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Unable to Set Soundfont for Fluidsynth-DSSI

Hello,

I'm having trouble with the fluidsynth-dssi plugin in Qtractor. In particular, when creating a new track to use it, the little panel doesn't show the option to choose which soundfont to use. See the first pic, below.

Not being able to set the soundfont, means that I get no sound. By the way, this is on my studio laptop which runs under Linux Mint 22 Xfce.

However, my upstairs laptop, which runs under Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon, brings up the panel as expected. See the second pic, below.

As you can see, this panel lets me choose the soundfont.

I'm basically a novice at this sort of stuff, so can any of you experts suggest a solution? Thanks.

Thomas Henry

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I've never used any of the DSSI plugins but would suggest you try the Calf FluidSynth LV2.

Thanks for the suggestion, but it gives me the same results: the Calf Fluidsynth plugin panel is once again barebones, with no way to indicate the desired soundfont. So, no sounds, of course.

Moreover, on the Mint Cinnamon laptop, it's even worse: the Calf panel comes up in a totally blank window.

Also, I forgot to mention that I'm using Qtractor 1.3.0 now.

Thomas Henry

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hi,

some probable reasons for the problem you're having:

  • fluidsynth-dssi is not fully installed, especially its GUI counterpart (FluidSynth-DSSI_gtk);
  • gtk2 and gtkmm2 runtime libraries are not installed, also blocking the above fluidsynth-dssi_gtk component;
  • qtractor built without the support to the above gtk2 and gtkmm2 development libraries, which is prolly the cause for the Calf suite having no GUIs.

hth. cheers

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