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<h2><center>LinuxSampler for Windows &nbsp; <img src="gfx/logos/windows.png"> &nbsp; HOWTO by Benno Senoner&nbsp;</center></h2>
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<center>December&nbsp;13th,&nbsp;2007</center><br>
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<a href="#intro">1.&nbsp; Introduction</a><br>
<a href="#requirements">2.&nbsp; Requirements</a><br>
3.&nbsp; Installation ...<br>
<a href="#install_w_inet">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.a&nbsp; with Internet Connection</a><br>
<a href="#install_wo_inet">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.b&nbsp; without Internet</a><br>
<a href="#using">4.&nbsp; Using the Applications</a><br>
<a href="#setup_midi">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.1&nbsp; Setting up MIDI Input</a><br>
<a href="#setup_audio">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.2&nbsp; Setting up Audio Output</a><br>
<a href="#load_samples">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.3&nbsp; Loading Samples</a><br>
<a href="#save_session">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.4&nbsp; Saving a Sampler Session</a><br>
<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>
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<a name="intro"></a>
<h3>1.&nbsp; Introduction</h3>
The LinuxSampler development team is happy to announce that
LinuxSampler, the most advanced free, open source sampler finally runs on
MS Windows too. More information will be added here soon, so check back frequently.<br>
<br>
For now the sampler supports the Windows Multimedia Extensions System (MME)
for MIDI input and ASIO for audio out. This means it currently runs only
as a standalone application. A VST interface will follow soon, along with
a network module to run multiple sampler slaves distributed on Windows or
Linux machines (Linux provides better performance) all controlled from a
Windows box i.e. running the VST sequencer.<br>
<br>
LinuxSampler is implemented as a client/server application. This means
the sampling engine (the server / backend) runs
independently from the GUI (the client / frontend). Sampling engine and
client can be run on the same box or on different machines too, connected
over the network.<br>
<br>
The MS Windows version provides all the features of the Linux version
(except of the instruments DB feature yet) since it is built from the
same source code base. This means when new features will come out the
Windows version will usually provide the same feature set as the Linux
version. This was made possible by the very modular design of both
low level, operating system functions and flexible audio / MIDI driver
system.<br>
<br>
The Windows version comes as a self extracting .exe file which will
install all the necessary modules to run both the server ( linuxsampler.exe )
and the GUI client. It installs 2 GUI clients:
<ul>
  <li>One is <b>QSampler</b>, a light-weight frontend based on the
      cross-platform Qt4 GUI toolkit with native OS GUI widgets</li>
  <li>Another is <b>JSampler "Fantasia"</b>, a Java based GUI client called,
      providing a modern skin-based user interface</li>
</ul>
At the moment JSampler is more advanced than QSampler as it implements all
the functionality present in the LinuxSampler engine. Due to the Java
virtual machine however it occupies a bit more RAM than the
QSsampler GUI (around 30MB or so) and takes a bit longer for startup,
but on a 1GB+ RAM box the difference should be negligible.

<a name="requirements"></a>
<h3>2.&nbsp; Requirements</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Windows 2000, ME, XP or Vista</li>
  <li><a href="http://www.gtk.org/">GTK+</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe?modtime=1175123376&big_mirror=0">version 2.10.11</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="http://www.gtkmm.org/">gtkmm</a> (<a href="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe">version 2.10.11</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(Sun)">Java Runtime Environment</a> (<a href="http://www.java.com/getjava/">version 6</a>)</a></li>
  <li>sound card with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Stream_Input/Output">ASIO</a> driver</li>
</ul>
<a name="asio_tip"></a>
<b>Tip:</b> For consumer audio cards which do not come with their own ASIO
drivers you can install <a href="http://www.asio4all.com/">ASIO4ALL</a> to be
able to use LinuxSampler with your soundcard.
We recommend to use version 2.7, perhaps on Vista 2.8beta1 works better but
we did not perform tests on Vista so we cannot tell it. Please let us know
about your results so we can share them here!

<a name="install_w_inet"></a>
<h3>3.a&nbsp; Installation with Internet Connection</h3>
Simply download the latest version of the LinuxSampler Windows installer
from the <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">LinuxSampler
Download Page</a>, execute the installer and follow the instructions. It will
automatically detect if the required software components are already installed.
If not, it will download them from the internet and install them on your
computer.

<a name="install_wo_inet"></a>
<h3>3.b&nbsp; Installation without Internet</h3>
First download the required components with a machine which has connection to
the internet:
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe?modtime=1175123376&big_mirror=0">gtk+ 2.10.11</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe">gtkmm 2.10.11</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.java.com/getjava/">Java Runtime Environment 6</a></li>
  <li>and of course the latest <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">
     LinuxSampler Windows installer</a></li>
</ul>
Transfer the downloaded files to the computer where you want to install
LinuxSampler and install them in the following order:
<ol>
  <li>gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe</li>
  <li>gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe</li>
  <li>jre-6u2-windows-i586-p.exe</li>
  <li>linuxsampler_20071207_setup.exe</li>
</ol>
The order is important, since the components depend on each other and would
otherwise try to download the missing component from the internet.

<a name="using"></a>
<h3>4.&nbsp; Using the Applications</h3>
Now that we installed everything, let's get wet and start the applications:
<ol>
  <li>First start the LinuxSampler backend: Click on <i>"Start" ->
      "LinuxSampler" -> "LinuxSampler 0.5.1 (backend)"</i>. A black console
      window should immediately popup. It does what you think it does:
      nothing ... yet ... because this is "just" the raw sampler, without a
      user interface.</li>
  <li>Now start a "frontend" application to actually control the previously
      started sampler. For beginners and / or unpatient people, we recommend
      you to use JSampler: Click on <i>"Start" -> "LinuxSampler" ->
      "JSampler 'Fantasia' 0.8a (frontend)"</i>. This usually takes about
      20 seconds or so until the application finally appears on the
      screens.</li>
</ol>
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<a name="setup_midi"></a>
<h3>4.1&nbsp; Setting up MIDI Input</h3>
Once the GUI opens, click on the left round button in the MIDI devices
tab.
At this point a window will open where you can create a new MIDI device.
Press Create. The window will close and the MIDI device will be created.
(MIDI Device 0 MME).
Now click on the right arrow which points downwards.
You can see that a MIDI device with a single Port (Port 0) was created.
Under Windows MME LinuxSampler always creates MIDI devices which are
connected to a single MME port.
To select the MIDI input port you must click on the field located on
the left of PORT.
A combobox pops-up where you can select the Windows MIDI port.<br>
<br>
You can create an arbitrary number of MIDI input devices by repeating
the procedure above.
Each MIDI input device is connected to a single Windows MME MIDI port.
This means LinuxSampler has no limitation in terms of number of MIDI
ports.
Each MIDI device can be routed to arbitrary sampler channels.

<a name="setup_audio"></a>
<h3>4.2&nbsp; Setting up Audio Output</h3>
LinuxSampler currently only supports the ASIO driver model for audio output
on Windows. ASIO drivers ensure reliable low-latency operation and are
virtually available for any soundcard (see <a href="#asio_tip">
ASIO requirements tip</a>).<br>
<br>
Click on the left round button in the Audio Devices tab.
At this point a window will open where you can create a new MIDI device.
When creating the Audio device you can set several parameters:
<ul>
  <li><b>CARD</b> : The name of the soundcard, in case you have multiple cards
      installed. It will show the default value (first card found).</li>
  <li><b>CHANNELS</b> : Number of audio output channels, can range from 1 to
      maximum number of channels your soundcard supports. We recommend to
      leave the default value which is the maximum number of channels your
      soundcard supports.</li>
  <li><b>FRAGMENTSIZE</b> : ASIO buffer size in samples. The card's default
      value is shown. If you experience clicks and pops during audio
      playback then initialize the audio output device with bigger values.
      (better if it's always a power of 2:&nbsp; e.g. 256, 512, 1024)</li>
  <li><b>SAMPLERATE</b> : Sets the samplerate. The default value is shown.<br>
</ul>
Now Press "Create". The window will close and the Audio device will be
created: "AUDIO DEVICE 0 (ASIO)" appears.

<a name="load_samples"></a>
<h3>4.3&nbsp; Loading Samples</h3>
In the middle of the screen below the volume slider, you see the sampler
channel strip pane. press on the round button located on the left.
This will create a new sampler channel. Click on "Load Instrument".
This opens a dialog which allows you to select an instrument to be
loaded in the sampler channel

(for information on how to use "orchestras" <a
 href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html#USING_ORCHESTRAS">click
here</a>, but note: orchestras, a.k.a "instruments database" is not yet supported in this
first Windows version of LinuxSampler, but will certainly be on the next Windows release).

On the row&nbsp; "Select instrument from file" click on the orange icon
located on the right side. This opens a file dialog which allows you to
select a sample to be loaded
(currently only the GIG format is supported).
Select the sample to be loaded and then click on "Open".
At this point the fields Instrument file shows the filename.
You can click on the Instrument index and select the specific
instrument contained in the instrument file. Now press "OK".<br>
<br>
While it loads you see: "Loading" .. "90%" .. "100%" <br>
<br>
Once loaded, you see the Instrument's name: i.e.&nbsp;"FreePiano"<br>
<br>
On the left side of the sampler channel click on the arrow below
"Options".
This pane permits to set MIDI input device, port and channel and oudio
output channel.
Notice that under Windows MME the Port value is always 0.
So the only values you can change is "MIDI device" (normally 0 if you
created only a single
MIDI input device) and the MIDI channel (from 1 to 16).

<a name="save_session"></a>
<h3>4.4&nbsp; Saving a Sampler Session</h3>
Click on the 3rd icon from the left on the row where you see the round
icon with the LinuxSampler "S"-shape logo.
Now select the directory where you want to save the file to (extension
.lscp = <i>Linux Sampler Control Protocol</i>).
Enter the name and press save (add .lscp at end of file otherwise you
will not see it in the file-open dialog later, when you want to load it again).<br>
<br>
Next time you can load a sampler session by clicking on the second icon
from the left, then select a .lscp file in the file dialog and press "Open".
This will automatically set up the MIDI devices and audio devices,
create the sampler channels and load all the samples that were previously
loaded by you in the saved sampler session.

<a name="houston"></a>
<h3>5.&nbsp; Installation Troubleshooting</h3>
It could happen that due to previous installations of Gtk+ and gtkmm DLLs
even after deinstallation leave some stale keys in the windows registry which
could fool the installer into
believing that the needed DLLs are already installed therefore skipping
its installation which will
cause the sampler not being able to start due to the missing DLLs.
We recommend in this case to install gtk+ and gtkmm manually as described
above in "<a href="#install_wo_inet">Installation without Internet</a>".
Just install those mentioned Gtk+ and gtkmm versions and then LinuxSampler
should work correctly.

<a name="docs"></a>
<h3>6.&nbsp; Detailed Documentation</h3>
You find more detailed documentation about our software, i.e. about JSampler
or gigedit on our official <a href="http://linuxsampler.org/documentation.html">
LinuxSampler documentation site</a>.

<a name="bugs"></a>
<h3>7.&nbsp; Bugs, Problems and Feature Requests</h3>
Since the Windows port of LinuxSampler is very young, there could be several
bugs which we hope to root out soon.
Please report them using our bug tracking system:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org/">http://bugs.linuxsampler.org/</a><br>
<br>
Some bugs and problems I discovered so far:
<ul>
  <li>when adding a channel there noises could occur while playing on other
  channels</li>
  <li>if you overload the sampler (CPU overload or disk overload) it
  produces noises</li>
  <li>when editing an instrument using gigedit, after saving it, it could
  happen that LinuxSampler does not accept commands from the GUI anymore.
  if this happens close the GUI and the LinuxSampler console window and
  restart both.</li>
</ul>

<a name="contact"></a>
<h3>8.&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>. Alternatively, since I did most
of of the Windows porting, you can write me (Benno) directly about Windows
related issues. You can find my email address here:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html</a>
<br><br>
That's it, enjoy!<br>
<br>

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11	schoenebeck	1593	<h2><center>LinuxSampler for Windows   <img src="gfx/logos/windows.png">   HOWTO by Benno Senoner </center></h2>
12	senoner	1575	<br>
13	schoenebeck	1593	<center>December 13th, 2007</center><br>
14			<div style="background-color: #F4F4FF; margin: 1em 3em 1em 3em; padding: 1em 1em 1em 2.2em;">
15			<a href="#intro">1.  Introduction</a><br>
16			<a href="#requirements">2.  Requirements</a><br>
17			3.  Installation ...<br>
18			<a href="#install_w_inet">    3.a  with Internet Connection</a><br>
19			<a href="#install_wo_inet">    3.b  without Internet</a><br>
20			<a href="#using">4.  Using the Applications</a><br>
21			<a href="#setup_midi">    4.1  Setting up MIDI Input</a><br>
22			<a href="#setup_audio">    4.2  Setting up Audio Output</a><br>
23			<a href="#load_samples">    4.3  Loading Samples</a><br>
24			<a href="#save_session">    4.4  Saving a Sampler Session</a><br>
25			<a href="#houston">5.  Installation Troubleshooting</a><br>
26			<a href="#docs">6.  Detailed Documentation</a><br>
27			<a href="#bugs">7.  Bugs, Problems and Feature Requests</a><br>
28			<a href="#contact">8.  Contact</a><br>
29			</div>
30
31			<a name="intro"></a>
32			<h3>1.  Introduction</h3>
33			The LinuxSampler development team is happy to announce that
34			LinuxSampler, the most advanced free, open source sampler finally runs on
35			MS Windows too. More information will be added here soon, so check back frequently.<br>
36	senoner	1575	<br>
37	schoenebeck	1593	For now the sampler supports the Windows Multimedia Extensions System (MME)
38			for MIDI input and ASIO for audio out. This means it currently runs only
39			as a standalone application. A VST interface will follow soon, along with
40			a network module to run multiple sampler slaves distributed on Windows or
41			Linux machines (Linux provides better performance) all controlled from a
42			Windows box i.e. running the VST sequencer.<br>
43	senoner	1575	<br>
44			LinuxSampler is implemented as a client/server application. This means
45	schoenebeck	1593	the sampling engine (the server / backend) runs
46			independently from the GUI (the client / frontend). Sampling engine and
47			client can be run on the same box or on different machines too, connected
48			over the network.<br>
49	senoner	1575	<br>
50			The MS Windows version provides all the features of the Linux version
51	schoenebeck	1593	(except of the instruments DB feature yet) since it is built from the
52	senoner	1575	same source code base. This means when new features will come out the
53	schoenebeck	1593	Windows version will usually provide the same feature set as the Linux
54			version. This was made possible by the very modular design of both
55			low level, operating system functions and flexible audio / MIDI driver
56	senoner	1575	system.<br>
57			<br>
58			The Windows version comes as a self extracting .exe file which will
59	schoenebeck	1593	install all the necessary modules to run both the server ( linuxsampler.exe )
60			and the GUI client. It installs 2 GUI clients:
61			<ul>
62			<li>One is <b>QSampler</b>, a light-weight frontend based on the
63			cross-platform Qt4 GUI toolkit with native OS GUI widgets</li>
64			<li>Another is <b>JSampler "Fantasia"</b>, a Java based GUI client called,
65			providing a modern skin-based user interface</li>
66			</ul>
67			At the moment JSampler is more advanced than QSampler as it implements all
68			the functionality present in the LinuxSampler engine. Due to the Java
69			virtual machine however it occupies a bit more RAM than the
70			QSsampler GUI (around 30MB or so) and takes a bit longer for startup,
71			but on a 1GB+ RAM box the difference should be negligible.
72
73			<a name="requirements"></a>
74			<h3>2.  Requirements</h3>
75			<ul>
76			<li>Windows 2000, ME, XP or Vista</li>
77			<li><a href="http://www.gtk.org/">GTK+</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe?modtime=1175123376&big_mirror=0">version 2.10.11</a>)</li>
78			<li><a href="http://www.gtkmm.org/">gtkmm</a> (<a href="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe">version 2.10.11</a>)</li>
79			<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(Sun)">Java Runtime Environment</a> (<a href="http://www.java.com/getjava/">version 6</a>)</a></li>
80			<li>sound card with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Stream_Input/Output">ASIO</a> driver</li>
81			</ul>
82			<a name="asio_tip"></a>
83			<b>Tip:</b> For consumer audio cards which do not come with their own ASIO
84			drivers you can install <a href="http://www.asio4all.com/">ASIO4ALL</a> to be
85			able to use LinuxSampler with your soundcard.
86			We recommend to use version 2.7, perhaps on Vista 2.8beta1 works better but
87			we did not perform tests on Vista so we cannot tell it. Please let us know
88			about your results so we can share them here!
89
90			<a name="install_w_inet"></a>
91			<h3>3.a  Installation with Internet Connection</h3>
92			Simply download the latest version of the LinuxSampler Windows installer
93			from the <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">LinuxSampler
94			Download Page</a>, execute the installer and follow the instructions. It will
95			automatically detect if the required software components are already installed.
96			If not, it will download them from the internet and install them on your
97			computer.
98
99			<a name="install_wo_inet"></a>
100			<h3>3.b  Installation without Internet</h3>
101			First download the required components with a machine which has connection to
102			the internet:
103			<ul>
104			<li><a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe?modtime=1175123376&big_mirror=0">gtk+ 2.10.11</a></li>
105			<li><a href="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe">gtkmm 2.10.11</a></li>
106			<li><a href="http://www.java.com/getjava/">Java Runtime Environment 6</a></li>
107			<li>and of course the latest <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">
108			LinuxSampler Windows installer</a></li>
109			</ul>
110			Transfer the downloaded files to the computer where you want to install
111			LinuxSampler and install them in the following order:
112			<ol>
113			<li>gtk-2.10.11-win32-1.exe</li>
114			<li>gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.10.11-1.exe</li>
115			<li>jre-6u2-windows-i586-p.exe</li>
116			<li>linuxsampler_20071207_setup.exe</li>
117			</ol>
118			The order is important, since the components depend on each other and would
119			otherwise try to download the missing component from the internet.
120
121			<a name="using"></a>
122			<h3>4.  Using the Applications</h3>
123			Now that we installed everything, let's get wet and start the applications:
124			<ol>
125			<li>First start the LinuxSampler backend: Click on <i>"Start" ->
126			"LinuxSampler" -> "LinuxSampler 0.5.1 (backend)"</i>. A black console
127			window should immediately popup. It does what you think it does:
128			nothing ... yet ... because this is "just" the raw sampler, without a
129			user interface.</li>
130			<li>Now start a "frontend" application to actually control the previously
131			started sampler. For beginners and / or unpatient people, we recommend
132			you to use JSampler: Click on <i>"Start" -> "LinuxSampler" ->
133			"JSampler 'Fantasia' 0.8a (frontend)"</i>. This usually takes about
134			20 seconds or so until the application finally appears on the
135			screens.</li>
136			</ol>
137			</div>
138
139			<a name="setup_midi"></a>
140			<h3>4.1  Setting up MIDI Input</h3>
141			Once the GUI opens, click on the left round button in the MIDI devices
142			tab.
143			At this point a window will open where you can create a new MIDI device.
144			Press Create. The window will close and the MIDI device will be created.
145			(MIDI Device 0 MME).
146			Now click on the right arrow which points downwards.
147			You can see that a MIDI device with a single Port (Port 0) was created.
148	senoner	1575	Under Windows MME LinuxSampler always creates MIDI devices which are
149	schoenebeck	1593	connected to a single MME port.
150	senoner	1575	To select the MIDI input port you must click on the field located on
151	schoenebeck	1593	the left of PORT.
152	senoner	1575	A combobox pops-up where you can select the Windows MIDI port.<br>
153			<br>
154			You can create an arbitrary number of MIDI input devices by repeating
155	schoenebeck	1593	the procedure above.
156			Each MIDI input device is connected to a single Windows MME MIDI port.
157	senoner	1575	This means LinuxSampler has no limitation in terms of number of MIDI
158	schoenebeck	1593	ports.
159			Each MIDI device can be routed to arbitrary sampler channels.
160
161			<a name="setup_audio"></a>
162			<h3>4.2  Setting up Audio Output</h3>
163			LinuxSampler currently only supports the ASIO driver model for audio output
164			on Windows. ASIO drivers ensure reliable low-latency operation and are
165			virtually available for any soundcard (see <a href="#asio_tip">
166			ASIO requirements tip</a>).<br>
167	senoner	1575	<br>
168	schoenebeck	1593	Click on the left round button in the Audio Devices tab.
169			At this point a window will open where you can create a new MIDI device.
170			When creating the Audio device you can set several parameters:
171			<ul>
172			<li><b>CARD</b> : The name of the soundcard, in case you have multiple cards
173			installed. It will show the default value (first card found).</li>
174			<li><b>CHANNELS</b> : Number of audio output channels, can range from 1 to
175			maximum number of channels your soundcard supports. We recommend to
176			leave the default value which is the maximum number of channels your
177			soundcard supports.</li>
178			<li><b>FRAGMENTSIZE</b> : ASIO buffer size in samples. The card's default
179			value is shown. If you experience clicks and pops during audio
180			playback then initialize the audio output device with bigger values.
181			(better if it's always a power of 2:  e.g. 256, 512, 1024)</li>
182			<li><b>SAMPLERATE</b> : Sets the samplerate. The default value is shown.<br>
183			</ul>
184			Now Press "Create". The window will close and the Audio device will be
185			created: "AUDIO DEVICE 0 (ASIO)" appears.
186
187			<a name="load_samples"></a>
188			<h3>4.3  Loading Samples</h3>
189			In the middle of the screen below the volume slider, you see the sampler
190			channel strip pane. press on the round button located on the left.
191			This will create a new sampler channel. Click on "Load Instrument".
192			This opens a dialog which allows you to select an instrument to be
193			loaded in the sampler channel
194
195			(for information on how to use "orchestras" <a
196	senoner	1592	href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html#USING_ORCHESTRAS">click
197	schoenebeck	1593	here</a>, but note: orchestras, a.k.a "instruments database" is not yet supported in this
198			first Windows version of LinuxSampler, but will certainly be on the next Windows release).
199
200	senoner	1575	On the row  "Select instrument from file" click on the orange icon
201	schoenebeck	1593	located on the right side. This opens a file dialog which allows you to
202			select a sample to be loaded
203			(currently only the GIG format is supported).
204			Select the sample to be loaded and then click on "Open".
205			At this point the fields Instrument file shows the filename.
206	senoner	1575	You can click on the Instrument index and select the specific
207	schoenebeck	1593	instrument contained in the instrument file. Now press "OK".<br>
208	senoner	1575	<br>
209	schoenebeck	1593	While it loads you see: "Loading" .. "90%" .. "100%" <br>
210			<br>
211			Once loaded, you see the Instrument's name: i.e. "FreePiano"<br>
212			<br>
213	senoner	1575	On the left side of the sampler channel click on the arrow below
214	schoenebeck	1593	"Options".
215	senoner	1575	This pane permits to set MIDI input device, port and channel and oudio
216	schoenebeck	1593	output channel.
217			Notice that under Windows MME the Port value is always 0.
218			So the only values you can change is "MIDI device" (normally 0 if you
219			created only a single
220			MIDI input device) and the MIDI channel (from 1 to 16).
221
222			<a name="save_session"></a>
223			<h3>4.4  Saving a Sampler Session</h3>
224			Click on the 3rd icon from the left on the row where you see the round
225			icon with the LinuxSampler "S"-shape logo.
226			Now select the directory where you want to save the file to (extension
227			.lscp = <i>Linux Sampler Control Protocol</i>).
228			Enter the name and press save (add .lscp at end of file otherwise you
229			will not see it in the file-open dialog later, when you want to load it again).<br>
230	senoner	1575	<br>
231			Next time you can load a sampler session by clicking on the second icon
232	schoenebeck	1593	from the left, then select a .lscp file in the file dialog and press "Open".
233	senoner	1575	This will automatically set up the MIDI devices and audio devices,
234	schoenebeck	1593	create the sampler channels and load all the samples that were previously
235			loaded by you in the saved sampler session.
236
237			<a name="houston"></a>
238			<h3>5.  Installation Troubleshooting</h3>
239			It could happen that due to previous installations of Gtk+ and gtkmm DLLs
240			even after deinstallation leave some stale keys in the windows registry which
241			could fool the installer into
242	senoner	1592	believing that the needed DLLs are already installed therefore skipping
243	schoenebeck	1593	its installation which will
244			cause the sampler not being able to start due to the missing DLLs.
245			We recommend in this case to install gtk+ and gtkmm manually as described
246			above in "<a href="#install_wo_inet">Installation without Internet</a>".
247			Just install those mentioned Gtk+ and gtkmm versions and then LinuxSampler
248			should work correctly.
249
250			<a name="docs"></a>
251			<h3>6.  Detailed Documentation</h3>
252			You find more detailed documentation about our software, i.e. about JSampler
253			or gigedit on our official <a href="http://linuxsampler.org/documentation.html">
254			LinuxSampler documentation site</a>.
255
256			<a name="bugs"></a>
257			<h3>7.  Bugs, Problems and Feature Requests</h3>
258			Since the Windows port of LinuxSampler is very young, there could be several
259			bugs which we hope to root out soon.
260			Please report them using our bug tracking system:<br>
261	senoner	1592	<br>
262	schoenebeck	1593	<a href="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org/">http://bugs.linuxsampler.org/</a><br>
263	senoner	1592	<br>
264	schoenebeck	1593	Some bugs and problems I discovered so far:
265			<ul>
266			<li>when adding a channel there noises could occur while playing on other
267			channels</li>
268			<li>if you overload the sampler (CPU overload or disk overload) it
269			produces noises</li>
270			<li>when editing an instrument using gigedit, after saving it, it could
271			happen that LinuxSampler does not accept commands from the GUI anymore.
272			if this happens close the GUI and the LinuxSampler console window and
273			restart both.</li>
274			</ul>
275
276			<a name="contact"></a>
277			<h3>8.  Contact</h3>
278			If you have questions or want to help us to improve the sampler,
279			subscribe to the <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">
280			LinuxSampler Developer's mailing list</a>. Alternatively, since I did most
281			of of the Windows porting, you can write me (Benno) directly about Windows
282			related issues. You can find my email address here:<br>
283	senoner	1592	<br>
284	schoenebeck	1593	<a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html</a>
285			<br><br>
286			That's it, enjoy!<br>
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