Evening,
I managed to survive the Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear power stations exploding, a volcano erupting, radioactive leakages and a food shortage.
So well done me.
More importantly, has anyone got any synths working in Renoise in Linux? I am using only samples at the moment, which is fine, but wondered what the current deal was with soft synths in Renoise in Linux?
Let me know, preferably before I get crushed / drowned / mutated / melted.
That’s good. It does look horrific over there.
It is awful.
Power cuts have been scheduled, and we are awaiting news of a serious radiation leak (part of me thinks this won’t happen, but then, on Thursday night, I would never have imagined I would be basically homeless the next day, and running for my life).
Anyway…
Tell me about the bloody soft synths on Linux, while I still have time.
Glad you r ok…where in Japan are you?
Nihongo Hanesemasuka?
日本語も大丈夫ですよ
I was in Chiba, which got hit hard.
I escaped though, and am currently on the run.
Typing this from an internet cafe.
Thanks for your concerns, guys, and thanks for the synth list. Will have a look when I get back to my apartment and assess the no-doubt horrendous damage.
Honestly, and not trying to be melodramatic or anything, it is beyond bad here. Everything has been destroyed.
Yeah, satobox (the japanese team member) was quick to tell us he was OK, which was sort of reassuring.
It is truly terrible what has happened to Japan, I can see that it will take a long before life goes back to normal.
Good to hear you’re OK.
Ohh, I did not know that Chiba was in so severe state too.
I live in Kyoto and here is no problem at all and completely usual.
I am recognizing the disastrous by watching television these days.
Don’t hesitate to mail me, if you are ending up alone in Japan completely.
First of all, good to hear that your well.
SoftSynths and Renoise:
First af all you can use the DSSI Synths from within Renoise (Whysynth, XSynth, …). They normally should be in your repos => DSSI
Second you can run Renoise with Jack (QJackCtl) and route to f.e. AlsaModularSynth, Yoshimi (or Zynaddsubfx), Phasex.
Calf has a plugin called monosyth in their newer releases, but I don’t know if this is just on SVN or only LV2 …
Commercial Synths are:
DicsoDSP Discovery and Loomer Aspect and Loomer String.
I tested a lot of the synths on my Linux 32bit box and I bought the discoDSP one for ths saves the patches for each song.
Loomer Aspect sounds very nice, but does not save the patch per song for it uses another modul to handle the sound patches.
But it can run standalone and it will be published for 64bit systems soon. And if you would work with a hardware synth, handling would be the same.
it really takes balls of steel to think about things like synths and renoise
after a catastrophe this bad has struck your homecountry.
i appreciate your manliness.
(on a more serious note: really, it’s dramatic what has happened in japan the last few days
and i really hope things do not get any worser. also it’s good to hear from “surviving” renoise
users - we’re still kind of a family, aren’t we?))
Just a little correction here: the full versions of Aspect (and all the Loomer plug-ins) do save the preset data in the hosted project; what you are seeing is an evaluation limitation.
KVR
So this issue is solved?? Would be great.
Yes, the ‘resetting to default preset’ never was an issue, it’s a just an evaluation limitation. In the full registered version, it will always load the preset that the project was saved with. Sorry, entirely my fault for the misunderstanding: I should have said that in the original KVR forum post!
The other thing you mentioned - using Renoise’s next/previous buttons to change presets - is still an issue. It’s on the list of to-fix items, but it’s a tricky one.
I’ll update the original KVR post now: thanks for mentioning this again or I’d never have realized that I missed this!
The preset or your adjusted patch? They are very different. Personally I’m a preset tweaker a lot of the time and generally you do not have to then save as a preset for it to load back with all the adjustments you have made (referring to VSTs on Win.) If it loads the last Preset you loaded before making your changes then it’s still not much use IMO! Have known other synths do this and I abandoned them pretty quickly.
the “TALs” are also very nice http://kunz.corrupt.ch/
For Linux this synth really sound great and it’s good to handle and runs stable (at least the demo I tested). Midilearn works perfect.
And I have never heard of a synth that keeps all setting without saving it somewhere.
For the registered version, it supports “total recall”: the adjusted preset, complete with any tweaks you may have made, is saved in the host project. Even if you subsequently deleted or edited the original preset xml that it was based upon, the preset in the project will always open in the state you saved it.
Yes, this is exactly how Aspect, et al, work. You don’t need to save presets externally for them to be recalled in your saved projects. If you want to save them into your general preset library for use in other projects, for backup, or for presets sharing, you of course will need to, (and optionally tag them using the integrated browser for speedy searching.)
Good good 
Hi,
I downloaded these, and they are all .so files.
How do I install them, or what folder do I put them in?
You have to install DSSI and DSSI-vst packages. On my Mandriva this creates a Folder ~/plugins/win32-vst/ and set $VST_PATH to this folder
In this folder I paste all vst .so files.
You have to check on your Linux after installing DSSI_vst if and where DSSI has set your $VST_PATH, this is the one Renoise will scan.
As User type in a terminal
# echo $VST_PATH
if this is blank you can add a VST_PATH to your ~/.bash_profile
first create a folder (f.e. ~/plugins/win32-vst), then in .bash_profile add a line
export VST_PATH=$HOME/plugins/win32-vst
done
Thanks for the help,but this is still beyond my capabilites.
Where would I create the win32-vst folder? On my desktop?
How to I edit .bash_profile?
Sorry to be dumb.