Breakage from new versions of EE

[ISSOtm]

Hi! I was using this preset just fine with EE 8.0.5 (or .6, I'm not sure), but upgrading to 8.0.8 caused breakage.

1. The install path is no longer ~/.config/easyeffects/output/, but ~/.local/share/easyeffects/output/.
2. The convolver just silences the entire chain. I do see the following warning in the console:

   easyeffects[2431]: convolver.cpp:171        soe: "": irs filename is invalid. Entering passthrough mode...
   

   ...which could be related. I'll investigate further.

[ISSOtm]

So, editing the install path to ~/.local/share (I don't have the XDG env var set) got the presets and IRS files successfully imported; then, setting the convolver's impulse manually¹ seems to have fixed everything.

Here is an export of the resulting preset; it has a fair amount of diffs compared to the original file, and I lack enough EE expertise to tell whether that's okay or not. (Anyone with older EE versions would like to test it out and report any issues?)

The important change here is

-            "kernel-path": "/home/issotm/.local/share/easyeffects/irs/IR_22ms_27dB_5t_15s_0c.irs",
+            "kernel-name": "IR_22ms_27dB_5t_15s_0c",

Footnotes

1. For the curious: “Effects” at bottom, select the Convolver, click the “impulses” button at the bottom-left of the empty graph, and select IR_22ms_27dB_5t_15s_0c from the list. ↩

[cab404]

oh nice, they have finally made the sed unnecessary. i'll get to it.

[ISSOtm]

I just don't know which versions of EE this is compatible with. Anyone has the courage to go grepping through its Git history? :P

[cab404]

I just don't know which versions of EE this is compatible with. Anyone has the courage to go grepping through its Git history? :P

i think that's latest major release – one with qt rewrite

[ISSOtm]

Well, interestingly I've been using that version for a while with no apparent breakage. So possibly there was a compatibility shim that got removed in more recent versions. Idrk; it kinda feels like the convolver had actually never worked for me, but I didn't notice because I didn't know what it was supposed to sound like.

(That info may be able to be extracted from my journalctl logs, but that sounds like more effort than I feel able to put into this :P)