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When using this template, I have to manually select "SFZ file" for all the instruments.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Follow the steps in readme.md.
2. Create a new Ardour session from Virtual Playing Orchestra template.
3. Open the sfizz GUI from any track.
4. The "SFZ file" is empty.

I can't find any errors in the TTL files. If I create a new test template that uses sfizz and VPO, it works as expected.

System information:
CentOS 8.1
Ardour 5.12
sfizz 0.2.0

Hi there!

readme.md links to a 2.1 version, but last version in releases is 2.0.0-rc2.

Link is broken.

Even when installing the Pagamenent LV2 plugin, the template fails to load it when creating a new session. Manually adding it to a track works instead, so looking at the .ardour file I noticed that there are a couple of properties that need to be changed in the .template file to work, specifically in the Processor element with name="Panagement 2":

1. type="lv2" (the one in the template has type="mac-vst")
2. unique-id="https://www.auburnsounds.com/products/Panagement.html40733232#stereo" (the one in the template has a numeric ID, that I think is the main reason why my setup can't find it)

With this change to the template, it works for me. Of course, manually editing the template in the repo makes little sense, but maybe adding a couple of lines in the README might help those that can't get it to work either (unless some tip is there somewhere already and I missed it?).

Thanks for your great work!

The newest version of sfizz (sfizz_1.0.0-0) has a different handling of CCs. According MIDI mappings must exist in the plugin host (i.e. Ardour in this case)

For more details, see
sfztools/sfizz#776
https://manual.ardour.org/using-control-surfaces/generic-midi/midi-learn/

I have observed this using the build sfizz_1.0.0-0_amd64.deb from SUSEs Open Build Server

When using this template, my CPU usage goes through the roof, and I get a lot of xruns in jack. My computer is a Core i3 2GhZ with 8GB of memory. Is it just underpowered?

I checked all the paths in the .sfz files, seems correct, but there's nothing coming from it. installed in /opt/ as per instructions. MIDI-Mapping, paths in the *.sfz files are correct, linuxsampler mapping in the template is too.
All wave files audition just fine and are playable in ncmpcpp etc.

Hi Michael, thanks for the awesome compilation and the effort you've put it to make things seamless for use in Ardour. Truly saved tons of my time!

I'm not very impressed with the piano tone though. For me it sounds more like a guitar than a piano. Is there some setting that can be changed? I recently came across a free piano called salamander piano and it sounds much better to me. I was wondering if you had come across any other pianos and wanted to know if it was possible for you to update the existing piano.