I installed zytrax and tried to follow http://zytrax.org/tutorial/ -- it says: > press the Insert FX label at the bottom, on the rack section. This > will open a menu where you can select the scanned plugins. > > The effect added should now appear on the rack. Make sure to select a > synth, or else no sound generation will happen. But none of the effects appear to be "synth" effects, and it's unclear how to get such a thing to become available. I tried installing zam-plugins, which put a bunch of .so files in /usr/lib/vst/, but they weren't recognized by zytrax. Perhaps some Recommends: lines need to be added to the package? or if zytrax knows how to use VST plugins, then maybe it needs to learn to look in /usr/lib/vst/ ? At the very least some documentation is probably necessary to make the tool be usable. The tutorial seems to encourage using Synister, which does not appear to be in debian, but maybe could be if someone wants to ITP it (i can't do it myself, alas): https://github.com/the-synister/the-source/ Thanks for maintaining zytrax in debian!
Hi dkg, Sorry for the oddly formatted reply, I'm somehow not getting bug reports as email anymore, so it's just a copy paste. I installed zytrax and tried to follow http://zytrax.org/tutorial/ -- it says: > press the Insert FX label at the bottom, on the rack section. This > will open a menu where you can select the scanned plugins. > > The effect added should now appear on the rack. Make sure to select a > synth, or else no sound generation will happen. The tutorial says for me Settings -> Preferences, then browse path, I tried /usr/lib64/ and then hit Scan, it found 22 effects for me: http://bootes.ethz.ch/zytrax.png But none of the effects appear to be "synth" effects, and it's unclear how to get such a thing to become available. I tried installing zam-plugins, which put a bunch of .so files in /usr/lib/vst/, but they weren't recognized by zytrax. Perhaps some Recommends: lines need to be added to the package? or if zytrax knows how to use VST plugins, then maybe it needs to learn to look in /usr/lib/vst/ ? Let's figure out which plugins to recommend are useful? Can you try the above steps, and make an example song, with recommendations? At the very least some documentation is probably necessary to make the tool be usable. The tutorial seems to encourage using Synister, which does not appear to be in debian, but maybe could be if someone wants to ITP it (i can't do it myself, alas): https://github.com/the-synister/the-source/ This is only for macOS/Windows, not Linux. Thanks for maintaining zytrax in debian! Welcome :)
Hi Gürkan-- thanks for the followup, and sorry for the delay. Hm, on my debian system, there is no /usr/lib64 (we use the more-flexible multiarch filesystem layout, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiArch). so i tried putting /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64/ And sure enough it claimed to find 22 effects (which look like the same that you found from the png above). But if i'm understanding it correctly, those were the 22 that were already loaded and available -- they are all of "Type: Effect", so they aren't synthesizers. I'm still stuck on creating a song without any synth elements. I don't know how to do it. But maybe i'm just holding the tool wrong? have you managed to make a song on it? what am i missing?