[Solved] No sound out of Dirt (classic)

Installation help
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I'm trying to use Dirt instead of SuperDirt to see if it helps with the problem I described on Getting Tidal to run on a low-spec 32 bits system. @mmmoth suggested I should use Dirt so here I am.

I've already set my Tidal boot to use the Dirt target. I boot JackD from the command line and it works fine. I boot dirt and it seems to work fine! It even shows the received notes from Tidal. But no sound is produced. I already tried disabling the compressor and changing the default gain. Jackd even shows a couple of XRuns at boot (which I know is normal), so I know Dirt's connected to Jack. I've also checked alsamixer. Nothing is muted. I even opened SuperCollider using the exact same Jackd process and played some test tones perfectly.

What should I do? Any classic Dirt users who know what this might be?

I'm on a antiX Debian 11 system, 32bit. More info about the system on the post I refered to earlier.

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annoyingly tagging some classic Dirt users cuz maybe you have some idea what this might be:
@munshkr @dktr0 @loopology @bgold @kindohm @robjac
(feel free to ignore if u don't know)

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Hrm, nothing obvious comes to mind. Will keep pondering this.

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So I tried Dirt (after so long) with Tidal 1.7.10 and it works, somehow.

I modified my boot script like this:

startTidal target config = startStream config [(target, [dirtShape])]
tidal <- startTidal (dirtTarget) (defaultConfig {cVerbose = True, cFrameTimespan = 1/20})

Basically I had redefine startTidal to use dirtShape instead of superdirtShape, and redefine tidal, just before defining p etc.

I had some warnings from dirt though:

play server unexpectedly received extra parameters, maybe update Dirt?
nope.
failed.
nope.
failed.
nope.
failed.
nope.
failed.
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I imagine this must be it. I changed the target but I didn't know about dirtShape. I'll try it in a couple hours. And tell you how it went! Graciasss

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working !

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it seems that note doesn't work with Dirt? is this expected behavior?

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Yes note is missing, it wouldn't be too hard to add it, though. dirt runs well on low powered computers, including the pi zero.

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cool! I'll see if I take this as an excuse to learn some actual C.

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