Hi, I have only dexed loaded on zynthian. even after a reboot, i am unable to access the gui via vnc… is there something obvious i am missing?
Not all LV2 have GUI and some are purposely disabled for to compatibly issues. I don’t think we use a GUI version of dexed.
understood. Will it never be implemented?
im glad its all accessible via zynthian so thats enough but the gui is great so I was hoping to use it but i can make do. I prefer having a dedicated screen for each synth engine for control access and the gui is what I am familiar with.
Excellent work with v5 zynthian, this feels like a really mature environment and I know its due to all the development and time from passionate individuals.
Thank you for making soft synths feel like hardware sans computer! Running my favorite synths in tandem at 96k at a playable latency is absolutely unreal.
Hi @Barrett 
. I suggest you start thinking to Zynthian like what it is, i.e. a complete embedded Raspi-based music system, and not just another computer receptor of loadable plugins.
It has its own GUI rationale, and a cleverly unified structure of visualisation and handling for all LV2 “processors” (instruments, effects and various audio and midi transformers). This is designed towards maximum system stability and computational efficiency: try the sluggish responsiveness of Reaper on Raspberry OS, for a fair comparison.
Therefore, using VNC for operating the native GUIs externally on a computer screen should be considered a motivated exception, for debugging or deep engine editing, not the normal synth management model. It is indeed recommended to leave the VNC service normally disabled, in order to save CPU overhead and avoiding parameter editing latency.
Cheers.
1 Like
editing synth engines while around the house without needing to be at the zynthian is my use case for sound design on the fly and it works great, be it vnc into zynthians UI or a gui. it doesnt matter to me, just that i can edit over the web browser. not trying to run vnc during live use. patch editing on zynthian is far from ideal for my use case. i am a new user and am conforming zynthian to my specific needs. Im glad zynthian is so light weight as i dont need most of it, but am glad it is effectively a DAW. Thank you for the advise of intended operation, ill end up understanding it fully eventually.
Hi @Barrett
I ported dexed some years ago to LV2. I only ported the sound engine but not the UI. I currently don’t know what toolkit was used for the original dexed UI, but I think this can’t be used directly on Linux without massive rewrite of the code.
For MicroDexed I use external programmer software via SYSEX (I am not fully sure if I commited all the sysex code from MicroDexed to dexed.lv2 - so maybe this won’t work either).
2 Likes
thank you so much for taking the time to explain whats possible with this port. @C0d3man
2 Likes