Re: psychosynth-user Digest, Vol 16, Issue 1

Re: installing psychosynth

installing this app

I've tried A LOT of variants to install Psychosynth with no luck. I
run Debian Wheezy  and Ubuntu 11.10 and just reinstalled Squeeze,
there are problems with all. All info on your site is useless in my
case, please provide a distro+recipe+whatever_is_needed so that one
can install and run this app.

I don't really understand why you chose to make this app in 3d (aside
from complicating life) when the three-dimnsionality of it is, for all
practical purposes, useless. There is a 2D variant for iOS and Android
(sold by Reactable) and Psychosynth could've been the more advanced
version for desktop but hell, aside from a couple of youtube demos I
found more complains then kudos while searching the net for a
installation recipe.

Thanks

I love this program and plan on using it live. Has anyone used jasuto modular? It has a cool keyboard module
that would be awsome on psychosynth.
Sent from my LG phone

Hello

Can't solve my 30 sec delay

installing on lucid....works for me.

Re: psychosynth on Ubuntu Lucid

Hey again,

> http://openubuntu.com/index.php/topic,381.0.html
> 
> Above is a link to a three page thread about installing
> psychpsynth....non of these ideas worked for me.
> 

Ok, just tell me in that thread where the people had problems installing
it. I can only see one comment there regarding an issue with the PPA
which seems related to some Launchpad issue, as the debs could be
manually downloaded.

Please, again, could you try the following three commands and report
your issues? I will explain them one by one so that you know what they
do

First, add the GNU Psychosynth Team PPA to your software sources:
  $> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnu-psychosynth-team/ppa

Second, update the list of downloadable software:
  $> sudo apt-get update

Third, ask to install 'psychosynth-gui and psychosynth-samples'. When
installing these two, all the requireded dependencies should get
automatically installed
  $> sudo apt-get install psychosynth-gui psychosynth-samples

There were suggestions in that forum asking you to install the packages
one by one and in a specific order. This is not needed if you have the
repository properly configured. Also, you probably won't never need
libpsynth-dev. 

> 
> Also other people tried from scratch and got...
> 
> the 2 packes don't exist anymore so you have problems when you
> run ./congigure. (libboost-serialization1.35-dev libboost1.35-dev)
> 
> this is the problem i get when i run configure
> 
> Code: 
> ./configure
> checking for boostlib >= 1.42... configure: We could not detect the boost libraries (version 1.42 or
higher). If you have a staged boost library (still not installed) please specify $BOOST_ROOT in your
environment and do not give a PATH to --with-boost option.  If you are sure you have boost installed, then
check your version number looking in <boost/version.hpp>. See http://randspringer.de/boost for more documentation.
> checking whether the Boost::Filesystem library is available... yes
> configure: error: Could not link against  !
> i tried to compile boostlib from this website
> http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_42_0.html, but even after
> compiling ./configure doesn't work. any ideas.
> 
> i also noticed this stuff below from your web page info...
> 
> i know in the notes it says BOOST is no longer needed in Lucid.
> 
> ALso, some other extensions to do with Lib(files) are no longer needed
> in Lucid

You shouldn't need to compile it yourself.

Anyway, if you really want to do so, you need to first, install all the
build-dependencies as listed in the debian/control packaging from Lucid,
this is:
debhelper, autotools-dev, libboost-filesystem1.40-dev,
libboost-thread1.40-dev, libboost-test1.40-dev, libsigc++-2.0-dev,
liblo-dev, libxml2-dev, libsndfile1-dev, libsoundtouch1-dev,
libvorbis-dev, alsa-base, libjack-dev, libogre-dev, libcegui-mk2-dev,
libceguiogre-dev, libois-dev, libasound2-dev, libpcre3-dev,
libglu1-mesa-dev, libgtk2.0-dev

You will also need specifically the source version that worked in Lucid,
not the last one from the repos. You can use:
https://launchpad.net/~gnu-psychosynth-team/+archive/ppa/+files/psychosynth_0.1.5%2Bbzr20100802%7E0ppa1.tar.gz

And you can compile it with:
$> ./configure
$> make
$> sudo make install

Again, you shouldn't need to do this, just use the three commands above
to enable the PPA and install the precompiled debs.

Cheers,

--

-- 
Aleksander

Re: psychosynth on Ubuntu Lucid

Hey,

I don't know of any issue installing Psychosynth in Ubuntu Lucid.
Therefore, I'm not going to spend 1 single minute of my free time
preparing an Ubuntu Lucid virtual machine to try it. If I knew of an
issue installing Psychosynth in Ubuntu Lucid, I may spend such time, but
I don't know of it, and you didn't give me any log to really confirm it,
so it effectively is as if the error didn't exist 

Good luck.

On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 20:23 +0100, bewnnnnn turnbull wrote:
> Hello
> 
> we tried all of those commands and tonnes more effort....reading
> every single part of psychosynth web page (which is confusing and
> takes
> a lot of effort)
> 
> several people tried all of this stuff.....much more effort than you
> can
> imagine.....yet psychosynth did not install or work....(these are very
> experienced
> linux users)
> 
> so what do you have to say about this?
> 
> why are you posting software tools that are almost impossible
> to get working?
> 
> you are asking me to post outputs.....we already did all this work as
> a team
> on the ubuntu forums....and psychosynth did not install or work...
> 
> i am not inclined to start all this effort again.......
> 
> there is no magic that is required from you OTHER than
> you testing an install of psychosynth with a latest Lucid release and
> getting it working.
> Then you  can put those working install instructions onto your web
> page.
> 
> The machines here...... were blank fresh Lucid 10.04 machines. 
> 
> Your current psychosynth install instructions fail. Therefor YOU are
> globally promoting software that does NOT install...... this is a
> problem for millions of people.
> 
> Get the software install instructions working and update the web page
> or remove the web page from the world wide web.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Vince.
> 
> --- On Mon, 5/9/11, Aleksander Morgado <aleksander@...> wrote:
>         
>         From: Aleksander Morgado <aleksander@...>
>         Subject: Re: [psynth-user] psychosynth on Ubuntu Lucid
>         To: "bewnnnnn turnbull" <b1enjamin_turnbull@...>
>         Date: Monday, 5 September, 2011, 19:04
>         
>         Hey,
>         > 
>         > i went on the ubuntu forums and asked several experienced
>         linux users
>         > to install psychosynth on their machines.....they also
>         failed.
>         > 
>         > they even tried compiling certain parts....and followed an
>         internet
>         > thread dedicated to
>         > "how to install" psychosynth.....(there are threads about
>         > it....because nobody can properly install psychosynth)
>         > 
>         > This is not a good indictation to me. It should be simple to
>         install
>         > psychosynth
>         
>         Yes, it should be easy to install. As easy as:
>           $> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnu-psychosynth-team/ppa
>           $> sudo apt-get update
>           $> sudo apt-get install psychosynth-gui psychosynth-samples
>         
>         Did you try these previous commands? Did they work? Did they
>         fail? Those
>         are the commands suggested in the Easy Setup section in:
>           http://www.psychosynth.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Repository
>         
>         Again, please report your errors, otherwise we cannot
>         magically know
>         that it fails and how it fails. Unfortunately, we are not able
>         to read
>         minds (yet) 
>         
>         Cheers
>         
>         -- 
>         Aleksander
>         

--

-- 
Aleksander

psychosynth on Ubuntu Lucid

Master’s thesis and new release!

{ From: http://planet.gnu.org/psychosynth/?p=23 }

As previous posts announce, latest developments were driven by my
Master's Thesis held in the University of Granada. Last week I defended
it and now I am, officially, a software engineer  The document is
written in English; it is the best description available of all the new
core refactoring and an interesting read if you want to contribute to
the project.

Download Master's thesis:
http://psychosynth.com/misc/pfc.pdf

Also, a new release was made including lastest advancements in the core
library and some small user level improvements and fixes. You can
download it here.

Changelog for Psychosynth 0.2.1
-------------------------------

* Now real-time priority is properly acquired for the audio
thread in POSIX systems whenever possible.
* New modular synthesis engine included in the framework -- not
yet used by the UI, providing:
  - Hierarchical patches. One can have a full patch inside one
node that may be later store and or loaded from the hard drive.
  - Any kind of signal can be processed now.
  - Multiple output and input ports can coexist.
  - Plug-in system is much easier to implement on top of the new
system.
* New code uses some new C++0x features implemented in new
compilers only. With this release, GNU Psychosynth requires GCC
4.6 to compile.