No instruments / Samples in BioTek or Collective on Linux [Solved]

[ErBen]

Hello all!
I'm a very new user of Waveform, using Linux, and I installed BioTek and Collective as part of the package.
The instructions tell to create a ~/Tracktion folder, which I did, then copy the BioTek and Collective folders inside:

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~/Tracktion/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
├── BioTek
│   ├── Instruments
│   ├── Private Samples
│   └── Samples
├── Collective
│   ├── Instruments
│   │   ├── Alessandro Cardinale AC
│   │   ├── Dave Polich DP
│   │   ├── Eric Moon EM
│   │   ├── Joerg Huettner JH
│   │   └── Wolfram Franke WMF
│   └── Samples
│       └── Drums and Percussion
│           ├── Assorted Percussion
│           ├── Drum Kits
│           ├── Hihat Kits
│           └── Metal Percussion

But when I load the VST in a DAW, including Waveform, there are no instruments of samples loaded...

Any idea to help ?
Thanks a bunch in advance!
Alban

[ErBen]

OK I found the problem thanks to an error message from another plugin actually...

The correct path for Samples and Instruments is NOT

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~/Tracktion

It actually is

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~/.config/Tracktion

Hope they can fix the documentation...
Anyway it works now

Mods, how can I edit the topic to add a [SOLVED] tag ?

[Wolfram Franke]

Hi ErBen,

sorry for the inconvenience. The next version of BioTek will again use the correct directories, i.e. ~/Tracktion for the "private" library and /usr/local/share/Tracktion for the "public" library.

Best wishes,

Wolfram

[strogon14]

Can you not just fix the documentation? ~/.config/Tracktion IS the correct location IMHO according to the XDG standards.

On Linux it is considered very bad form when software clutters your home directory with top-level directories, whose location and name you can't change.