I’m new to Linux & to Ardour. I’m using Ardour 4.7 on Fedora 23 with a RT kernel from Planet CCRMA
I’ve installed LV2 and some plugins - notably EQ10Q. I can select them from the mixer strip and they show up OK there. But no controls show up & I get the message:
[ERROR]: failed to instantiate LV2 GUI
I have no idea why, and can’t find any help via Google. Any help would be very gratefully received.
Ok, found a workaround. The eq10q developer is aware of the problem and offers his own binary installer that uses Ardour compatible precompiled libraries (http://eq10q.sourceforge.net/?page_id=16).
Check Menu > Help > About > Config and see if “LV2 UI embedding: True”, if so, the most likely cause for this is a mismatch gcc4/gcc5 (ardour was compiled with one, eq10q with the other).