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  <h2><center>LinuxSampler for Mac OS X &nbsp; <img src="gfx/logos/apple.png"> &nbsp; HOWTO by Toshi Nagata&nbsp;</center></h2>
  <br>
- <center>December&nbsp;18th,&nbsp;2007</center><br>
+ <center>January&nbsp;6th,&nbsp;2008</center><br>
  <div style="background-color: #F4F4FF; margin: 1em 3em 1em 3em; padding: 1em 1em 1em 2.2em;">
  <a href="#intro">1.&nbsp; Introduction</a><br>
  <a href="#requirements">2.&nbsp; Requirements</a><br>
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  <a href="#houston">5.&nbsp; Installation Troubleshooting</a><br>
  <a href="#docs">6.&nbsp; Detailed Documentation</a><br>
  <a href="#bugs">7.&nbsp; Bugs, Problems and Feature Requests</a><br>
- <a href="#contact">8.&nbsp; Contact</a><br>
+ <a href="#contact">8.&nbsp; Credits</a><br>
+ <a href="#contact">9.&nbsp; Contact</a><br>
  </div>
  <a name="intro"></a>
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 available on OS X yet. Of course you can
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 available on OS X yet. Of course you can
  connected over the network to your OS X box or you could try to run it in a windows
  virtual machine. We discourage running a virtual machine along with the sampler
  as both applicationes are very CPU and RAM hungry therefore the performance
- of LinuxSampler will be suboptimal.
+ of LinuxSampler will be suboptimal.<br>
+ <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/pix/screenshots/osx_qsampler_0_2_1.jpg">
+  <img src="screenshots/osx_qsampler_0_2_1_preview.png">
+ </a>
  <a name="requirements"></a>
  <h3>2.&nbsp; Requirements</h3>
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 of LinuxSampler will be suboptimal.
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 of LinuxSampler will be suboptimal.
  <a name="installation"></a>
  <h3>3.a&nbsp; Installation</h3>
- Simply download the latest version of the LinuxSampler Mac OS X installer
+ <ol>
- from the <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">LinuxSampler
+   <li>Install <A HREF="http://www.jackosx.com">JackOSX</A>
- Download Page</a>, <br>
+   (if you don't have it already).
-  and mount it on Finder. You
+   </li>
- will find a single folder "linuxsampler051-mac-20080102". Copy this
+   <li>Download the latest version of the LinuxSampler Mac OS X installer
- folder to wherever you like (e.g. under /Applications).
+   from the <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">LinuxSampler
- <br>
+   Download Page</a>, and mount it on Finder.
+   </li>
+   <li>You will find a single folder "linuxsampler051-mac-20080102". Copy this
+   folder to wherever you like (e.g. under /Applications).
+   </li>
+ </ol>
+ <a name="using"></a>
+ <h3>4.&nbsp; Using the Applications</h3>
  The folder contains three items, "bin", "linuxsampler" and
- "qsampler". Double-click on qsampler. The application launches, and you
+ "qsampler".
+ <ol>
+ <li>Start qsampler.app. The application launches, and you
  will see messages saying that linuxsampler is now running. After a
  while, you will also see that the JackPilot application (installed by
  the JackOSX installer) automatically launches showing the Jack server
  already running.
+ </li>
+ <li>
- <a name="using"></a>
+ Since CoreMIDI is sometimes too slow to respond when creating a new MIDI device.
- <h3>4.&nbsp; Using the Applications</h3>
+ so you need to increase "Timeout" parameter in the
- Now that we installed everything, let's get wet and start the applications:
+ Options:Server Settings to, 10000 msec.
- <ol>
+ </li>
-   <li>Start QSampler, the GUI frontend. It should automatically start LinuxSampler the backend application</li>
  </ol>
- </div>
  <a name="setup_midi"></a>
  <h3>4.1&nbsp; Setting up MIDI Input</h3>
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 LinuxSampler currently only supports the
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 LinuxSampler currently only supports the
  on Mac OS X.
  Click on AUDIO devices icon and then on Create.
  <br>
- <br>
+ You can of course save and load sampler session as LSCP files which will
+ automaticall set up audio and midi devices and load samples into the channel strips.
+ <ol>
+  <li>
+  Connect audio ports:
+  In the "Connections Manager" pane of JackPilot: linuxsampler --> Built-in audio: in1 & in2
+  or
+  In the "Connections" window of qjackctl: linuxsampler --> coreaudio<br>
+    <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/pix/screenshots/osx_qjackctl.jpg">
+     <img src="screenshots/osx_qjackctl_preview.png">
+    </a>
+  </li>
+  <li>
+  Start MIDI Patchbay.app and connect your MIDI Input instance (probably your MIDI interface or USB-enabled keyboard) to  the "LinuxSampler_in_0"
+  MIDI Output<br>
+    <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/pix/screenshots/osx_patchbay.jpg">
+     <img src="screenshots/osx_patchbay_preview.png">
+    </a>
+  </li>
+ </ol>
  <a name="load_samples"></a>
  <h3>4.3&nbsp; Loading Samples</h3>
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 Audio device, MIDI device, MIDI port and
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 Audio device, MIDI device, MIDI port and
  Click OK.
  <a name="houston"></a>
  <h3>5.&nbsp; Installation Troubleshooting</h3>
+ TODO
  <a name="docs"></a>
  <h3>6.&nbsp; Detailed Documentation</h3>
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 gracefully, and I need to do "Force Quit
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 gracefully, and I need to do "Force Quit
  linuxsampler subprocess is still running and I need to stop it by
  "killall linuxsampler".
  </li>
  </ul>
+ <a name="credits"></a>
+ <h3>8.&nbsp; Credits</h3>
+ Thanks to Stephane Letz (Initial OS X port) and  Ebrahim Mayat (OSX Howto fixes, testing, screenshots)
  <a name="contact"></a>
- <h3>8.&nbsp; Contact</h3>
+ <h3>9.&nbsp; Contact</h3>
  If you have questions or want to help us to improve the sampler,
  subscribe to the <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">
  LinuxSampler Developer's mailing list</a>.
  <br><br>
  That's it, enjoy!<br>
  <br>

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