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ZynAddSubFX issues in 1.1.3

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 11:24 am
by NectarMarine
Hi there, I'm new to these forums so apologies if I'm doing something wrong.
I just cracked open LMMS for the first time in about a year, having updated to 1.1.3. First thing I do is open ZynAddSubFX to find something nice to play around with, but found a couple of issues almost immediately. I closed the program and reopened it, restarted my laptop.. the same problems are there.
So, here's what happens. I click on the 'Click here to load an instrument' button, have a look down the list and choose something. It seems like it doesn't matter what I choose but in this example I'll use 'olivers-100'. The first problem is once I click on it, there's nothing there. I'll attach a screenshot to show you if I can [attachment 1]. This problem is solved quite easily - if I click in that gap where there shouldn't be just a gap, it loads up what's meant to be there. (I click down in the bottom right so I don't blindly select one of the instruments that I can't see.) So while that's not too much of an issue, it shouldn't really be happening and I'm not sure why it is.
Anyway, issue number two. It's a bit difficult to show you this one with screenshots, but essentially it won't let me add any effects once I've chosen an instrument. I'll attach a screenshot to show you the settings [attachment 3] just in case I'm doing something wrong, but they're all set to channel 1, and in the past I didn't have to change anything else - just click effect type>reverb (or whatever) and then it would sound different when I press the notes. But not any more, and again I don't know why. I tried just exiting that and putting some notes into the piano roll, but the effects still aren't there.
If I'm doing something wrong somewhere then I apologise, but something must have changed that I didn't know about - I'm just doing the same thing that used to always work for me.
I'm sure you can appreciate this is the kind of thing that just makes you think 'ah whatever' and just close the program. But anyway, thanks for reading, hopefully someone can help.
NM

Edit - having problems with uploading the screenshots too, isn't that fantastic. File is too large until I reduce it massively, and then there's an error picture in the status box when it finally uploads. Sorry about that. :|

Re: ZynAddSubFX issues in 1.1.3

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 11:44 am
by Eino
This could be the same thing here.
viewtopic.php?t=1442

Re: ZynAddSubFX issues in 1.1.3

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 12:00 pm
by slipstick
For the effects problem....are you sure you have the Effects volume turned up ? I sometimes forget that and it does keep resetting to zero when you change instruments or effects.

Steve

Re: ZynAddSubFX issues in 1.1.3

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 12:30 pm
by musikbear
to me it sounds like you have a PR of 1.2 where the zasfx simply is not included. Several of the test PRs i had for single feature tests, was exactly like that
Is your 1.1.3 this
https://lmms.io/download/#windows
stable and full version, of did you install a bug-finder PR? -should not be used for anything 'real'
Beside that. Eino is right, if you only have one gb ram, you could have weird behaviors, especially with win versions newer than xp, cause they e a t ram like crazy :/

In respect to screenshots : png and jpg are supported, but they need to be uploaded. The forum cant handle 'drag-and-display' image-posts :/

Re: ZynAddSubFX issues in 1.1.3

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:00 am
by NectarMarine
Well, slipstick hit the nail on the head - very simply, the volume was set to 0 by default. No idea when this was implemented but I wasn't used to it, I'll bear that in mind for the future so thank you.
musikbear, I'm using the 64-bit 1.1.3 from that download page, I haven't installed anything else or any betas. And I have 8GB of RAM. I'll try the 32-bit version just to see if that makes any difference.
Thanks for the help chaps. :)

Re: ZynAddSubFX issues in 1.1.3

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 5:12 pm
by StakeoutPunch
NectarMarine wrote:I'll try the 32-bit version just to see if that makes any difference.
Don't bother with the 32 bit version on a 64 bit machine, especially if you have 8GB. You will run into CPU bottlenecks with LMMS before hitting anywhere close to 8GB ram usage. Use the build optimized for your system architecture (64 bit) when possible.

OT:
musikbear wrote:especially with win versions newer than xp, cause they e a t ram like crazy :/
Keep in mind that most XP machines shipped with 512MB of ram; even modern low end laptops ship with 2-4GB of ram. It would make sense that modern OSs would/can use more ram (and that is across the board unless you are using a lightweight linux distro, not just M$'s OS).

Re: ZynAddSubFX issues in 1.1.3

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 11:02 pm
by NectarMarine
Cheers SP, no idea what most of that means but I'll stick to the 64-bit :D