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Jon
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lv2 JACK host(s)

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The latest versions of lv2 (plugins) break lv2rack (part of zynjacku). I liked lv2rack in that it was simple to use. For a time I went ahead and downgraded lv2 in order to use lv2rack, but I decided to try out ingen (which requires the latest lv2 plugins, and consequently breaks lv2rack). Ingen seems more capable (read as more complicated), but isn't quite as stable and crashes when changing settings often. I did install jalv but seem to like lv2rack better. Has anyone found a solution to this problem?

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bash-4.2$ lv2rack
Successfully connected to LASH server at localhost
Not sending deprecated LASH_Client_Name event
Loading LV2 plugin cache from "/home/slackjack/.cache/lv2rack/plugins"
/usr/lib/lv2/event.lv2/event.ttl: Unexpected(2): ('symbol', 'true')
ERROR /usr/lib/lv2/event.lv2/event.ttl: /usr/lib/lv2/event.lv2/event.ttl: Unexpected ;
/usr/lib/lv2/uri-map.lv2/uri-map.ttl: Unexpected(2): ('symbol', 'true')
ERROR /usr/lib/lv2/uri-map.lv2/uri-map.ttl: /usr/lib/lv2/uri-map.lv2/uri-map.ttl: Unexpected
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Re: lv2 JACK host(s)

Post by ssj71 »

Carla. Its much more on the capable side of things, but its the best dedicated plugin host out there. If you want as light as possible stick with Jalv.
http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/KXStudi ... ions:Carla
Also available in your local kxstudio PPA.
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Jon
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Re: lv2 JACK host(s)

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I had a difficult time compiling Carla on Slackware. After compiling and installing, still ended up with (a?) python error.

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bash-4.2$ carla.py
LRDF Support not available (LADSPA-RDF will be disabled)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/carla/carla.py", line 2338, in <module>
    if argument.startswith("--with-appname="):
AttributeError: 'QString' object has no attribute 'startswith'
So I went with the precompiled static binary package, but it will only "see" ladspa plugins and none of the others.
Otherwise, I would love to get Carla to work.
Jon
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Re: lv2 JACK host(s)

Post by Jon »

Wow! Thanks for that suggestion. It works.


I had saved the source on Carla (because I modified backend/native/audio_decoder/ad_ffmpeg.c), because of compilation difficulties. These are the changes I made.
http://pastebin.com/HfdYNM0X
It would be nice to test. I will have to try and fix my PyQt. I had ran into a problem where I had upgraded sip as a dependency requirement and had messed up PyQt. (the two are intrinsically linked), causing me to upgrade PyQt. I believe the version I'm using now is PyQt-x11-gpl-4.10.2. Is there a separate/different PyQt Pythonmodule?

Edit: Oh, I see. I need to downgrade to V3. I wonder if I will have to downgrade sip as well?
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Re: lv2 JACK host(s)

Post by Jon »

Alright, thanks for the help. I'll see what I can find. This is the diff for ad_ffmpeg.c:
http://pastebin.com/FXHNm50r

Edit: I understand better now thanks to this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7942 ... -in-ubuntu

Basically a huge set of bindings... (python-qt-sip-PyQt-kde-workspace). The distro I'm on has python2.7 and qt-4.8.2. I need python3 and to compile PyQt against it.
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