BEAST/BSE FAQ
Tim Janik, Dave Seidel

Frequently Asked Questions about BEAST (the BEdevilled Audio SysTem)
and BSE (the Bedevilled Sound Engine).
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FAQ Revised: Mon Mar 13 02:06:43 2000


Table of Contents


1. General

1.1. Authors
1.2. Document Authors
1.3. Contact Information and Resources
1.4. Why do I get "Cannot access memory at address 0x706f6e6d" when running 
BEAST in gdb?
1.5. Why can't I get the synthesis networks to work?
1.6. Why does loading of ./test/osc-test.bse fail?
1.7. Why do I see "BEAST-WARNING **: strange, can't find any plugins, please 
check .../plugins" on startup?
1.8. Why can't I get BEAST to load my .wav, .aiff, .something sample files?
1.9. Why does BEAST sometimes crashes with a segmentation fault on startup?
1.10. Why doesn't BEAST 0.3.2 play songs from earlier versions?



1. General


1.1. Authors

The authors of BEAST and BSE are Olaf Hoehmann and Tim Janik.


1.2. Document Authors

This FAQ was originally written by Dave Seidel.


1.3. Contact Information and Resources

- WWW: http://beast.gtk.org
- FTP: ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast
- Mailing List: timj@beast.gtk.org


1.4. Why do I get "Cannot access memory at address 0x706f6e6d" when running 
BEAST in gdb?

Some versions of gdb have problems figuring dynamic plugins, we can only hope 
that this is going to be fixed some time soon. Newer versions of gdb may 
already figure what's going on with the plugins if you simply restart BEAST 
within gdb.


1.5. Why can't I get the synthesis networks to work?

BEAST loads its plugins from some common installation directory. It therefore 
needs to be properly installed before you can make use of its plugins. Simply 
starting it from within the built directory is not sufficient.


1.6. Why does loading of ./test/osc-test.bse fail?

See previous item.


1.7. Why do I see "BEAST-WARNING **: strange, can't find any plugins, please 
check .../plugins" on startup?

See previous item.


1.8. Why can't I get BEAST to load my .wav, .aiff, .something sample files?

Import functionality for foreign sample types is currently being worked on, if 
you'd like to assist this process, send email to beast@beast.gtk.org.


1.9. Why does BEAST sometimes crashes with a segmentation fault on startup?

This is due to a bug in the X Keyboard extension. BEAST tries to figure the 
country specifics of the keyboard layout, using the XKB extension. Apparently, 
there are some allocation problems in XkbFreeKeyboard() or XkbFreeClientMap() 
in libX11, which can cause random crashes. Usually BEAST will run fine when 
restarted.


1.10. Why doesn't BEAST 0.3.2 play songs from earlier versions?

The pattern play list editor isn't complete yet. For old songs, simply add a 
new pattern and delete it again, that makes sure a default arranger group 
exists. Then fill up the arranger group in the song's "Arrangement" page with 
the patterns you want to have played.





