[Maverick] Issue with Qtractor + Fluidsynth-DSSI EVEN IF EVERYTHING IS FROM THE REPOSITORIES

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 15:39 -0600, Scott Lavender wrote:


>         I think what you are reporting is that using Qtractor you are
>         unable to edit a synth's settings? 
>         
>         
>         If so, I ran into the same problem.  After talking with a few
>         people, including rnbc (the author of Qtractor) in
>         #opensourcemusicians, they mentioned that I should update
>         Qtractor.  They suggested I used AutoStatic's PPA.
>         
>         I did and it resolved the problem for me.
>         
>         I hope this information is helpful.
>         
>         ScottL
> 
> I should point out, however, that I was running a Lucid install which
> installs Qtractor 0.4.5 by default.
> 
> In contrast, Maverick includes Qtractor 0.4.6 by default.
> 
> I believe that AutoStatic's PPA has the latest, which is Qtractor
> 0.4.8.
> 
> Well worth the time to upgrade I believe.
> 
> Cheers.

I'm running second last version from SVN. Regarding to a jackd issue I
build dssi first.
No, it's the same issue as described here:

On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 22:17 +0100, Pablo Fernández wrote:
> Hi Ralf!
> 
> See also:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fluidsynth/+bug/659112
> 
> The user in comment #17 suggests a workaround. I suggest another one:
> Calf Fluidsynth-dssi

Thank you, I'll test this ASAP.

> > To build Qtractor from SVN I need the package dssi-dev from the
> > repositories, but to install it, JACK2 from the repositories will be
> > replaced by JACK1 from the repositories.
> > 
> > 
> I think this is a bug that should be reported to launchpad.

Cc to feedback at launchpad.net.

Cheers!

Ralf