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Please, add your questions to this FAQ. And of course, if you can add/improve and answer, do it! ;-)
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Please, add your questions to this FAQ. And of course, if you can add/improve an answer, do it! ;-)
  
 
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===Where can i buy a Zynthian Kit?===
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Currently you can buy the official Zynthian Kits in the [http://shop.zynthian.org Zynthian Shop].
  
'''Should I try to play a MIDI track with Zynthian as a multi instrument expander (different instruments on different channels)?
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=== How do I edit entries in the wiki? ===
If I have such a setup: how can I store it?'''
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You need to be able to login to the wiki with a username. Simply register...
  
You can create such a setup using the channel list and configuring different presets on each channel. This will work with the next Engines:
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=== I just wrote my 16/32/64 GB SD card with a Zynthian image, but from Zynthian's console i only see a part of SD's total space and i've no free space left in the partition. How can i make available all the space on my SD Card? ===
  
+ ZynAddSubFX
 
+ LinuxSampler
 
+ FluidSynth
 
  
With setBfree you have a fixed setup of 2 manuals (upper and lower) and pedals, arranged in channels 1, 2 and 3.
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'''UPDATE:''' From 2016-12-23, the Gorgona SD image solved this problem. Latest SD images will auto-expand the partition on the first boot, so you shouldn't have this problem never more, but if you have it ...
  
With Carla, the channel list doesn't work, but you can setup a MIDI splitter inside Carla and configure different plugins/effects in each channel or create more complex setups. No limits (well, CPU ;-).
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After writing the zynthian image into the SD card, you have to "expand" the partition to fill all the available space. Follow these steps:
  
You can only work with one engine at a time, but using Carla you can load all the engines as plugins ...
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+ login into your zynthian box using ssh
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+ execute "df" command to see the size of your partition and the available space
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+ run "raspi-config" and select the first option to expand your partition
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+ reboot your zynthian box
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+ login again and execute "df" command to see size of your partition and the available space. You should see the difference ;-)
  
Currently, it's not possible to save Zynthian status, that includes multi-channel setups. It would be implemented as soon as possible ;-)
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'''Important:''' If you don't expand your partition, you will have problems when updating zynthian software or library, as you will run out of space.

Revision as of 12:11, 24 April 2018

Please, add your questions to this FAQ. And of course, if you can add/improve an answer, do it! ;-)


1 Where can i buy a Zynthian Kit?

Currently you can buy the official Zynthian Kits in the Zynthian Shop.

2 How do I edit entries in the wiki?

You need to be able to login to the wiki with a username. Simply register...

3 I just wrote my 16/32/64 GB SD card with a Zynthian image, but from Zynthian's console i only see a part of SD's total space and i've no free space left in the partition. How can i make available all the space on my SD Card?

UPDATE: From 2016-12-23, the Gorgona SD image solved this problem. Latest SD images will auto-expand the partition on the first boot, so you shouldn't have this problem never more, but if you have it ...

After writing the zynthian image into the SD card, you have to "expand" the partition to fill all the available space. Follow these steps:

+ login into your zynthian box using ssh
+ execute "df" command to see the size of your partition and the available space
+ run "raspi-config" and select the first option to expand your partition
+ reboot your zynthian box
+ login again and execute "df" command to see size of your partition and the available space. You should see the difference ;-)

Important: If you don't expand your partition, you will have problems when updating zynthian software or library, as you will run out of space.