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17 <front>
18 <title>LinuxSampler Control Protocol</title>
19 <author initials='C.S.' surname="Schoenebeck" fullname='C.
20 Schoenebeck'>
21 <organization>
22 Interessengemeinschaft Software Engineering e. V.
23 </organization>
24 <address>
25 <postal>
26 <street>Max-Planck-Str. 39</street>
27 <!-- <code>74081</code> -->
28 <city>74081 Heilbronn</city>
29 <country>Germany</country>
30 </postal>
31 <email>schoenebeck at software minus engineering dot org</email>
32 </address>
33 </author>
34 <date month="May" year="2005"/>
35 <workgroup>LinuxSampler Developers</workgroup>
36 <keyword>LSCP</keyword>
37 <abstract>
38 <t>The LinuxSampler Control Protocol (LSCP) is an
39 application-level protocol primarily intended for local and
40 remote controlling the LinuxSampler main application, which is a
41 sophisticated console application essentially playing back audio
42 samples and manipulating the samples in real time to certain
43 extent.</t>
44 </abstract>
45 </front>
46
47 <middle>
48 <section title="Requirements notation">
49 <t>The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL",
50 "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY",
51 and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as
52 described in <xref target="RFC2119"/>.</t>
53
54 <t>This protocol is always case-sensitive if not explicitly
55 claimed the opposite.</t>
56
57 <t>In examples, "C:" and "S:" indicate lines sent by the client
58 (front-end) and server (LinuxSampler) respectively. Lines in
59 examples must be interpreted as every line being CRLF
60 terminated (carriage return character followed by line feed
61 character as defined in the ASCII standard), thus the following
62 example:</t>
63
64 <t>
65 <list>
66 <t>C: "some line"</t>
67 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"another line"</t>
68 </list>
69 </t>
70
71 <t>must actually be interpreted as client sending the following
72 message:</t>
73
74 <t>
75 <list>
76 <t>"some line&lt;CR&gt;&lt;LF&gt;another
77 line&lt;CR&gt;&lt;LF&gt;"</t>
78 </list>
79 </t>
80
81 <t>where &lt;CR&gt; symbolizes the carriage return character and
82 &lt;LF&gt; the line feed character as defined in the ASCII
83 standard.</t>
84
85 <t>Due to technical reasons, messages can arbitrary be
86 fragmented, means the following example:</t>
87
88 <t>
89 <list>
90 <t>S: "abcd"</t>
91 </list>
92 </t>
93
94 <t>could also happen to be sent in three messages like in the
95 following sequence scenario:</t>
96
97 <t>
98 <list style="symbols">
99 <t>server sending message "a"</t>
100 <t>followed by a delay (pause) with
101 arbitrary duration</t>
102 <t>followed by server sending message
103 "bcd&lt;CR&gt;"</t>
104 <t>again followed by a delay (pause) with arbitrary
105 duration</t>
106 <t>followed by server sending the message
107 "&lt;LF&gt;"</t>
108 </list>
109 </t>
110
111 <t>where again &lt;CR&gt; and &lt;LF&gt; symbolize the carriage
112 return and line feed characters respectively.</t>
113 </section>
114
115 <section title="Introduction">
116 <t>LinuxSampler is a so called software sampler application
117 capable to playback audio samples from a computer's Random
118 Access Memory (RAM) as well as directly streaming it from disk.
119 LinuxSampler is designed to be modular. It provides several so
120 called "sampler engines" where each engine is specialized for a
121 certain purpose. LinuxSampler has virtual channels which will be
122 referred in this document as "sampler channels". The channels
123 are in such way virtual as they can be connected to an
124 arbitrary MIDI input method and arbitrary MIDI channel (e.g.
125 sampler channel 17 could be connected to an ALSA sequencer
126 device 64:0 and listening to MIDI channel 1 there). Each sampler
127 engine will be assigned an own instance of one of the available
128 sampler engines (e.g. GigEngine, DLSEngine). The audio output of
129 each sampler channel can be routed to an arbitrary audio output
130 method (ALSA / JACK) and an arbitrary audio output channel
131 there.</t>
132 </section>
133
134 <section title="Focus of this protocol">
135 <t>Main focus of this protocol is to provide a way to configure
136 a running LinuxSampler instance and to retrieve information
137 about it. The focus of this protocol is not to provide a way to
138 control synthesis parameters or even to trigger or release
139 notes. Or in other words; the focus are those functionalities
140 which are not covered by MIDI or which may at most be handled
141 via MIDI System Exclusive Messages.</t>
142 </section>
143
144 <section title="Communication Overview">
145 <t>There are two distinct methods of communication between a
146 running instance of LinuxSampler and one or more control
147 applications, so called "front-ends": a simple request/response
148 communication method used by the clients to give commands to the
149 server as well as to inquire about server's status and a
150 subscribe/notify communication method used by the client to
151 subscribe to and receive notifications of certain events as they
152 happen on the server. The latter needs more effort to be
153 implemented in the front-end application. The two communication
154 methods will be described next.</t>
155
156 <section title="Request/response communication method">
157 <t>This simple communication method is based on TCP. The
158 front-end application establishes a TCP connection to the
159 LinuxSampler instance on a certain host system. Then the
160 front-end application will send certain ASCII based commands
161 as defined in this document (every command line must be CRLF
162 terminated - see "Conventions used in this document" at the
163 beginning of this document) and the LinuxSampler application
164 will response after a certain process time with an
165 appropriate ASCII based answer, also as defined in this
166 document. So this TCP communication is simply based on query
167 and answer paradigm. That way LinuxSampler is only able to
168 answer on queries from front-ends, but not able to
169 automatically send messages to the client if it's not asked
170 to. The fronted should not reconnect to LinuxSampler for
171 every single command, instead it should keep the connection
172 established and simply resend message(s) for subsequent
173 commands. To keep information in the front-end up-to-date
174 the front-end has to periodically send new requests to get
175 the current information from the LinuxSampler instance. This
176 is often referred to as "polling". While polling is simple
177 to implement and may be OK to use in some cases, there may
178 be disadvantages to polling such as network traffic overhead
179 and information being out of date.
180 It is possible for a client or several clients to open more
181 than one connection to the server at the same time. It is
182 also possible to send more than one request to the server
183 at the same time but if those requests are sent over the
184 same connection server MUST execute them sequentially. Upon
185 executing a request server will produce a result set and
186 send it to the client. Each and every request made by the
187 client MUST result in a result set being sent back to the
188 client. No other data other than a result set may be sent by
189 a server to a client. No result set may be sent to a client
190 without the client sending request to the server first. On
191 any particular connection, result sets MUST be sent in their
192 entirety without being interrupted by other result sets. If
193 several requests got queued up at the server they MUST be
194 processed in the order they were received and result sets
195 MUST be sent back in the same order.</t>
196
197 <section title="Result format">
198 <t>Result set could be one of the following types:</t>
199 <t>
200 <list style="numbers">
201 <t>Normal</t>
202 <t>Warning</t>
203 <t>Error</t>
204 </list>
205 </t>
206 <t>Warning and Error result sets MUST be single line and
207 have the following format:</t>
208 <t>
209 <list style="symbols">
210 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;"</t>
211 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;"</t>
212 </list>
213 </t>
214 <t>Where &lt;warning-code&gt; and &lt;error-code&gt; are
215 numeric unique identifiers of the warning or error and
216 &lt;warning-message&gt; and &lt;error-message&gt; are
217 human readable descriptions of the warning or error
218 respectively.</t>
219 <t>Examples:</t>
220 <t>
221 <list>
222 <t>C: "LOAD INSTRUMENT '/home/me/Boesendorfer24bit.gig" 0 0</t>
223 <t>S: "WRN:32:This is a 24 bit patch which is not supported natively yet."</t>
224 </list>
225 </t>
226 <t>
227 <list>
228 <t>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO ALSA EAR"</t>
229 <t>S: "ERR:3456:Audio output driver 'ALSA' does not have a parameter 'EAR'."</t>
230 </list>
231 </t>
232 <t>
233 <list>
234 <t>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE INFO 123456"</t>
235 <t>S: "ERR:9:There is no audio output device with index 123456."</t>
236 </list>
237 </t>
238 <t>Normal result sets could be:</t>
239 <t>
240 <list style="numbers">
241 <t>Empty</t>
242 <t>Single line</t>
243 <t>Multi-line</t>
244 </list>
245 </t>
246 <t> Empty result set is issued when the server only
247 needed to acknowledge the fact that the request was
248 received and it was processed successfully and no
249 additional information is available. This result set has
250 the following format:</t>
251 <t>
252 <list>
253 <t>"OK"</t>
254 </list>
255 </t>
256 <t>Example:</t>
257 <t>
258 <list>
259 <t>C: "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER 0 CHANNELS=4"</t>
260 <t>S: "OK"</t>
261 </list>
262 </t>
263 <t>Single line result sets are command specific. One
264 example of a single line result set is an empty line.
265 Multi-line result sets are command specific and may
266 include one or more lines of information. They MUST
267 always end with the following line:</t>
268 <t>
269 <list>
270 <t>"."</t>
271 </list>
272 </t>
273 <t>Example:</t>
274 <t>
275 <list>
276 <t>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE INFO 0"</t>
277 <t>S: "DRIVER: ALSA"</t>
278 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"CHANNELS: 2"</t>
279 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"SAMPLERATE: 44100"</t>
280 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"ACTIVE: true"</t>
281 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FRAGMENTS: 2"</t>
282 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FRAGMENTSIZE: 128"</t>
283 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"CARD: '0,0'"</t>
284 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
285 </list>
286 </t>
287 <t>In addition to above mentioned formats, warnings and
288 empty result sets MAY be indexed. In this case, they
289 have the following formats respectively:</t>
290 <t>
291 <list style="symbols">
292 <t>"WRN[&lt;index&gt;]:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;"</t>
293 <t>"OK[&lt;index&gt;]"</t>
294 </list>
295 </t>
296 <t>where &lt;index&gt; is command specific and is used
297 to indicate channel number that the result set was
298 related to or other integer value.</t>
299 <t>Each line of the result set MUST end with
300 &lt;CRLF&gt;.</t>
301 <t>Examples:</t>
302 <t>
303 <list>
304 <t>C: "ADD CHANNEL"</t>
305 <t>S: "OK[12]"</t>
306 </list>
307 </t>
308 <t>
309 <list>
310 <t>C: "CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE ALSA SAMPLERATE=96000"</t>
311 <t>S: "WRN[0]:32:Sample rate not supported, using 44100 instead."</t>
312 </list>
313 </t>
314 </section>
315 </section>
316 <section title="Subscribe/notify communication method">
317 <t>This more sophisticated communication method is actually
318 only an extension of the simple request/response
319 communication method. The front-end still uses a TCP
320 connection and sends the same commands on the TCP
321 connection. Two extra commands are SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE
322 commands that allow a client to tell the server that it is
323 interested in receiving notifications about certain events
324 as they happen on the server. The SUBSCRIBE command has the
325 following syntax:</t>
326
327 <t>
328 <list>
329 <t>SUBSCRIBE &lt;event-id&gt;</t>
330 </list>
331 </t>
332
333 <t>where &lt;event-id&gt; will be replaced by the respective
334 event that client wants to subscribe to. Upon receiving such
335 request, server SHOULD respond with OK and start sending
336 EVENT notifications when a given even has occurred to the
337 front-end when an event has occurred. It MAY be possible
338 certain events may be sent before OK response during real
339 time nature of their generation. Event messages have the
340 following format:</t>
341
342 <t>
343 <list>
344 <t>NOTIFY:&lt;event-id&gt;:&lt;custom-event-data&gt;</t>
345 </list>
346 </t>
347
348 <t>where &lt;event-id&gt; uniquely identifies the event that
349 has occurred and &lt;custom-event-data&gt; is event
350 specific.</t>
351
352 <t>Several rules must be followed by the server when
353 generating events:</t>
354
355 <t>
356 <list style="numbers">
357 <t>Events MUST NOT be sent to any client who has not
358 issued an appropriate SUBSCRIBE command.</t>
359 <t>Events MUST only be sent using the same
360 connection that was used to subscribe to them.</t>
361 <t>When response is being sent to the client, event
362 MUST be inserted in the stream before or after the
363 response, but NOT in the middle. Same is true about
364 the response. It should never be inserted in the
365 middle of the event message as well as any other
366 response.</t>
367 </list>
368 </t>
369
370 <t>If the client is not interested in a particular event
371 anymore it MAY issue UNSUBSCRIBE command using the following
372 syntax:</t>
373
374 <t>
375 <list>
376 <t>UNSUBSCRIBE &lt;event-id&gt;</t>
377 </list>
378 </t>
379
380 <t>where &lt;event-id&gt; will be replace by the respective
381 event that client is no longer interested in receiving. For
382 a list of supported events see <xref target="events" />.</t>
383
384 <t>Example: the fill states of disk stream buffers have
385 changed on sampler channel 4 and the LinuxSampler instance
386 will react by sending the following message to all clients
387 who subscribed to this event:</t>
388
389 <t>
390 <list>
391 <t>NOTIFY:CHANNEL_BUFFER_FILL:4 [35]62%,[33]80%,[37]98%</t>
392 </list>
393 </t>
394
395 <t>Which means there are currently three active streams on
396 sampler channel 4, where the stream with ID "35" is filled
397 by 62%, stream with ID 33 is filled by 80% and stream with
398 ID 37 is filled by 98%.</t>
399
400 <t>Clients may choose to open more than one connection to
401 the server and use some connections to receive notifications
402 while using other connections to issue commands to the
403 back-end. This is entirely legal and up to the
404 implementation. This does not change the protocol in any way
405 and no special restrictions exist on the server to allow or
406 disallow this or to track what connections belong to what
407 front-ends. Server will listen on a single port, accept
408 multiple connections and support protocol described in this
409 specification in it's entirety on this single port on each
410 connection that it accepted.</t>
411
412 <t>Due to the fact that TCP is used for this communication,
413 dead peers will be detected automatically by the OS TCP
414 stack. While it may take a while to detect dead peers if no
415 traffic is being sent from server to client (TCP keep-alive
416 timer is set to 2 hours on many OSes) it will not be an
417 issue here as when notifications are sent by the server,
418 dead client will be detected quickly.</t>
419
420 <t>When connection is closed for any reason server MUST
421 forget all subscriptions that were made on this connection.
422 If client reconnects it MUST resubscribe to all events that
423 it wants to receive.</t>
424
425 </section>
426 </section>
427
428 <section title="Description for control commands">
429 <t>This chapter will describe the available control commands
430 that can be sent on the TCP connection in detail. Some certain
431 commands (e.g. <xref target="GET CHANNEL INFO">"GET CHANNEL INFO"</xref>
432 or <xref target="GET ENGINE INFO">"GET ENGINE INFO"</xref>) lead to
433 multiple-line responses. In this case LinuxSampler signals the
434 end of the response by a "." (single dot) line.</t>
435
436 <section title="Ignored lines and comments">
437 <t>White lines, that is lines which only contain space and
438 tabulator characters, and lines that start with a "#"
439 character are ignored, thus it's possible for example to
440 group commands and to place comments in a LSCP script
441 file.</t>
442 </section>
443
444 <section title="Configuring audio drivers">
445 <t>Instances of drivers in LinuxSampler are called devices.
446 You can use multiple audio devices simultaneously, e.g. to
447 output the sound of one sampler channel using the ALSA audio
448 output driver, and on another sampler channel you might want
449 to use the JACK audio output driver. For particular audio
450 output systems it's also possible to create several devices
451 of the same audio output driver, e.g. two separate ALSA
452 audio output devices for using two different sound cards at
453 the same time. This chapter describes all commands to
454 configure LinuxSampler's audio output devices and their
455 parameters.</t>
456
457 <t>Instead of defining commands and parameters for each
458 driver individually, all possible parameters, their meanings
459 and possible values have to be obtained at runtime. This
460 makes the protocol a bit abstract, but has the advantage,
461 that front-ends can be written independently of what drivers
462 are currently implemented and what parameters these drivers
463 are actually offering. This means front-ends can even handle
464 drivers which are implemented somewhere in future without
465 modifying the front-end at all.</t>
466
467 <t>Note: examples in this chapter showing particular
468 parameters of drivers are not meant as specification of the
469 drivers' parameters. Driver implementations in LinuxSampler
470 might have complete different parameter names and meanings
471 than shown in these examples or might change in future, so
472 these examples are only meant for showing how to retrieve
473 what parameters drivers are offering, how to retrieve their
474 possible values, etc.</t>
475
476 <section title="Getting amount of available audio output drivers" anchor="GET AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS">
477 <t>Use the following command to get the number of
478 audio output drivers currently available for the
479 LinuxSampler instance:</t>
480 <t>
481 <list>
482 <t>GET AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS</t>
483 </list>
484 </t>
485 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
486 <t>
487 <list>
488 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending the
489 number of audio output drivers.</t>
490 </list>
491 </t>
492 <t>Example:</t>
493 <t>
494 <list>
495 <t>C: "GET AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS"</t>
496 <t>S: "2"</t>
497 </list>
498 </t>
499 </section>
500
501 <section title="Getting all available audio output drivers" anchor="LIST AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS">
502 <t>Use the following command to list all audio output
503 drivers currently available for the LinuxSampler
504 instance:</t>
505 <t>
506 <list>
507 <t>LIST AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS</t>
508 </list>
509 </t>
510 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
511 <t>
512 <list>
513 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending comma
514 separated character strings, each symbolizing an
515 audio output driver.</t>
516 </list>
517 </t>
518 <t>Example:</t>
519 <t>
520 <list>
521 <t>C: "LIST AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS"</t>
522 <t>S: "ALSA,JACK"</t>
523 </list>
524 </t>
525 </section>
526
527 <section title="Getting information about a specific audio
528 output driver" anchor="GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO">
529 <t>Use the following command to get detailed information
530 about a specific audio output driver:</t>
531 <t>
532 <list>
533 <t>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO
534 &lt;audio-output-driver&gt;</t>
535 </list>
536 </t>
537 <t>Where &lt;audio-output-driver&gt; is the name of the
538 audio output driver, returned by the
539 <xref target="LIST AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS">"LIST AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS"</xref> command.</t>
540 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
541 <t>
542 <list>
543 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a
544 &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list. Each answer line
545 begins with the information category name
546 followed by a colon and then a space character
547 &lt;SP&gt; and finally the info character string
548 to that info category. At the moment the
549 following information categories are
550 defined:</t>
551
552 <t>
553 <list>
554 <t>DESCRIPTION -
555 <list>
556 <t> character string describing the
557 audio output driver</t>
558 </list>
559 </t>
560
561 <t>VERSION -
562 <list>
563 <t>character string reflecting the
564 driver's version</t>
565 </list>
566 </t>
567
568 <t>PARAMETERS -
569 <list>
570 <t>comma separated list of all
571 parameters available for the given
572 audio output driver, at least
573 parameters 'channels', 'samplerate'
574 and 'active' are offered by all audio
575 output drivers</t>
576 </list>
577 </t>
578 </list>
579 </t>
580
581 <t>The mentioned fields above don't have to be
582 in particular order.</t>
583 </list>
584 </t>
585 <t>Example:</t>
586 <t>
587 <list>
588 <t>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO ALSA"</t>
589 <t>S: "DESCRIPTION: Advanced Linux Sound
590 Architecture"</t>
591 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"VERSION: 1.0"</t>
592 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"PARAMETERS:
593 DRIVER,CHANNELS,SAMPLERATE,ACTIVE,FRAGMENTS,
594 FRAGMENTSIZE,CARD"</t>
595 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
596 </list>
597 </t>
598 </section>
599
600 <section title="Getting information about specific audio
601 output driver parameter" anchor="GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO">
602 <t>Use the following command to get detailed information
603 about a specific audio output driver parameter:</t>
604 <t>
605 <list>
606 <t>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO &lt;audio&gt; &lt;prm&gt; [&lt;deplist&gt;]</t>
607 </list>
608 </t>
609 <t>Where &lt;audio&gt; is the name of the audio output
610 driver as returned by the <xref target="LIST AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS">
611 "LIST AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS"</xref> command,
612 &lt;prm&gt; a specific parameter name for which information should be
613 obtained (as returned by the
614 <xref target="GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO">"GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO"</xref> command) and
615 &lt;deplist&gt; is an optional list of parameters on which the sought
616 parameter &lt;prm&gt; depends on, &lt;deplist&gt; is a list of key-value
617 pairs in form of "key1=val1 key2=val2 ...", where character string values
618 are encapsulated into apostrophes ('). Arguments given with &lt;deplist&gt;
619 which are not dependency parameters of &lt;prm&gt; will be ignored, means
620 the front-end application can simply put all parameters into &lt;deplist&gt;
621 with the values already selected by the user.</t>
622 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
623 <t>
624 <list>
625 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a
626 &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
627 Each answer line begins with the information category name
628 followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and
629 finally
630 the info character string to that info category. There are
631 information which is always returned, independently of the
632 given driver parameter and there are optional information
633 which is only shown dependently to given driver parameter. At
634 the moment the following information categories are defined:</t>
635 </list>
636 </t>
637
638 <t>
639 <list>
640 <t>TYPE -
641 <list>
642 <t>either "BOOL" for boolean value(s) or
643 "INT" for integer
644 value(s) or "FLOAT" for dotted number(s) or "STRING" for
645 character string(s)
646 (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)</t>
647 </list>
648 </t>
649
650 <t>DESCRIPTION -
651 <list>
652 <t>arbitrary text describing the purpose of the parameter
653 (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)</t>
654 </list>
655 </t>
656
657 <t>MANDATORY -
658 <list>
659 <t>either true or false, defines if this parameter must be
660 given when the device is to be created with the
661 <xref target="CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE">'CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE'</xref>
662 command (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)</t>
663 </list>
664 </t>
665
666 <t>FIX -
667 <list>
668 <t>either true or false, if false then this parameter can
669 be changed at any time, once the device is created by
670 the <xref target="CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE">'CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE'</xref>
671 command (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)</t>
672 </list>
673 </t>
674
675 <t>MULTIPLICITY -
676 <list>
677 <t>either true or false, defines if this parameter allows
678 only one value or a list of values, where true means
679 multiple values and false only a single value allowed
680 (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)</t>
681 </list>
682 </t>
683
684 <t>DEPENDS -
685 <list>
686 <t>comma separated list of paramters this parameter depends
687 on, means the values for fields 'DEFAULT', 'RANGE_MIN',
688 'RANGE_MAX' and 'POSSIBILITIES' might depend on these
689 listed parameters, for example assuming that an audio
690 driver (like the ALSA driver) offers parameters 'card'
691 and 'samplerate' then parameter 'samplerate' would
692 depend on 'card' because the possible values for
693 'samplerate' depends on the sound card which can be
694 chosen by the 'card' parameter
695 (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)</t>
696 </list>
697 </t>
698
699 <t>DEFAULT -
700 <list>
701 <t>reflects the default value for this parameter which is
702 used when the device is created and not explicitly
703 given with the <xref target="CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE">
704 'CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE'</xref> command,
705 in case of MULTIPLCITY=true, this is a comma separated
706 list, that's why character strings are encapsulated into
707 apostrophes (')
708 (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)</t>
709 </list>
710 </t>
711
712 <t>RANGE_MIN -
713 <list>
714 <t>defines lower limit of the allowed value range for this
715 parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
716 number, this parameter is often used in conjunction
717 with RANGE_MAX, but may also appear without
718 (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)</t>
719 </list>
720 </t>
721
722 <t>RANGE_MAX -
723 <list>
724 <t>defines upper limit of the allowed value range for this
725 parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
726 number, this parameter is often used in conjunction with
727 RANGE_MIN, but may also appear without
728 (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)</t>
729 </list>
730 </t>
731
732 <t>POSSIBILITIES -
733 <list>
734 <t>comma separated list of possible values for this
735 parameter, character strings are encapsulated into
736 apostrophes
737 (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)</t>
738 </list>
739 </t>
740 </list>
741 </t>
742
743 <t>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.</t>
744
745 <t>Examples:</t>
746 <t>
747 <list>
748 <t>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO ALSA CARD"</t>
749 <t>S: "DESCRIPTION: sound card to be used"</t>
750 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: STRING"</t>
751 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MANDATORY: false"</t>
752 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: true"</t>
753 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: false"</t>
754 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEFAULT: '0,0'"</t>
755 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"POSSIBILITIES: '0,0','1,0','2,0'"</t>
756 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
757 </list>
758 </t>
759 <t>
760 <list>
761 <t>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO ALSA SAMPLERATE"</t>
762 <t>S: "DESCRIPTION: output sample rate in Hz"</t>
763 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: INT"</t>
764 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MANDATORY: false"</t>
765 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"</t>
766 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: false"</t>
767 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEPENDS: card"</t>
768 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEFAULT: 44100"</t>
769 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
770 </list>
771 </t>
772 <t>
773 <list>
774 <t>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO ALSA SAMPLERATE CARD='0,0'"</t>
775 <t>S: "DESCRIPTION: output sample rate in Hz"</t>
776 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: INT"</t>
777 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MANDATORY: false"</t>
778 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"</t>
779 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: false"</t>
780 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEPENDS: card"</t>
781 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEFAULT: 44100"</t>
782 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"RANGE_MIN: 22050"</t>
783 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"RANGE_MAX: 96000"</t>
784 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
785 </list>
786 </t>
787 </section>
788
789 <section title="Creating an audio output device" anchor="CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE">
790 <t>Use the following command to create a new audio output device for the desired audio output system:</t>
791
792 <t>
793 <list>
794 <t>CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE &lt;audio-output-driver&gt; [&lt;param-list&gt;]</t>
795 </list>
796 </t>
797
798 <t>Where &lt;audio-output-driver&gt; should be replaced by the desired audio
799 output system and &lt;param-list&gt; by an optional list of driver
800 specific parameters in form of "key1=val1 key2=val2 ...", where
801 character string values should be encapsulated into apostrophes (').
802 Note that there might be drivers which require parameter(s) to be
803 given with this command. Use the previously described commands in
804 this chapter to get this information.</t>
805
806 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
807 <t>
808 <list>
809 <t>"OK[&lt;device-id&gt;]" -
810 <list>
811 <t>in case the device was successfully created, where
812 &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the new device</t>
813 </list>
814 </t>
815 <t>"WRN[&lt;device-id&gt;]:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
816 <list>
817 <t>in case the device was created successfully, where
818 &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the new device, but there
819 are noteworthy issue(s) related (e.g. sound card doesn't
820 support given hardware parameters and the driver is using
821 fall-back values), providing an appropriate warning code and
822 warning message</t>
823 </list>
824 </t>
825 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
826 <list>
827 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message</t>
828 </list>
829 </t>
830 </list>
831 </t>
832 <t>Examples:</t>
833 <t>
834 <list>
835 <t>C: "CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE ALSA"</t>
836 <t>S: "OK[0]"</t>
837 </list>
838 </t>
839 <t>
840 <list>
841 <t>C: "CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE ALSA CARD='2,0' SAMPLERATE=96000"</t>
842 <t>S: "OK[1]"</t>
843 </list>
844 </t>
845 </section>
846
847 <section title="Destroying an audio output device" anchor="DESTROY AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE">
848 <t>Use the following command to destroy a created output device:</t>
849 <t>
850 <list>
851 <t>DESTROY AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE &lt;device-id&gt;</t>
852 </list>
853 </t>
854 <t>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the
855 audio output device as given by the
856 <xref target="CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE">"CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE"</xref>
857 or <xref target="LIST AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES">"LIST AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES"</xref>
858 command.</t>
859 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
860 <t>
861 <list>
862 <t>"OK" -
863 <list>
864 <t>in case the device was successfully destroyed</t>
865 </list>
866 </t>
867 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
868 <list>
869 <t>in case the device was destroyed successfully, but there are
870 noteworthy issue(s) related (e.g. an audio over ethernet
871 driver was unloaded but the other host might not be
872 informed about this situation), providing an appropriate
873 warning code and warning message</t>
874 </list>
875 </t>
876 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
877 <list>
878 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
879 error message</t>
880 </list>
881 </t>
882 </list>
883 </t>
884 <t>Example:</t>
885 <t>
886 <list>
887 <t>C: "DESTROY AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 0"</t>
888 <t>S: "OK"</t>
889 </list>
890 </t>
891 </section>
892
893 <section title="Getting all created audio output device count" anchor="GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES">
894 <t>Use the following command to count all created audio output devices:</t>
895 <t>
896 <list>
897 <t>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES</t>
898 </list>
899 </t>
900 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
901 <t>
902 <list>
903 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending the current number of all
904 audio output devices.</t>
905 </list>
906 </t>
907 <t>Example:</t>
908 <t>
909 <list>
910 <t>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES"</t>
911 <t>S: "4"</t>
912 </list>
913 </t>
914 </section>
915
916 <section title="Getting all created audio output device list" anchor="LIST AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES">
917 <t>Use the following command to list all created audio output devices:</t>
918 <t>
919 <list>
920 <t>LIST AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES</t>
921 </list>
922 </t>
923 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
924 <t>
925 <list>
926 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a comma separated list with
927 the numerical IDs of all audio output devices.</t>
928 </list>
929 </t>
930 <t>Example:</t>
931 <t>
932 <list>
933 <t>C: "LIST AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES"</t>
934 <t>S: "0,1,4,5"</t>
935 </list>
936 </t>
937 </section>
938
939 <section title="Getting current settings of an audio output device" anchor="GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE INFO">
940 <t>Use the following command to get current settings of a specific, created audio output device:</t>
941 <t>
942 <list>
943 <t>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE INFO &lt;device-id&gt;</t>
944 </list>
945 </t>
946 <t>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by numerical ID
947 of the audio output device as e.g. returned by the
948 <xref target="LIST AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES">"LIST AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES"</xref> command.</t>
949 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
950 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
951 Each answer line begins with the information category name
952 followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
953 the info character string to that info category. As some
954 parameters might allow multiple values, character strings are
955 encapsulated into apostrophes ('). At the moment the following
956 information categories are defined (independently of device):</t>
957 <t>
958 <list>
959 <t>DRIVER -
960 <list>
961 <t>identifier of the used audio output driver, as also
962 returned by the
963 <xref target="LIST AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS">
964 "LIST AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS"</xref>
965 command</t>
966 </list>
967 </t>
968 <t>CHANNELS -
969 <list>
970 <t>amount of audio output channels this device currently
971 offers</t>
972 </list>
973 </t>
974 <t>SAMPLERATE -
975 <list>
976 <t>playback sample rate the device uses</t>
977 </list>
978 </t>
979 <t>ACTIVE -
980 <list>
981 <t>either true or false, if false then the audio device is
982 inactive and doesn't output any sound, nor do the
983 sampler channels connected to this audio device render
984 any audio</t>
985 </list>
986 </t>
987 </list>
988 </t>
989 <t>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular
990 order. The fields above are only those fields which are
991 returned by all audio output devices. Every audio output driver
992 might have its own, additional driver specific parameters (see
993 <xref target="GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO" />)
994 which are also returned by this command.</t>
995 <t>Example:</t>
996 <t>
997 <list>
998 <t>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE INFO 0"</t>
999 <t>S: "DRIVER: ALSA"</t>
1000 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"CHANNELS: 2"</t>
1001 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"SAMPLERATE: 44100"</t>
1002 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"ACTIVE: true"</t>
1003 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FRAGMENTS: 2"</t>
1004 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FRAGMENTSIZE: 128"</t>
1005 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"CARD: '0,0'"</t>
1006 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
1007 </list>
1008 </t>
1009 </section>
1010
1011
1012 <section title="Changing settings of audio output devices" anchor="SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER">
1013 <t>Use the following command to alter a specific setting of a created audio output device:</t>
1014 <t>
1015 <list>
1016 <t>SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;key&gt;=&lt;value&gt;</t>
1017 </list>
1018 </t>
1019 <t>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the
1020 audio output device, &lt;key&gt; by the name of the parameter to change
1021 and &lt;value&gt; by the new value for this parameter.</t>
1022 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1023 <t>
1024 <list>
1025 <t>"OK" -
1026 <list>
1027 <t>in case setting was successfully changed</t>
1028 </list>
1029 </t>
1030 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
1031 <list>
1032 <t>in case setting was changed successfully, but there are
1033 noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
1034 warning code and warning message</t>
1035 </list>
1036 </t>
1037 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
1038 <list>
1039 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
1040 error message</t>
1041 </list>
1042 </t>
1043 </list>
1044 </t>
1045 <t>Example:</t>
1046 <t>
1047 <list>
1048 <t>C: "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER 0 FRAGMENTSIZE=128"</t>
1049 <t>S: "OK"</t>
1050 </list>
1051 </t>
1052 </section>
1053
1054 <section title="Getting information about an audio channel" anchor="GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO">
1055 <t>Use the following command to get information about an audio channel:</t>
1056 <t>
1057 <list>
1058 <t>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;audio-chan&gt;</t>
1059 </list>
1060 </t>
1061 <t>Where &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the audio output device
1062 and &lt;audio-chan&gt; the audio channel number.</t>
1063 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1064 <t>
1065 <list>
1066 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
1067 Each answer line begins with the information category name
1068 followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
1069 the info character string to that info category. At the moment
1070 the following information categories are defined:</t>
1071
1072 <t>
1073 <list>
1074 <t>NAME -
1075 <list>
1076 <t>arbitrary character string naming the channel, which
1077 doesn't have to be unique (always returned by all audio channels)</t>
1078 </list>
1079 </t>
1080 <t>IS_MIX_CHANNEL -
1081 <list>
1082 <t>either true or false, a mix-channel is not a real,
1083 independent audio channel, but a virtual channel which
1084 is mixed to another real channel, this mechanism is
1085 needed for sampler engines which need more audio
1086 channels than the used audio system might be able to offer
1087 (always returned by all audio channels)</t>
1088 </list>
1089 </t>
1090 <t>MIX_CHANNEL_DESTINATION -
1091 <list>
1092 <t>numerical ID (positive integer including 0)
1093 which reflects the real audio channel (of the same audio
1094 output device) this mix channel refers to, means where
1095 the audio signal actually will be routed / added to
1096 (only returned in case the audio channel is mix channel)</t>
1097 </list>
1098 </t>
1099 </list>
1100 </t>
1101 </list>
1102 </t>
1103
1104 <t>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular
1105 order. The fields above are only those fields which are
1106 generally returned for the described cases by all audio
1107 channels regardless of the audio driver. Every audio channel
1108 might have its own, additional driver and channel specific
1109 parameters.</t>
1110
1111 <t>Examples:</t>
1112
1113 <t>
1114 <list>
1115 <t>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO 0 0"</t>
1116 <t>S: "NAME: studio monitor left"</t>
1117 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"IS_MIX_CHANNEL: false"</t>
1118 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
1119 </list>
1120 </t>
1121
1122 <t>
1123 <list>
1124 <t>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO 0 1"</t>
1125 <t>S: "NAME: studio monitor right"</t>
1126 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"IS_MIX_CHANNEL: false"</t>
1127 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
1128 </list>
1129 </t>
1130
1131 <t>
1132 <list>
1133 <t>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO 0 2"</t>
1134 <t>S: "NAME: studio monitor left"</t>
1135 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"IS_MIX_CHANNEL: true"</t>
1136 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MIX_CHANNEL_DESTINATION: 1"</t>
1137 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
1138 </list>
1139 </t>
1140
1141 <t>
1142 <list>
1143 <t>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO 1 0"</t>
1144 <t>S: "NAME: 'ardour (left)'"</t>
1145 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"IS_MIX_CHANNEL: false"</t>
1146 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"JACK_BINDINGS: 'ardour:0'"</t>
1147 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
1148 </list>
1149 </t>
1150 </section>
1151
1152 <section title="Getting information about specific audio channel parameter" anchor="GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER INFO">
1153 <t>Use the following command to get detailed information about specific audio channel parameter:</t>
1154
1155 <t>
1156 <list>
1157 <t>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER INFO &lt;dev-id&gt; &lt;chan&gt; &lt;param&gt;</t>
1158 </list>
1159 </t>
1160
1161 <t>Where &lt;dev-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the audio output device as returned
1162 by the <xref target="LIST AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES">"LIST AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES"</xref>
1163 command, &lt;chan&gt; the audio channel number
1164 and &lt;param&gt; a specific channel parameter name for which information should
1165 be obtained (as returned by the <xref target="GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO">
1166 "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO"</xref> command).</t>
1167 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1168
1169 <t>
1170 <list>
1171 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
1172 Each answer line begins with the information category name
1173 followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
1174 the info character string to that info category. There are
1175 information which is always returned, independently of the
1176 given channel parameter and there is optional information
1177 which is only shown dependently to the given audio channel. At
1178 the moment the following information categories are defined:</t>
1179 <t>
1180 <list>
1181 <t>TYPE -
1182 <list>
1183 <t>either "BOOL" for boolean value(s) or "INT" for integer
1184 value(s) or "FLOAT" for dotted number(s) or "STRING" for
1185 character string(s)
1186 (always returned)</t>
1187 </list>
1188 </t>
1189 <t>DESCRIPTION -
1190 <list>
1191 <t>arbitrary text describing the purpose of the parameter (always returned)</t>
1192 </list>
1193 </t>
1194 <t>FIX -
1195 <list>
1196 <t>either true or false, if true then this parameter is
1197 read only, thus cannot be altered
1198 (always returned)</t>
1199 </list>
1200 </t>
1201 <t>MULTIPLICITY -
1202 <list>
1203 <t>either true or false, defines if this parameter allows
1204 only one value or a list of values, where true means
1205 multiple values and false only a single value allowed
1206 (always returned)</t>
1207 </list>
1208 </t>
1209 <t>RANGE_MIN -
1210 <list>
1211 <t>defines lower limit of the allowed value range for this
1212 parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
1213 number, usually used in conjunction with 'RANGE_MAX',
1214 but may also appear without
1215 (optionally returned, dependent to driver and channel
1216 parameter)</t>
1217 </list>
1218 </t>
1219 <t>RANGE_MAX -
1220 <list>
1221 <t>defines upper limit of the allowed value range for this
1222 parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
1223 number, usually used in conjunction with 'RANGE_MIN',
1224 but may also appear without
1225 (optionally returned, dependent to driver and channel
1226 parameter)</t>
1227 </list>
1228 </t>
1229 <t>POSSIBILITIES -
1230 <list>
1231 <t>comma separated list of possible values for this
1232 parameter, character strings are encapsulated into
1233 apostrophes
1234 (optionally returned, dependent to driver and channel
1235 parameter)</t>
1236 </list>
1237 </t>
1238 </list>
1239 </t>
1240 <t>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.</t>
1241 </list>
1242 </t>
1243 <t>Example:</t>
1244 <t>
1245 <list>
1246 <t>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER INFO 1 0 JACK_BINDINGS"</t>
1247 <t>S: "DESCRIPTION: bindings to other JACK clients"</t>
1248 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: STRING"</t>
1249 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"</t>
1250 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: true"</t>
1251 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"POSSIBILITIES: 'PCM:0','PCM:1','ardour:0','ardour:1'"</t>
1252 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
1253 </list>
1254 </t>
1255 </section>
1256
1257 <section title="Changing settings of audio output channels" anchor="SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER">
1258 <t>Use the following command to alter a specific setting of an audio output channel:</t>
1259 <t>
1260 <list>
1261 <t>SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER &lt;dev-id&gt; &lt;chn&gt; &lt;key&gt;=&lt;value&gt;</t>
1262 </list>
1263 </t>
1264 <t>Where &lt;dev-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the audio
1265 device, &lt;chn&gt; by the audio channel number, &lt;key&gt; by the name of the
1266 parameter to change and &lt;value&gt; by the new value for this parameter.</t>
1267 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1268 <t>
1269 <list>
1270 <t>"OK" -
1271 <list>
1272 <t>in case setting was successfully changed</t>
1273 </list>
1274 </t>
1275 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
1276 <list>
1277 <t>in case setting was changed successfully, but there are
1278 noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
1279 warning code and warning message</t>
1280 </list>
1281 </t>
1282 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
1283 <list>
1284 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
1285 error message</t>
1286 </list>
1287 </t>
1288 </list>
1289 </t>
1290 <t>Example:</t>
1291 <t>
1292 <list>
1293 <t>C: "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL PARAMETER 0 0 JACK_BINDINGS='PCM:0'"</t>
1294 <t>S: "OK"</t>
1295 </list>
1296 </t>
1297 <t>
1298 <list>
1299 <t>C: "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL PARAMETER 0 0 NAME='monitor left'"</t>
1300 <t>S: "OK"</t>
1301 </list>
1302 </t>
1303 </section>
1304 </section>
1305
1306 <section title="Configuring MIDI input drivers">
1307 <t>Instances of drivers in LinuxSampler are called devices. You can use
1308 multiple MIDI devices simultaneously, e.g. to use MIDI over ethernet as
1309 MIDI input on one sampler channel and ALSA as MIDI input on another sampler
1310 channel. For particular MIDI input systems it's also possible to create
1311 several devices of the same MIDI input type. This chapter describes all
1312 commands to configure LinuxSampler's MIDI input devices and their parameters.</t>
1313
1314 <t>Instead of defining commands and parameters for each driver individually,
1315 all possible parameters, their meanings and possible values have to be obtained
1316 at runtime. This makes the protocol a bit abstract, but has the advantage, that
1317 front-ends can be written independently of what drivers are currently implemented
1318 and what parameters these drivers are actually offering. This means front-ends can
1319 even handle drivers which are implemented somewhere in future without modifying
1320 the front-end at all.</t>
1321
1322 <t>Commands for configuring MIDI input devices are pretty much the same as the
1323 commands for configuring audio output drivers, already described in the last
1324 chapter.</t>
1325
1326 <t>Note: examples in this chapter showing particular parameters of drivers are
1327 not meant as specification of the drivers' parameters. Driver implementations in
1328 LinuxSampler might have complete different parameter names and meanings than shown
1329 in these examples or might change in future, so these examples are only meant for
1330 showing how to retrieve what parameters drivers are offering, how to retrieve their
1331 possible values, etc.</t>
1332
1333 <section title="Getting amount of available MIDI input drivers" anchor="GET AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS">
1334 <t>Use the following command to get the number of
1335 MIDI input drivers currently available for the
1336 LinuxSampler instance:</t>
1337 <t>
1338 <list>
1339 <t>GET AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS</t>
1340 </list>
1341 </t>
1342 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1343 <t>
1344 <list>
1345 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending the
1346 number of available MIDI input drivers.</t>
1347 </list>
1348 </t>
1349 <t>Example:</t>
1350 <t>
1351 <list>
1352 <t>C: "GET AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS"</t>
1353 <t>S: "2"</t>
1354 </list>
1355 </t>
1356 </section>
1357
1358 <section title="Getting all available MIDI input drivers" anchor="LIST AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS">
1359 <t>Use the following command to list all MIDI input drivers currently available
1360 for the LinuxSampler instance:</t>
1361 <t>
1362 <list>
1363 <t>LIST AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS</t>
1364 </list>
1365 </t>
1366 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1367 <t>
1368 <list>
1369 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending comma separated character
1370 strings, each symbolizing a MIDI input driver.</t>
1371 </list>
1372 </t>
1373 <t>Example:</t>
1374 <t>
1375 <list>
1376 <t>C: "LIST AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS"</t>
1377 <t>S: "ALSA,JACK"</t>
1378 </list>
1379 </t>
1380 </section>
1381
1382 <section title="Getting information about a specific MIDI input driver" anchor="GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO">
1383 <t>Use the following command to get detailed information about a specific MIDI input driver:</t>
1384 <t>
1385 <list>
1386 <t>GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO &lt;midi-input-driver&gt;</t>
1387 </list>
1388 </t>
1389 <t>Where &lt;midi-input-driver&gt; is the name of the MIDI input driver.</t>
1390 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1391 <t>
1392 <list>
1393 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
1394 Each answer line begins with the information category name
1395 followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
1396 the info character string to that info category. At the moment
1397 the following information categories are defined:</t>
1398
1399 <t>
1400 <list>
1401 <t>DESCRIPTION -
1402 <list>
1403 <t>arbitrary description text about the MIDI input driver</t>
1404 </list>
1405 </t>
1406 <t>VERSION -
1407 <list>
1408 <t>arbitrary character string regarding the driver's version</t>
1409 </list>
1410 </t>
1411 <t>PARAMETERS -
1412 <list>
1413 <t>comma separated list of all parameters available for the given MIDI input driver</t>
1414 </list>
1415 </t>
1416 </list>
1417 </t>
1418
1419 <t>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.</t>
1420 </list>
1421 </t>
1422
1423 <t>Example:</t>
1424
1425 <t>
1426 <list>
1427 <t>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO ALSA"</t>
1428 <t>S: "DESCRIPTION: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture"</t>
1429 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"VERSION: 1.0"</t>
1430 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"PARAMETERS: DRIVER,ACTIVE"</t>
1431 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
1432 </list>
1433 </t>
1434 </section>
1435
1436 <section title="Getting information about specific MIDI input driver parameter" anchor="GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO">
1437 <t>Use the following command to get detailed information about a specific parameter of a specific MIDI input driver:</t>
1438 <t>
1439 <list>
1440 <t>GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO &lt;midit&gt; &lt;param&gt; [&lt;deplist&gt;]</t>
1441 </list>
1442 </t>
1443
1444 <t>Where &lt;midi-t&gt; is the name of the MIDI input driver as returned
1445 by the <xref target="LIST AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS">
1446 "LIST AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS"</xref> command, &lt;param&gt; a specific
1447 parameter name for which information should be obtained (as returned by the
1448 <xref target="GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO">
1449 "GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO"</xref> command) and &lt;deplist&gt; is an optional list
1450 of parameters on which the sought parameter &lt;param&gt; depends on,
1451 &lt;deplist&gt; is a key-value pair list in form of "key1=val1 key2=val2 ...",
1452 where character string values are encapsulated into apostrophes ('). Arguments
1453 given with &lt;deplist&gt; which are not dependency parameters of &lt;param&gt;
1454 will be ignored, means the front-end application can simply put all parameters
1455 in &lt;deplist&gt; with the values selected by the user.</t>
1456
1457 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1458
1459 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF> separated list.
1460 Each answer line begins with the information category name
1461 followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP> and finally
1462 the info character string to that info category. There is
1463 information which is always returned, independent of the
1464 given driver parameter and there is optional information
1465 which is only shown dependent to given driver parameter. At
1466 the moment the following information categories are defined:</t>
1467
1468 <t>
1469 <list>
1470 <t>TYPE -
1471 <list>
1472 <t>either "BOOL" for boolean value(s) or "INT" for integer
1473 value(s) or "FLOAT" for dotted number(s) or "STRING" for
1474 character string(s)
1475 (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)</t>
1476 </list>
1477 </t>
1478
1479 <t>DESCRIPTION -
1480 <list>
1481 <t>arbitrary text describing the purpose of the parameter
1482 (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)</t>
1483 </list>
1484 </t>
1485
1486 <t>MANDATORY -
1487 <list>
1488 <t>either true or false, defines if this parameter must be
1489 given when the device is to be created with the
1490 <xref target="CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE">
1491 'CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE'</xref> command
1492 (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)</t>
1493 </list>
1494 </t>
1495
1496 <t>FIX -
1497 <list>
1498 <t>either true or false, if false then this parameter can
1499 be changed at any time, once the device is created by
1500 the <xref target="CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE">
1501 'CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE'</xref> command
1502 (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)</t>
1503 </list>
1504 </t>
1505
1506 <t>MULTIPLICITY -
1507 <list>
1508 <t>either true or false, defines if this parameter allows
1509 only one value or a list of values, where true means
1510 multiple values and false only a single value allowed
1511 (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)</t>
1512 </list>
1513 </t>
1514
1515 <t>DEPENDS -
1516 <list>
1517 <t>comma separated list of paramters this parameter depends
1518 on, means the values for fields 'DEFAULT', 'RANGE_MIN',
1519 'RANGE_MAX' and 'POSSIBILITIES' might depend on these
1520 listed parameters, for example assuming that an audio
1521 driver (like the ALSA driver) offers parameters 'card'
1522 and 'samplerate' then parameter 'samplerate' would
1523 depend on 'card' because the possible values for
1524 'samplerate' depends on the sound card which can be
1525 chosen by the 'card' parameter
1526 (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)</t>
1527 </list>
1528 </t>
1529
1530 <t>DEFAULT -
1531 <list>
1532 <t>reflects the default value for this parameter which is
1533 used when the device is created and not explicitly
1534 given with the <xref target="CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE">
1535 'CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE'</xref> command,
1536 in case of MULTIPLCITY=true, this is a comma separated
1537 list, that's why character strings are encapsulated into
1538 apostrophes (')
1539 (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)</t>
1540 </list>
1541 </t>
1542
1543 <t>RANGE_MIN -
1544 <list>
1545 <t>defines lower limit of the allowed value range for this
1546 parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
1547 number, this parameter is often used in conjunction
1548 with RANGE_MAX, but may also appear without
1549 (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)</t>
1550 </list>
1551 </t>
1552
1553 <t>RANGE_MAX -
1554 <list>
1555 <t>defines upper limit of the allowed value range for this
1556 parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
1557 number, this parameter is often used in conjunction with
1558 RANGE_MIN, but may also appear without
1559 (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)</t>
1560 </list>
1561 </t>
1562
1563 <t>POSSIBILITIES -
1564 <list>
1565 <t>comma separated list of possible values for this
1566 parameter, character strings are encapsulated into
1567 apostrophes
1568 (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)</t>
1569 </list>
1570 </t>
1571 </list>
1572 </t>
1573
1574 <t>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.</t>
1575
1576 <t>Example:</t>
1577 <t>
1578 <list>
1579 <t>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO ALSA ACTIVE"</t>
1580 <t>S: "DESCRIPTION: Whether device is enabled"</t>
1581 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: BOOL"</t>
1582 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MANDATORY: false"</t>
1583 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"</t>
1584 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: false"</t>
1585 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEFAULT: true"</t>
1586 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
1587 </list>
1588 </t>
1589 </section>
1590
1591 <section title="Creating a MIDI input device" anchor="CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE">
1592 <t>Use the following command to create a new MIDI input device for the desired MIDI input system:</t>
1593 <t>
1594 <list>
1595 <t>CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE &lt;midi-input-driver&gt; [&lt;param-list&gt;]</t>
1596 </list>
1597 </t>
1598
1599 <t>Where &lt;midi-input-driver&gt; should be replaced by the desired MIDI input system and &lt;param-list&gt; by an
1600 optional list of driver specific parameters in form of "key1=val1 key2=val2 ...", where
1601 character string values should be encapsulated into apostrophes (').
1602 Note that there might be drivers which require parameter(s) to be
1603 given with this command. Use the previously described commands in
1604 this chapter to get that information.</t>
1605
1606 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1607 <t>
1608 <list>
1609 <t>"OK[&lt;device-id&gt;]" -
1610 <list>
1611 <t>in case the device was successfully created, where
1612 &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the new device</t>
1613 </list>
1614 </t>
1615 <t>"WRN[&lt;device-id&gt;]:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
1616 <list>
1617 <t>in case the driver was loaded successfully, where
1618 &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the new device, but
1619 there are noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an
1620 appropriate warning code and warning message</t>
1621 </list>
1622 </t>
1623 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
1624 <list>
1625 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message</t>
1626 </list>
1627 </t>
1628 </list>
1629 </t>
1630 <t>Example:</t>
1631 <t>
1632 <list>
1633 <t>C: "CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE ALSA"</t>
1634 <t>S: "OK[0]"</t>
1635 </list>
1636 </t>
1637 </section>
1638
1639 <section title="Destroying a MIDI input device" anchor="DESTROY MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE">
1640 <t>Use the following command to destroy a created MIDI input device:</t>
1641 <t>
1642 <list>
1643 <t>DESTROY MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE &lt;device-id&gt;</t>
1644 </list>
1645 </t>
1646 <t>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the device's numerical ID.</t>
1647 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1648 <t>
1649 <list>
1650 <t>"OK" -
1651 <list>
1652 <t>in case the device was successfully destroyed</t>
1653 </list>
1654 </t>
1655 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
1656 <list>
1657 <t>in case the device was destroyed, but there are noteworthy
1658 issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
1659 warning message</t>
1660 </list>
1661 </t>
1662 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
1663 <list>
1664 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message</t>
1665 </list>
1666 </t>
1667 </list>
1668 </t>
1669 <t>Example:</t>
1670 <t>
1671 <list>
1672 <t>C: "DESTROY MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 0"</t>
1673 <t>S: "OK"</t>
1674 </list>
1675 </t>
1676 </section>
1677
1678 <section title="Getting all created MIDI input device count" anchor="GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES">
1679 <t>Use the following command to count all created MIDI input devices:</t>
1680 <t>
1681 <list>
1682 <t>GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES</t>
1683 </list>
1684 </t>
1685 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1686 <t>
1687 <list>
1688 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending the current number of all
1689 MIDI input devices.</t>
1690 </list>
1691 </t>
1692 <t>Example:</t>
1693 <t>
1694 <list>
1695 <t>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES"</t>
1696 <t>S: "3"</t>
1697 </list>
1698 </t>
1699 </section>
1700
1701
1702 <section title="Getting all created MIDI input device list" anchor="LIST MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES">
1703 <t>Use the following command to list all created MIDI input devices:</t>
1704 <t>
1705 <list>
1706 <t>LIST MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES</t>
1707 </list>
1708 </t>
1709 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1710 <t>
1711 <list>
1712 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a comma separated list
1713 with the numerical Ids of all created MIDI input devices.</t>
1714 </list>
1715 </t>
1716 <t>Examples:</t>
1717 <t>
1718 <list>
1719 <t>C: "LIST MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES"</t>
1720 <t>S: "0,1,2"</t>
1721 </list>
1722 </t>
1723 <t>
1724 <list>
1725 <t>C: "LIST MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES"</t>
1726 <t>S: "1,3"</t>
1727 </list>
1728 </t>
1729 </section>
1730
1731 <section title="Getting current settings of a MIDI input device" anchor="GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE INFO">
1732 <t>Use the following command to get current settings of a specific, created MIDI input device:</t>
1733 <t>
1734 <list>
1735 <t>GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE INFO &lt;device-id&gt;</t>
1736 </list>
1737 </t>
1738 <t>Where &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the MIDI input device.</t>
1739 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1740 <t>
1741 <list>
1742 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
1743 Each answer line begins with the information category name
1744 followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
1745 the info character string to that info category. As some
1746 parameters might allow multiple values, character strings are
1747 encapsulated into apostrophes ('). At the moment the following
1748 information categories are defined (independent of driver):</t>
1749
1750 <t>
1751 <list>
1752 <t>DRIVER -
1753 <list>
1754 <t>identifier of the used MIDI input driver, as e.g.
1755 returned by the <xref target="LIST AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS">
1756 "LIST AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS"</xref>
1757 command</t>
1758 </list>
1759 </t>
1760 </list>
1761 <list>
1762 <t>ACTIVE -
1763 <list>
1764 <t>either true or false, if false then the MIDI device is
1765 inactive and doesn't listen to any incoming MIDI events
1766 and thus doesn't forward them to connected sampler
1767 channels</t>
1768 </list>
1769 </t>
1770 </list>
1771 </t>
1772 </list>
1773 </t>
1774
1775 <t>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular
1776 order. The fields above are only those fields which are
1777 returned by all MIDI input devices. Every MIDI input driver
1778 might have its own, additional driver specific parameters (see
1779 <xref target="GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO">
1780 "GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO"</xref> command) which are also returned
1781 by this command.</t>
1782
1783 <t>Example:</t>
1784 <t>
1785 <list>
1786 <t>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE INFO 0"</t>
1787 <t>S: "DRIVER: ALSA"</t>
1788 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"ACTIVE: true"</t>
1789 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
1790 </list>
1791 </t>
1792 </section>
1793
1794 <section title="Changing settings of MIDI input devices" anchor="SET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER">
1795 <t>Use the following command to alter a specific setting of a created MIDI input device:</t>
1796 <t>
1797 <list>
1798 <t>SET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;key&gt;=&lt;value&gt;</t>
1799 </list>
1800 </t>
1801
1802 <t>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the
1803 MIDI input device, &lt;key&gt; by the name of the parameter to change and
1804 &lt;value&gt; by the new value for this parameter.</t>
1805
1806 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1807 <t>
1808 <list>
1809 <t>"OK" -
1810 <list>
1811 <t>in case setting was successfully changed</t>
1812 </list>
1813 </t>
1814 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
1815 <list>
1816 <t>in case setting was changed successfully, but there are
1817 noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
1818 warning code and warning message</t>
1819 </list>
1820 </t>
1821 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
1822 <list>
1823 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message</t>
1824 </list>
1825 </t>
1826 </list>
1827 </t>
1828 <t>Example:</t>
1829 <t>
1830 <list>
1831 <t>C: "SET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER 0 ACTIVE=false"</t>
1832 <t>S: "OK"</t>
1833 </list>
1834 </t>
1835 </section>
1836
1837 <section title="Getting information about a MIDI port" anchor="GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT INFO">
1838 <t>Use the following command to get information about a MIDI port:</t>
1839 <t>
1840 <list>
1841 <t>GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT INFO &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;midi-port&gt;</t>
1842 </list>
1843 </t>
1844 <t>Where &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the MIDI input device
1845 and &lt;midi-port&gt; the MIDI input port number.</t>
1846 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1847 <t>
1848 <list>
1849 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
1850 Each answer line begins with the information category name
1851 followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
1852 the info character string to that info category. At the moment
1853 the following information categories are defined:</t>
1854
1855 <t>NAME -
1856 <list>
1857 <t>arbitrary character string naming the port</t>
1858 </list>
1859 </t>
1860 </list>
1861 </t>
1862
1863 <t>The field above is only the one which is returned by all MIDI
1864 ports regardless of the MIDI driver and port. Every MIDI port
1865 might have its own, additional driver and port specific
1866 parameters.</t>
1867
1868 <t>Example:</t>
1869 <t>
1870 <list>
1871 <t>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT INFO 0 0"</t>
1872 <t>S: "NAME: 'Masterkeyboard'"</t>
1873 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS: '64:0'"</t>
1874 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
1875 </list>
1876 </t>
1877 </section>
1878
1879 <section title="Getting information about specific MIDI port parameter" anchor="GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER INFO">
1880 <t>Use the following command to get detailed information about specific MIDI port parameter:</t>
1881 <t>
1882 <list>
1883 <t>GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER INFO &lt;dev-id&gt; &lt;port&gt; &lt;param&gt;</t>
1884 </list>
1885 </t>
1886
1887 <t>Where &lt;dev-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the MIDI input device as returned
1888 by the <xref target="LIST MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES">
1889 "LIST MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES"</xref> command, &lt;port&gt; the MIDI port number and
1890 &lt;param&gt; a specific port parameter name for which information should be
1891 obtained (as returned by the <xref target="GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT INFO">
1892 "GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT INFO"</xref> command).</t>
1893
1894 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1895 <t>
1896 <list>
1897 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
1898 Each answer line begins with the information category name
1899 followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
1900 the info character string to that info category. There is
1901 information which is always returned, independently of the
1902 given channel parameter and there is optional information
1903 which are only shown dependently to the given MIDI port. At the
1904 moment the following information categories are defined:</t>
1905
1906 <t>TYPE -
1907 <list>
1908 <t>either "BOOL" for boolean value(s) or "INT" for integer
1909 value(s) or "FLOAT" for dotted number(s) or "STRING" for
1910 character string(s)
1911 (always returned)</t>
1912 </list>
1913 </t>
1914 <t>DESCRIPTION -
1915 <list>
1916 <t>arbitrary text describing the purpose of the parameter
1917 (always returned)</t>
1918 </list>
1919 </t>
1920 <t>FIX -
1921 <list>
1922 <t>either true or false, if true then this parameter is
1923 read only, thus cannot be altered
1924 (always returned)</t>
1925 </list>
1926 </t>
1927 <t>MULTIPLICITY -
1928 <list>
1929 <t>either true or false, defines if this parameter allows
1930 only one value or a list of values, where true means
1931 multiple values and false only a single value allowed
1932 (always returned)</t>
1933 </list>
1934 </t>
1935 <t>RANGE_MIN -
1936 <list>
1937 <t>defines lower limit of the allowed value range for this
1938 parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
1939 number, this parameter is usually used in conjunction
1940 with 'RANGE_MAX' but may also appear without
1941 (optionally returned, dependent to driver and port
1942 parameter)</t>
1943 </list>
1944 </t>
1945 <t>RANGE_MAX -
1946 <list>
1947 <t>defines upper limit of the allowed value range for this
1948 parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
1949 number, this parameter is usually used in conjunction
1950 with 'RANGE_MIN' but may also appear without
1951 (optionally returned, dependent to driver and port
1952 parameter)</t>
1953 </list>
1954 </t>
1955 <t>POSSIBILITIES -
1956 <list>
1957 <t>comma separated list of possible values for this
1958 parameter, character strings are encapsulated into
1959 apostrophes
1960 (optionally returned, dependent to device and port
1961 parameter)</t>
1962 </list>
1963 </t>
1964 </list>
1965 </t>
1966
1967 <t>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.</t>
1968
1969 <t>Example:</t>
1970 <t>
1971 <list>
1972 <t>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER INFO 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS"</t>
1973 <t>S: "DESCRIPTION: bindings to other ALSA sequencer clients"</t>
1974 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: STRING"</t>
1975 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"</t>
1976 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: true"</t>
1977 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"POSSIBILITIES: '64:0','68:0','68:1'"</t>
1978 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
1979 </list>
1980 </t>
1981 </section>
1982
1983 <section title="Changing settings of MIDI input ports" anchor="SET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER">
1984 <t>Use the following command to alter a specific setting of a MIDI input port:</t>
1985 <t>
1986 <list>
1987 <t>SET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;port&gt; &lt;key&gt;=&lt;value&gt;</t>
1988 </list>
1989 </t>
1990
1991 <t>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the
1992 MIDI device, &lt;port&gt; by the MIDI port number, &lt;key&gt; by the name of
1993 the parameter to change and &lt;value&gt; by the new value for this
1994 parameter.</t>
1995
1996 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
1997 <t>
1998 <list>
1999 <t>"OK" -
2000 <list>
2001 <t>in case setting was successfully changed</t>
2002 </list>
2003 </t>
2004 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2005 <list>
2006 <t>in case setting was changed successfully, but there are
2007 noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
2008 warning code and warning message</t>
2009 </list>
2010 </t>
2011 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2012 <list>
2013 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message</t>
2014 </list>
2015 </t>
2016 </list>
2017 </t>
2018 <t>Example:</t>
2019 <t>
2020 <list>
2021 <t></t>
2022 </list>
2023 </t>
2024 </section>
2025 </section>
2026
2027 <section title="Configuring sampler channels">
2028 <t>The following commands describe how to add and remove sampler channels, deploy
2029 sampler engines, load instruments and connect sampler channels to MIDI and audio devices.</t>
2030
2031 <section title="Loading an instrument" anchor="LOAD INSTRUMENT">
2032 <t>An instrument file can be loaded and assigned to a sampler channel by one of the following commands:</t>
2033 <t>
2034 <list>
2035 <t>LOAD INSTRUMENT [NON_MODAL] '&lt;filename&gt;' &lt;instr-index&gt; &lt;sampler-channel&gt;</t>
2036 </list>
2037 </t>
2038
2039 <t>Where &lt;filename&gt; is the name of the instrument file on the
2040 LinuxSampler instance's host system, &lt;instr-index&gt; the index of the
2041 instrument in the instrument file and &lt;sampler-channel> is the
2042 number of the sampler channel the instrument should be assigned to.
2043 Each sampler channel can only have one instrument.</t>
2044
2045 <t>The difference between regular and NON_MODAL versions of the command
2046 is that the regular command returns OK only after the instrument has been
2047 fully loaded and the channel is ready to be used while NON_MODAL version
2048 returns immediately and a background process is launched to load the instrument
2049 on the channel. The <xref target="GET CHANNEL INFO">GET CHANNEL INFO</xref>
2050 command can be used to obtain loading
2051 progress from INSTRUMENT_STATUS field. LOAD command will perform sanity checks
2052 such as making sure that the file could be read and it is of a proper format
2053 and SHOULD return ERR and SHOULD not launch the background process should any
2054 errors be detected at that point.</t>
2055
2056 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2057 <t>
2058 <list>
2059 <t>"OK" -
2060 <list>
2061 <t>in case the instrument was successfully loaded</t>
2062 </list>
2063 </t>
2064 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2065 <list>
2066 <t>in case the instrument was loaded successfully, but there
2067 are noteworthy issue(s) related (e.g. Engine doesn't support
2068 one or more patch parameters provided by the loaded
2069 instrument file), providing an appropriate warning code and
2070 warning message</t>
2071 </list>
2072 </t>
2073 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2074 <list>
2075 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message</t>
2076 </list>
2077 </t>
2078 </list>
2079 </t>
2080 <t>Example:</t>
2081 <t>
2082 <list>
2083 <t></t>
2084 </list>
2085 </t>
2086 </section>
2087
2088 <section title="Loading a sampler engine" anchor="LOAD ENGINE">
2089 <t>A sample engine can be deployed and assigned to a specific sampler
2090 channel by the following command:</t>
2091 <t>
2092 <list>
2093 <t>LOAD ENGINE &lt;engine-name&gt; &lt;sampler-channel&gt;</t>
2094 </list>
2095 </t>
2096
2097 <t>Where &lt;engine-name&gt; is an engine name as obtained by the
2098 <xref target="LIST AVAILABLE_ENGINES">
2099 "LIST AVAILABLE_ENGINES"</xref> command and &lt;sampler-channel&gt; the sampler channel the
2100 deployed engine should be assigned to. Even if the respective
2101 sampler channel has already a deployed engine with that engine
2102 name, a new engine instance will be assigned to the sampler channel.</t>
2103
2104 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2105 <t>
2106 <list>
2107 <t>"OK" -
2108 <list>
2109 <t>in case the engine was successfully deployed</t>
2110 </list>
2111 </t>
2112 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2113 <list>
2114 <t>in case the engine was deployed successfully, but there
2115 are noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
2116 warning code and warning message</t>
2117 </list>
2118 </t>
2119 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2120 <list>
2121 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
2122 error message</t>
2123 </list>
2124 </t>
2125 </list>
2126 </t>
2127 <t>Example:</t>
2128 <t>
2129 <list>
2130 <t></t>
2131 </list>
2132 </t>
2133 </section>
2134
2135 <section title="Getting all created sampler channel count" anchor="GET CHANNELS">
2136 <t>The number of sampler channels can change on runtime. To get the
2137 current amount of sampler channels, the front-end can send the
2138 following command:</t>
2139 <t>
2140 <list>
2141 <t>GET CHANNELS</t>
2142 </list>
2143 </t>
2144 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2145 <t>
2146 <list>
2147 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by returning the current number of sampler channels.</t>
2148 </list>
2149 </t>
2150 <t>Example:</t>
2151 <t>
2152 <list>
2153 <t>C: "GET CHANNELS"</t>
2154 <t>S: "12"</t>
2155 </list>
2156 </t>
2157 </section>
2158
2159 <section title="Getting all created sampler channel list" anchor="LIST CHANNELS">
2160 <t>The number of sampler channels can change on runtime. To get the
2161 current list of sampler channels, the front-end can send the
2162 following command:</t>
2163 <t>
2164 <list>
2165 <t>LIST CHANNELS</t>
2166 </list>
2167 </t>
2168 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2169 <t>
2170 <list>
2171 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by returning a comma separated list
2172 with all sampler channels numerical IDs.</t>
2173 </list>
2174 </t>
2175 <t>Example:</t>
2176 <t>
2177 <list>
2178 <t>C: "LIST CHANNELS"</t>
2179 <t>S: "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,9,10,11,15,20"</t>
2180 </list>
2181 </t>
2182 </section>
2183
2184 <section title="Adding a new sampler channel" anchor="ADD CHANNEL">
2185 <t>A new sampler channel can be added to the end of the sampler
2186 channel list by sending the following command:</t>
2187 <t>
2188 <list>
2189 <t>ADD CHANNEL</t>
2190 </list>
2191 </t>
2192 <t>This will increment the sampler channel count by one and the new
2193 sampler channel will be appended to the end of the sampler channel
2194 list. The front-end should send the respective, related commands
2195 right after to e.g. load an engine, load an instrument and setting
2196 input, output method and eventually other commands to initialize
2197 the new channel. The front-end should use the sampler channel
2198 returned by the answer of this command to perform the previously
2199 recommended commands, to avoid race conditions e.g. with other
2200 front-ends that might also have sent an "ADD CHANNEL" command.</t>
2201 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2202 <t>
2203 <list>
2204 <t>"OK[&lt;sampler-channel&gt;]" -
2205 <list>
2206 <t>in case a new sampler channel could be added, where
2207 &lt;sampler-channel&gt; reflects the channel number of the new
2208 created sampler channel which should the be used to set up
2209 the sampler channel by sending subsequent intialization
2210 commands</t>
2211 </list>
2212 </t>
2213 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2214 <list>
2215 <t>in case a new channel was added successfully, but there are
2216 noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
2217 warning code and warning message</t>
2218 </list>
2219 </t>
2220 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2221 <list>
2222 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
2223 error message</t>
2224 </list>
2225 </t>
2226 </list>
2227 </t>
2228 <t>Example:</t>
2229 <t>
2230 <list>
2231 <t></t>
2232 </list>
2233 </t>
2234 </section>
2235
2236 <section title="Removing a sampler channel" anchor="REMOVE CHANNEL">
2237 <t>A sampler channel can be removed by sending the following command:</t>
2238 <t>
2239 <list>
2240 <t>REMOVE CHANNEL &lt;sampler-channel&gt;</t>
2241 </list>
2242 </t>
2243
2244 <t>This will decrement the sampler channel count by one and also
2245 decrement the channel numbers of all subsequent sampler channels by
2246 one.</t>
2247
2248 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2249 <t>
2250 <list>
2251 <t>"OK" -
2252 <list>
2253 <t>in case the given sampler channel could be removed</t>
2254 </list>
2255 </t>
2256 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2257 <list>
2258 <t>in case the given channel was removed, but there are
2259 noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
2260 warning code and warning message</t>
2261 </list>
2262 </t>
2263 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2264 <list>
2265 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
2266 error message</t>
2267 </list>
2268 </t>
2269 </list>
2270 </t>
2271 <t>Example:</t>
2272 <t>
2273 <list>
2274 <t></t>
2275 </list>
2276 </t>
2277 </section>
2278
2279 <section title="Getting amount of available engines" anchor="GET AVAILABLE_ENGINES">
2280 <t>The front-end can ask for the number of available engines by sending the following command:</t>
2281 <t>
2282 <list>
2283 <t>GET AVAILABLE_ENGINES</t>
2284 </list>
2285 </t>
2286 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2287 <t>
2288 <list>
2289 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending the number of available engines.</t>
2290 </list>
2291 </t>
2292 <t>Example:</t>
2293 <t>
2294 <list>
2295 <t>C: "GET AVAILABLE_ENGINES"</t>
2296 <t>S: "4"</t>
2297 </list>
2298 </t>
2299 </section>
2300
2301 <section title="Getting all available engines" anchor="LIST AVAILABLE_ENGINES">
2302 <t>The front-end can ask for a list of all available engines by sending the following command:</t>
2303 <t>
2304 <list>
2305 <t>LIST AVAILABLE_ENGINES</t>
2306 </list>
2307 </t>
2308 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2309 <t>
2310 <list>
2311 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a comma separated character
2312 string of the engines' names. Engine names can consist of lower and
2313 upper cases, digits and underlines ("_" character).</t>
2314 </list>
2315 </t>
2316 <t>Example:</t>
2317 <t>
2318 <list>
2319 <t>C: "LIST AVAILABLE_ENGINES"</t>
2320 <t>S: "GigEngine,AkaiEngine,DLSEngine,JoesCustomEngine"</t>
2321 </list>
2322 </t>
2323 </section>
2324
2325 <section title="Getting information about an engine" anchor="GET ENGINE INFO">
2326 <t>The front-end can ask for information about a specific engine by
2327 sending the following command:</t>
2328 <t>
2329 <list>
2330 <t>GET ENGINE INFO &lt;engine-name&gt;</t>
2331 </list>
2332 </t>
2333 <t>Where &lt;engine-name&gt; is an engine name as obtained by the
2334 <xref target="LIST AVAILABLE_ENGINES">
2335 "LIST AVAILABLE_ENGINES"</xref> command.</t>
2336 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2337 <t>
2338 <list>
2339 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
2340 Each answer line begins with the information category name
2341 followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
2342 the info character string to that info category. At the moment
2343 the following categories are defined:</t>
2344
2345 <t>
2346 <list>
2347 <t>DESCRIPTION -
2348 <list>
2349 <t>arbitrary description text about the engine</t>
2350 </list>
2351 </t>
2352 <t>VERSION -
2353 <list>
2354 <t>arbitrary character string regarding the engine's version</t>
2355 </list>
2356 </t>
2357 </list>
2358 </t>
2359 </list>
2360 </t>
2361
2362 <t>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.</t>
2363
2364 <t>Example:</t>
2365 <t>
2366 <list>
2367 <t>C: "GET ENGINE INFO JoesCustomEngine"</t>
2368 <t>S: "DESCRIPTION: this is Joe's custom sampler engine"</t>
2369 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"VERSION: testing-1.0"</t>
2370 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
2371 </list>
2372 </t>
2373 </section>
2374
2375 <section title="Getting sampler channel information" anchor="GET CHANNEL INFO">
2376 <t>The front-end can ask for the current settings of a sampler channel
2377 by sending the following command:</t>
2378 <t>
2379 <list>
2380 <t>GET CHANNEL INFO &lt;sampler-channel&gt;</t>
2381 </list>
2382 </t>
2383 <t>Where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the sampler channel number the front-end is interested in.</t>
2384 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2385 <t>
2386 <list>
2387 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
2388 Each answer line begins with the settings category name
2389 followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
2390 the info character string to that setting category. At the
2391 moment the following categories are defined:</t>
2392
2393 <t>
2394 <list>
2395 <t>ENGINE_NAME -
2396 <list>
2397 <t>name of the engine that is deployed on the sampler
2398 channel, "NONE" if there's no engine deployed yet for
2399 this sampler channel</t>
2400 </list>
2401 </t>
2402 <t>AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE -
2403 <list>
2404 <t>numerical ID of the audio output device which is
2405 currently connected to this sampler channel to output
2406 the audio signal, "NONE" if there's no device
2407 connected to this sampler channel</t>
2408 </list>
2409 </t>
2410 <t>AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNELS -
2411 <list>
2412 <t>number of output channels the sampler channel offers
2413 (dependent to used sampler engine and loaded instrument)</t>
2414 </list>
2415 </t>
2416 <t>AUDIO_OUTPUT_ROUTING -
2417 <list>
2418 <t>comma separated list which reflects to which audio
2419 channel of the selected audio output device each
2420 sampler output channel is routed to, e.g. "0,3" would
2421 mean the engine's output channel 0 is routed to channel
2422 0 of the audio output device and the engine's output
2423 channel 1 is routed to the channel 3 of the audio
2424 output device</t>
2425 </list>
2426 </t>
2427 <t>INSTRUMENT_FILE -
2428 <list>
2429 <t>the file name of the loaded instrument, "NONE" if
2430 there's no instrument yet loaded for this sampler
2431 channel</t>
2432 </list>
2433 </t>
2434 <t>INSTRUMENT_NR -
2435 <list>
2436 <t>the instrument index number of the loaded instrument</t>
2437 </list>
2438 </t>
2439 <t>INSTRUMENT_NAME -
2440 <list>
2441 <t>the instrument name of the loaded instrument</t>
2442 </list>
2443 </t>
2444 <t>INSTRUMENT_STATUS -
2445 <list>
2446 <t>integer values 0 to 100 indicating loading progress percentage for the instrument. Negative
2447 value indicates a loading exception. Value of 100 indicates that the instrument is fully
2448 loaded.</t>
2449 </list>
2450 </t>
2451 <t>MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE -
2452 <list>
2453 <t>numerical ID of the MIDI input device which is
2454 currently connected to this sampler channel to deliver
2455 MIDI input commands, "NONE" if there's no device
2456 connected to this sampler channel</t>
2457 </list>
2458 </t>
2459 <t>MIDI_INPUT_PORT -
2460 <list>
2461 <t>port number of the MIDI input device</t>
2462 </list>
2463 </t>
2464 <t>MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL -
2465 <list>
2466 <t>the MIDI input channel number this sampler channel
2467 should listen to or "ALL" to listen on all MIDI channels</t>
2468 </list>
2469 </t>
2470 <t>VOLUME -
2471 <list>
2472 <t>optionally dotted number for the channel volume factor
2473 (where a value < 1.0 means attenuation and a value >
2474 1.0 means amplification)</t>
2475 </list>
2476 </t>
2477 </list>
2478 </t>
2479 </list>
2480 </t>
2481 <t>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.</t>
2482
2483 <t>Example:</t>
2484 <t>
2485 <list>
2486 <t>C: "GET CHANNEL INFO 34"</t>
2487 <t>S: "ENGINE_NAME: GigEngine"</t>
2488 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"VOLUME: 1.0"</t>
2489 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE: 0"</t>
2490 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNELS: 2"</t>
2491 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"AUDIO_OUTPUT_ROUTING: 0,1"</t>
2492 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"INSTRUMENT_FILE: /home/joe/FazioliPiano.gig"</t>
2493 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"INSTRUMENT_NR: 0"</t>
2494 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"INSTRUMENT_NAME: Fazioli Piano"</t>
2495 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"INSTRUMENT_STATUS: 100"</t>
2496 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE: 0"</t>
2497 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MIDI_INPUT_PORT: 0"</t>
2498 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL: 5"</t>
2499 <t>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."</t>
2500 </list>
2501 </t>
2502 </section>
2503
2504 <section title="Current number of active voices" anchor="GET CHANNEL VOICE_COUNT">
2505 <t>The front-end can ask for the current number of active voices on a
2506 sampler channel by sending the following command:</t>
2507 <t>
2508 <list>
2509 <t>GET CHANNEL VOICE_COUNT &lt;sampler-channel&gt;</t>
2510 </list>
2511 </t>
2512 <t>Where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the sampler channel number the front-end is interested in.</t>
2513
2514 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2515 <t>
2516 <list>
2517 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by returning the number of active
2518 voices on that channel.</t>
2519 </list>
2520 </t>
2521 <t>Example:</t>
2522 <t>
2523 <list>
2524 <t></t>
2525 </list>
2526 </t>
2527 </section>
2528
2529 <section title="Current number of active disk streams" anchor="GET CHANNEL STREAM_COUNT">
2530 <t>The front-end can ask for the current number of active disk streams
2531 on a sampler channel by sending the following command:</t>
2532 <t>
2533 <list>
2534 <t>GET CHANNEL STREAM_COUNT &lt;sampler-channel&gt;</t>
2535 </list>
2536 </t>
2537 <t>Where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the sampler channel number the front-end is interested in.</t>
2538
2539 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2540 <t>
2541 <list>
2542 <t>LinuxSampler will answer by returning the number of active
2543 disk streams on that channel in case the engine supports disk
2544 streaming, if the engine doesn't support disk streaming it will
2545 return "NA" for not available.</t>
2546 </list>
2547 </t>
2548 <t>Example:</t>
2549 <t>
2550 <list>
2551 <t></t>
2552 </list>
2553 </t>
2554 </section>
2555
2556 <section title="Current fill state of disk stream buffers" anchor="GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL">
2557 <t>The front-end can ask for the current fill state of all disk streams
2558 on a sampler channel by sending the following command:</t>
2559 <t>
2560 <list>
2561 <t>GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL BYTES &lt;sampler-channel&gt;</t>
2562 </list>
2563 </t>
2564 <t>to get the fill state in bytes or</t>
2565 <t>
2566 <list>
2567 <t>GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL PERCENTAGE &lt;sampler-channel&gt;</t>
2568 </list>
2569 </t>
2570 <t>to get the fill state in percent, where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the
2571 sampler channel number the front-end is interested in.</t>
2572
2573 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2574 <t>
2575 <list>
2576 <t>LinuxSampler will either answer by returning a comma separated
2577 string with the fill state of all disk stream buffers on that
2578 channel or an empty line if there are no active disk streams or
2579 "NA" for *not available* in case the engine which is deployed
2580 doesn't support disk streaming. Each entry in the answer list
2581 will begin with the stream's ID in brackets followed by the
2582 numerical representation of the fill size (either in bytes or
2583 percentage). Note: due to efficiency reasons the fill states in
2584 the response are not in particular order, thus the front-end has
2585 to sort them by itself if necessary.</t>
2586 </list>
2587 </t>
2588 <t>Examples:</t>
2589 <t>
2590 <list>
2591 <t>C: "GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL BYTES 4"</t>
2592 <t>S: "[115]420500,[116]510300,[75]110000,[120]230700"</t>
2593 </list>
2594
2595 <list>
2596 <t>C: "GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL PERCENTAGE 4"</t>
2597 <t>S: "[115]90%,[116]98%,[75]40%,[120]62%"</t>
2598 </list>
2599
2600 <list>
2601 <t>C: "GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL PERCENTAGE 4"</t>
2602 <t>S: ""</t>
2603 </list>
2604 </t>
2605 </section>
2606
2607 <section title="Setting audio output device" anchor="SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE">
2608 <t>The front-end can set the audio output device on a specific sampler
2609 channel by sending the following command:</t>
2610 <t>
2611 <list>
2612 <t>SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;audio-device-id&gt;</t>
2613 </list>
2614 </t>
2615 <t>Where &lt;audio-device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the audio output
2616 device and &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the respective sampler channel
2617 number.</t>
2618
2619 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2620 <t>
2621 <list>
2622 <t>"OK" -
2623 <list>
2624 <t>on success</t>
2625 </list>
2626 </t>
2627 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2628 <list>
2629 <t>if audio output device was set, but there are noteworthy
2630 issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
2631 warning message</t>
2632 </list>
2633 </t>
2634 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2635 <list>
2636 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message</t>
2637 </list>
2638 </t>
2639 </list>
2640 </t>
2641 <t>Examples:</t>
2642 <t>
2643 <list>
2644 <t></t>
2645 </list>
2646 </t>
2647 </section>
2648
2649 <section title="Setting audio output type" anchor="SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYP">
2650 <t>DEPRECATED: THIS COMMAND WILL DISAPPEAR SOON!</t>
2651
2652 <t>The front-end can alter the audio output type on a specific sampler
2653 channel by sending the following command:</t>
2654 <t>
2655 <list>
2656 <t>SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;audio-output-type&gt;</t>
2657 </list>
2658 </t>
2659 <t>Where &lt;audio-output-type&gt; is currently either "ALSA" or "JACK" and
2660 &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the respective sampler channel number.</t>
2661
2662 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2663 <t>
2664 <list>
2665 <t>"OK" -
2666 <list>
2667 <t>on success</t>
2668 </list>
2669 </t>
2670 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2671 <list>
2672 <t>if audio output type was set, but there are noteworthy
2673 issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
2674 warning message</t>
2675 </list>
2676 </t>
2677 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2678 <list>
2679 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message</t>
2680 </list>
2681 </t>
2682 </list>
2683 </t>
2684 <t>Examples:</t>
2685 <t>
2686 <list>
2687 <t></t>
2688 </list>
2689 </t>
2690 </section>
2691
2692 <section title="Setting audio output channel" anchor="SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL">
2693 <t>The front-end can alter the audio output channel on a specific
2694 sampler channel by sending the following command:</t>
2695 <t>
2696 <list>
2697 <t>SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL &lt;sampler-chan&gt; &lt;audio-out&gt; &lt;audio-in&gt;</t>
2698 </list>
2699 </t>
2700 <t>Where &lt;sampler-chan&gt; is the sampler channel number, &lt;audio-out&gt; is the
2701 numerical ID of the sampler channel's audio output channel which should be
2702 rerouted and &lt;audio-in&gt; is the numerical ID of the audio channel of the selected audio
2703 output device where &lt;audio-out&gt; should be routed to.</t>
2704
2705 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2706 <t>
2707 <list>
2708 <t>"OK" -
2709 <list>
2710 <t>on success</t>
2711 </list>
2712 </t>
2713 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2714 <list>
2715 <t>if audio output channel was set, but there are noteworthy
2716 issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
2717 warning message</t>
2718 </list>
2719 </t>
2720 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2721 <list>
2722 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message</t>
2723 </list>
2724 </t>
2725 </list>
2726 </t>
2727 <t>Examples:</t>
2728 <t>
2729 <list>
2730 <t></t>
2731 </list>
2732 </t>
2733 </section>
2734
2735 <section title="Setting MIDI input device" anchor="SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE">
2736 <t>The front-end can set the MIDI input device on a specific sampler
2737 channel by sending the following command:</t>
2738 <t>
2739 <list>
2740 <t>SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;midi-device-id&gt;</t>
2741 </list>
2742 </t>
2743 <t>Where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the sampler channel number and &lt;midi-device-id&gt; is the
2744 the numerical ID of the MIDI input device.</t>
2745
2746 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2747 <t>
2748 <list>
2749 <t>"OK" -
2750 <list>
2751 <t>on success</t>
2752 </list>
2753 </t>
2754 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2755 <list>
2756 <t>if MIDI input device was set, but there are noteworthy
2757 issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
2758 warning message</t>
2759 </list>
2760 </t>
2761 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2762 <list>
2763 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message</t>
2764 </list>
2765 </t>
2766 </list>
2767 </t>
2768 <t>Examples:</t>
2769 <t>
2770 <list>
2771 <t></t>
2772 </list>
2773 </t>
2774 </section>
2775
2776 <section title="Setting MIDI input type" anchor="SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE">
2777 <t>DEPRECATED: THIS COMMAND WILL DISAPPEAR SOON!</t>
2778
2779 <t>The front-end can alter the MIDI input type on a specific sampler
2780 channel by sending the following command:</t>
2781 <t>
2782 <list>
2783 <t>SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;midi-input-type&gt;</t>
2784 </list>
2785 </t>
2786 <t>Where &lt;midi-input-type&gt; is currently only "ALSA" and
2787 &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the respective sampler channel number.</t>
2788
2789 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2790 <t>
2791 <list>
2792 <t>"OK" -
2793 <list>
2794 <t>on success</t>
2795 </list>
2796 </t>
2797 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2798 <list>
2799 <t>if MIDI input type was set, but there are noteworthy
2800 issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
2801 warning message</t>
2802 </list>
2803 </t>
2804 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2805 <list>
2806 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message</t>
2807 </list>
2808 </t>
2809 </list>
2810 </t>
2811 <t>Examples:</t>
2812 <t>
2813 <list>
2814 <t></t>
2815 </list>
2816 </t>
2817 </section>
2818
2819 <section title="Setting MIDI input port" anchor="SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT">
2820 <t>The front-end can alter the MIDI input port on a specific sampler
2821 channel by sending the following command:</t>
2822 <t>
2823 <list>
2824 <t>SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;midi-input-port&gt;</t>
2825 </list>
2826 </t>
2827 <t>Where &lt;midi-input-port&gt; is a MIDI input port number of the
2828 MIDI input device connected to the sampler channel given by
2829 &lt;sampler-channel&gt;.</t>
2830
2831 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2832 <t>
2833 <list>
2834 <t>"OK" -
2835 <list>
2836 <t>on success</t>
2837 </list>
2838 </t>
2839 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2840 <list>
2841 <t>if MIDI input port was set, but there are noteworthy
2842 issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
2843 warning message</t>
2844 </list>
2845 </t>
2846 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2847 <list>
2848 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error messag</t>
2849 </list>
2850 </t>
2851 </list>
2852 </t>
2853 <t>Examples:</t>
2854 <t>
2855 <list>
2856 <t></t>
2857 </list>
2858 </t>
2859 </section>
2860
2861 <section title="Setting MIDI input channel" anchor="SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL">
2862 <t>The front-end can alter the MIDI channel a sampler channel should
2863 listen to by sending the following command:</t>
2864 <t>
2865 <list>
2866 <t>SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;midi-input-chan&gt;</t>
2867 </list>
2868 </t>
2869 <t>Where &lt;midi-input-chan&gt; is the number of the new MIDI input channel where
2870 &lt;sampler-channel&gt; should listen to or "ALL" to listen on all 16 MIDI
2871 channels.</t>
2872
2873 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2874 <t>
2875 <list>
2876 <t>"OK" -
2877 <list>
2878 <t>on success</t>
2879 </list>
2880 </t>
2881 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2882 <list>
2883 <t>if MIDI input channel was set, but there are noteworthy
2884 issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
2885 warning message</t>
2886 </list>
2887 </t>
2888 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2889 <list>
2890 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message</t>
2891 </list>
2892 </t>
2893 </list>
2894 </t>
2895 <t>Examples:</t>
2896 <t>
2897 <list>
2898 <t></t>
2899 </list>
2900 </t>
2901 </section>
2902
2903 <section title="Setting channel volume" anchor="SET CHANNEL VOLUME">
2904 <t>The front-end can alter the volume of a sampler channel by sending
2905 the following command:</t>
2906 <t>
2907 <list>
2908 <t>SET CHANNEL VOLUME &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;volume&gt;</t>
2909 </list>
2910 </t>
2911 <t>Where &lt;volume&gt; is an optionally dotted positive number (a value
2912 smaller than 1.0 means attenuation, whereas a value greater than
2913 1.0 means amplification) and &lt;sampler-channel&gt; defines the sampler
2914 channel where this volume factor should be set.</t>
2915
2916 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2917 <t>
2918 <list>
2919 <t>"OK" -
2920 <list>
2921 <t>on success</t>
2922 </list>
2923 </t>
2924 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2925 <list>
2926 <t>if channel volume was set, but there are noteworthy
2927 issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
2928 warning message</t>
2929 </list>
2930 </t>
2931 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2932 <list>
2933 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message</t>
2934 </list>
2935 </t>
2936 </list>
2937 </t>
2938 <t>Examples:</t>
2939 <t>
2940 <list>
2941 <t></t>
2942 </list>
2943 </t>
2944 </section>
2945
2946 <section title="Resetting a sampler channel" anchor="RESET CHANNEL">
2947 <t>The front-end can reset a particular sampler channel by sending the following command:</t>
2948 <t>
2949 <list>
2950 <t>RESET CHANNEL &lt;sampler-channel&gt;</t>
2951 </list>
2952 </t>
2953 <t>
2954 Where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; defines the sampler channel to be reset.
2955 This will cause the engine on that sampler channel, its voices and
2956 eventually disk streams and all control and status variables to be
2957 reset.</t>
2958
2959 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
2960 <t>
2961 <list>
2962 <t>"OK" -
2963 <list>
2964 <t>on success</t>
2965 </list>
2966 </t>
2967 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2968 <list>
2969 <t>if channel was reset, but there are noteworthy issue(s)
2970 related, providing an appropriate warning code and warning
2971 message</t>
2972 </list>
2973 </t>
2974 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2975 <list>
2976 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
2977 error message</t>
2978 </list>
2979 </t>
2980 </list>
2981 </t>
2982 <t>Examples:</t>
2983 <t>
2984 <list>
2985 <t></t>
2986 </list>
2987 </t>
2988 </section>
2989 </section>
2990
2991 <section title="Controlling connection">
2992 <t>The following commands are used to control the connection to LinuxSampler.</t>
2993
2994 <section title="Register front-end for receiving event messages" anchor="SUBSCRIBE">
2995 <t>The front-end can register itself to the LinuxSampler application to
2996 be informed about noteworthy events by sending this command:</t>
2997 <t>
2998 <list>
2999 <t>SUBSCRIBE &lt;event-id&gt;</t>
3000 </list>
3001 </t>
3002 <t>where &lt;event-id&gt; will be replaced by the respective event that
3003 client wants to subscribe to.</t>
3004
3005 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
3006 <t>
3007 <list>
3008 <t>"OK" -
3009 <list>
3010 <t>on success</t>
3011 </list>
3012 </t>
3013 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3014 <list>
3015 <t>if registration succeeded, but there are noteworthy
3016 issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3017 warning message</t>
3018 </list>
3019 </t>
3020 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3021 <list>
3022 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
3023 error message</t>
3024 </list>
3025 </t>
3026 </list>
3027 </t>
3028 <t>Examples:</t>
3029 <t>
3030 <list>
3031 <t></t>
3032 </list>
3033 </t>
3034 </section>
3035
3036 <section title="Unregister front-end for not receiving event messages" anchor="UNSUBSCRIBE">
3037 <t>The front-end can unregister itself if it doesn't want to receive event
3038 messages anymore by sending the following command:</t>
3039 <t>
3040 <list>
3041 <t>UNSUBSCRIBE &lt;event-id&gt;</t>
3042 </list>
3043 </t>
3044 <t>Where &lt;event-id&gt; will be replaced by the respective event that
3045 client doesn't want to receive anymore.</t>
3046
3047 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
3048 <t>
3049 <list>
3050 <t>"OK" -
3051 <list>
3052 <t>on success</t>
3053 </list>
3054 </t>
3055 <t>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3056 <list>
3057 <t>if unregistration succeeded, but there are noteworthy
3058 issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3059 warning message</t>
3060 </list>
3061 </t>
3062 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3063 <list>
3064 <t>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
3065 error message</t>
3066 </list>
3067 </t>
3068 </list>
3069 </t>
3070 <t>Examples:</t>
3071 <t>
3072 <list>
3073 <t></t>
3074 </list>
3075 </t>
3076 </section>
3077
3078 <section title="Enable or disable echo of commands" anchor="SET ECHO">
3079 <t>To enable or disable back sending of commands to the client the following command can be used:</t>
3080 <t>
3081 <list>
3082 <t>SET ECHO &lt;value&gt;</t>
3083 </list>
3084 </t>
3085 <t>Where &lt;value&gt; should be replaced either by "1" to enable echo mode
3086 or "0" to disable echo mode. When echo mode is enabled, all
3087 commands send to LinuxSampler will be immediately send back and
3088 after this echo the actual response to the command will be
3089 returned. Echo mode will only be altered for the client connection
3090 that issued the "SET ECHO" command, not globally for all client
3091 connections.</t>
3092
3093 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
3094 <t>
3095 <list>
3096 <t>"OK" -
3097 <list>
3098 <t>usually</t>
3099 </list>
3100 </t>
3101 <t>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3102 <list>
3103 <t>on syntax error, e.g. non boolean value</t>
3104 </list>
3105 </t>
3106 </list>
3107 </t>
3108 <t>Examples:</t>
3109 <t>
3110 <list>
3111 <t></t>
3112 </list>
3113 </t>
3114 </section>
3115
3116 <section title="Close client connection" anchor="QUIT">
3117 <t>The client can close its network connection to LinuxSampler by sending the following command:</t>
3118 <t>
3119 <list>
3120 <t>QUIT</t>
3121 </list>
3122 </t>
3123 <t>This is probably more interesting for manual telnet connections to
3124 LinuxSampler than really useful for a front-end implementation.</t>
3125 </section>
3126 </section>
3127
3128 <section title="Global commands">
3129 <t>The following commands have global impact on the sampler.</t>
3130
3131 <section title="Reset sampler" anchor="RESET">
3132 <t>The front-end can reset the whole sampler by sending the following command:</t>
3133 <t>
3134 <list>
3135 <t>RESET</t>
3136 </list>
3137 </t>
3138
3139 <t>Possible Answers:</t>
3140 <t>
3141 <list>
3142 <t>"OK" -
3143 <list>
3144 <t>always</t>
3145 </list>
3146 </t>
3147 </list>
3148 </t>
3149 <t>Examples:</t>
3150 <t>
3151 <list>
3152 <t></t>
3153 </list>
3154 </t>
3155 </section>
3156 </section>
3157 </section>
3158
3159 <section title="Command Syntax" anchor="command_syntax">
3160 <t>TODO: will soon automatically included from src/network/lscp.y,
3161 meanwhile have a look at that file to get the exact definition of
3162 the command syntax.</t>
3163 </section>
3164
3165 <section title="Events" anchor="events">
3166 <t>This chapter will describe all currently defined events supported by LinuxSampler.</t>
3167
3168 <section title="Number of sampler channels changed" anchor="SUBSCRIBE CHANNEL">
3169 <t>Client may want to be notified when the total number of channels on the
3170 back-end changes by issuing the following command:</t>
3171 <t>
3172 <list>
3173 <t>SUBSCRIBE CHANNELS</t>
3174 </list>
3175 </t>
3176 <t>Server will start sending the following notification messages:</t>
3177 <t>
3178 <list>
3179 <t>"NOTIFY:CHANNELS:&lt;channels&gt;"</t>
3180 </list>
3181 </t>
3182 <t>where &lt;channels&gt; will be replaced by the new number
3183 of sampler channels.</t>
3184 </section>
3185
3186 <section title="Number of active voices changed" anchor="SUBSCRIBE VOICE_COUNT">
3187 <t>Client may want to be notified when the number of voices on the
3188 back-end changes by issuing the following command:</t>
3189 <t>
3190 <list>
3191 <t>SUBSCRIBE VOICE_COUNT</t>
3192 </list>
3193 </t>
3194 <t>Server will start sending the following notification messages:</t>
3195 <t>
3196 <list>
3197 <t>"NOTIFY:VOICE_COUNT:&lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;voices&gt;</t>
3198 </list>
3199 </t>
3200 <t>where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; will be replaced by the sampler channel the
3201 voice count change occurred and &lt;voices&gt; by the new number of
3202 active voices on that channel.</t>
3203 </section>
3204
3205 <section title="Number of active disk streams changed" anchor="SUBSCRIBE STREAM_COUNT">
3206 <t>Client may want to be notified when the number of streams on the back-end
3207 changes by issuing the following command: SUBSCRIBE STREAM_COUNT</t>
3208 <t>
3209 <list>
3210 <t>SUBSCRIBE STREAM_COUNT</t>
3211 </list>
3212 </t>
3213 <t>Server will start sending the following notification messages:</t>
3214 <t>
3215 <list>
3216 <t>"NOTIFY:STREAM_COUNT:&lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;streams&gt;"</t>
3217 </list>
3218 </t>
3219 <t>where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; will be replaced by the sampler channel the
3220 stream count change occurred and &lt;streams&gt; by the new number of
3221 active disk streams on that channel.</t>
3222 </section>
3223
3224 <section title="Disk stream buffer fill state changed" anchor="SUBSCRIBE BUFFER_FILL">
3225 <t>Client may want to be notified when the buffer fill state of a disk stream
3226 on the back-end changes by issuing the following command:</t>
3227 <t>
3228 <list>
3229 <t>SUBSCRIBE BUFFER_FILL</t>
3230 </list>
3231 </t>
3232 <t>Server will start sending the following notification messages:</t>
3233 <t>
3234 <list>
3235 <t>"NOTIFY:BUFFER_FILL:&lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;fill-data&gt;"</t>
3236 </list>
3237 </t>
3238 <t>where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; will be replaced by the sampler channel the
3239 buffer fill state change occurred on and &lt;fill-data&gt; will be replaced by the
3240 buffer fill data for this channel as described in <xref target="GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL" />
3241 as if the <xref target="GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL">
3242 "GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL PERCENTAGE"</xref> command was issued on this channel.</t>
3243 </section>
3244
3245 <section title="Channel information changed" anchor="SUBSCRIBE INFO">
3246 <t>Client may want to be notified when changes were made to sampler channels on the
3247 back-end changes by issuing the following command:</t>
3248 <t>
3249 <list>
3250 <t>SUBSCRIBE INFO</t>
3251 </list>
3252 </t>
3253 <t>Server will start sending the following notification messages:</t>
3254 <t>
3255 <list>
3256 <t>"NOTIFY:INFO:&lt;sampler-channel&gt;"</t>
3257 </list>
3258 </t>
3259 <t>where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; will be replaced by the sampler channel the
3260 channel info change occurred. The front-end will have to send
3261 the respective command to actually get the channel info. Because these messages
3262 will be triggered by LSCP commands issued by other clients rather than real
3263 time events happening on the server, it is believed that an empty notification
3264 message is sufficient here.</t>
3265 </section>
3266
3267 <section title="Miscellaneous and debugging events" anchor="SUBSCRIBE MISCELLANEOUS">
3268 <t>Client may want to be notified of miscellaneous and debugging events occurring at
3269 the server by issuing the following command:</t>
3270 <t>
3271 <list>
3272 <t>SUBSCRIBE MISCELLANEOUS</t>
3273 </list>
3274 </t>
3275 <t>Server will start sending the following notification messages:</t>
3276 <t>
3277 <list>
3278 <t>"NOTIFY:MISCELLANEOUS:&lt;string&gt;"</t>
3279 </list>
3280 </t>
3281 <t>where &lt;string&gt; will be replaced by whatever data server
3282 wants to send to the client. Client MAY display this data to the
3283 user AS IS to facilitate debugging.</t>
3284 </section>
3285 </section>
3286
3287 <section title="Security Considerations">
3288 <t>As there is so far no method of authentication and authorization
3289 defined and so not required for a client applications to succeed to
3290 connect, running LinuxSampler might be a security risk for the host
3291 system the LinuxSampler instance is running on.</t>
3292 </section>
3293
3294 <section title="Acknowledgments">
3295 <t>This document has benefited greatly from the comments of the
3296 following people, discussed on the LinuxSampler developer's mailing
3297 list:</t>
3298 <t>
3299 <list>
3300 <t>Rui Nuno Capela</t>
3301 <t>Vladimir Senkov</t>
3302 <t>Mark Knecht</t>
3303 </list>
3304 </t>
3305 </section>
3306
3307 </middle>
3308
3309 <back>
3310 <references>&rfc2119;</references>
3311 </back>
3312
3313 </rfc>

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