Yamaha YPG-235 and some questions

[aicram]

Dear All,

I love the new Yamaha YPG-235 I just received. The grand piano sound is great. Took me awhile to get it to work with my computer. Now, I know
how to do that. After plugging everything in and turning it on, lsusb listed it. Good start.

Could not get anything to show up in any software until I realized I had to push the function button and then the category wheel and choose pc mode.
Push function button again and then use - or + underneath the category wheel choose pc2. Then I was able to choose
it in lmms and play some sounds with the sf2 player. What a joy! Tried vestige but that would not load
any vsts. Those vsts used to work fine last year in an older version of lmms. These did not work before I had
this Yamaha keyboard. I was able to use it in qtractor and with festige, too. Terrific, except I need to learn
how to use qtractor.

It did not seem to show up with cadence and Carla could not find it. I do not know why. Would love to use
it with Carla and the plugins. Actually it may have shown up later in cadence as unrecognized signal analyzer.


Amsynth did not work. I would get an error that it could not initialize midi device or something like that.

If any of you know how to get carla and amsynth to work with this yamaha , would love to hear about how you did so.

This to me is still a success. I am sure everything else will be figured out.

Thanks all. Will welcome any thoughts.

aicram

[glowrak guy]

tail -f /var/log/syslog

With the yamaha unplugged, enter that command from a root terminal,
then plug in the keyboard, and turn on the power. Paste the terminal output, if any, to a text file,
for future reference.

repeat for each usb port, and while connected and powered on, command

lsusb
aconnect -i
aconnect -o

and save the output to the text file

as root, command: lsmod

look for modules like
snd_usb_audio
snd_usbmidi_lib

If they are missing, root user modprobe command:

modprobe snd_usb_audio
Cheers

[glowrak guy]

to use amsynth in qtractor, go to the menu
view--options--Plugins, open the Plugins tab, on the upper left, click the widget beneath the word Paths,
and choose one of the plugin types.

On the right side, select the yellow open-folder icon by the word 'Add',
and browse to the folder of the plugin type you selected, and click Add.
The plugin folder path will now be in the list that qtractor scans for plugins.
Do this for all 4 plugin types.

/usr/lib/vst
/usr/lib/lv2
/usr/lib/ladspa
/usr/lib/dssi

Now go to qtractor Track menu, and choose Add Track.
A panel opens, to choose between audio or midi tracks.
Choose midi, and then click the Plugins tab on that panel.
When it opens, click 'Add', on the right side. The available plugins will
be listed, so choose one. It's name will appear, with a little dot to it's left.
Click that dot, to activate the plugin, (it will turn green). You may have to move
the plugin gui, if it pops up over the plugin panel, to activate it.
Click OK on the bottom right, to dismiss the panel. Bring it back by
menu--Track--Track Properties, to change settings or plugins.

Then connect things in qjackctl as you normally would.
You can also make folders like /home/you/.vst as desired,
and add them to qtractors list as above.
Cheers