LinuxSampler - modular, streaming capable sampler Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 by Benno Senoner (benno@gardena.net) and Christian Schoenebeck (cuse@users.sourceforge.net) Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Christian Schoenebeck License ------- The LinuxSampler library (liblinuxsampler) and its applications are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (see COPYING file), but with the EXCEPTION that they may NOT be used in COMMERCIAL software or hardware products without prior written authorization by the authors. Also note that liblinuxsampler and its applications are linking against other libraries; respect their licenses as well! Description ----------- LinuxSampler is sampler backend, thus server-like console application. It provides a TCP based network interface with a custom ASCII based protocol called "LSCP" to control the sampler and manage sampler sessions. You either have to send commands manually to LinuxSampler, e.g. by connecting via 'telnet' or by using 'netcat' or you might want to use a graphical user interface (frontend) like QSampler (C++/Qt based) or JSampler (Java based). For more informations visit http://www.linuxsampler.org/documentation.html Requirements on Linux --------------------- o A low latency enabled kernel (see http://www.linuxsampler.org/faq.html#dropouts). o At least one supported MIDI input system (i.e. ALSA, CoreMIDI or MidiShare) and at least one support audio output system (i.e. ALSA, JACK or ARTS) have to be installed, along with their respective development (header) files. o libgig and its development (header) files for loading Gigasampler format files. o libtool o If you are compiling from CVS you need to have the autotools installed (autoconf, automake (>= 1.5)). o If you want to generate the liblinuxsampler API documentation you need to have Doxygen installed. Compiling on Linux ------------------ a) Compiling and installing directly The general procedure by calling './configure && make' on the source's toplevel directory will compile and 'make install' as root will install LinuxSampler on your system. Note: if you are compiling from CVS you have to explicitly call 'make -f Makefile.cvs' before doing the above procedure. This will generate all autotools managed build files. LinuxSampler itself is a library called liblinuxsampler. You can generate the API documenation for liblinuxsampler by explicitly calling 'make docs'. b) Creating Debian packages Simply calling 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b' from the source's toplevel directory will compile and build the Debian binary package. The Debian package will be placed one directory above the source's toplevel directory (thus ../). c) Creating Redhat packages You need to have the rpmbuild tool installed and properly configured to create RPM packages. To create the RPM packages do the following: * Get .spec file generated by ./configure and edit it as appropriate. * Copy the source tarball to "/usr/src//SOURCES" directory, where is dependent to the system you are using. For SuSE will be "packages", for Mandrake is "RPM" and for Redhat / Fedora always equals "redhat". * Build the rpm(s) by invoking 'rpmbuild -bb ' from the command line. On success, the resulting rpm(s) can usually be found under the proper "/usr/src//RPMS/" directory. Compilation on OSX : Stephane Letz (letz@grame.fr) -------------------------------------------------- The compilation on OSX currently uses an XCode project. - Download and install the JackOSX package (www.jackosx.com) - In the "osx" folder, possibly manually edit the version.h to change the version number - In the XCode project, build the "LinuxSampler" target