plugin manager?
im on version 0.9.18. now. I was hoping once installed it would be an easy update.
Version 0.9.18 is the newest version you going to get on Ubuntu 20.04 from the official package repos. See Ubuntu – Package Search Results -- drumgizmo
Could i do the stow thing with this version. if i get it working
No. This doesn’t work with the version from the package repos.
is it the version thats installed, something wrong with that?
To check whether this is a incompatibility problem with drumgizmo plugin in Ardour, you can try to run the plugin via jalv:
- Install jalv with `sudo apt-get install jalv’
- Open a terminal window and run the command line:
jalv.gtk http://drumgizmo.org/lv2
and the drumgizmo window should open. If not, copy & paste any error messages in the terminal window to a pastebin, yada, yada.
If it works, run ardour (the exact command might be Ardour or ardour8 or similar) in the terminal and open a project and check the terminal output for any error or warning messages, which might indicate, why the drumgizmo plugin is not loading.
this what i got back
'command ‘jalv.gtk’ not found, did you mean:
command ‘jalv.gtk3’ from deb jalv (1.6.4-1build1)
Try: sudo apt install ’
after installing jalv
through the ubunto software explorer thing, was very easy compared.
That could be a problem depending. If it installed a snap for it that could explain why you can’t see plugins. What happens if you type
apt list --installed | grep -i ardour
‘WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts’
this doesnt sound positive
So if that was the only output, it means it didn’t find Ardour installed by apt, which generally means you probably installed a snap version, which can’t access plugins(This is due to security measures in how snaps are designed, normally wouldn’t be an issue but they are poor choices for audio as a result).
I would uninstall the Ardour snap which should be something like snap --purge ardour but I am not sure as I don’t use snaps and you shouldn’t run that command without understanding what it will do. Ideally you would install the Ardour package from this website but downloading it and running the downloaded .run file which will install Ardour in /opt for you. This version of Ardour should work and is the only actually supported version. You could even do this with the demo version to test with if needed just to make sure the plugin is working in it (And can be installed next to the snap version or even apt version, but you will need to make sure you run it by typing something like /opt/Ardour-*/bin/ardour to run the software sorry I don’t have the full command off the back of my head, maybe someone else can jump in on this.)
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This was it. I tried ‘sudo apt instll ardour’ , then ardour 5 was installed and drumgizmo is an available plugin.
so thanks everyone, i will donate £10.
though can we leave this open until ive successfully installed ardour 8 and have a drumkit loaded. Which ill try soon.
Is there an easy way to update ardour now that i have a seemingly healthy version of ardour 5 installed?
I suggest getting the official version from ardour.org with the £10 you were going to donate.
Be aware though that the purchase process is not the same a s the donating process, so read the instructions on the website carefully.
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PLEASE for the love of your sanity, get the version from this website. Ardour5 is beyond old, and trying to remember I believe may have had some crashing bugs that caused data loss. Get the version from this website, remove A5 and the other versions you have installed so you only have this version, and start from there.
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Seeing this kind of thread for something so relatively simple in Linux is distressing and really shows that some things are potentially still as convoluted and difficult as they were 15 years ago. So much for the “Audio Distros are completely unnecessary now” argument… 
@kevin8765421 if you want to do Music Production on Linux and you don’t want to run through such a ridiculous mirrored funhouse I very strongly suggest using a Distro configured for Audio and Video work at least for a while to understand how things are supposed to work. If you are fond of Ubuntu then the most recent Ubuntu Studio would most likely have saved you hours of aggravation with this. I know AV Linux (another ready to run product) would have provided you with a very recent supported Ardour build and latest Drumgizmo all ready to use without installing or compiling anything…
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Also, this makes me think that Ardour should probably detect if it is running as an AppImage/Snap or whatever and display a BIG FAT WARNING to the user that installing additional plugins probably won’t work.
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Not sure if that is even possible honestly. Even if it was you are playing a cat/mouse game trying to identify all the different ways someone can package it and screw it up in packaging, which is why only downloads from this site are the officially supported version.
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All I needed to do was add my wifi password. 
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