Backend connection and LSCP loading trouble

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thesafeplaces
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Backend connection and LSCP loading trouble

Post by thesafeplaces » Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:41 pm

Hi,

I'm having some trouble with LinuxSampler+Fantasia -

1. When I start Fantasia, I get "Connecting to LinuxSampler : Can't establish connection"
Then the 'Choose backend to connect' screen comes up, there's an instance there, I click connect. All goes well from there...

2....till I click 'Export current sampler configuration as LSCP script' and then load any script - I get
"Connection to backend failed."
I click Reconnect, I get
"Connecting to LinuxSampler : Can't establish connection".

3. And one regarding QSampler, even though I select SFZ under engine, I can't see any of my SFZ files in the browser! These same SFZs show up and load perfectly in Fantasia. For some reason, QSampler also seems to be very random-crash-, random-disappear- and random-segfault-happy...

What am I doing wrong? x_x

FWIW - Synaptic shows versions of
liblinuxsampler, liblinuxsampler-dev, and linuxsampler as 1.0.0+cvs2277avlinux-1,
jsampler-fantasia version as 0.9avlinux-1,
and qsampler version as 0.2.2-2.

Thank you for your time.

thesafeplaces
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Re: Backend connection and LSCP loading trouble

Post by thesafeplaces » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:03 pm

Bump. Anyone? Help? Please? x_x

bob_e_s
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Re: Backend connection and LSCP loading trouble

Post by bob_e_s » Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:04 am

Just thought I'd add to this - sounds like iI'm having exactly the same trouble - can't get Jsampler to run, with the same error messages.

Help!

thesafeplaces
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Re: Backend connection and LSCP loading trouble

Post by thesafeplaces » Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:35 am

In the meantime, I tried to install LS from source, which didn't get past building (despite applying the given build reference tickets).

I then decided to install AVLinux 5.0.3, which has -
linuxsampler 1.0.0+cvs2277avlinux-1
liblscp6 0.5.6+cvs2277avlinux-3
liblscp-dev 0.5.6+cvs2277avlinux-3
qsampler 0.2.2+SVN2281avlinux-1
liblinuxsampler-dev 1.0.0+cvs2277avlinux-1
liblinuxsampler 1.0.0+cvs2277avlinux-1
gigedit 0.2.0+cvs2277avlinux-1
libgig6 3.3.0+cvs2277avlinux-1
libgig-dev 3.3.0+cvs2277avlinux-1
Now, QSampler actually sees my SFZs, and the fact that it has some keyboard shortcuts and that it now saves some settings in New Channel is a heaven-sent feature - because it still doesn't load LSCP files! >_<

It says -
Could not get current list of channels. Sorry.
and then
Session loaded with errors. Sorry.
And the resulting 'loaded session' has nothing from the session I had saved.

Well, atleast I don't have to configure everything (devices etc) from scratch, and qsampler atleast supports keyboard shortcuts unlike Jsampler. But I really doubt if I can use this live - if there's a crash or anything, instead of loading an LSCP file I'll still have to do things like making a new channel, loading the instrument, and set gain to 1.0 db all over again, wasting precious time.

Can anyone help?

bob_e_s
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Re: Backend connection and LSCP loading trouble

Post by bob_e_s » Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:45 pm

I've emailed the designers Benno and Christian, and Benno didn't reply but Christian got back to me basically saying 'I don't know, can't help'.

Bit frustrating, so I think I'm going to give up. I was hoping for something I could just install and use, so maybe this isn't the software for me.

Andreas
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Re: Backend connection and LSCP loading trouble

Post by Andreas » Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:09 pm

thesafeplaces wrote: 1. When I start Fantasia, I get "Connecting to LinuxSampler : Can't establish connection"
Then the 'Choose backend to connect' screen comes up, there's an instance there, I click connect. All goes well from there...

2....till I click 'Export current sampler configuration as LSCP script' and then load any script - I get
"Connection to backend failed."
I click Reconnect, I get
"Connecting to LinuxSampler : Can't establish connection".
If "can't establish connection" suddenly shows up it's a sign that linuxsampler has crashed. Start linuxsampler in a separate terminal first, and then run Fantasia and observe what's happening in the linuxsampler terminal.

Andreas
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Re: Backend connection and LSCP loading trouble

Post by Andreas » Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:19 pm

thesafeplaces wrote: Now, QSampler actually sees my SFZs, and the fact that it has some keyboard shortcuts and that it now saves some settings in New Channel is a heaven-sent feature - because it still doesn't load LSCP files!
Does loading your lscp file with netcat/ncat/nc (that is: netcat localhost 8888 < file.lscp) work better?

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