I followed up on this though IRC. The reporter was confused because the instruments in /usr/share/doc/ams/instruments are now gzipped, and because of that they do not show up in 'File->Open' anymore (as that only shows *.ams).
As some people will mainly use ams for its existing instruments, and not build their own patches, perhaps it might make sense to put the example instruments in /usr/share/ams/instruments (ungzipped) instead of in /usr/share/doc/ams/instruments, like for example what zynaddsubfx does? Or even in a separate package? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org