It sounds like pureVST is loading (hence the sliders and the 20
channels) but that it isn't finding its way to the
GUI, which it borrows from an installed Pd application. The plug-in
searches in ~/pd and in /usr/lib/pd (which I
think is the normal place that the automake stuff puts it) - or more
specifically, it needs to find TCL files as
~/pd/tcl/pd-gui.tcl (etc) or as /usr/lib/pd/tcl/pd-gui.tcl etc. Next on
my own dolist is to search for derivative filenames
such as "pd-0.55-2" etc.
OTOH it shouldn't freeze if it can't find them... that's something for
me to try to fix.
cheers
Miller
On 6/1/25 9:43 AM, Alexandros Drymonitis wrote:
On 6/1/25 10:14, Miller Puckette wrote:
I think that must be exactly what's going on. I never use the
automake system (it's far too complicated for me to understand) and
so I don't end up confusing the libpd build. So yes, as Dan says, or
alternatively just get a clean copy of the Pd source and build libpd
in it using only the Makefile in the libpd directory. I'll update
the pureVST README accordingly :)
Miller
On 5/31/25 9:32 PM, Dan Wilcox wrote:
Maybe my comment was a red herring, but to explain: I have run into
the issue on my own system (and by an issue or two others have
posted), that if you build desktop pd, at least using the auto tools
build, the generated .o files will not contain the multi instance
stuff. If you later build libpd within the libpd directory, the
makefile there will reuse the existing .o files even though it's
trying to build with PDINSTANCE set, which can lead to link issues.
The way forward is to clean the main dir before building libpd
itself to be sure.
I downloaded Pd's source and built libpd only (I have already built
Pd) and the whole process worked! Is what I'm looking for the
PureVST.so file? When I set the path to this file in Reaper's or
Ardour's VST search paths I do get a PureVST-0.5(msp)(20 ch) plugin,
but it's a window with 20 sliders. There's an "open" button for Pd's
gui, but clicking on it just freezes both software (Reaper or Ardour)
whether the track where I set the plugin plays or not.
I've read that Reaper has some issues with this, not sure if it's this
one. Are we supposed to be able to patch within the plugin like it is
with plugdata? If not, what do these sliders do?
Thanks for the help so far.
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