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103 <h1><span class="hidden">The LinuxSampler Project</span></h1>
104
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123
124 <h2>Documentation</h2>
125 <p class="default">
126 This is still quite under construction. Be welcome to help us with writing some documentation!
127 </p>
128
129 <h2>gigedit</h2>
130 <p class="default">
131 This is our graphical instrument editor based on the Gtk toolkit.
132 It can be used stand-alone or in conjunction with LinuxSampler.
133 Read the <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html">Gigedit Quickstart</a>
134 for a short tutorial. Please notice that this quickstart document
135 is automatically generated from CVS and thus might reflect
136 features and behaviors only available in the very latest, bleeding
137 edge development version of gigedit from CVS.
138 </p>
139
140 <h2>JSampler</h2>
141 <p class="default">
142 JSampler is an opensource, platform-independent,
143 GUI front-end for LinuxSampler, written entirely in Java.
144 Read the <a href="jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html">JSampler manual</a>
145 for more information.
146 </p>
147
148 <h2>LSCP Reference</h2>
149 <p class="default">
150 The following documents define the <i>LinuxSampler Control Protocol</i>,
151 a network protocol with which LinuxSampler can be controlled locally as well as remotely.
152 As this is a simple ASCII based protocol it's possible to write a frontend for LinuxSampler in
153 any programming language and GUI library. There's still a big demand especially for a Gtk and
154 ncurses based frontend, so be encouraged and let
155 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</a> know if you wrote a frontend for
156 LinuxSampler!
157 </p>
158
159 <table class="decorated">
160 <thead>
161 <tr>
162 <td class="decorated_header">Protocol Name</td>
163 <td class="decorated_header">Document Types</td>
164 <td class="decorated_header">Description</td>
165 </tr>
166 </thead>
167 <tbody>
168 <tr>
169 <td class="decorated">LSCP&nbsp;1.0</td>
170 <td class="decorated">
171 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.0.txt">ASCII</a>,
172 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.0.html">HTML</a>,
173 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.0.xml">XML</a>
174 </td>
175 <td class="decorated">
176 Protocol specification of the old official release of LinuxSampler (0.3.3).
177 </td>
178 </tr>
179 <tr>
180 <td class="decorated">LSCP&nbsp;1.1</td>
181 <td class="decorated">
182 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.1.txt">ASCII</a>,
183 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.1.html">HTML</a>,
184 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.1.xml">XML</a>
185 </td>
186 <td class="decorated">
187 Protocol specification of the latest official release of LinuxSampler (0.4.0).
188 </td>
189 </tr>
190 <tr>
191 <td class="decorated">LSCP&nbsp;draft</td>
192 <td class="decorated">
193 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.txt">ASCII</a>,
194 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html">HTML</a>,
195 <a href="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/linuxsampler/Documentation/lscp.xml?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/xml">XML</a>
196 </td>
197 <td class="decorated">
198 Very latest draft of the protocol (which usually reflects the
199 latest development state from CVS or may even not be implemented
200 yet).
201 </td>
202 </tr>
203 </tbody>
204 </table>
205
206 <p class="default">
207 The protocol will be extended from time to time. You may look at the
208 <a href="features.html#LSCP">features</a> site to see which control
209 commands are already implemented and which are not.
210 </p>
211
212
213 <a name="example_lscp_scripts">
214 <h3>Example LSCP scripts</h3>
215 <p class="default">
216 If you don't want / can't use a GUI frontend you will probably write some LSCP scripts for
217 using with linuxsampler to setup your needed sampler session. It follows some common LSCP
218 examples to give you a good starting point for writing your own ones. Adjust it to your needs
219 and send it to the running linuxsampler application with:
220 </p>
221 <pre class="code">cat yourscript.lscp | netcat localhost 8888</pre>
222 <p class="default">
223 Optionally you can also use a graphical frontend like QSampler one time to setup a working
224 sampler session for your needs and save it. Because you have to know that the files saved
225 by our frontends are actually pure LSCP scripts, thus you can i.e. use those files simply with
226 the mentioned netcat command from above to setup the sampler session without a frontend.
227 </p>
228 <p class="default">
229 Here is a simple LSCP example which uses ALSA as MIDI input and as audio output driver as well,
230 it creates only one sampler channel using the Gigasampler engine and loads a Piano instrument
231 on that sampler channel:
232 </p>
233 <pre class="code">#enable echo mode
234 SET ECHO 1
235
236 # load the ALSA audio driver
237 # (parameter CARD is optional, I use it here to select my 2nd sound card
238 # you can use 'GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO ALSA CARD' to get
239 # all available sound cards)
240 CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE ALSA CARD='1,0'
241
242 # load the ALSA MIDI driver
243 CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE ALSA
244
245 # connect my MIDI keyboard which has ALSA seq ID '72:0'
246 # (see 'aconnect -i' for the IDs of your MIDI devices
247 # or use 'GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER INFO 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS')
248 SET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS='72:0'
249
250 # setup a sampler channel
251 ADD CHANNEL
252 LOAD ENGINE gig 0
253 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 0 0
254 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 0 0
255 LOAD INSTRUMENT '/home/me/Gigs/PMI Steinway D.gig' 0 0
256
257 # finally show our channel setup (optional of course)
258 GET CHANNEL INFO 0
259
260 # quit connection
261 QUIT</pre>
262 <p class="default">
263 The next example uses JACK as audio output driver instead and automatically connects the two
264 output channels of LS's JACK client to the first two ALSA PCM channels, so you can hear
265 something without having to manually connect it e.g. with qjackctl:
266 </p>
267 <pre class="code">#enable echo mode
268 SET ECHO 1
269
270 # load the JACK audio driver
271 CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE JACK
272
273 # connect to ALSA playback JACK client so we can hear something
274 # (you can use 'GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER INFO 0 0 JACK_BINDINGS'
275 # to get all available JACK clients / ports)
276 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_1'
277 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 1 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_2'
278
279 # load the ALSA MIDI driver
280 CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE ALSA
281
282 # connect my MIDI keyboard which has ALSA seq ID '72:0'
283 # (see 'aconnect -i' for the IDs of your MIDI devices
284 # or use 'GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER INFO 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS')
285 SET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS='72:0'
286
287 # setup one sampler channel
288 ADD CHANNEL
289 LOAD ENGINE gig 0
290 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 0 0
291 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 0 0
292 LOAD INSTRUMENT '/home/me/Gigs/PMI Steinway D.gig' 0 0
293
294 # finally show our channel setup (optional of course)
295 GET CHANNEL INFO 0
296
297 # quit connection
298 QUIT</pre>
299 <p class="default">
300 The next example is a bit more complex.
301 It shows how to setup a more realistic sampler session, handle routing of MIDI input channels,
302 handle routing of audio channels, it uses JACK again as audio
303 output driver, but creates the JACK client with four output channels instead, it creates two
304 sampler channels, loads two different instrument on those two sampler channels and alters
305 the audio channel routing so that the two output channels of sampler channel 1 are routed to
306 the first two JACK output channels and the two output channels of sampler channel 2 are routed
307 the second pair of the JACK client's output channels. That way you could e.g. record the output
308 of those two sampler channels independently or apply independent LADSPA effects on it.
309 </p>
310 <pre class="code"># enable echo mode
311 SET ECHO 1
312
313 # load audio and MIDI driver
314 CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE JACK
315 CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE ALSA
316
317 # increase the amount of output channels of the LS"s Jack client e.g. to 4
318 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER 0 CHANNELS=4
319
320 # connect to MIDI keyboard
321 SET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS="64:0"
322
323 # set up 1st sampler channel (using default output channels, that is 0 and 1)
324 ADD CHANNEL
325 LOAD ENGINE gig 0
326 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 0 0
327 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 0 0
328 LOAD INSTRUMENT "/somedir/The Bosendorfer Imperial Grand Version 2.2.gig" 0 0
329 SET CHANNEL VOLUME 0 0.40
330 # by default every sampler channel / engine listens to ALL MIDI channels
331 # but for multi channel setup it makes sense to distinguish the inputs, so
332 # let sampler channel 0 listen to MIDI channel 0 (instead of ALL)
333 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL 0 0
334
335 # set up 2nd sampler channel (using output channels 2 and 3)
336 ADD CHANNEL
337 LOAD ENGINE gig 1
338 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 1 0
339 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 1 0
340 LOAD INSTRUMENT "/home/me/Gigs/NemeSys_1GB_Grand.gig" 0 1
341 SET CHANNEL VOLUME 1 0.40
342 # let sampler channel 1 listen to MIDI channel 1 (instead of ALL)
343 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL 1 1
344 # this will alter the audio channel routing
345 # connect the engines output channel 0 to JACK clients output 2
346 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL 1 0 2
347 # connect the engines output channel 1 to JACK clients output 3
348 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL 1 1 3
349
350 # automatic connection between the four 4 ports of LS's Jack client and the
351 # ALSA PCM JACK client (assuming your sound card has at least 4 outputs ;-)
352 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_1'
353 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 1 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_2'
354 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 2 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_3'
355 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 3 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_4'
356
357 # not necessary, just to see our setup
358 GET CHANNEL INFO 0
359 GET CHANNEL INFO 1</pre>
360 <p class="default">
361 For a detailed description about LSCP read the <a href="api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html">LSCP reference</a>.
362 Be welcome to ask details on the mailing list.
363 </p>
364
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