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Re: Lmms and lv2 plugins

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 6:51 pm
by Gps
Alsa is prob the best one, and should work out of the box.
Pulseaudio should work too.

Jack might be better but its not that simple to use.

Re: Lmms and lv2 plugins

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:32 pm
by _user
But i dont get it at all.... What sould i do now ? i wanna play on fabla with my keyboard and record this on lmms, what i need to do now ?

Re: Lmms and lv2 plugins

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 9:27 pm
by umcaruje
Carla does not have any connection to JACK. Carla is a plugin host. To get carla inside your LMMS installation, you need to compile carla from source, or get the 'carla-git' package from the KXStudio repos. Also, when you compile carla, you also need to compile LMMS from source, since the default packages in distros don't come with carla support AFAIK. Compiling is pretty straightforward, here are some instructions: https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/wiki/Compiling-lmms

Re: Lmms and lv2 plugins

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 10:05 pm
by _user
Yea okay no problem, i will compile carla, fabla and lmms from sources and what next ? when i will can enable carla in lmms then ?

Re: Lmms and lv2 plugins

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 11:39 pm
by Gps
After you installed all three, you can in lmms select carla.

Re: Lmms and lv2 plugins

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 8:36 am
by _user
Okay i'll try then, but tell me one thing, after i do all things good and i'll have carla and fabla in my lmms i'll be able to play with my pc keyboard on fabla ? i'll be able for set choosen keyboard key to choosen sample in fabla ?

Re: Lmms and lv2 plugins

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 10:05 am
by farawayinspace
once you successfully compile carla-git (and I guess re-compile lmms), then Carla-patchbay and Carla-rack will show up in the Instrument plugins (see here https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Wo ... nstruments). You can drag and drop Carla-rack into the Song editor. After that, you can use Carla-rack to load .lv2 plugins (like Fabla, or drumkv1, assuming that you have these installed properly). Within the Carla-rack instrument window, click "Show GUI". This brings up another interface: the most important is "+Add Plugins". Then Click "Refresh", ensuring that the "Special Filters" section has 'instruments' and 'lv2' check-marked. You should now be able to select Fabla or other lv2 plugins.

To answer your question, yes, theorectically Fabla (in carla) should allow you to load individual samples, mapped to particular keyboard keys, and controlled via midi in the LMMS song editor/piano roll. I personally could not get fabla to load samples and could only use its presets. An alternative to fabla is "drumkv1". It is likewise a lv2 plugin, to be used through carla, and I was able to get it to load individual samples, map to particular keys, and controlled by lmms midi signals.

Re: Lmms and lv2 plugins

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 10:00 am
by _user
Okay... I compile carla from sources from here -> https://github.com/falkTX/Carla/ and i compile lmms from sources from here ->https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/wiki and i "make install" both of them to /usr/local, but i still dont see carla in my lmms ;c This is the picture -> http://postimg.org/image/4iaqf8r4t/
So i please for next advices.

Re: Lmms and lv2 plugins

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 11:35 am
by Gps
I do not use carla myself, but as far as I understand things, this is were you should be able to select Carla.

https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Fi ... _1.1.0.PNG

Click on the down arrow. There you can select, Alsa, Jack (if installed) Carla (if installed) and a few others.

Then as farawayinspace says you should see the plugin. ( you will have to restart lmms )

About the compiling of lmms.
After you compiled, did the comand line say, carla is available ?
There is a section about audio.
Alsa -
jack -
sdl -
carla -

After these audio setting it says if its available or not.

Re: Lmms and lv2 plugins

Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 9:27 am
by umcaruje
No Gps, no. Carla is a plugin, not an audio backend.

@_user, can you post a gist of the cmake information when you compile LMMS? It seems as carla isn't included in your path and that you'll have to add it manually.