On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Jonathan E. Brickman <jeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Frank Kober wrote: >> IRRC Soundcrab works nice, looks nice but none of the few native VST hosts managed to store the setup, in particular the loaded soundfont was subjected to some amnesia >> Cheers >> Frank >> > Yes, that's what I found. It also regularly crashed both testing and > stable versions of jost. Since jost is made by the same source, I have > decided to skip soundcrab. Saving of setup was also the unavailable > essential in the others I tested, except timidity. Through much > tweaking I got timidity to sound acceptable, but frankly, I hate loading > my system with arcana. I can do arcana, I just don't choose to do so; > on gigs I want as straightforward as I can get to live the moment: I > don't gig with alphanumeric keyboard, just mouse. > Still _a little_ arcane, but saving and restoring in ghostess works well. The menu item 'save configuration...' will allow you to store a file. Make that file executable, execute it and the session is restored. I have little to none experience with the other sf2 player options. Even though the author of ghostess calls it 'sloppy, hurried HACKWARE' it never crashed here and I use it a lot. <snip> > The last three times I tried to use Lash, I couldn't get it to do much, > but it is sounding like a piece I am missing. Anyone have something > like a document or example step-by-step? > sorry, arcane again:-), but you say you can do arcana, then why not write a simple session script in advance and just execute it once before the gig. My Lash experiences are similar to yours, thus until this changes scripts seem to be the best option to me. best, d _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
