Re: How do I use "VST" instruments that come in .mse files
Posted: Sat May 08, 2021 8:30 pm
You are supposed to
> * dl the zip-file
I did that. Maybe not this particular pass through recording it all, but I did that from the link provided earlier in this discussion.
> *, rightclick the zip-file
> * choose unpack with windows-zip
I used unzip from a Zsh command line. Same result.
> * Move or copy the DLL into the folder \Samples/VST_instruments
Samples/VST_instruiments ? Not my usual VST_plugins directory? So some of them use a different VST directory? Where's the documentation on which go to the normal VST_plugins directory, and which go to the one under Samples?
I used the same Zsh command line and "mv mda_piano.dll $VSTdir" (or whatever mda piano's filename is) where $VSTdir is a variable in Zsh (set from ~/.zprofile---remember, I use cygwin with Windows 10 Home):
export VSTdir=/cygdrive/c/VSTplugins
> Open LMMS
Did that in the video (and before doing the video, I made sure LMMS wasn't running on Virtual Desktop 11, as it usually is, so I didn't have any interference from it (as I noted when trying to run a second copy lf LMMS---some things just didn't work...can't remember what, though).
>. load a VST from sidebar, and browse to the DLL in \Samples/VST_instruments
So some VST instruments get loaded from a sidebar, not VeSTige? I just tried that. I opened the usual Instruments Plugins sidebar and didn't see a single VST plugin that I'd added, including mda_piano, nor did I see a single DLL file. Are you sure I'm not supposed to use VeSTige for this one, like the rest? If not VeSTige, where is this spot where I load it directly from the sidebar? And what pulls that sidebar up instead of the Instruments Plugins sidebar?
> What is that grey box?! Zth -And what are you adding to your defined win-path ?
That's my Zsh (pronounced "Z shell)" (command line) window. What is win-path? Is that the M$ equivalent of $PATH, that tells the shell where to find binaries like the lmms executable file? Sorry, I don't use M$ by choice...my graphics card and Manjaro Linux aren't cooperating together when it comes to my external monitor, so I'm forced to use M$ Win 10 Home, with Cygwin to make it at least feel more like Unix (I could use FreeBSD with its Linux compatibility mode, but I'm not sure how that would work with LMMS, Blender, Godot 3, etc.). You wouldn't know it from my horrible typing yesterday[1], but normally I'm much faster from the Unix command line (using Zsh as my shell) than any mouse-based menus).
[1] 14 years now after cancer #1, my typing speed is finally getting back to where it used to be: typing as fast as I can compose OR as fast as the computer and keyboard can keep up with. Why keyboard? Some older and/or cheap keyboards only use a small amount of (if any) buffering of keystrokes. If you're a touch typist, and are flying along the keyboard fast enough, before you're letting off of one key, you've already typed several others. Lack of buffering leads to skied ky i yu tx (how "skipped keys in your text" might come out looking---I had to fake it, since I can't use keyboards without lots of buffering). Note that I've never seen any modern keyboards that have this problem, but that doesn't mean there aren't any out there.
> * dl the zip-file
I did that. Maybe not this particular pass through recording it all, but I did that from the link provided earlier in this discussion.
> *, rightclick the zip-file
> * choose unpack with windows-zip
I used unzip from a Zsh command line. Same result.
> * Move or copy the DLL into the folder \Samples/VST_instruments
Samples/VST_instruiments ? Not my usual VST_plugins directory? So some of them use a different VST directory? Where's the documentation on which go to the normal VST_plugins directory, and which go to the one under Samples?
I used the same Zsh command line and "mv mda_piano.dll $VSTdir" (or whatever mda piano's filename is) where $VSTdir is a variable in Zsh (set from ~/.zprofile---remember, I use cygwin with Windows 10 Home):
export VSTdir=/cygdrive/c/VSTplugins
> Open LMMS
Did that in the video (and before doing the video, I made sure LMMS wasn't running on Virtual Desktop 11, as it usually is, so I didn't have any interference from it (as I noted when trying to run a second copy lf LMMS---some things just didn't work...can't remember what, though).
>. load a VST from sidebar, and browse to the DLL in \Samples/VST_instruments
So some VST instruments get loaded from a sidebar, not VeSTige? I just tried that. I opened the usual Instruments Plugins sidebar and didn't see a single VST plugin that I'd added, including mda_piano, nor did I see a single DLL file. Are you sure I'm not supposed to use VeSTige for this one, like the rest? If not VeSTige, where is this spot where I load it directly from the sidebar? And what pulls that sidebar up instead of the Instruments Plugins sidebar?
> What is that grey box?! Zth -And what are you adding to your defined win-path ?
That's my Zsh (pronounced "Z shell)" (command line) window. What is win-path? Is that the M$ equivalent of $PATH, that tells the shell where to find binaries like the lmms executable file? Sorry, I don't use M$ by choice...my graphics card and Manjaro Linux aren't cooperating together when it comes to my external monitor, so I'm forced to use M$ Win 10 Home, with Cygwin to make it at least feel more like Unix (I could use FreeBSD with its Linux compatibility mode, but I'm not sure how that would work with LMMS, Blender, Godot 3, etc.). You wouldn't know it from my horrible typing yesterday[1], but normally I'm much faster from the Unix command line (using Zsh as my shell) than any mouse-based menus).
[1] 14 years now after cancer #1, my typing speed is finally getting back to where it used to be: typing as fast as I can compose OR as fast as the computer and keyboard can keep up with. Why keyboard? Some older and/or cheap keyboards only use a small amount of (if any) buffering of keystrokes. If you're a touch typist, and are flying along the keyboard fast enough, before you're letting off of one key, you've already typed several others. Lack of buffering leads to skied ky i yu tx (how "skipped keys in your text" might come out looking---I had to fake it, since I can't use keyboards without lots of buffering). Note that I've never seen any modern keyboards that have this problem, but that doesn't mean there aren't any out there.