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* updated downloads site (new LS release 0.5.0 and new
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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>libgig</h2>
149 <p class="default">
150 libgig is a C++ library used to load and modify Gigasampler format files.
151 If you're a developer and might want to use libgig, here is its
152 <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/api/">API documentation</a>
153 (automatically daily updated from CVS).
154 </p>
155
156 <h2>liblscp</h2>
157 <p class="default">
158 liblscp is C library as convenient wrapper around the <i>LinuxSampler Control Protocol</i>.
159 If you're a developer and might want to use liblscp, here is its
160 <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/liblscp/">API documentation</a>
161 (automatically daily updated from CVS).
162 </p>
163
164 <h2>LSCP Reference</h2>
165 <p class="default">
166 The following documents define the <i>LinuxSampler Control Protocol</i>,
167 a network protocol with which LinuxSampler can be controlled locally as well as remotely.
168 As this is a simple ASCII based protocol it's possible to write a frontend for LinuxSampler in
169 any programming language and GUI library. There's still a big demand especially for a Gtk and
170 ncurses based frontend, so be encouraged and let
171 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</a> know if you wrote a frontend for
172 LinuxSampler!
173 </p>
174
175 <table class="decorated">
176 <thead>
177 <tr>
178 <td class="decorated_header">Protocol Name</td>
179 <td class="decorated_header">Document Types</td>
180 <td class="decorated_header">Release Date</td>
181 <td class="decorated_header">Description</td>
182 </tr>
183 </thead>
184 <tbody>
185 <tr>
186 <td class="decorated">LSCP&nbsp;draft</td>
187 <td class="decorated">
188 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.txt">TXT</a>,
189 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html">HTML</a>,
190 <a href="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/linuxsampler/Documentation/lscp.xml?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/xml">XML</a>
191 </td>
192 <td class="decorated">unreleased</td>
193 <td class="decorated">
194 Very latest draft of the protocol (which usually reflects the
195 latest development state from CVS or may even not be implemented
196 yet).
197 </td>
198 </tr>
199 <tr>
200 <td class="decorated">LSCP&nbsp;1.2</td>
201 <td class="decorated">
202 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.2.txt">TXT</a>,
203 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.2.html">HTML</a>,
204 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.2.xml">XML</a>
205 </td>
206 <td class="decorated">2007-10-15</td>
207 <td class="decorated">
208 Protocol specification of the latest official release of LinuxSampler (0.5.0).
209 </td>
210 </tr>
211 <tr>
212 <td class="decorated">LSCP&nbsp;1.1</td>
213 <td class="decorated">
214 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.1.txt">TXT</a>,
215 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.1.html">HTML</a>,
216 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.1.xml">XML</a>
217 </td>
218 <td class="decorated">2006-11-25</td>
219 <td class="decorated">
220 Protocol specification of the previous official release of LinuxSampler (0.4.0).
221 </td>
222 </tr>
223 <tr>
224 <td class="decorated">LSCP&nbsp;1.0</td>
225 <td class="decorated">
226 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.0.txt">TXT</a>,
227 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.0.html">HTML</a>,
228 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.0.xml">XML</a>
229 </td>
230 <td class="decorated">2005-07-17</td>
231 <td class="decorated">
232 Protocol specification of ancient LinuxSampler release 0.3.3.
233 </td>
234 </tr>
235 </tbody>
236 </table>
237
238 <p class="default">
239 The protocol will be extended from time to time. You may look at the
240 <a href="features.html#LSCP">features</a> site to see which control
241 commands are already implemented and which are not.
242 </p>
243
244
245 <a name="example_lscp_scripts">
246 <h3>Example LSCP scripts</h3>
247 <p class="default">
248 If you don't want / can't use a GUI frontend you will probably write some LSCP scripts for
249 using with linuxsampler to setup your needed sampler session. It follows some common LSCP
250 examples to give you a good starting point for writing your own ones. Adjust it to your needs
251 and send it to the running linuxsampler application with:
252 </p>
253 <pre class="code">cat yourscript.lscp | netcat localhost 8888</pre>
254 <p class="default">
255 Optionally you can also use a graphical frontend like QSampler one time to setup a working
256 sampler session for your needs and save it. Because you have to know that the files saved
257 by our frontends are actually pure LSCP scripts, thus you can i.e. use those files simply with
258 the mentioned netcat command from above to setup the sampler session without a frontend.
259 </p>
260 <p class="default">
261 Here is a simple LSCP example which uses ALSA as MIDI input and as audio output driver as well,
262 it creates only one sampler channel using the Gigasampler engine and loads a Piano instrument
263 on that sampler channel:
264 </p>
265 <pre class="code">#enable echo mode
266 SET ECHO 1
267
268 # load the ALSA audio driver
269 # (parameter CARD is optional, I use it here to select my 2nd sound card
270 # you can use 'GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO ALSA CARD' to get
271 # all available sound cards)
272 CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE ALSA CARD='1,0'
273
274 # load the ALSA MIDI driver
275 CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE ALSA
276
277 # connect my MIDI keyboard which has ALSA seq ID '72:0'
278 # (see 'aconnect -i' for the IDs of your MIDI devices
279 # or use 'GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER INFO 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS')
280 SET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS='72:0'
281
282 # setup a sampler channel
283 ADD CHANNEL
284 LOAD ENGINE gig 0
285 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 0 0
286 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 0 0
287 LOAD INSTRUMENT '/home/me/Gigs/PMI Steinway D.gig' 0 0
288
289 # finally show our channel setup (optional of course)
290 GET CHANNEL INFO 0
291
292 # quit connection
293 QUIT</pre>
294 <p class="default">
295 The next example uses JACK as audio output driver instead and automatically connects the two
296 output channels of LS's JACK client to the first two ALSA PCM channels, so you can hear
297 something without having to manually connect it e.g. with qjackctl:
298 </p>
299 <pre class="code">#enable echo mode
300 SET ECHO 1
301
302 # load the JACK audio driver
303 CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE JACK
304
305 # connect to ALSA playback JACK client so we can hear something
306 # (you can use 'GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER INFO 0 0 JACK_BINDINGS'
307 # to get all available JACK clients / ports)
308 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_1'
309 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 1 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_2'
310
311 # load the ALSA MIDI driver
312 CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE ALSA
313
314 # connect my MIDI keyboard which has ALSA seq ID '72:0'
315 # (see 'aconnect -i' for the IDs of your MIDI devices
316 # or use 'GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER INFO 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS')
317 SET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS='72:0'
318
319 # setup one sampler channel
320 ADD CHANNEL
321 LOAD ENGINE gig 0
322 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 0 0
323 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 0 0
324 LOAD INSTRUMENT '/home/me/Gigs/PMI Steinway D.gig' 0 0
325
326 # finally show our channel setup (optional of course)
327 GET CHANNEL INFO 0
328
329 # quit connection
330 QUIT</pre>
331 <p class="default">
332 The next example is a bit more complex.
333 It shows how to setup a more realistic sampler session, handle routing of MIDI input channels,
334 handle routing of audio channels, it uses JACK again as audio
335 output driver, but creates the JACK client with four output channels instead, it creates two
336 sampler channels, loads two different instrument on those two sampler channels and alters
337 the audio channel routing so that the two output channels of sampler channel 1 are routed to
338 the first two JACK output channels and the two output channels of sampler channel 2 are routed
339 the second pair of the JACK client's output channels. That way you could e.g. record the output
340 of those two sampler channels independently or apply independent LADSPA effects on it.
341 </p>
342 <pre class="code"># enable echo mode
343 SET ECHO 1
344
345 # load audio and MIDI driver
346 CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE JACK
347 CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE ALSA
348
349 # increase the amount of output channels of the LS"s Jack client e.g. to 4
350 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER 0 CHANNELS=4
351
352 # connect to MIDI keyboard
353 SET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS="64:0"
354
355 # set up 1st sampler channel (using default output channels, that is 0 and 1)
356 ADD CHANNEL
357 LOAD ENGINE gig 0
358 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 0 0
359 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 0 0
360 LOAD INSTRUMENT "/somedir/The Bosendorfer Imperial Grand Version 2.2.gig" 0 0
361 SET CHANNEL VOLUME 0 0.40
362 # by default every sampler channel / engine listens to ALL MIDI channels
363 # but for multi channel setup it makes sense to distinguish the inputs, so
364 # let sampler channel 0 listen to MIDI channel 0 (instead of ALL)
365 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL 0 0
366
367 # set up 2nd sampler channel (using output channels 2 and 3)
368 ADD CHANNEL
369 LOAD ENGINE gig 1
370 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 1 0
371 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 1 0
372 LOAD INSTRUMENT "/home/me/Gigs/NemeSys_1GB_Grand.gig" 0 1
373 SET CHANNEL VOLUME 1 0.40
374 # let sampler channel 1 listen to MIDI channel 1 (instead of ALL)
375 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL 1 1
376 # this will alter the audio channel routing
377 # connect the engines output channel 0 to JACK clients output 2
378 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL 1 0 2
379 # connect the engines output channel 1 to JACK clients output 3
380 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL 1 1 3
381
382 # automatic connection between the four 4 ports of LS's Jack client and the
383 # ALSA PCM JACK client (assuming your sound card has at least 4 outputs ;-)
384 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_1'
385 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 1 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_2'
386 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 2 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_3'
387 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 3 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_4'
388
389 # not necessary, just to see our setup
390 GET CHANNEL INFO 0
391 GET CHANNEL INFO 1</pre>
392 <p class="default">
393 For a detailed description about LSCP read the <a href="api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html">LSCP reference</a>.
394 Be welcome to ask details on the mailing list.
395 </p>
396
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