September 4, 2011 at 14:42Guitar Pro 6 on Ubuntu 10.10 - Solving Installation Problems
The DEB extension inspired confidence and hope that everything would come about by itself. Nevertheless, after successful installation of the package according to dpkg, a problem was immediately revealed: the program does not work sound - neither MIDI, nor RSE. When starting to play tablature, Guitar Pro cursed at missing soundbanks, did not report problems when RSE was disabled (by pressing F2), but there was still no sound.
To put together the paws and be satisfied with the program through Wine (with periodic crashes and displaying only the English interface) seemed to me unacceptable, and I found a solution to the problem that I would like to share with you.
In the sound settings ( Window menu -> Sound -> Audio settings ) the following were detected:
So, the essence of the problem is clear: soundbanks are not loaded during installation or by standard means of the installed program. So you need to connect them manually.
We find out where Guitar Pro is:
Among other things, we find:
In this directory we see the GPBankInstaller file, which turns out to be the unpacker of the SoundBanks.gpbank archive .
We’ll use it immediately: For example, it turned out like this:
After that, boldly open Guitar Pro 6 and enjoy the sound that has appeared.
PS As for MIDI sound, the question remains open: when RSE is disabled (it uses soundbanks), there is still no sound. All the necessary drivers stand, in the rhythmbox * .mid files are played.
Of course, it saves that RSE is now (unlike the 5th version) used not only during playback, but also in the collection of tabs, completely replacing MIDI. However, the lack of MIDI sound is alarming, so I'm trying to find a solution to this problem. If you have any ideas, I will be glad to read them in the comments.
To put together the paws and be satisfied with the program through Wine (with periodic crashes and displaying only the English interface) seemed to me unacceptable, and I found a solution to the problem that I would like to share with you.
In the sound settings ( Window menu -> Sound -> Audio settings ) the following were detected:
- one MIDI output (MIDI Through: 0) that does not respond to the Check button;
- PulseAudio output sound card driver.
- “Enable multi-threaded RSE processing” - it is better to leave it turned on in order to avoid brakes when playing multi-track tablatures.
So, the essence of the problem is clear: soundbanks are not loaded during installation or by standard means of the installed program. So you need to connect them manually.
We find out where Guitar Pro is:
sudo find / -name GuitarPro6Among other things, we find:
/opt/GuitarPro6In this directory we see the GPBankInstaller file, which turns out to be the unpacker of the SoundBanks.gpbank archive .
sudo /opt/GuitarPro6/GPBankInstaller [Путь до файла Soundbanks.gpbank] /opt/GuitarPro6/We’ll use it immediately: For example, it turned out like this:
sudo /opt/GuitarPro6/GPBankInstaller /home/smoren/gp6/Soundbanks.gpbank /opt/GuitarPro6/After that, boldly open Guitar Pro 6 and enjoy the sound that has appeared.
PS As for MIDI sound, the question remains open: when RSE is disabled (it uses soundbanks), there is still no sound. All the necessary drivers stand, in the rhythmbox * .mid files are played.
Of course, it saves that RSE is now (unlike the 5th version) used not only during playback, but also in the collection of tabs, completely replacing MIDI. However, the lack of MIDI sound is alarming, so I'm trying to find a solution to this problem. If you have any ideas, I will be glad to read them in the comments.
