Update to VPO Template

merryl0 · May 22, 2023, 8:21pm

Thanks Robert
I unzipped vpo to /opt/Virtual-Playing-Orchestra3, both the wavs (in the
libs folder) and the sfzs in their respective section folders, just as
instructed.
2.0.0.rc2 was the most recent template version on github as far as I can
see.
Maybe i can load each sfizz instance with the relevant instrument and then
save that session as a new template?

merryl0 · May 23, 2023, 8:25am

Good morning
Im trying to use the VPO template in ardour 7.4. The template is version 2.0.0-RC2, which was the most recent one I could find on github. I put it in ~/.config/ardour7/templates:

I’ve reinstalled VPO as per git hub instructions. The session loads fine with no red light but a yellow one for the log.
Sfizz still isn’t loading the vpo instruments.
Heres a representative snippet from the log:
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] File changed to: /home/mel/Music/Audio/vpo3/plugins/8549/state7/DefaultInstrument.sfz
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] Number of masters: 0
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] Number of groups: 0
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] Number of regions: 1
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] Restoring the file /home/mel/Music/Audio/vpo3/plugins/8549/state7/DefaultInstrument.sfz
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] Restoring the scale /home/mel/Music/Audio/vpo3/plugins/8549/state7/DefaultScale.scl
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] File changed to: /usr/lib/lv2/sfizz.lv2//Contents/Resources/DefaultInstrument.sfz
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] Number of masters: 0
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] Number of groups: 0
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] Number of regions: 1
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: LV2: update midnam for plugin ‘sfizz’
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: Ignored automation data for non-automatable parameter
Ignored automation data for non-automatable parameter
Ignored automation data for non-automatable parameter
LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc008 has no range datatype, ignoring
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc007 has no range datatype, ignoring
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc011 has no range datatype, ignoring
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc005 has no range datatype, ignoring
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc100 has no range datatype, ignoring
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc101 has no range datatype, ignoring
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc102 has no range datatype, ignoring
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2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc104 has no range datatype, ignoring
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc105 has no range datatype, ignoring
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2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc022 has no range datatype, ignoring
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2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc025 has no range datatype, ignoring
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2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc108 has no range datatype, ignoring
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc109 has no range datatype, ignoring
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc110 has no range datatype, ignoring
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc111 has no range datatype, ignoring
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2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc057 has no range datatype, ignoring
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc058 has no range datatype, ignoring
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2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc060 has no range datatype, ignoring
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2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc036 has no range datatype, ignoring
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [WARNING]: LV2: property http://sfztools.github.io/sfizz#cc030 has no range datatype, ignoring
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2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] File changed to: /home/mel/Music/Audio/vpo3/plugins/8567/state7/DefaultInstrument.sfz
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] Number of masters: 0
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] Number of groups: 0
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] Number of regions: 1
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] Restoring the file /home/mel/Music/Audio/vpo3/plugins/8567/state7/DefaultInstrument.sfz
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: [sfizz] Restoring the scale /home/mel/Music/Audio/vpo3/plugins/8567/state7/DefaultScale.scl
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: Removing MIDI patch file custom:Sfizz LV2:0x5590b9329f30
2023-05-23T09:07:21 [INFO]: LV2: update midnam for plugin ‘sfizz’
2023-05-23T09:07:22 [INFO]: Removing MIDI patch file custom:Sfizz LV2:0x5590b993b9d0
2023-05-23T09:07:22 [INFO]: LV2: update midnam for plugin ‘sfizz’
2023-05-23T09:07:22 [INFO]: Removing MIDI patch file custom:Sfizz LV2:0x5590b9f4d610
2023-05-23T09:07:22 [INFO]: LV2: update midnam for plugin ‘sfizz’
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2023-05-23T09:07:34 [INFO]: Removing MIDI patch file custom:Sfizz LV2:0x5590c25111f0
2023-05-23T09:07:35 [INFO]: LV2: update midnam for plugin ‘sfizz’
2023-05-23T09:07:35 [INFO]: Removing MIDI patch file custom:Sfizz LV2:0x5590c2b25ec0
2023-05-23T09:07:36 [INFO]: LV2: update midnam for plugin ‘sfizz’
2023-05-23T09:07:36 [INFO]: Removing MIDI patch file custom:Sfizz LV2:0x5590c313adb0
2023-05-23T09:07:37 [INFO]: LV2: update midnam for plugin ‘sfizz’
2023-05-23T09:07:37 [INFO]: Removing MIDI patch file custom:Sfizz LV2:0x5590c374e980
2023-05-23T09:07:38 [INFO]: LV2: update midnam for plugin ‘sfizz’
2023-05-23T09:07:38 [INFO]: Removing MIDI patch file custom:Sfizz LV2:0x5590c3d65c90
2023-05-23T09:07:39 [INFO]: LV2: update midnam for plugin ‘sfizz’
2023-05-23T09:07:39 [INFO]: Loading user ui scripts file /home/mel/.config/ardour7/ui_scripts
2023-05-23T09:07:39 [INFO]: Removing MIDI patch file custom:Sfizz LV2:0x5590b8c29260
2023-05-23T09:07:41 [INFO]: LV2: update midnam for plugin ‘sfizz’
2023-05-23T09:07:41 [INFO]: Loading plugin order file /home/mel/.config/ardour7/plugin_metadata/plugin_order
2023-05-23T09:07:47 [INFO]: Loading history from /home/mel/Music/Audio/vpo3/vpo3.history
2023-05-23T09:07:47 [INFO]: vpo3: no history file “/home/mel/Music/Audio/vpo3/vpo3.history” for this session.
2023-05-23T09:09:15 [WARNING]: Ignored automation data for non-automatable parameter
Ignored automation data for non-automatable parameter
Ignored automation data for non-automatable parameter
g_log: Input method gtk-im-context-simple should not use GTK’s translation domain gtk20

Heres screenshots of the file tree in /opt:

The file structure looks correct to me. I can’t understand why Sfizz doesn’t load the files.

robertaramar · May 23, 2023, 2:20pm

Go to .config/ardour7/templates/Virtual Playing Orchestra/externals and look where the symlinks are pointing to. There you need to fix that the sfz.2 files point to a valid location.
You are working with an old version 2.0.0.RC2. You have to take the latest one, and unfortunately, there is no build for it, so you have to check it out via git.
I am not the maintiner of that project, but I did a release for you. Download here https://github.com/robertaramar/virtual-playing-orchestra-ardour-template/archive/refs/tags/2.1.0.zip

merryl0 · May 23, 2023, 4:14pm

Hi Robert
Thank you for your continued help
I have put the template you linked into .config/ardour7/templates
I have also fixed 2 of the 1st violin section sfz’s

I started a new session using the 2022 template
These violins still aren’t loading into sfizz.
When I open the 1st violin sfizz and do load file, it takes me to

When I do open SFZ Folder in sfizz, nothing happens
Maybe I need to redirect sfizz to /opt/Virtual Playing Orchestra3,or put a symlink in /usr/lib/lv2/sfizz.lv2/Contents/Resources to /opt/?
I will keep trying. I also will need to find a batch command for those
symlinks in externals as there are so many

merryl0 · May 30, 2023, 4:26pm

Good afternoon
I’m still plugging away to try and get my vpo template working.
In the template the default path for sfizz [lv2] the flutes seems to be:
/home/mel/Music/Audio/vpo3/plugins/8045/state7/DefaultInstrument.sfz.
The other tracks have the same path up to /plugins/

This seems to be a folder structure which is created when I start Ardour and use the Virtual playing orchestra
template.
The vpo3 instruments dont load into sfizz, all the tracks load the default instrument. In /opt/Virtual-Playing-Orchestra3/ The symlinks in the instrument sfz folders are broken, as I showed in a screen shot in one of my previous posts. I fixed a couple of the broken symlinks (also shown in the screenshot), but sfizz still just loaded the default instrument in those tracks
I started a new session not using the VPO3 template and created a midi track with sfizz [lv2] as the instrument. The default path sfz seems to be:
/usr/lib/lv2//sfizz.lv2//Contents/Resources/
I made a symlink from that location to the Virtual Playing Orchestra3 folder in /opt, which is where I understood I was supposed to install it for the template. The instruments can be loaded into sfizz and they play.

Can anyone explain what I can do to correct the path, so the template works?
Many thanks

merryl0 · May 31, 2023, 12:52pm

Ive checked all the paths:
It seems the issues are in the template itself
There seems to be 2 problems:

Sfizz instrument path
Externals symlink path

In Ardour session:
sfizz flute track
sfizz: load sound - default target
/home/mel/.config/ardour7/templates/Virtual Playing Orchestra 2022/8045/state3/DefaultInstrument.sfz

Why does it point to state 3 folder when flute symlink is is state1 folder?
state 3 files:
/home/mel/.config/ardour7/templates/Virtual Playing Orchestra 2022/8045/state3/DefaultInstrument.sfz
/home/mel/.config/ardour7/templates/Virtual Playing Orchestra 2022/8045/state3/DefaultScale.scl
/home/mel/.config/ardour7/templates/Virtual Playing Orchestra 2022/8045/state3/manifest.ttl
/home/mel/.config/ardour7/templates/Virtual Playing Orchestra 2022/8045/state3/state.ttl

State1 files:
/home/mel/.config/ardour7/templates/Virtual Playing Orchestra 2022/8045/state1/DefaultScale.scl - broken link
/home/mel/.config/ardour7/templates/Virtual Playing Orchestra 2022/8045/state1/flute-SOLO-PERF.sfz - broken link
/home/mel/.config/ardour7/templates/Virtual Playing Orchestra 2022/8045/state1/manifest.ttl
/home/mel/.config/ardour7/templates/Virtual Playing Orchestra 2022/8045/state1/state.ttl

Externals symlink path
state1/flute-SOLO-PERF.sfz
broken link
…/…/externals/flute-SOLO-PERF.sfz - path ok
/home/mel/.config/ardour7/templates/Virtual Playing Orchestra 2022/8045/state1

/home/mel/.config/ardour7/templates/Virtual Playing Orchestra 2022/externals/flute-SOLO-PERF.sfz
broken link - doesnt go up enough times (only 5 should be 7), goes to home/mel/. - would absolute path to opt work?
…/…/…/…/…/opt/Virtual-Playing-Orchestra3/Woodwinds/flute-SOLO-PERF.sfz

Virtual-Playing-Orchestra3
/opt/Virtual-Playing-Orchestra3/Woodwinds/flute-SOLO-PERF.sfz

These paths are ok, level wise, but they look like Windows paths (backslashes) - does this matter?

sample=..\libs\VSCO2-CE\Woodwinds\Flute\stac-PB\LDFlute_stac_C3-PB.wav tune=-5

lokey=c4
hikey=d#4
pitch_keycenter=c4

sample=..\libs\VSCO2-CE\Woodwinds\Flute\stac-PB\LDFlute_stac_E3-PB.wav lokey=e4 hikey=g#4 pitch_keycenter=e4 sample=..\libs\VSCO2-CE\Woodwinds\Flute\stac-PB\LDFlute_stac_A3_v2_rr1-PB.wav lokey=g4 hikey=a#4 pitch_keycenter=a4 tune=5 sample=..\libs\VSCO2-CE\Woodwinds\Flute\stac-PB\LDFlute_stac_C4_v4_rr1-PB.wav tune=7

lokey=b4
hikey=d5
pitch_keycenter=c5

sample=..\libs\VSCO2-CE\Woodwinds\Flute\stac-PB\LDFlute_stac_E4_v2_rr1-PB.wav volume=-29.5

lokey=d#5
hikey=f#5
pitch_keycenter=e5

sample=..\libs\VSCO2-CE\Woodwinds\Flute\stac-PB\LDFlute_stac_A4_v3_rr2-PB.wav lokey=g5 hikey=a#5 pitch_keycenter=a5 sample=..\libs\VSCO2-CE\Woodwinds\Flute\stac-PB\LDFlute_stac_C5_v1_rr1-PB.wav volume=-24.5

lokey=b5
hikey=d6
pitch_keycenter=c6

sample=..\libs\VSCO2-CE\Woodwinds\Flute\stac-PB\LDFlute_stac_E5_v1_rr2-PB.wav lokey=d#6 hikey=f#6 pitch_keycenter=e6 sample=..\libs\VSCO2-CE\Woodwinds\Flute\stac-PB\LDFlute_stac_A5_v1_rr1-PB.wav volume=-26.5

lokey=g6
hikey=a#6
pitch_keycenter=a6

sample=..\libs\VSCO2-CE\Woodwinds\Flute\stac-PB\LDFlute_stac_C6_v2_rr2-PB.wav volume=-28.5

Michael_Willis · June 5, 2023, 2:46am

@merryl0 I haven’t maintained this template for quite some time, and I’m wondering if it would be better for people to start from an empty Ardour session instead of trying to use the template. Mostly what you need is to follow the advice in the excellent articles by Mattias Westlund. I’ll summarize here:

Create three reverb busses: front, middle, and back. Use Dragonfly Hall Reverb on all three busses, find a preset that you like, set all of them to 0% Dry Level, 100% Late Level, and let’s say 25% Early Send. Adjust the following:

Front Reverb (strings sections):
- 100% Early Level, then later reduce to taste.
- Long predelay, around 40 to 80 ms.
Middle Reverb - (woodwinds, harp, piano)
- 50% Early Level, reduce if desired.
- Moderate predelay, around 20 to 40 ms.
Back Reverb - (brass and percussion)
- 0% Early Level, maybe 0% Early Send.
- No predelay, set to 0 ms.
- For less pronounced highs, dial down a little bit the High Cut, High Crossover, and High Multiplier.

Now set up your instrument tracks. Create a midi track per instrument, use Sfizz and load the SFZ file. Create a post-fader Aux Send to the corresponding reverb bus, set it to -12db and then adjust as needed after doing a sound test. Right-click the width/panner feature, select Equal Power Stereo, then Edit and position it appropriate for the given instrument, for example:

1st Violins - Position 20%, Width 40%, Aux Send to Front Reverb
2nd Violins - Position 30%, Width 30%, Aux Send to Front Reverb
Violas - Position 50%, Width 30%, Aux Send to Front Reverb
Cellos - Position 70%, Width 30%, Aux Send to Front Reverb
Basses - Position 90%, Width 20%, Aux Send to Front Reverb

Flute - Position 44%, Width 4%, Aux Send to Middle Reverb
Clarinet - Position 48%, Width 4%, Aux Send to Middle Reverb
Oboe - Position 52%, Width 4%, Aux Send to Middle Reverb
Bassoon - Position 56%, Width 4%, Aux Send to Middle Reverb

Horns - Position 40%, Width 25%, Aux Send to Back Reverb
Trumpets - Position 60%, Width 20%, Aux Send to Back Reverb
Trombones - Position 80%, Width 10%, Aux Send to Back Reverb
Tuba - Position 90%, Width 5%, Aux Send to Back Reverb

… and so on …

That’s mostly what the template has. You could probably set up your own in less than an hour, which seems like much less trouble than figuring out the issues with symlinks.

merryl0 · June 5, 2023, 11:13am

Thanks Michael
This is excellent clear advice and I agree that the symlinks had become so complicated I just couldn’t work it out.
I will build a new template with the settings you have kindly explained

Michael_Willis · June 5, 2023, 3:49pm

I should say that I wrote most of the above off the top of my head, it isn’t an exact match of the template that I made. As always, set up your session and then sound test it and adjust to your own taste.

merryl0 · June 5, 2023, 4:54pm

thanks Michael will do