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Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?

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When I load a VSTi of a synthesizer then I can play it w/ the keyboard that appears in the dialog window when you press the little wrench icon. However, I cannot play the keyboard that appears on the bottom of the patchbay canvas. How can I use the canvas keyboard?
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?

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Linuxmusician01 wrote:When I load a VSTi of a synthesizer then I can play it w/ the keyboard that appears in the dialog window when you press the little wrench icon. However, I cannot play the keyboard that appears on the bottom of the patchbay canvas. How can I use the canvas keyboard?
Works out of the box here with DSSI, LV2 and (Linux-) VST instruments.

The instrument that's to be controlled has to be clicked once to be "activated".

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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?

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bluebell wrote:Works out of the box here with DSSI, LV2 and (Linux-) VST instruments.

The instrument that's to be controlled has to be clicked once to be "activated".
Okay. Can you tell me where to click? See picture below:
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Or should I click somewhere in this window (as you can see I clicked/selected the Model Mini VST once):
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?

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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?

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That's weird. I have completely different elements in my Canvas in Carla-rack than you have. I have (see screenshot that I posted):
  • System (playback)
  • Carla
  • System (capture)
You have:
  • Main
  • System (playback & midi)
  • Yoshimi
There are 3 elements on your canvas out of view. Could you click on "Canvas -> Zoom -> Auto-fit"? I use Carla ver. 1.9.14 (2.0 RC4) from the KXStudio repository.
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?

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Linuxmusician01 wrote:
bluebell wrote:
carla.png
That's weird. I have completely different elements in my Canvas in Carla-rack than you have. I have (see screenshot that I posted):
  • System (playback)
  • Carla
  • System (capture)
You have:
  • Main
  • System (playback & midi)
  • Yoshimi
There are 3 elements on your canvas out of view. Could you click on "Canvas -> Zoom -> Auto-fit"? I use Carla ver. 1.9.14 (2.0 RC4) from the KXStudio repository.
I have some jack-through instances (e.g. "main"), don't worry. Yoshimi is the instrument plugin that I loaded into Carla and connected its outputs to system:playback_1 and _2.

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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?

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bluebell wrote:
Linuxmusician01 wrote:
bluebell wrote:
carla.png
That's weird. I have completely different elements in my Canvas in Carla-rack than you have. I have (see screenshot that I posted):
  • System (playback)
  • Carla
  • System (capture)
You have:
  • Main
  • System (playback & midi)
  • Yoshimi
There are 3 elements on your canvas out of view. Could you click on "Canvas -> Zoom -> Auto-fit"? I use Carla ver. 1.9.14 (2.0 RC4) from the KXStudio repository.
I have some jack-through instances (e.g. "main"), don't worry. Yoshimi is the instrument plugin that I loaded into Carla and connected its outputs to system:playback_1 and _2.
Okay. Hmmm, still doesn't work for me... :?:
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?

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Please post a screenshot of your canvas with Yoshimi loaded.

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bluebell wrote:Please post a screenshot of your canvas with Yoshimi loaded.
Here it is, I tried to make the connections as much the same as yours as I could:
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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?

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The keyboard is dimmed, that might indicate that it's not active.

Set Carla to "Multiple Clients" in Configure Carla -> Engine -> Process Mode
Then restart Carla and try again, maybe with yoshimi instead of Yoshimi-Multi, although both work here.

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Re: Carla: how to use the canvas keyboard?

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bluebell wrote:The keyboard is dimmed, that might indicate that it's not active.

Set Carla to "Multiple Clients" in Configure Carla -> Engine -> Process Mode
Then restart Carla and try again, maybe with yoshimi instead of Yoshimi-Multi, although both work here.
Did that and now it looks like this (notice that the "Carla" screen element is different now):
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Tried some other process modes of the engine too to no avail. Thanks for the help so far! :)

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