[Csnd] Re: Using Csound frontends with API 2.0
| Date | 2009-04-14 07:45 |
| From | Jan Jacob Hofmann |
| Subject | [Csnd] Re: Using Csound frontends with API 2.0 |
| Dear John, Victor and Anthony, thank you all so much for your helpful hints. I got Csound running again on both of my computers again. Actually I thought the problem was the same on my Intel and on my PPC Mac. I had read about the non working front-ends in the release notes and was surprised then, that really every frontent did not work anymore. Neither Csound Console, Csound GUI or any other. After further investigation I found that the cause for these problems might be different Here is what I did: On my *Intel Mac* I deleted all the frontends that came along with version 5.09 and 5.10_64bit in my programme-folder. When I searched my Library to find /Library/Frameworks/CsoundLib.framework/ I noticed that there was no such folder. Only CsoundLib64.framework was available. That surprised me a lot as I had made a complete install of 5.10 floats and then 5.09 floats some days before. Still I have no explanation, why the framework was missing. Anyway I did a complete install of 5.10 floats then which worked. Now there are both folders /CsoundLib.framework and /CsoundLib64.framework available. Everything works now fine on that computer. On my *PPC* the problem turned out to be different, as all the front-ends crashed not at programme start but on render start without any error-message in Csound output. Even simple orcs but also very complex orcs that ran for years before crashed. I am not sure what caused it and if it is solved now because I had to stop working on it yesterday evening, but I suspect a mixture of causes: - being new to qtCsound I first pressed the realtime-render button instead of the render button. I suspect that was the reason for that crash without warning as I usually do not turn the dac on for rendering in deferred time. - Some fronentends did not find their path to needed soundfiles unless I placed them in the same folder as the csd. Usually there should be a warning message for that, so maybe that was not the reason for the instantaneous crash - The Csound Console frontend always ended up asking for a "test.aif", although there was non of that one specified in the .csd. No explanation for that yet. Still I am not sure about all these crashes and need some more time to investigate this. The strange thing is that all my .csd used to run with macCsound. That was why I was so surprised that nothing really worked anymore. But things are definitely getting better. All the best and lots of thanks, Jan Jacob |