Re: JACK and synths

On Tue, 20 May 2003, David Herman wrote:

> Has anyone here been able to build a recent version of JACK
> http://jackit.sourceforge.net
> on suse 8.1?
> I'm having no luck I always hit errors when the examples dir starts to
> compile.

I had the same problems here until I discovered that I needed to install
pkgconfig.rpm. Might be necessary to also install fltk-devel.rpm and
libsoundfile-devel.rpm. And, yes, fltk.rpm and libsoundfile.rpm, of
course.

> I was reading the synth article in linux journal and got all excited but
> so far have had little luck getting any of the mentioned synths to
> work. (actually Bristol works nicely, and although it had an error
> compiling, amsynthe looks like it wants to workalso).
>
> Tips? recommended synth progs for suse?

I developed AlsaModularSynth here at SuSE. The author of the LJ article
seems to like it... It has recently been updated and is available from
http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net
There is an excellent Moog VCF plugin available on this page as well. It's
part of the MCP-plugins by Fons Adriaensen. The ams-1.5.9 tarball has
several example patches for these plugins (which are easily compiled on
SuSE, make sure that the .so files are installed in the correct place
under /usr/lib/ladspa). I recommend especially the examples

example_chorus.ams
example_basic_vcf_reverb_moogfilter_env.ams
example_phaser.ams

There are also Mailinglists alsamodular-user and alsamodular-devel on the
Sourceforge page.

Have fun !

Matthias

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