In the Waveform 9 manual, page 291, a 'camera icon' is mentioned to customize the plugin Thumbnails (mine are all question marks except for FM Synth and Master Mix). I can't seem to find this in Waveform 9 in KDE Neon.
Also, the depicted lock-icon looks like a pin in Waveform 9, so I assume the manual is outdated? Is there any other way to get the thumbnails to update manually, because scanning for them does not work either...?
Waveform 9 Linux: Customizing the Thumbnail Image
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- KVRer
- 9 posts since 11 Sep, 2018
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- KVRian
- 768 posts since 25 Jul, 2010 from Northern Ireland
I'm sure this feature has never worked for the Linux version of Waveform, there is a post by one of the developers here somewhere. Would be neat if they fixed it tho.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 9 posts since 11 Sep, 2018
Indeed, I found this dated 09 Dec 2017 by dRowAudio:
"The thumbnail scanner shouldn't be available on Linux, it looks like a mistake that the button to do so is in there. However, it shouldn't crash, it should just fail to create any thumbnails."
How messy. If they don't intend to fix or hide it, the least Tracktion should have done is mention it in the manual...
Anyway, thanks mikoatkvr!
"The thumbnail scanner shouldn't be available on Linux, it looks like a mistake that the button to do so is in there. However, it shouldn't crash, it should just fail to create any thumbnails."
How messy. If they don't intend to fix or hide it, the least Tracktion should have done is mention it in the manual...Anyway, thanks mikoatkvr!
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 9 posts since 11 Sep, 2018
BTW, is there any way to contact anyone from Tracktion to submit bug reports?
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- KVRian
- 768 posts since 25 Jul, 2010 from Northern Ireland
It seems that it is almost working on Linux, when we do the scan method you can see the screenshot of the plugins being taken then it fails after a bit, I wonder is it tripping up at the LADSPA plugins having no GUI? Anyway for bug reports or feature requests go to the support section on the main site
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- KVRAF
- 2461 posts since 9 Oct, 2008 from UK
There's support@tracktion.comSynthaClaus wrote: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:25 pm BTW, is there any way to contact anyone from Tracktion to submit bug reports?
I believe there's also an option on the Tracktion website, but I haven't used it.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 9 posts since 11 Sep, 2018
I submitted a bug report through the support section on the Tracktion website. Thanks all!
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- KVRian
- 768 posts since 25 Jul, 2010 from Northern Ireland
I have been looking at this the past few days, trying to debug what is going on that it doesn't quite work. The plugin scanner creates 2 inode/pipes in /tmp [ Waveform9 --PluginThumbnailScan:[[value]] { possibly like a read and write pipe } ( these fail regularly and 2 new ones are created ),
I'm just kind of doing a bit of detective work here really, seems like Waveform internals actually opens all the plugins one by one , takes a screenshot of the GUI, tries to save that and moves on to the next etc etc ... There are a few errors spawned by strace which might be useful to the devs, I'll post some of my findings here in my next reply.
I'm just kind of doing a bit of detective work here really, seems like Waveform internals actually opens all the plugins one by one , takes a screenshot of the GUI, tries to save that and moves on to the next etc etc ... There are a few errors spawned by strace which might be useful to the devs, I'll post some of my findings here in my next reply.