I use ardour since a few weeks. And already made a few songs. Since one day out of nothing without change anything I can´t choose new midi instruments.
There was this „general midi synth“ that once appeared automatically when I set a new track. But it´s gone and I cant find it anymore. It is not available. Instead when I now open a new track there is automatically „ace reasonable synth“ which has no patch banks available.
If I choose another available synth such as „ace fluid synth“ then I cant choose patch bank too and can´t hear anything although – based on the volume control - I can see that there should be a sound.
I don´t know what to do anymore. Please can someone help me!?
I still have “general midi synth” in the projects I once created. But also if I ad a new track in this older project general midi synth is not available anymore…
If I can chip in, out of curiosity, I checked on my system (also 6.9.0 Fedora build) and I don’t see any “General Midi Synth” in the available instruments …
Independently from this, I also don’t see where in the Preferences one can set the default instrument to be used for new MIDI Tracks/Busses… No such thing in the “MIDI” section of the preferences nor is it in the Session properties
Note that I personally don’t miss that preference … it’s just a click in the new Track dialog … or one can use templates.
@Gogogoing a quick remark related to using ACE Fluid Synth which you say you tried.
Fluid Synth doesn’t do any sound on its own ! it’s a plugin that let’s you use SF2 SoundFonts so you have to give the plugin a SF2 file to load and only then you’ll be able to pick an instrument/patch/bank
When you double click on the plugin:
Thanks so much for the help of you two! What’s funny is that it always worked and then from one day to the next no more. . . I´ll try to fix it with your pointing out.
