plugin not found (different distro)

[plutek]

greetings!

i have a session with steve harris's valve saturation ladspa plugin on one of the mixbuses. when i open that session in a different linux distribution from where it was originally written, i get a plugin not found error, and it's replaced with a stub.

however, the swh-plugins package IS installed, and i can insert a new instance of that plugin in the session.

any clues about what might be going on here?


thanks much... cheers!
.pltk.

[Nikolaus Gullotta]

My immediate thought is that the plugin is installed in a different folder on the other distro.

Be sure to check what folders Mixbus is scanning in Preferences->Plugins->VST and actually verify that the plugin exists in those folders.

[plutek]

thanks, nikolaus!

it's a ladspa plugin, not VST, and it lives in /usr/lib/ladspa in both distros.
also, i can see and add the plugin within Mixbus on both distros... Mixbus in the second distro just can't seem to load the existing instance in that session.

weird.

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....oooops, sorry for the noise! i checked the session file, and see that it's actually the LV2 version there, but the second distro only has the ladspa version of swh-plugins, so that's what i have installed.

i'll have to go hunting for an LV2 package, or just switch to the ladspa version in the session...

[Nikolaus Gullotta]

Hmm. You might try sending us the session and a link to the ladspa plguin.

I could try it on my distro here (Debian 9) and see if it recognizes the plugin in that particular session.