REAPER for Linux bugs

[Tobbe]

Originally Posted by osxmidi

I've checked out and it seems that some Linux vst plugins cause some sort of incompatibility when SFZero is loaded.

Tunefish and the SAFE plugins are some of the plugins that result in some sort of incompatibility with SFZero.

Other Linux plugins like Xhip and 3bandEQ and Obxd etc are ok with SFZero.

So I don't think much can be done about it except to try to use SFZero with compatible plugins.

The old SFZero was very basic and the newer version (SFZero-X) has a lot more added to it and it needs JUCE5.

Ok, thanks for the info. Not a big deal. There's alot of other choices out there.

[unius]

Hi!

In Crossfade Editor: bug in Layout (01.png & 02.png after resize)

In Project Bay: the right mouse click always shows the menu for 1 item (03.png)

[daeavelwyn]

Hello,

I'm not sure this is a reaper bug or a MATE desktop one, but when i'm using "set tracks to custom color..." I can't define the colors in the bottom line to find them later as I can do on windows version.

Here is a screenshot of the problem :
https://ibb.co/ryRv9LS

I can't make more tests if needed

[JamesPeters]

Originally Posted by daeavelwyn

Hello,

I'm not sure this is a reaper bug or a MATE desktop one, but when i'm using "set tracks to custom color..." I can't define the colors in the bottom line to find them later as I can do on windows version.

Here is a screenshot of the problem :
https://ibb.co/ryRv9LS

I can't make more tests if needed

Confirmed here too.

However I've been using this, so I haven't noticed that problem until now:

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=189602

[daeavelwyn]

@JamesPeters : Holly sh**t reaper users are so wonderfull ! thanks a lot, this will perfectly do the job for now even if it still seems to be an issue for the default window.

[Justin]

Originally Posted by daeavelwyn

Hello,

I'm not sure this is a reaper bug or a MATE desktop one, but when i'm using "set tracks to custom color..." I can't define the colors in the bottom line to find them later as I can do on windows version.

Here is a screenshot of the problem :
https://ibb.co/ryRv9LS

I can't make more tests if needed

A little bit non-standard UI there -- right-click to set the color, left-click to get the color.

[Justin]

Originally Posted by unius

Hi!

In Crossfade Editor: bug in Layout (01.png & 02.png after resize)

In Project Bay: the right mouse click always shows the menu for 1 item (03.png)

Thanks, fixing these!

[JamesPeters]

Originally Posted by Justin

A little bit non-standard UI there -- right-click to set the color, left-click to get the color.

Wow, how did I miss that. I could've sworn I tried that. My mistake!

Oh you're going to like this lol. Try (after a color has been assigned to one of those squares at the bottom via right-click) alternately left-clicking and right-clicking on the square repeatedly. Watch the parameters change gradually. (You'll see the + in the color graph gradually creep to the right or left.) You might have to try this a couple times. It doesn't happen with all possible colors. But I can repeat it more than 50% of the time with an arbitrary starting color near the center of the color graph.

[daeavelwyn]

@justin : Oh, ok, of course I sometime forget that in Reaper right click is always the solution X-D !

Where could I help in documenting this behaviour ?

[Justin]

Originally Posted by daeavelwyn

@justin : Oh, ok, of course I sometime forget that in Reaper right click is always the solution X-D !

Where could I help in documenting this behaviour ?

Suppose we should add a text label to that window "(right click to store a value here)".

Edit: added that, and fixed the RGB/HSV rounding issues in the latest build (or latest WDL if you prefer to use a release).

[daeavelwyn]

@Justin : Great ! Will test ASAP, thks

[EDIT] : Test done ! I'd personaly rather a sentence like : "Once color is defined, right click a custom color to set" or somehting clearer, but unfortunately also longer :-/ .

[JamesPeters]

Originally Posted by Justin

...fixed the RGB/HSV rounding issues in the latest build ...

I remarked about that in the prerelease thread. It's "mostly fixed", basically. Realistically it's close enough but there's still a tendency for the numbers to get rounded once (I can reproduce it often, but it doesn't continue to round every time I right-click/left-click on the color box).

[Justin]

Originally Posted by JamesPeters

I remarked about that in the prerelease thread. It's "mostly fixed", basically. Realistically it's close enough but there's still a tendency for the numbers to get rounded once (I can reproduce it often, but it doesn't continue to round every time I right-click/left-click on the color box).

Yeah, it gets converted from HSV to RGB when stored, and there are HSV values which get rounded to RGB (but only once).

[osxmidi]

Originally Posted by Tobbe

Ok, thanks for the info. Not a big deal. There's alot of other choices out there.

There is a way around the display/library incompatibilities that may work.

Basically it's to run the Linux vst's using a Linux version of LinVst (no Wine) https://github.com/osxmidi/LinVst/tree/LinVst-Linux

The instructions are in the LinVst-Linux.zip file in the Release folder (made on Debian Stretch 64bit).

Basically it's the same as using LinVst but the filenames have an added * character to them and those vst names get used in the Daw (not the original vst names).

Running tunefish3 and the Safe plugins this way seems to work on my system.

amsynth might work this way as well.

[JamesPeters]

Not really a bug but something which was perhaps overlooked:

libswell.colortheme, if copied/added to the Reaper resource directory for customization of fonts/colors/etc., isn't a file that's recognized as something which can be exported by the "Export configuration" dialog in Options -> Preferences -> General.

[calimerox]

not sure if this is the right thread for that info, but downloaded the last reaper version and it just crashes on me on launching, no chance to get it running. saying just:

reaper
Illegal instruction (core dumped)


older versions work just fine.. any suggestions? is there a debug mode or another way i could provide more infos or a crash report?

[shosty]

Originally Posted by calimerox

Illegal instruction (core dumped)

Are you sure you downloaded the right architecture for your machine (32 vs 64 bit)?

[I/O_Madness]

Hey, I posted this to the 5.965 dev 0119 thread but no one responded.

I'm trying to use the v5.965 dev 0119 with an Ohm64 MIDI controller on my Arch Linux machine, and I can't seem to be able to control plugins with the controller.

I'm using a2jmidid 8-3 with qjackctl to pass MIDI to REAPER. After setting the Ohm64 as a MIDI input to a mixer channel, I am able to see the red bar jumping up when I press a note, and when I record I can record MIDI notes, however, I can't seem to be able to send the MIDI to any plugins directly. I can record notes, then play back the resulting MIDI file in the same channel and it works fine, but while the mixer channel is record armed, and I play notes on the Ohm64, none of the plugins I've tried seem to register any input.

Also, an update on this, I noticed that this happens even when using the virtual keyboard input.


EDIT: Found out "monitor input" was turned off. On Windows it's normally on by default, but got it sorted!

[Glennbo]

Don't know what exactly does it, but in a project I'm working on currently the track meters, which are segmented and normally have a gap between the left and right channels are losing most of the gap after I've done some tweaking either to the media or FX on the track. Here's what it's doing. The one on the right is what it should normally look like.



Another thing that seems to have changed in some recent version is the item properties panel now looks reversed color scheme wise. I use a dark theme with an xfce desktop. This is what the panel now looks like, where before I'm pretty sure it had a dark background in some previous versions.

[Jack Winter]

Originally Posted by Glennbo

Another thing that seems to have changed in some recent version is the item properties panel now looks reversed color scheme wise. I use a dark theme with an xfce desktop. This is what the panel now looks like, where before I'm pretty sure it had a dark background in some previous versions.

Mine is themed via libswell, but FWIW item properties is still dark on my system, just tried with 5.97pre2