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109     <table summary="layout" width="66%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><table summary="layout" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1">
110     <tr><td class="header">LinuxSampler Developers</td><td class="header">C. Schoenebeck</td></tr>
111     <tr><td class="header">Internet-Draft</td><td class="header">Interessengemeinschaft Software</td></tr>
112     <tr><td class="header">Expires: November 30, 2004</td><td class="header">Engineering e. V.</td></tr>
113     <tr><td class="header">&nbsp;</td><td class="header">June 2004</td></tr>
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115     <div align="right"><span class="title"><br />LinuxSampler Control Protocol</span></div>
116     <div align="right"><span class="title"><br />lscp.txt</span></div>
117    
118     <h3>Status of this Memo</h3>
119     <p>
120     This document is an Internet-Draft and is
121     in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.</p>
122     <p>
123     Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
124     Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups.
125     Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as
126     Internet-Drafts.</p>
127     <p>
128     Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
129     and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time.
130     It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite
131     them other than as "work in progress."</p>
132     <p>
133     The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
134     <a href='http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt'>http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt</a>.</p>
135     <p>
136     The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
137     <a href='http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html'>http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html</a>.</p>
138     <p>
139     This Internet-Draft will expire on November 30, 2004.</p>
140    
141     <h3>Copyright Notice</h3>
142     <p>
143     Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved.</p>
144    
145     <h3>Abstract</h3>
146    
147     <p>The LinuxSampler Control Protocol (LSCP) is an
148     application-level protocol primarily intended for local and
149     remote controlling the LinuxSampler main application, which is a
150     sophisticated console application essentially playing back audio
151     samples and manipulating the samples in real time to certain
152     extent.
153     </p><a name="toc"></a><br /><hr />
154     <h3>Table of Contents</h3>
155     <p class="toc">
156     <a href="#anchor1">1.</a>&nbsp;
157     Requirements notation<br />
158     <a href="#anchor2">2.</a>&nbsp;
159     Introduction<br />
160     <a href="#anchor3">3.</a>&nbsp;
161     Focus of this protocol<br />
162     <a href="#anchor4">4.</a>&nbsp;
163     Communication Overview<br />
164     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor5">4.1</a>&nbsp;
165     Request/response communication method<br />
166     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor6">4.1.1</a>&nbsp;
167     Result format<br />
168     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor7">4.2</a>&nbsp;
169     Subscribe/notify communication method<br />
170     <a href="#anchor8">5.</a>&nbsp;
171     Description for control commands<br />
172     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor9">5.1</a>&nbsp;
173     Ignored lines and comments<br />
174     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor10">5.2</a>&nbsp;
175     Configuring audio drivers<br />
176     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor11">5.2.1</a>&nbsp;
177     Getting all available audio output drivers<br />
178     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor12">5.2.2</a>&nbsp;
179     Getting information about a specific audio
180     output driver<br />
181     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor13">5.2.3</a>&nbsp;
182     Getting information about specific audio
183     output driver parameter<br />
184     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor14">5.2.4</a>&nbsp;
185     Creating an audio output device<br />
186     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor15">5.2.5</a>&nbsp;
187     Destroying an audio output device<br />
188     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor16">5.2.6</a>&nbsp;
189     Getting all created audio output device count<br />
190     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor17">5.2.7</a>&nbsp;
191     Getting all created audio output device list<br />
192     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor18">5.2.8</a>&nbsp;
193     Getting current settings of an audio output device<br />
194     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor19">5.2.9</a>&nbsp;
195     Changing settings of audio output devices<br />
196     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor20">5.2.10</a>&nbsp;
197     Getting information about an audio channel<br />
198     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor21">5.2.11</a>&nbsp;
199     Getting information about specific audio channel parameter<br />
200     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor22">5.2.12</a>&nbsp;
201     Changing settings of audio output channels<br />
202     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor23">5.3</a>&nbsp;
203     Configuring MIDI input drivers<br />
204     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor24">5.3.1</a>&nbsp;
205     Getting all available MIDI input drivers<br />
206     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor25">5.3.2</a>&nbsp;
207     Getting information about a specific MIDI input driver<br />
208     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor26">5.3.3</a>&nbsp;
209     Getting information about specific MIDI input driver parameter<br />
210     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor27">5.3.4</a>&nbsp;
211     Creating a MIDI input device<br />
212     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor28">5.3.5</a>&nbsp;
213     Destroying a MIDI input device<br />
214     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor29">5.3.6</a>&nbsp;
215     Getting all created MIDI input device count<br />
216     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor30">5.3.7</a>&nbsp;
217     Getting all created MIDI input device list<br />
218     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor31">5.3.8</a>&nbsp;
219     Getting current settings of a MIDI input device<br />
220     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor32">5.3.9</a>&nbsp;
221     Changing settings of audio output devices<br />
222     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor33">5.3.10</a>&nbsp;
223     Getting information about a MIDI port<br />
224     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor34">5.3.11</a>&nbsp;
225     Getting information about specific MIDI port parameter<br />
226     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor35">5.3.12</a>&nbsp;
227     Changing settings of MIDI input ports<br />
228     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor36">5.4</a>&nbsp;
229     Configuring sampler channels<br />
230     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor37">5.4.1</a>&nbsp;
231     Loading an instrument<br />
232     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor38">5.4.2</a>&nbsp;
233     Loading a sampler engine<br />
234     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor39">5.4.3</a>&nbsp;
235     Getting all created sampler channel count<br />
236     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor40">5.4.4</a>&nbsp;
237     Getting all created sampler channel list<br />
238     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor41">5.4.5</a>&nbsp;
239     Adding a new sampler channel<br />
240     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor42">5.4.6</a>&nbsp;
241     Removing a sampler channel<br />
242     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor43">5.4.7</a>&nbsp;
243     Getting all available engines<br />
244     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor44">5.4.8</a>&nbsp;
245     Getting information about an engine<br />
246     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor45">5.4.9</a>&nbsp;
247     Getting sampler channel information<br />
248     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor46">5.4.10</a>&nbsp;
249     Current number of active voices<br />
250     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor47">5.4.11</a>&nbsp;
251     Current number of active disk streams<br />
252     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor48">5.4.12</a>&nbsp;
253     Current fill state of disk stream buffers<br />
254     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor49">5.4.13</a>&nbsp;
255     Setting audio output device<br />
256     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor50">5.4.14</a>&nbsp;
257     Setting audio output type<br />
258     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor51">5.4.15</a>&nbsp;
259     Setting audio output channel<br />
260     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor52">5.4.16</a>&nbsp;
261     Setting MIDI input device<br />
262     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor53">5.4.17</a>&nbsp;
263     Setting MIDI input type<br />
264     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor54">5.4.18</a>&nbsp;
265     Setting MIDI input port<br />
266     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor55">5.4.19</a>&nbsp;
267     Setting MIDI input channel<br />
268     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor56">5.4.20</a>&nbsp;
269     Setting channel volume<br />
270     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor57">5.4.21</a>&nbsp;
271     Resetting a sampler channel<br />
272     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor58">5.5</a>&nbsp;
273     Controlling connection<br />
274     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor59">5.5.1</a>&nbsp;
275     Register front-end for receiving event messages<br />
276     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor60">5.5.2</a>&nbsp;
277     Unregister front-end for not receiving UDP event messages anymore<br />
278     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor61">5.5.3</a>&nbsp;
279     Enable or disable echo of commands<br />
280     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor62">5.5.4</a>&nbsp;
281     Close client connection<br />
282     <a href="#anchor63">6.</a>&nbsp;
283     Command Syntax<br />
284     <a href="#anchor64">7.</a>&nbsp;
285     Events<br />
286     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor65">7.1</a>&nbsp;
287     Number of sampler channels changed<br />
288     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor66">7.2</a>&nbsp;
289     Number of active voices changed<br />
290     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor67">7.3</a>&nbsp;
291     Number of active disk streams changed<br />
292     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor68">7.4</a>&nbsp;
293     Disk stream buffer fill state changed<br />
294     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor69">7.5</a>&nbsp;
295     Channel information changed<br />
296     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor70">7.6</a>&nbsp;
297     Miscellaneous and debugging events<br />
298     <a href="#anchor71">8.</a>&nbsp;
299     Security Considerations<br />
300     <a href="#anchor72">9.</a>&nbsp;
301     Acknowledgments<br />
302     <a href="#rfc.references1">&#167;.</a>&nbsp;
303     References<br />
304     <a href="#rfc.authors">&#167;</a>&nbsp;
305     Author's Address<br />
306     <a href="#rfc.copyright">&#167;</a>&nbsp;
307     Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements<br />
308     </p>
309     <br clear="all" />
310    
311     <a name="anchor1"></a><br /><hr />
312     <table summary="layout" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" class="bug" align="right"><tr><td class="bug"><a href="#toc" class="link2">&nbsp;TOC&nbsp;</a></td></tr></table>
313     <a name="rfc.section.1"></a><h3>1.&nbsp;Requirements notation</h3>
314    
315     <p>The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL",
316     "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY",
317     and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as
318     described in <a class="info" href="#RFC2119">[RFC2119]<span>Bradner, S., Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels, March 1997.</span></a>.
319     </p>
320     <p>This protocol is always case-sensitive if not explicitly
321     claimed the opposite.
322     </p>
323     <p>In examples, "C:" and "S:" indicate lines sent by the client
324     (front-end) and server (LinuxSampler) respectively. Lines in
325     examples must be interpreted as every line being CRLF
326     terminated (carriage return character followed by line feed
327     character as defined in the ASCII standard), thus the following
328     example:
329     </p>
330     <p></p>
331     <blockquote class="text">
332     <p>C: "some line"
333     </p>
334     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"another line"
335     </p>
336     </blockquote>
337    
338     <p>must actually be interpreted as client sending the following
339     message:
340     </p>
341     <p></p>
342     <blockquote class="text">
343     <p>"some line&lt;CR&gt;&lt;LF&gt;another
344     line&lt;CR&gt;&lt;LF&gt;"
345     </p>
346     </blockquote>
347    
348     <p>where &lt;CR&gt; symbolizes the carriage return character and
349     &lt;LF&gt; the line feed character as defined in the ASCII
350     standard.
351     </p>
352     <p>Due to technical reasons, messages can arbitrary be
353     fragmented, means the following example:
354     </p>
355     <p></p>
356     <blockquote class="text">
357     <p>S: "abcd"
358     </p>
359     </blockquote>
360    
361     <p>could also happen to be sent in three messages like in the
362     following sequence scenario:
363     </p>
364     <p></p>
365     <ul class="text">
366     <li>server sending message "a"
367     </li>
368     <li>followed by a delay (pause) with
369     arbitrary duration
370     </li>
371     <li>followed by server sending message
372     "bcd&lt;CR&gt;"
373     </li>
374     <li>again followed by a delay (pause) with arbitrary
375     duration
376     </li>
377     <li>followed by server sending the message
378     "&lt;LF&gt;"
379     </li>
380     </ul>
381    
382     <p>where again &lt;CR&gt; and &lt;LF&gt; symbolize the carriage
383     return and line feed characters respectively.
384     </p>
385     <a name="anchor2"></a><br /><hr />
386     <table summary="layout" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" class="bug" align="right"><tr><td class="bug"><a href="#toc" class="link2">&nbsp;TOC&nbsp;</a></td></tr></table>
387     <a name="rfc.section.2"></a><h3>2.&nbsp;Introduction</h3>
388    
389     <p>LinuxSampler is a so called software sampler application
390     capable to playback audio samples from a computer's Random
391     Access Memory (RAM) as well as directly streaming it from disk.
392     LinuxSampler is designed to be modular. It provides several so
393     called "sampler engines" where each engine is specialized for a
394     certain purpose. LinuxSampler has virtual channels which will be
395     referred in this document as "sampler channels". The channels
396     are in such way virtual as they can be connected to an
397     arbitrary MIDI input method and arbitrary MIDI channel (e.g.
398     sampler channel 17 could be connected to an Alsa sequencer
399     device 64:0 and listening to MIDI channel 1 there). Each sampler
400     engine will be assigned an own instance of one of the available
401     sampler engines (e.g. GigEngine, DLSEngine). The audio output of
402     each sampler channel can be routed to an arbitrary audio output
403     method (Alsa / Jack) and an arbitrary audio output channel
404     there.
405     </p>
406     <a name="anchor3"></a><br /><hr />
407     <table summary="layout" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" class="bug" align="right"><tr><td class="bug"><a href="#toc" class="link2">&nbsp;TOC&nbsp;</a></td></tr></table>
408     <a name="rfc.section.3"></a><h3>3.&nbsp;Focus of this protocol</h3>
409    
410     <p>Main focus of this protocol is to provide a way to configure
411     a running LinuxSampler instance and to retrieve information
412     about it. The focus of this protocol is not to provide a way to
413     control synthesis parameters or even to trigger or release
414     notes. Or in other words; the focus are those functionalities
415     which are not covered by MIDI or which may at most be handled
416     via MIDI System Exclusive Messages.
417     </p>
418     <a name="anchor4"></a><br /><hr />
419     <table summary="layout" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" class="bug" align="right"><tr><td class="bug"><a href="#toc" class="link2">&nbsp;TOC&nbsp;</a></td></tr></table>
420     <a name="rfc.section.4"></a><h3>4.&nbsp;Communication Overview</h3>
421    
422     <p>There are two distinct methods of communication between a
423     running instance of LinuxSampler and one or more control
424     applications, so called "front-ends": a simple request/response
425     communication method used by the clients to give commands to the
426     server as well as to inquire about server's status and a
427     subscribe/notify communication method used by the client to
428     subscribe to and receive notifications of certain events as they
429     happen on the server. The latter needs more effort to be
430     implemented in the front-end application. The two communication
431     methods will be described next.
432     </p>
433     <a name="rfc.section.4.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor5">4.1</a>&nbsp;Request/response communication method</h4>
434    
435     <p>This simple communication method is based on TCP. The
436     front-end application establishes a TCP connection to the
437     LinuxSampler instance on a certain host system. Then the
438     front-end application will send certain ASCII based commands
439     as defined in this document (every command line must be CRLF
440     terminated - see "Conventions used in this document" at the
441     beginning of this document) and the LinuxSampler application
442     will response after a certain process time with an
443     appropriate ASCII based answer, also as defined in this
444     document. So this TCP communication is simply based on query
445     and answer paradigm. That way LinuxSampler is only able to
446     answer on queries from front-ends, but not able to
447     automatically send messages to the client if it's not asked
448     to. The fronted should not reconnect to LinuxSampler for
449     every single command, instead it should keep the connection
450     established and simply resend message(s) for subsequent
451     commands. To keep information in the front-end up-to-date
452     the front-end has to periodically send new requests to get
453     the current information from the LinuxSampler instance. This
454     is often referred to as "polling". While polling is simple
455     to implement and may be OK to use in some cases, there may
456     be disadvantages to polling such as network traffic overhead
457     and information being out of date.
458     It is possible for a client or several clients to open more
459     than one connection to the server at the same time. It is
460     also possible to send more than one request to the server
461     at the same time but if those requests are sent over the
462     same connection server MUST execute them sequentially. Upon
463     executing a request server will produce a result set and
464     send it to the client. Each and every request made by the
465     client MUST result in a result set being sent back to the
466     client. No other data other than a result set may be sent by
467     a server to a client. No result set may be sent to a client
468     without the client sending request to the server first. On
469     any particular connection, result sets MUST be sent in their
470     entirety without being interrupted by other result sets. If
471     several requests got queued up at the server they MUST be
472     processed in the order they were received and result sets
473     MUST be sent back in the same order.
474     </p>
475     <a name="rfc.section.4.1.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor6">4.1.1</a>&nbsp;Result format</h4>
476    
477     <p>Result set could be one of the following types:
478     </p>
479     <p></p>
480     <ol class="text">
481     <li>Normal
482     </li>
483     <li>Warning
484     </li>
485     <li>Error
486     </li>
487     </ol>
488    
489     <p>Warning and Error result sets MUST be single line and
490     have the following format:
491     </p>
492     <p></p>
493     <ul class="text">
494     <li>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;"
495     </li>
496     <li>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;"
497     </li>
498     </ul>
499    
500     <p>Where &lt;warning-code&gt; and &lt;error-code&gt; are
501     numeric unique identifiers of the warning or error and
502     &lt;warning-message&gt; and &lt;error-message&gt; are
503     human readable descriptions of the warning or error
504     respectively.
505     </p>
506     <p>Normal result sets could be:
507     </p>
508     <p></p>
509     <ol class="text">
510     <li>Empty
511     </li>
512     <li>Single line
513     </li>
514     <li>Multi-line
515     </li>
516     </ol>
517    
518     <p> Empty result set is issued when the server only
519     needed to acknowledge the fact that the request was
520     received and it was processed successfully and no
521     additional information is available. This result set has
522     the following format:
523     </p>
524     <p></p>
525     <blockquote class="text">
526     <p>"OK"
527     </p>
528     </blockquote>
529    
530     <p>Single line result sets are command specific. One
531     example of a single line result set is an empty line.
532     Multi-line result sets are command specific and may
533     include one or more lines of information. They MUST
534     always end with the following line:
535     </p>
536     <p></p>
537     <blockquote class="text">
538     <p>"."
539     </p>
540     </blockquote>
541    
542     <p>In addition to above mentioned formats, warnings and
543     empty result sets MAY be indexed. In this case, they
544     have the following formats respectively:
545     </p>
546     <p></p>
547     <ul class="text">
548     <li>"WRN[&lt;index&gt;]:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;"
549     </li>
550     <li>"OK[&lt;index&gt;]"
551     </li>
552     </ul>
553    
554     <p>where &lt;index&gt; is command specific and is used
555     to indicate channel number that the result set was
556     related to or other integer value.
557     </p>
558     <p>Each line of the result set MUST end with
559     &lt;CRLF&gt;.
560     </p>
561     <a name="rfc.section.4.2"></a><h4><a name="anchor7">4.2</a>&nbsp;Subscribe/notify communication method</h4>
562    
563     <p>This more sophisticated communication method is actually
564     only an extension of the simple request/response
565     communication method. The front-end still uses a TCP
566     connection and sends the same commands on the TCP
567     connection. Two extra commands are SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE
568     commands that allow a client to tell the server that it is
569     interested in receiving notifications about certain events
570     as they happen on the server. The SUBSCRIBE command has the
571     following syntax:
572     </p>
573     <p></p>
574     <blockquote class="text">
575     <p>SUBSCRIBE &lt;event-id&gt;
576     </p>
577     </blockquote>
578    
579     <p>where &lt;event-id&gt; will be replaced by the respective
580     event that client wants to subscribe to. Upon receiving such
581     request, server SHOULD respond with OK and start sending
582     EVENT notifications when a given even has occurred to the
583     front-end when an event has occurred. It MAY be possible
584     certain events may be sent before OK response during real
585     time nature of their generation. Event messages have the
586     following format:
587     </p>
588     <p></p>
589     <blockquote class="text">
590     <p>NOTIFY:&lt;event-id&gt;:&lt;custom-event-data&gt;
591     </p>
592     </blockquote>
593    
594     <p>where &lt;event-id&gt; uniquely identifies the event that
595     has occurred and &lt;custom-event-data&gt; is event
596     specific.
597     </p>
598     <p>Several rules must be followed by the server when
599     generating events:
600     </p>
601     <p></p>
602     <ol class="text">
603     <li>Events MUST NOT be sent to any client who has not
604     issued an appropriate SUBSCRIBE command.
605     </li>
606     <li>Events MUST only be sent using the same
607     connection that was used to subscribe to them.
608     </li>
609     <li>When response is being sent to the client, event
610     MUST be inserted in the stream before or after the
611     response, but NOT in the middle. Same is true about
612     the response. It should never be inserted in the
613     middle of the event message as well as any other
614     response.
615     </li>
616     </ol>
617    
618     <p>If the client is not interested in a particular event
619     anymore it MAY issue UNSUBSCRIBE command using the following
620     syntax:
621     </p>
622     <p></p>
623     <blockquote class="text">
624     <p>UNSUBSCRIBE &lt;event-id&gt;
625     </p>
626     </blockquote>
627    
628     <p>where &lt;event-id&gt; will be replace by the respective
629     event that client is no longer interested in receiving. For
630     a list of supported events see chapter 6.
631     </p>
632     <p>Example: the fill states of disk stream buffers have
633     changed on sampler channel 4 and the LinuxSampler instance
634     will react by sending the following message to all clients
635     who subscribed to this event:
636     </p>
637     <p></p>
638     <blockquote class="text">
639     <p>NOTIFY:CHANNEL_BUFFER_FILL:4 [35]62%,[33]80%,[37]98%
640     </p>
641     </blockquote>
642    
643     <p>Which means there are currently three active streams on
644     sampler channel 4, where the stream with ID "35" is filled
645     by 62%, stream with ID 33 is filled by 80% and stream with
646     ID 37 is filled by 98%.
647     </p>
648     <p>Clients may choose to open more than one connection to
649     the server and use some connections to receive notifications
650     while using other connections to issue commands to the
651     back-end. This is entirely legal and up to the
652     implementation. This does not change the protocol in any way
653     and no special restrictions exist on the server to allow or
654     disallow this or to track what connections belong to what
655     front-ends. Server will listen on a single port, accept
656     multiple connections and support protocol described in this
657     specification in it's entirety on this single port on each
658     connection that it accepted.
659     </p>
660     <p>Due to the fact that TCP is used for this communication,
661     dead peers will be detected automatically by the OS TCP
662     stack. While it may take a while to detect dead peers if no
663     traffic is being sent from server to client (TCP keep-alive
664     timer is set to 2 hours on many OSes) it will not be an
665     issue here as when notifications are sent by the server,
666     dead client will be detected quickly.
667     </p>
668     <p>When connection is closed for any reason server MUST
669     forget all subscriptions that were made on this connection.
670     If client reconnects it MUST resubscribe to all events that
671     it wants to receive.
672     </p>
673     <a name="anchor8"></a><br /><hr />
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675     <a name="rfc.section.5"></a><h3>5.&nbsp;Description for control commands</h3>
676    
677     <p>This chapter will describe the available control commands
678     that can be sent on the TCP connection in detail. Some certain
679     commands (e.g. "GET CHANNEL INFO" or "GET ENGINE INFO") lead to
680     multiple-line responses. In this case LinuxSampler signals the
681     end of the response by a "." (single dot) line.
682     </p>
683     <a name="rfc.section.5.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor9">5.1</a>&nbsp;Ignored lines and comments</h4>
684    
685     <p>White lines, that is lines which only contain space and
686     tabulator characters, and lines that start with a "#"
687     character are ignored, thus it's possible for example to
688     group commands and to place comments in a LSCP script
689     file.
690     </p>
691     <a name="rfc.section.5.2"></a><h4><a name="anchor10">5.2</a>&nbsp;Configuring audio drivers</h4>
692    
693     <p>Instances of drivers in LinuxSampler are called devices.
694     You can use multiple audio devices simultaneously, e.g. to
695     output the sound of one sampler channel using the Alsa audio
696     output driver, and on another sampler channel you might want
697     to use the Jack audio output driver. For particular audio
698     output systems it's also possible to create several devices
699     of the same audio output driver, e.g. two separate Alsa
700     audio output devices for using two different sound cards at
701     the same time. This chapter describes all commands to
702     configure LinuxSampler's audio output devices and their
703     parameters.
704     </p>
705     <p>Instead of defining commands and parameters for each
706     driver individually, all possible parameters, their meanings
707     and possible values have to be obtained at runtime. This
708     makes the protocol a bit abstract, but has the advantage,
709     that front-ends can be written independently of what drivers
710     are currently implemented and what parameters these drivers
711     are actually offering. This means front-ends can even handle
712     drivers which are implemented somewhere in future without
713     modifying the front-end at all.
714     </p>
715     <p>Note: examples in this chapter showing particular
716     parameters of drivers are not meant as specification of the
717     drivers' parameters. Driver implementations in LinuxSampler
718     might have complete different parameter names and meanings
719     than shown in these examples or might change in future, so
720     these examples are only meant for showing how to retrieve
721     what parameters drivers are offering, how to retrieve their
722     possible values, etc.
723     </p>
724     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor11">5.2.1</a>&nbsp;Getting all available audio output drivers</h4>
725    
726     <p>Use the following command to list all audio output
727     drivers currently available for the LinuxSampler
728     instance:
729     </p>
730     <p></p>
731     <blockquote class="text">
732     <p>GET AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS
733     </p>
734     </blockquote>
735    
736     <p>Possible Answers:
737     </p>
738     <p></p>
739     <blockquote class="text">
740     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending comma
741     separated character strings, each symbolizing an
742     audio output driver.
743     </p>
744     </blockquote>
745    
746     <p>Example:
747     </p>
748     <p></p>
749     <blockquote class="text">
750     <p>C: "GET AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS"
751     </p>
752     <p>S: "Alsa,Jack"
753     </p>
754     </blockquote>
755    
756     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.2"></a><h4><a name="anchor12">5.2.2</a>&nbsp;Getting information about a specific audio
757     output driver</h4>
758    
759     <p>Use the following command to get detailed information
760     about a specific audio output driver:
761     </p>
762     <p></p>
763     <blockquote class="text">
764     <p>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO
765     &lt;audio-output-driver&gt;
766     </p>
767     </blockquote>
768    
769     <p>Where &lt;audio-output-driver&gt; is the name of the
770     audio output driver, returned by the "GET
771     AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS" command.
772     </p>
773     <p>Possible Answers:
774     </p>
775     <p></p>
776     <blockquote class="text">
777     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a
778     &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list. Each answer line
779     begins with the information category name
780     followed by a colon and then a space character
781     &lt;SP&gt; and finally the info character string
782     to that info category. At the moment the
783     following information categories are
784     defined:
785     </p>
786     <p></p>
787     <blockquote class="text">
788     <p>DESCRIPTION -
789     </p>
790     <blockquote class="text">
791     <p> character string describing the
792     audio output driver
793     </p>
794     </blockquote>
795    
796     <p>VERSION -
797     </p>
798     <blockquote class="text">
799     <p>character string reflecting the
800     driver's version
801     </p>
802     </blockquote>
803    
804     <p>PARAMETERS -
805     </p>
806     <blockquote class="text">
807     <p>comma separated list of all
808     parameters available for the given
809     audio output driver, at least
810     parameters 'channels', 'samplerate'
811     and 'active' are offered by all audio
812     output drivers
813     </p>
814     </blockquote>
815    
816     </blockquote>
817    
818     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be
819     in particular order.
820     </p>
821     </blockquote>
822    
823     <p>Example:
824     </p>
825     <p></p>
826     <blockquote class="text">
827     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO Alsa"
828     </p>
829     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: Advanced Linux Sound
830     Architecture"
831     </p>
832     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"VERSION: 1.0"
833     </p>
834     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"PARAMETERS:
835     driver,channels,samplerate,active,fragments,
836     fragmentsize,card"
837     </p>
838     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
839     </p>
840     </blockquote>
841    
842     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.3"></a><h4><a name="anchor13">5.2.3</a>&nbsp;Getting information about specific audio
843     output driver parameter</h4>
844    
845     <p>Use the following command to get detailed information
846     about a specific audio output driver parameter:
847     </p>
848     <p></p>
849     <blockquote class="text">
850     <p>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO &lt;audio&gt; &lt;prm&gt; [&lt;deplist&gt;]
851     </p>
852     </blockquote>
853    
854     <p>Where &lt;audio&gt; is the name of the audio output
855     driver as returned by the "GET AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS" command,
856     &lt;prm&gt; a specific parameter name for which information should be
857     obtained (as returned by the "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO" command) and
858     &lt;deplist&gt; is an optional list of parameters on which the sought
859     parameter &lt;prm&gt; depends on, &lt;deplist&gt; is a list of key-value
860     pairs in form of "key1=val1 key2=val2 ...", where character string values
861     are encapsulated into apostrophes ('). Arguments given with &lt;deplist&gt;
862     which are not dependency parameters of &lt;prm&gt; will be ignored, means
863     the front-end application can simply put all parameters into &lt;deplist&gt;
864     with the values already selected by the user.
865     </p>
866     <p>Possible Answers:
867     </p>
868     <p></p>
869     <blockquote class="text">
870     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a
871     &lz;CRLF&gt; separated list.
872     Each answer line begins with the information category name
873     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and
874     finally
875     the info character string to that info category. There are
876     information which is always returned, independently of the
877     given driver parameter and there are optional information
878     which is only shown dependently to given driver parameter. At
879     the moment the following information categories are defined:
880     </p>
881     </blockquote>
882    
883     <p></p>
884     <blockquote class="text">
885     <p>TYPE -
886     </p>
887     <blockquote class="text">
888     <p>either "BOOL" for boolean value(s) or
889     "INT" for integer
890     value(s) or "FLOAT" for dotted number(s) or "STRING" for
891     character string(s)
892     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
893     </p>
894     </blockquote>
895    
896     <p>DESCRIPTION -
897     </p>
898     <blockquote class="text">
899     <p>arbitrary text describing the purpose of the parameter
900     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
901     </p>
902     </blockquote>
903    
904     <p>MANDATORY -
905     </p>
906     <blockquote class="text">
907     <p>either true or false, defines if this parameter must be
908     given when the device is to be created with the
909     'CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE' command
910     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
911     </p>
912     </blockquote>
913    
914     <p>FIX -
915     </p>
916     <blockquote class="text">
917     <p>either true or false, if false then this parameter can
918     be changed at any time, once the device is created by
919     the 'CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE' command
920     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
921     </p>
922     </blockquote>
923    
924     <p>MULTIPLICITY -
925     </p>
926     <blockquote class="text">
927     <p>either true or false, defines if this parameter allows
928     only one value or a list of values, where true means
929     multiple values and false only a single value allowed
930     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
931     </p>
932     </blockquote>
933    
934     <p>DEPENDS -
935     </p>
936     <blockquote class="text">
937     <p>comma separated list of paramters this parameter depends
938     on, means the values for fields 'DEFAULT', 'RANGE_MIN',
939     'RANGE_MAX' and 'POSSIBILITIES' might depend on these
940     listed parameters, for example assuming that an audio
941     driver (like the Alsa driver) offers parameters 'card'
942     and 'samplerate' then parameter 'samplerate' would
943     depend on 'card' because the possible values for
944     'samplerate' depends on the sound card which can be
945     chosen by the 'card' parameter
946     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
947     </p>
948     </blockquote>
949    
950     <p>DEFAULT -
951     </p>
952     <blockquote class="text">
953     <p>reflects the default value for this parameter which is
954     used when the device is created and not explicitly
955     given with the 'CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE' command,
956     in case of MULTIPLCITY=true, this is a comma separated
957     list, that's why character strings are encapsulated into
958     apostrophes (')
959     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
960     </p>
961     </blockquote>
962    
963     <p>RANGE_MIN -
964     </p>
965     <blockquote class="text">
966     <p>defines lower limit of the allowed value range for this
967     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
968     number, this parameter is often used in conjunction
969     with RANGE_MAX, but may also appear without
970     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
971     </p>
972     </blockquote>
973    
974     <p>RANGE_MAX -
975     </p>
976     <blockquote class="text">
977     <p>defines upper limit of the allowed value range for this
978     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
979     number, this parameter is often used in conjunction with
980     RANGE_MIN, but may also appear without
981     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
982     </p>
983     </blockquote>
984    
985     <p>POSSIBILITES -
986     </p>
987     <blockquote class="text">
988     <p>comma separated list of possible values for this
989     parameter, character strings are encapsulated into
990     apostrophes
991     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
992     </p>
993     </blockquote>
994    
995     </blockquote>
996    
997     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.
998     </p>
999     <p>Examples:
1000     </p>
1001     <p></p>
1002     <blockquote class="text">
1003     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO Alsa card"
1004     </p>
1005     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: sound card to be used"
1006     </p>
1007     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: STRING"
1008     </p>
1009     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MANDATORY: false"
1010     </p>
1011     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: true"
1012     </p>
1013     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: false"
1014     </p>
1015     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEFAULT: '0,0'"
1016     </p>
1017     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"POSSIBILITES: '0,0','1,0','2,0'"
1018     </p>
1019     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1020     </p>
1021     </blockquote>
1022    
1023     <p></p>
1024     <blockquote class="text">
1025     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO Alsa samplerate"
1026     </p>
1027     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: output sample rate in Hz"
1028     </p>
1029     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: INT"
1030     </p>
1031     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MANDATORY: false"
1032     </p>
1033     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"
1034     </p>
1035     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: false"
1036     </p>
1037     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEPENDS: card"
1038     </p>
1039     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEFAULT: 44100"
1040     </p>
1041     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1042     </p>
1043     </blockquote>
1044    
1045     <p></p>
1046     <blockquote class="text">
1047     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO Alsa samplerate card='0,0'"
1048     </p>
1049     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: output sample rate in Hz"
1050     </p>
1051     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: INT"
1052     </p>
1053     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MANDATORY: false"
1054     </p>
1055     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"
1056     </p>
1057     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: false"
1058     </p>
1059     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEPENDS: card"
1060     </p>
1061     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEFAULT: 44100"
1062     </p>
1063     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"RANGE_MIN: 22050"
1064     </p>
1065     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"RANGE_MAX: 96000"
1066     </p>
1067     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1068     </p>
1069     </blockquote>
1070    
1071     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.4"></a><h4><a name="anchor14">5.2.4</a>&nbsp;Creating an audio output device</h4>
1072    
1073     <p>Use the following command to create a new audio output device for the desired audio output system:
1074     </p>
1075     <p></p>
1076     <blockquote class="text">
1077     <p>CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE &lt;audio-output-driver&gt; [&lt;param-list&gt;]
1078     </p>
1079     </blockquote>
1080    
1081     <p>Where &lt;audio-output-driver&gt; should be replaced by the desired audio
1082     output system and &lt;param-list&gt; by an optional list of driver
1083     specific parameters in form of "key1=val1 key2=val2 ...", where
1084     character string values should be encapsulated into apostrophes (').
1085     Note that there might be drivers which require parameter(s) to be
1086     given with this command. Use the previously described commands in
1087     this chapter to get this information.
1088     </p>
1089     <p>Possible Answers:
1090     </p>
1091     <p></p>
1092     <blockquote class="text">
1093     <p>"OK[&lt;device-id&gt;]" -
1094     </p>
1095     <blockquote class="text">
1096     <p>in case the device was successfully created, where
1097     &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the new device
1098     </p>
1099     </blockquote>
1100    
1101     <p>"WRN[&lt;device-id&gt;]:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
1102     </p>
1103     <blockquote class="text">
1104     <p>in case the device was created successfully, where
1105     &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the new device, but there
1106     are noteworthy issue(s) related (e.g. sound card doesn't
1107     support given hardware parameters and the driver is using
1108     fall-back values), providing an appropriate warning code and
1109     warning message
1110     </p>
1111     </blockquote>
1112    
1113     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
1114     </p>
1115     <blockquote class="text">
1116     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
1117     </p>
1118     </blockquote>
1119    
1120     </blockquote>
1121    
1122     <p>Examples:
1123     </p>
1124     <p></p>
1125     <blockquote class="text">
1126     <p>C: "CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE Alsa"
1127     </p>
1128     <p>S: "OK[0]"
1129     </p>
1130     </blockquote>
1131    
1132     <p></p>
1133     <blockquote class="text">
1134     <p>C: "CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE Alsa card='2,0' samplerate=96000"
1135     </p>
1136     <p>S: "OK[1]"
1137     </p>
1138     </blockquote>
1139    
1140     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.5"></a><h4><a name="anchor15">5.2.5</a>&nbsp;Destroying an audio output device</h4>
1141    
1142     <p>Use the following command to destroy a created output device:
1143     </p>
1144     <p></p>
1145     <blockquote class="text">
1146     <p>DESTROY AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE &lt;device-id&gt;
1147     </p>
1148     </blockquote>
1149    
1150     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the
1151     audio output device as given by the "CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE" or
1152     "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES" command.
1153     </p>
1154     <p>Possible Answers:
1155     </p>
1156     <p></p>
1157     <blockquote class="text">
1158     <p>"OK" -
1159     </p>
1160     <blockquote class="text">
1161     <p>in case the device was successfully destroyed
1162     </p>
1163     </blockquote>
1164    
1165     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
1166     </p>
1167     <blockquote class="text">
1168     <p>in case the device was destroyed successfully, but there are
1169     noteworthy issue(s) related (e.g. an audio over ethernet
1170     driver was unloaded but the other host might not be
1171     informed about this situation), providing an appropriate
1172     warning code and warning message
1173     </p>
1174     </blockquote>
1175    
1176     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
1177     </p>
1178     <blockquote class="text">
1179     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
1180     error message
1181     </p>
1182     </blockquote>
1183    
1184     </blockquote>
1185    
1186     <p>Example:
1187     </p>
1188     <p></p>
1189     <blockquote class="text">
1190     <p>C: "DESTROY AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 0"
1191     </p>
1192     <p>S: "OK"
1193     </p>
1194     </blockquote>
1195    
1196     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.6"></a><h4><a name="anchor16">5.2.6</a>&nbsp;Getting all created audio output device count</h4>
1197    
1198     <p>Use the following command to count all created audio output devices:
1199     </p>
1200     <p></p>
1201     <blockquote class="text">
1202     <p>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES
1203     </p>
1204     </blockquote>
1205    
1206     <p>Possible Answers:
1207     </p>
1208     <p></p>
1209     <blockquote class="text">
1210     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending the current number of all
1211     audio output devices.
1212     </p>
1213     </blockquote>
1214    
1215     <p>Example:
1216     </p>
1217     <p></p>
1218     <blockquote class="text">
1219     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES"
1220     </p>
1221     <p>S: "4"
1222     </p>
1223     </blockquote>
1224    
1225     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.7"></a><h4><a name="anchor17">5.2.7</a>&nbsp;Getting all created audio output device list</h4>
1226    
1227     <p>Use the following command to list all created audio output devices:
1228     </p>
1229     <p></p>
1230     <blockquote class="text">
1231     <p>LIST AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES
1232     </p>
1233     </blockquote>
1234    
1235     <p>Possible Answers:
1236     </p>
1237     <p></p>
1238     <blockquote class="text">
1239     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a comma separated list with
1240     the numerical IDs of all audio output devices.
1241     </p>
1242     </blockquote>
1243    
1244     <p>Example:
1245     </p>
1246     <p></p>
1247     <blockquote class="text">
1248     <p>C: "LIST AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES"
1249     </p>
1250     <p>S: "0,1,4,5"
1251     </p>
1252     </blockquote>
1253    
1254     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.8"></a><h4><a name="anchor18">5.2.8</a>&nbsp;Getting current settings of an audio output device</h4>
1255    
1256     <p>Use the following command to get current settings of a specific, created audio output device:
1257     </p>
1258     <p></p>
1259     <blockquote class="text">
1260     <p>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE INFO &lt;device-id&gt;
1261     </p>
1262     </blockquote>
1263    
1264     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by be numerical ID
1265     of the audio output device as e.g. returned by the
1266     "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES" command.
1267     </p>
1268     <p>Possible Answers:
1269     </p>
1270     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
1271     Each answer line begins with the information category name
1272     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
1273     the info character string to that info category. As some
1274     parameters might allow multiple values, character strings are
1275     encapsulated into apostrophes ('). At the moment the following
1276     information categories are defined (independently of device):
1277     </p>
1278     <p></p>
1279     <blockquote class="text">
1280     <p>driver -
1281     </p>
1282     <blockquote class="text">
1283     <p>identifier of the used audio output driver, as also
1284     returned by the "GET AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS"
1285     command
1286     </p>
1287     </blockquote>
1288    
1289     <p>channels -
1290     </p>
1291     <blockquote class="text">
1292     <p>amount of audio output channels this device currently
1293     offers
1294     </p>
1295     </blockquote>
1296    
1297     <p>samplerate -
1298     </p>
1299     <blockquote class="text">
1300     <p>playback sample rate the device uses
1301     </p>
1302     </blockquote>
1303    
1304     <p>active -
1305     </p>
1306     <blockquote class="text">
1307     <p>either true or false, if false then the audio device is
1308     inactive and doesn't output any sound, nor do the
1309     sampler channels connected to this audio device render
1310     any audio
1311     </p>
1312     </blockquote>
1313    
1314     </blockquote>
1315    
1316     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular
1317     order. The fields above are only those fields which are
1318     returned by all audio output devices. Every audio output driver
1319     might have its own, additional driver specific parameters (see
1320     "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO" command) which are also returned
1321     by this command.
1322     </p>
1323     <p>Example:
1324     </p>
1325     <p></p>
1326     <blockquote class="text">
1327     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE INFO 0"
1328     </p>
1329     <p>S: "driver: Alsa"
1330     </p>
1331     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"channels: 2"
1332     </p>
1333     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"samplerate: 44100"
1334     </p>
1335     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"active: true"
1336     </p>
1337     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"fragments: 2"
1338     </p>
1339     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"fragmentsize: 128"
1340     </p>
1341     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"card: '0,0'"
1342     </p>
1343     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1344     </p>
1345     </blockquote>
1346    
1347     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.9"></a><h4><a name="anchor19">5.2.9</a>&nbsp;Changing settings of audio output devices</h4>
1348    
1349     <p>Use the following command to alter a specific setting of a created audio output device:
1350     </p>
1351     <p></p>
1352     <blockquote class="text">
1353     <p>SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;key&gt;=&lt;value&gt;
1354     </p>
1355     </blockquote>
1356    
1357     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the
1358     audio output device, &lt;key&gt; by the name of the parameter to change
1359     and &lt;value&gt; by the new value for this parameter.
1360     </p>
1361     <p>Possible Answers:
1362     </p>
1363     <p></p>
1364     <blockquote class="text">
1365     <p>"OK" -
1366     </p>
1367     <blockquote class="text">
1368     <p>in case setting was successfully changed
1369     </p>
1370     </blockquote>
1371    
1372     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
1373     </p>
1374     <blockquote class="text">
1375     <p>in case setting was changed successfully, but there are
1376     noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
1377     warning code and warning message
1378     </p>
1379     </blockquote>
1380    
1381     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
1382     </p>
1383     <blockquote class="text">
1384     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
1385     error message
1386     </p>
1387     </blockquote>
1388    
1389     </blockquote>
1390    
1391     <p>Example:
1392     </p>
1393     <p></p>
1394     <blockquote class="text">
1395     <p>C: "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER 0 fragmentsize=128"
1396     </p>
1397     <p>S: "OK"
1398     </p>
1399     </blockquote>
1400    
1401     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.10"></a><h4><a name="anchor20">5.2.10</a>&nbsp;Getting information about an audio channel</h4>
1402    
1403     <p>Use the following command to get information about an audio channel:
1404     </p>
1405     <p></p>
1406     <blockquote class="text">
1407     <p>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;audio-chan&gt;
1408     </p>
1409     </blockquote>
1410    
1411     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the audio output device
1412     and &lt;audio-chan&gt; the audio channel number.
1413     </p>
1414     <p>Possible Answers:
1415     </p>
1416     <p></p>
1417     <blockquote class="text">
1418     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
1419     Each answer line begins with the information category name
1420     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
1421     the info character string to that info category. At the moment
1422     the following information categories are defined:
1423     </p>
1424     <p></p>
1425     <blockquote class="text">
1426     <p>NAME -
1427     </p>
1428     <blockquote class="text">
1429     <p>arbitrary character string naming the channel, which
1430     doesn't have to be unique (always returned by all audio channels)
1431     </p>
1432     </blockquote>
1433    
1434     <p>IS_MIX_CHANNEL -
1435     </p>
1436     <blockquote class="text">
1437     <p>either true or false, a mix-channel is not a real,
1438     independent audio channel, but a virtual channel which
1439     is mixed to another real channel, this mechanism is
1440     needed for sampler engines which need more audio
1441     channels than the used audio system might be able to offer
1442     (always returned by all audio channels)
1443     </p>
1444     </blockquote>
1445    
1446     <p>MIX_CHANNEL_DESTINATION -
1447     </p>
1448     <blockquote class="text">
1449     <p>reflects the real audio channel (of the same audio
1450     output device) this mix channel refers to, means where
1451     the audio signal actually will be routed / added to
1452     (only returned in case the audio channel is mix channel)
1453     </p>
1454     </blockquote>
1455    
1456     </blockquote>
1457    
1458     </blockquote>
1459    
1460     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular
1461     order. The fields above are only those fields which are
1462     generally returned for the described cases by all audio
1463     channels regardless of the audio driver. Every audio channel
1464     might have its own, additional driver and channel specific
1465     parameters.
1466     </p>
1467     <p>Examples:
1468     </p>
1469     <p></p>
1470     <blockquote class="text">
1471     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO 0 0"
1472     </p>
1473     <p>S: "NAME: studio monitor left"
1474     </p>
1475     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"IS_MIX_CHANNEL: false"
1476     </p>
1477     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1478     </p>
1479     </blockquote>
1480    
1481     <p></p>
1482     <blockquote class="text">
1483     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO 0 1"
1484     </p>
1485     <p>S: "NAME: studio monitor right"
1486     </p>
1487     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"IS_MIX_CHANNEL: false"
1488     </p>
1489     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1490     </p>
1491     </blockquote>
1492    
1493     <p></p>
1494     <blockquote class="text">
1495     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO 0 2"
1496     </p>
1497     <p>S: "NAME: studio monitor left"
1498     </p>
1499     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"IS_MIX_CHANNEL: true"
1500     </p>
1501     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MIX_CHANNEL_DESTINATION: 1"
1502     </p>
1503     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1504     </p>
1505     </blockquote>
1506    
1507     <p></p>
1508     <blockquote class="text">
1509     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO 1 0"
1510     </p>
1511     <p>S: "NAME: 'ardour (left)'"
1512     </p>
1513     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"IS_MIX_CHANNEL: false"
1514     </p>
1515     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"jack_bindings: 'ardour:0'"
1516     </p>
1517     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1518     </p>
1519     </blockquote>
1520    
1521     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.11"></a><h4><a name="anchor21">5.2.11</a>&nbsp;Getting information about specific audio channel parameter</h4>
1522    
1523     <p>Use the following command to get detailed information about specific audio channel parameter:
1524     </p>
1525     <p></p>
1526     <blockquote class="text">
1527     <p>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER INFO &lt;dev-id&gt; &lt;chan&gt; &lt;param&gt;
1528     </p>
1529     </blockquote>
1530    
1531     <p>Where &lt;dev-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the audio output device as returned
1532     by the "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES" command, &lt;chan&gt; the audio channel number
1533     and &lt;param&gt; a specific channel parameter name for which information should
1534     be obtained (as returned by the "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO" command).
1535     </p>
1536     <p>Possible Answers:
1537     </p>
1538     <p></p>
1539     <blockquote class="text">
1540     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
1541     Each answer line begins with the information category name
1542     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
1543     the info character string to that info category. There are
1544     information which is always returned, independently of the
1545     given channel parameter and there is optional information
1546     which is only shown dependently to the given audio channel. At
1547     the moment the following information categories are defined:
1548     </p>
1549     <p></p>
1550     <blockquote class="text">
1551     <p>TYPE -
1552     </p>
1553     <blockquote class="text">
1554     <p>either "BOOL" for boolean value(s) or "INT" for integer
1555     value(s) or "FLOAT" for dotted number(s) or "STRING" for
1556     character string(s)
1557     (always returned)
1558     </p>
1559     </blockquote>
1560    
1561     <p>DESCRIPTION -
1562     </p>
1563     <blockquote class="text">
1564     <p>arbitrary text describing the purpose of the parameter (always returned)
1565     </p>
1566     </blockquote>
1567    
1568     <p>FIX -
1569     </p>
1570     <blockquote class="text">
1571     <p>either true or false, if true then this parameter is
1572     read only, thus cannot be altered
1573     (always returned)
1574     </p>
1575     </blockquote>
1576    
1577     <p>MULTIPLICITY -
1578     </p>
1579     <blockquote class="text">
1580     <p>either true or false, defines if this parameter allows
1581     only one value or a list of values, where true means
1582     multiple values and false only a single value allowed
1583     (always returned)
1584     </p>
1585     </blockquote>
1586    
1587     <p>RANGE_MIN -
1588     </p>
1589     <blockquote class="text">
1590     <p>defines lower limit of the allowed value range for this
1591     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
1592     number, usually used in conjunction with 'RANGE_MAX',
1593     but may also appear without
1594     (optionally returned, dependent to driver and channel
1595     parameter)
1596     </p>
1597     </blockquote>
1598    
1599     <p>RANGE_MAX -
1600     </p>
1601     <blockquote class="text">
1602     <p>defines upper limit of the allowed value range for this
1603     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
1604     number, usually used in conjunction with 'RANGE_MIN',
1605     but may also appear without
1606     (optionally returned, dependent to driver and channel
1607     parameter)
1608     </p>
1609     </blockquote>
1610    
1611     <p>POSSIBILITES -
1612     </p>
1613     <blockquote class="text">
1614     <p>comma separated list of possible values for this
1615     parameter, character strings are encapsulated into
1616     apostrophes
1617     (optionally returned, dependent to driver and channel
1618     parameter)
1619     </p>
1620     </blockquote>
1621    
1622     </blockquote>
1623    
1624     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.
1625     </p>
1626     </blockquote>
1627    
1628     <p>Example:
1629     </p>
1630     <p></p>
1631     <blockquote class="text">
1632     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER INFO 1 0 jack_bindings"
1633     </p>
1634     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: bindings to other Jack clients"
1635     </p>
1636     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: STRING"
1637     </p>
1638     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"
1639     </p>
1640     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: true"
1641     </p>
1642     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"POSSIBILITES: 'PCM:0','PCM:1','ardour:0','ardour:1'"
1643     </p>
1644     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1645     </p>
1646     </blockquote>
1647    
1648     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.12"></a><h4><a name="anchor22">5.2.12</a>&nbsp;Changing settings of audio output channels</h4>
1649    
1650     <p>Use the following command to alter a specific setting of an audio output channel:
1651     </p>
1652     <p></p>
1653     <blockquote class="text">
1654     <p>SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER &lt;dev-id&gt; &lt;chn&gt; &lt;key&gt;=&lt;value&gt;
1655     </p>
1656     </blockquote>
1657    
1658     <p>Where &lt;dev-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the audio
1659     device, &lt;chn&gt; by the audio channel number, &lt;key&gt; by the name of the
1660     parameter to change and &lt;value&gt; by the new value for this parameter.
1661     </p>
1662     <p>Possible Answers:
1663     </p>
1664     <p></p>
1665     <blockquote class="text">
1666     <p>"OK" -
1667     </p>
1668     <blockquote class="text">
1669     <p>in case setting was successfully changed
1670     </p>
1671     </blockquote>
1672    
1673     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
1674     </p>
1675     <blockquote class="text">
1676     <p>in case setting was changed successfully, but there are
1677     noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
1678     warning code and warning message
1679     </p>
1680     </blockquote>
1681    
1682     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
1683     </p>
1684     <blockquote class="text">
1685     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
1686     error message
1687     </p>
1688     </blockquote>
1689    
1690     </blockquote>
1691    
1692     <p>Example:
1693     </p>
1694     <p></p>
1695     <blockquote class="text">
1696     <p>C: "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL PARAMETER 0 0 jack_bindings='PCM:0'"
1697     </p>
1698     <p>S: "OK"
1699     </p>
1700     </blockquote>
1701    
1702     <p></p>
1703     <blockquote class="text">
1704     <p>C: "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL PARAMETER 0 0 NAME='monitor left'"
1705     </p>
1706     <p>S: "OK"
1707     </p>
1708     </blockquote>
1709    
1710     <a name="rfc.section.5.3"></a><h4><a name="anchor23">5.3</a>&nbsp;Configuring MIDI input drivers</h4>
1711    
1712     <p>Instances of drivers in LinuxSampler are called devices. You can use
1713     multiple MIDI devices simultaneously, e.g. to use MIDI over ethernet as
1714     MIDI input on one sampler channel and Alsa as MIDI input on another sampler
1715     channel. For particular MIDI input systems it's also possible to create
1716     several devices of the same MIDI input type. This chapter describes all
1717     commands to configure LinuxSampler's MIDI input devices and their parameters.
1718     </p>
1719     <p>Instead of defining commands and parameters for each driver individually,
1720     all possible parameters, their meanings and possible values have to be obtained
1721     at runtime. This makes the protocol a bit abstract, but has the advantage, that
1722     front-ends can be written independently of what drivers are currently implemented
1723     and what parameters these drivers are actually offering. This means front-ends can
1724     even handle drivers which are implemented somewhere in future without modifying
1725     the front-end at all.
1726     </p>
1727     <p>Commands for configuring MIDI input devices are pretty much the same as the
1728     commands for configuring audio output drivers, already described in the last
1729     chapter.
1730     </p>
1731     <p>Note: examples in this chapter showing particular parameters of drivers are
1732     not meant as specification of the drivers' parameters. Driver implementations in
1733     LinuxSampler might have complete different parameter names and meanings than shown
1734     in these examples or might change in future, so these examples are only meant for
1735     showing how to retrieve what parameters drivers are offering, how to retrieve their
1736     possible values, etc.
1737     </p>
1738     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor24">5.3.1</a>&nbsp;Getting all available MIDI input drivers</h4>
1739    
1740     <p>Use the following command to list all MIDI input drivers currently available
1741     for the LinuxSampler instance:
1742     </p>
1743     <p></p>
1744     <blockquote class="text">
1745     <p>GET AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS
1746     </p>
1747     </blockquote>
1748    
1749     <p>Possible Answers:
1750     </p>
1751     <p></p>
1752     <blockquote class="text">
1753     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending comma separated character
1754     strings, each symbolizing a MIDI input driver.
1755     </p>
1756     </blockquote>
1757    
1758     <p>Example:
1759     </p>
1760     <p></p>
1761     <blockquote class="text">
1762     <p>C: "GET AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS"
1763     </p>
1764     <p>S: "Alsa,Jack"
1765     </p>
1766     </blockquote>
1767    
1768     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.2"></a><h4><a name="anchor25">5.3.2</a>&nbsp;Getting information about a specific MIDI input driver</h4>
1769    
1770     <p>Use the following command to get detailed information about a specific MIDI input driver:
1771     </p>
1772     <p></p>
1773     <blockquote class="text">
1774     <p>GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO &lt;midi-input-driver&gt;
1775     </p>
1776     </blockquote>
1777    
1778     <p>Where &lt;midi-input-driver&gt; is the name of the MIDI input driver.
1779     </p>
1780     <p>Possible Answers:
1781     </p>
1782     <p></p>
1783     <blockquote class="text">
1784     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
1785     Each answer line begins with the information category name
1786     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
1787     the info character string to that info category. At the moment
1788     the following information categories are defined:
1789     </p>
1790     <p></p>
1791     <blockquote class="text">
1792     <p>DESCRIPTION -
1793     </p>
1794     <blockquote class="text">
1795     <p>arbitrary description text about the MIDI input driver
1796     </p>
1797     </blockquote>
1798    
1799     <p>VERSION -
1800     </p>
1801     <blockquote class="text">
1802     <p>arbitrary character string regarding the driver's version
1803     </p>
1804     </blockquote>
1805    
1806     <p>PARAMETERS -
1807     </p>
1808     <blockquote class="text">
1809     <p>comma separated list of all parameters available for the given MIDI input driver
1810     </p>
1811     </blockquote>
1812    
1813     </blockquote>
1814    
1815     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.
1816     </p>
1817     </blockquote>
1818    
1819     <p>Example:
1820     </p>
1821     <p></p>
1822     <blockquote class="text">
1823     <p>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO Alsa"
1824     </p>
1825     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture"
1826     </p>
1827     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"VERSION: 1.0"
1828     </p>
1829     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"PARAMETERS: driver,active"
1830     </p>
1831     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1832     </p>
1833     </blockquote>
1834    
1835     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.3"></a><h4><a name="anchor26">5.3.3</a>&nbsp;Getting information about specific MIDI input driver parameter</h4>
1836    
1837     <p>Use the following command to get detailed information about a specific parameter of a specific MIDI input driver:
1838     </p>
1839     <p></p>
1840     <blockquote class="text">
1841     <p>GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO &lt;midit&gt; &lt;param&gt; [&lt;deplist&gt;]
1842     </p>
1843     </blockquote>
1844    
1845     <p>Where &lt;midi-t&gt; is the name of the MIDI input driver as returned
1846     by the "GET AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS" command, &lt;param&gt; a specific
1847     parameter name for which information should be obtained (as returned by the
1848     "GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO" command) and &lt;deplist&gt; is an optional list
1849     of parameters on which the sought parameter &lt;param&gt; depends on,
1850     &lt;deplist&gt; is a key-value pair list in form of "key1=val1 key2=val2 ...",
1851     where character string values are encapsulated into apostrophes ('). Arguments
1852     given with &lt;deplist&gt; which are not dependency parameters of &lt;param&gt;
1853     will be ignored, means the front-end application can simply put all parameters
1854     in &lt;deplist&gt; with the values selected by the user.
1855     </p>
1856     <p>Possible Answers:
1857     </p>
1858     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF> separated list.
1859     Each answer line begins with the information category name
1860     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP> and finally
1861     the info character string to that info category. There is
1862     information which is always returned, independent of the
1863     given driver parameter and there is optional information
1864     which is only shown dependent to given driver parameter. At
1865     the moment the following information categories are defined:
1866     </p>
1867     <p></p>
1868     <blockquote class="text">
1869     <p>TYPE -
1870     </p>
1871     <blockquote class="text">
1872     <p>either "BOOL" for boolean value(s) or "INT" for integer
1873     value(s) or "FLOAT" for dotted number(s) or "STRING" for
1874     character string(s)
1875     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
1876     </p>
1877     </blockquote>
1878    
1879     <p>DESCRIPTION -
1880     </p>
1881     <blockquote class="text">
1882     <p>arbitrary text describing the purpose of the parameter
1883     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
1884     </p>
1885     </blockquote>
1886    
1887     <p>MANDATORY -
1888     </p>
1889     <blockquote class="text">
1890     <p>either true or false, defines if this parameter must be
1891     given when the device is to be created with the
1892     'CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE' command
1893     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
1894     </p>
1895     </blockquote>
1896    
1897     <p>FIX -
1898     </p>
1899     <blockquote class="text">
1900     <p>either true or false, if false then this parameter can
1901     be changed at any time, once the device is created by
1902     the 'CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE' command
1903     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
1904     </p>
1905     </blockquote>
1906    
1907     <p>MULTIPLICITY -
1908     </p>
1909     <blockquote class="text">
1910     <p>either true or false, defines if this parameter allows
1911     only one value or a list of values, where true means
1912     multiple values and false only a single value allowed
1913     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
1914     </p>
1915     </blockquote>
1916    
1917     <p>DEPENDS -
1918     </p>
1919     <blockquote class="text">
1920     <p>comma separated list of paramters this parameter depends
1921     on, means the values for fields 'DEFAULT', 'RANGE_MIN',
1922     'RANGE_MAX' and 'POSSIBILITIES' might depend on these
1923     listed parameters, for example assuming that an audio
1924     driver (like the Alsa driver) offers parameters 'card'
1925     and 'samplerate' then parameter 'samplerate' would
1926     depend on 'card' because the possible values for
1927     'samplerate' depends on the sound card which can be
1928     chosen by the 'card' parameter
1929     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
1930     </p>
1931     </blockquote>
1932    
1933     <p>DEFAULT -
1934     </p>
1935     <blockquote class="text">
1936     <p>reflects the default value for this parameter which is
1937     used when the device is created and not explicitly
1938     given with the 'CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE' command,
1939     in case of MULTIPLCITY=true, this is a comma separated
1940     list, that's why character strings are encapsulated into
1941     apostrophes (')
1942     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
1943     </p>
1944     </blockquote>
1945    
1946     <p>RANGE_MIN -
1947     </p>
1948     <blockquote class="text">
1949     <p>defines lower limit of the allowed value range for this
1950     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
1951     number, this parameter is often used in conjunction
1952     with RANGE_MAX, but may also appear without
1953     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
1954     </p>
1955     </blockquote>
1956    
1957     <p>RANGE_MAX -
1958     </p>
1959     <blockquote class="text">
1960     <p>defines upper limit of the allowed value range for this
1961     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
1962     number, this parameter is often used in conjunction with
1963     RANGE_MIN, but may also appear without
1964     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
1965     </p>
1966     </blockquote>
1967    
1968     <p>POSSIBILITES -
1969     </p>
1970     <blockquote class="text">
1971     <p>comma separated list of possible values for this
1972     parameter, character strings are encapsulated into
1973     apostrophes
1974     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
1975     </p>
1976     </blockquote>
1977    
1978     </blockquote>
1979    
1980     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.
1981     </p>
1982     <p>Example:
1983     </p>
1984     <p></p>
1985     <blockquote class="text">
1986     <p>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO Alsa active"
1987     </p>
1988     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: Whether device is enabled"
1989     </p>
1990     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: BOOL"
1991     </p>
1992     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MANDATORY: false"
1993     </p>
1994     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"
1995     </p>
1996     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: false"
1997     </p>
1998     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEFAULT: true"
1999     </p>
2000     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
2001     </p>
2002     </blockquote>
2003    
2004     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.4"></a><h4><a name="anchor27">5.3.4</a>&nbsp;Creating a MIDI input device</h4>
2005    
2006     <p>Use the following command to create a new MIDI input device for the desired MIDI input system:
2007     </p>
2008     <p></p>
2009     <blockquote class="text">
2010     <p>CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE &lt;midi-input-driver&gt; [&lt;param-list&gt;]
2011     </p>
2012     </blockquote>
2013    
2014     <p>Where &lt;midi-input-driver&gt; should be replaced by the desired MIDI input system and &lt;param-list&gt; by an
2015     optional list of driver specific parameters in form of "key1=val1 key2=val2 ...", where
2016     character string values should be encapsulated into apostrophes (').
2017     Note that there might be drivers which require parameter(s) to be
2018     given with this command. Use the previously described commands in
2019     this chapter to get that information.
2020     </p>
2021     <p>Possible Answers:
2022     </p>
2023     <p></p>
2024     <blockquote class="text">
2025     <p>"OK[&lt;device-id&gt;]" -
2026     </p>
2027     <blockquote class="text">
2028     <p>in case the device was successfully created, where
2029     &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the new device
2030     </p>
2031     </blockquote>
2032    
2033     <p>"WRN[&lt;device-id&gt;]:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2034     </p>
2035     <blockquote class="text">
2036     <p>in case the driver was loaded successfully, where
2037     &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the new device, but
2038     there are noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an
2039     appropriate warning code and warning message
2040     </p>
2041     </blockquote>
2042    
2043     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2044     </p>
2045     <blockquote class="text">
2046     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
2047     </p>
2048     </blockquote>
2049    
2050     </blockquote>
2051    
2052     <p>Example:
2053     </p>
2054     <p></p>
2055     <blockquote class="text">
2056     <p>C: "CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE Alsa"
2057     </p>
2058     <p>S: "OK[0]"
2059     </p>
2060     </blockquote>
2061    
2062     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.5"></a><h4><a name="anchor28">5.3.5</a>&nbsp;Destroying a MIDI input device</h4>
2063    
2064     <p>Use the following command to destroy a created MIDI input device:
2065     </p>
2066     <p></p>
2067     <blockquote class="text">
2068     <p>DESTROY MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE &lt;device-id&gt;
2069     </p>
2070     </blockquote>
2071    
2072     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the device's numerical ID.
2073     </p>
2074     <p>Possible Answers:
2075     </p>
2076     <p></p>
2077     <blockquote class="text">
2078     <p>"OK" -
2079     </p>
2080     <blockquote class="text">
2081     <p>in case the device was successfully destroyed
2082     </p>
2083     </blockquote>
2084    
2085     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2086     </p>
2087     <blockquote class="text">
2088     <p>in case the device was destroyed, but there are noteworthy
2089     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
2090     warning message
2091     </p>
2092     </blockquote>
2093    
2094     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2095     </p>
2096     <blockquote class="text">
2097     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
2098     </p>
2099     </blockquote>
2100    
2101     </blockquote>
2102    
2103     <p>Example:
2104     </p>
2105     <p></p>
2106     <blockquote class="text">
2107     <p>C: "DESTROY MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 0"
2108     </p>
2109     <p>S: "OK"
2110     </p>
2111     </blockquote>
2112    
2113     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.6"></a><h4><a name="anchor29">5.3.6</a>&nbsp;Getting all created MIDI input device count</h4>
2114    
2115     <p>Use the following command to count all created MIDI input devices:
2116     </p>
2117     <p></p>
2118     <blockquote class="text">
2119     <p>GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES
2120     </p>
2121     </blockquote>
2122    
2123     <p>Possible Answers:
2124     </p>
2125     <p></p>
2126     <blockquote class="text">
2127     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending the current number of all
2128     MIDI input devices.
2129     </p>
2130     </blockquote>
2131    
2132     <p>Example:
2133     </p>
2134     <p></p>
2135     <blockquote class="text">
2136     <p>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES"
2137     </p>
2138     <p>S: "3"
2139     </p>
2140     </blockquote>
2141    
2142     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.7"></a><h4><a name="anchor30">5.3.7</a>&nbsp;Getting all created MIDI input device list</h4>
2143    
2144     <p>Use the following command to list all created MIDI input devices:
2145     </p>
2146     <p></p>
2147     <blockquote class="text">
2148     <p>LIST MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES
2149     </p>
2150     </blockquote>
2151    
2152     <p>Possible Answers:
2153     </p>
2154     <p></p>
2155     <blockquote class="text">
2156     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a comma separated list
2157     with the numerical Ids of all created MIDI input devices.
2158     </p>
2159     </blockquote>
2160    
2161     <p>Examples:
2162     </p>
2163     <p></p>
2164     <blockquote class="text">
2165     <p>C: "LIST MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES"
2166     </p>
2167     <p>S: "0,1,2"
2168     </p>
2169     </blockquote>
2170    
2171     <p></p>
2172     <blockquote class="text">
2173     <p>C: "LIST MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES"
2174     </p>
2175     <p>S: "1,3"
2176     </p>
2177     </blockquote>
2178    
2179     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.8"></a><h4><a name="anchor31">5.3.8</a>&nbsp;Getting current settings of a MIDI input device</h4>
2180    
2181     <p>Use the following command to get current settings of a specific, created MIDI input device:
2182     </p>
2183     <p></p>
2184     <blockquote class="text">
2185     <p>GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE INFO &lt;device-id&gt;
2186     </p>
2187     </blockquote>
2188    
2189     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the MIDI input device.
2190     </p>
2191     <p>Possible Answers:
2192     </p>
2193     <p></p>
2194     <blockquote class="text">
2195     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
2196     Each answer line begins with the information category name
2197     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
2198     the info character string to that info category. As some
2199     parameters might allow multiple values, character strings are
2200     encapsulated into apostrophes ('). At the moment the following
2201     information categories are defined (independent of driver):
2202     </p>
2203     <p></p>
2204     <blockquote class="text">
2205     <p>DRIVER -
2206     </p>
2207     <blockquote class="text">
2208     <p>identifier of the used MIDI input driver, as e.g.
2209     returned by the "GET AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS"
2210     command
2211     </p>
2212     </blockquote>
2213    
2214     </blockquote>
2215     <blockquote class="text">
2216     <p><p>ACTIVE -
2217     </p>
2218     <blockquote class="text">
2219     <p>either true or false, if false then the MIDI device is
2220     inactive and doesn't listen to any incoming MIDI events
2221     and thus doesn't forward them to connected sampler
2222     channels
2223     </p>
2224     </blockquote>
2225    
2226     </blockquote>
2227    
2228     </blockquote>
2229    
2230     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular
2231     order. The fields above are only those fields which are
2232     returned by all MIDI input devices. Every MIDI input driver
2233     might have its own, additional driver specific parameters (see
2234     "GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO" command) which are also returned
2235     by this command.
2236     </p>
2237     <p>Example:
2238     </p>
2239     <p></p>
2240     <blockquote class="text">
2241     <p>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE INFO 0"
2242     </p>
2243     <p>S: "driver: Alsa"
2244     </p>
2245     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"active: true"
2246     </p>
2247     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
2248     </p>
2249     </blockquote>
2250    
2251     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.9"></a><h4><a name="anchor32">5.3.9</a>&nbsp;Changing settings of audio output devices</h4>
2252    
2253     <p>Use the following command to alter a specific setting of a created MIDI input device:
2254     </p>
2255     <p></p>
2256     <blockquote class="text">
2257     <p>SET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;key&gt;=&lt;value&gt;
2258     </p>
2259     </blockquote>
2260    
2261     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the
2262     MIDI input device, &lt;key&gt; by the name of the parameter to change and
2263     &lt;value&gt; by the new value for this parameter.
2264     </p>
2265     <p>Possible Answers:
2266     </p>
2267     <p></p>
2268     <blockquote class="text">
2269     <p>"OK" -
2270     </p>
2271     <blockquote class="text">
2272     <p>in case setting was successfully changed
2273     </p>
2274     </blockquote>
2275    
2276     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2277     </p>
2278     <blockquote class="text">
2279     <p>in case setting was changed successfully, but there are
2280     noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
2281     warning code and warning message
2282     </p>
2283     </blockquote>
2284    
2285     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2286     </p>
2287     <blockquote class="text">
2288     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
2289     </p>
2290     </blockquote>
2291    
2292     </blockquote>
2293    
2294     <p>Example:
2295     </p>
2296     <p></p>
2297     <blockquote class="text">
2298     <p>C: "SET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE PARAMETER 0 ACTIVE=false"
2299     </p>
2300     <p>S: "OK"
2301     </p>
2302     </blockquote>
2303    
2304     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.10"></a><h4><a name="anchor33">5.3.10</a>&nbsp;Getting information about a MIDI port</h4>
2305    
2306     <p>Use the following command to get information about a MIDI port:
2307     </p>
2308     <p></p>
2309     <blockquote class="text">
2310     <p>GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT INFO &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;midi-port&gt;
2311     </p>
2312     </blockquote>
2313    
2314     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the MIDI input device
2315     and &lt;midi-port&gt; the MIDI input port number.
2316     </p>
2317     <p>Possible Answers:
2318     </p>
2319     <p></p>
2320     <blockquote class="text">
2321     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
2322     Each answer line begins with the information category name
2323     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
2324     the info character string to that info category. At the moment
2325     the following information categories are defined:
2326     </p>
2327     <p>NAME -
2328     </p>
2329     <blockquote class="text">
2330     <p>arbitrary character string naming the port
2331     </p>
2332     </blockquote>
2333    
2334     </blockquote>
2335    
2336     <p>The field above is only the one which is returned by all MIDI
2337     ports regardless of the MIDI driver and port. Every MIDI port
2338     might have its own, additional driver and port specific
2339     parameters.
2340     </p>
2341     <p>Example:
2342     </p>
2343     <p></p>
2344     <blockquote class="text">
2345     <p>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT INFO 0 0"
2346     </p>
2347     <p>S: "name: 'Masterkeyboard'"
2348     </p>
2349     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"alsa_seq_bindings: '64:0'"
2350     </p>
2351     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
2352     </p>
2353     </blockquote>
2354    
2355     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.11"></a><h4><a name="anchor34">5.3.11</a>&nbsp;Getting information about specific MIDI port parameter</h4>
2356    
2357     <p>Use the following command to get detailed information about specific MIDI port parameter:
2358     </p>
2359     <p></p>
2360     <blockquote class="text">
2361     <p>GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER INFO &lt;dev-id&gt; &lt;port&gt; &lt;param&gt;
2362     </p>
2363     </blockquote>
2364    
2365     <p>Where &lt;dev-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the MIDI input device as returned
2366     by the "GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES" command, &lt;port&gt; the MIDI port number and
2367     &lt;param&gt; a specific port parameter name for which information should be
2368     obtained (as returned by the "GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT INFO" command).
2369     </p>
2370     <p>Possible Answers:
2371     </p>
2372     <p></p>
2373     <blockquote class="text">
2374     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
2375     Each answer line begins with the information category name
2376     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
2377     the info character string to that info category. There is
2378     information which is always returned, independently of the
2379     given channel parameter and there is optional information
2380     which are only shown dependently to the given MIDI port. At the
2381     moment the following information categories are defined:
2382     </p>
2383     <p>TYPE -
2384     </p>
2385     <blockquote class="text">
2386     <p>either "BOOL" for boolean value(s) or "INT" for integer
2387     value(s) or "FLOAT" for dotted number(s) or "STRING" for
2388     character string(s)
2389     (always returned)
2390     </p>
2391     </blockquote>
2392    
2393     <p>DESCRIPTION -
2394     </p>
2395     <blockquote class="text">
2396     <p>arbitrary text describing the purpose of the parameter
2397     (always returned)
2398     </p>
2399     </blockquote>
2400    
2401     <p>FIX -
2402     </p>
2403     <blockquote class="text">
2404     <p>either true or false, if true then this parameter is
2405     read only, thus cannot be altered
2406     (always returned)
2407     </p>
2408     </blockquote>
2409    
2410     <p>MULTIPLICITY -
2411     </p>
2412     <blockquote class="text">
2413     <p>either true or false, defines if this parameter allows
2414     only one value or a list of values, where true means
2415     multiple values and false only a single value allowed
2416     (always returned)
2417     </p>
2418     </blockquote>
2419    
2420     <p>RANGE_MIN -
2421     </p>
2422     <blockquote class="text">
2423     <p>defines lower limit of the allowed value range for this
2424     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
2425     number, this parameter is usually used in conjunction
2426     with 'RANGE_MAX' but may also appear without
2427     (optionally returned, dependent to driver and port
2428     parameter)
2429     </p>
2430     </blockquote>
2431    
2432     <p>RANGE_MAX -
2433     </p>
2434     <blockquote class="text">
2435     <p>defines upper limit of the allowed value range for this
2436     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
2437     number, this parameter is usually used in conjunction
2438     with 'RANGE_MIN' but may also appear without
2439     (optionally returned, dependent to driver and port
2440     parameter)
2441     </p>
2442     </blockquote>
2443    
2444     <p>POSSIBILITES -
2445     </p>
2446     <blockquote class="text">
2447     <p>comma separated list of possible values for this
2448     parameter, character strings are encapsulated into
2449     apostrophes
2450     (optionally returned, dependent to device and port
2451     parameter)
2452     </p>
2453     </blockquote>
2454    
2455     </blockquote>
2456    
2457     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.
2458     </p>
2459     <p>Example:
2460     </p>
2461     <p></p>
2462     <blockquote class="text">
2463     <p>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER INFO 0 0 alsa_seq_bindings"
2464     </p>
2465     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: bindings to other Alsa sequencer clients"
2466     </p>
2467     <p>"TYPE: STRING"
2468     </p>
2469     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"
2470     </p>
2471     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: true"
2472     </p>
2473     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"POSSIBILITES: '64:0','68:0','68:1'"
2474     </p>
2475     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
2476     </p>
2477     </blockquote>
2478    
2479     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.12"></a><h4><a name="anchor35">5.3.12</a>&nbsp;Changing settings of MIDI input ports</h4>
2480    
2481     <p>Use the following command to alter a specific setting of a MIDI input port:
2482     </p>
2483     <p></p>
2484     <blockquote class="text">
2485     <p>SET MIDI_INPUT_PORT PARAMETER &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;port&gt; &lt;key&gt;=&lt;value&gt;
2486     </p>
2487     </blockquote>
2488    
2489     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the
2490     MIDI device, &lt;port&gt; by the MIDI port number, &lt;key&gt; by the name of
2491     the parameter to change and &lt;value&gt; by the new value for this
2492     parameter.
2493     </p>
2494     <p>Possible Answers:
2495     </p>
2496     <p></p>
2497     <blockquote class="text">
2498     <p>"OK" -
2499     </p>
2500     <blockquote class="text">
2501     <p>in case setting was successfully changed
2502     </p>
2503     </blockquote>
2504    
2505     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2506     </p>
2507     <blockquote class="text">
2508     <p>in case setting was changed successfully, but there are
2509     noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
2510     warning code and warning message
2511     </p>
2512     </blockquote>
2513    
2514     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2515     </p>
2516     <blockquote class="text">
2517     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
2518     </p>
2519     </blockquote>
2520    
2521     </blockquote>
2522    
2523     <p>Example:
2524     </p>
2525     <p></p>
2526     <blockquote class="text">
2527     <p>
2528     </p>
2529     </blockquote>
2530    
2531     <a name="rfc.section.5.4"></a><h4><a name="anchor36">5.4</a>&nbsp;Configuring sampler channels</h4>
2532    
2533     <p>The following commands describe how to add and remove sampler channels, deploy
2534     sampler engines, load instruments and connect sampler channels to MIDI and audio devices.
2535     </p>
2536     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor37">5.4.1</a>&nbsp;Loading an instrument</h4>
2537    
2538     <p>An instrument file can be loaded and assigned to a sampler channel by one of the following commands:
2539     </p>
2540     <p></p>
2541     <blockquote class="text">
2542     <p>LOAD INSTRUMENT [NON_MODAL] '&lt;filename&gt;' &lt;instr-index&gt; &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
2543     </p>
2544     </blockquote>
2545    
2546     <p>Where &lt;filename&gt; is the name of the instrument file on the
2547     LinuxSampler instance's host system, &lt;instr-index&gt; the index of the
2548     instrument in the instrument file and &lt;sampler-channel> is the
2549     number of the sampler channel the instrument should be assigned to.
2550     Each sampler channel can only have one instrument.
2551     </p>
2552     <p>The difference between regular and NON_MODAL versions of the command
2553     is that the regular command returns OK only after the instrument has been
2554     fully loaded and the channel is ready to be used while NON_MODAL version
2555     returns immediately and a background process is launched to load the instrument
2556     on the channel. GET CHANNEL INFO command can be used to obtain loading
2557     progress from INSTRUMENT_STATUS field. LOAD command will perform sanity checks
2558     such as making sure that the file could be read and it is of a proper format
2559     and SHOULD return ERR and SHOULD not launch the background process should any
2560     errors be detected at that point.
2561     </p>
2562     <p>Possible Answers:
2563     </p>
2564     <p></p>
2565     <blockquote class="text">
2566     <p>"OK" -
2567     </p>
2568     <blockquote class="text">
2569     <p>in case the instrument was successfully loaded
2570     </p>
2571     </blockquote>
2572    
2573     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2574     </p>
2575     <blockquote class="text">
2576     <p>in case the instrument was loaded successfully, but there
2577     are noteworthy issue(s) related (e.g. Engine doesn't support
2578     one or more patch parameters provided by the loaded
2579     instrument file), providing an appropriate warning code and
2580     warning message
2581     </p>
2582     </blockquote>
2583    
2584     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2585     </p>
2586     <blockquote class="text">
2587     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
2588     </p>
2589     </blockquote>
2590    
2591     </blockquote>
2592    
2593     <p>Example:
2594     </p>
2595     <p></p>
2596     <blockquote class="text">
2597     <p>
2598     </p>
2599     </blockquote>
2600    
2601     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.2"></a><h4><a name="anchor38">5.4.2</a>&nbsp;Loading a sampler engine</h4>
2602    
2603     <p>A sample engine can be deployed and assigned to a specific sampler
2604     channel by the following command:
2605     </p>
2606     <p></p>
2607     <blockquote class="text">
2608     <p>LOAD ENGINE &lt;engine-name&gt; &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
2609     </p>
2610     </blockquote>
2611    
2612     <p>Where &lt;engine-name&gt; is usually the C++ class name of the engine
2613     implementation and &lt;sampler-channel&gt; the sampler channel the
2614     deployed engine should be assigned to. Even if the respective
2615     sampler channel has already a deployed engine with that engine
2616     name, a new engine instance will be assigned to the sampler channel.
2617     </p>
2618     <p>Possible Answers:
2619     </p>
2620     <p></p>
2621     <blockquote class="text">
2622     <p>"OK" -
2623     </p>
2624     <blockquote class="text">
2625     <p>in case the engine was successfully deployed
2626     </p>
2627     </blockquote>
2628    
2629     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2630     </p>
2631     <blockquote class="text">
2632     <p>in case the engine was deployed successfully, but there
2633     are noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
2634     warning code and warning message
2635     </p>
2636     </blockquote>
2637    
2638     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2639     </p>
2640     <blockquote class="text">
2641     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
2642     error message
2643     </p>
2644     </blockquote>
2645    
2646     </blockquote>
2647    
2648     <p>Example:
2649     </p>
2650     <p></p>
2651     <blockquote class="text">
2652     <p>
2653     </p>
2654     </blockquote>
2655    
2656     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.3"></a><h4><a name="anchor39">5.4.3</a>&nbsp;Getting all created sampler channel count</h4>
2657    
2658     <p>The number of sampler channels can change on runtime. To get the
2659     current amount of sampler channels, the front-end can send the
2660     following command:
2661     </p>
2662     <p></p>
2663     <blockquote class="text">
2664     <p>GET CHANNELS
2665     </p>
2666     </blockquote>
2667    
2668     <p>Possible Answers:
2669     </p>
2670     <p></p>
2671     <blockquote class="text">
2672     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by returning the current number of sampler channels.
2673     </p>
2674     </blockquote>
2675    
2676     <p>Example:
2677     </p>
2678     <p></p>
2679     <blockquote class="text">
2680     <p>C: "GET CHANNELS"
2681     </p>
2682     <p>S: "12"
2683     </p>
2684     </blockquote>
2685    
2686     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.4"></a><h4><a name="anchor40">5.4.4</a>&nbsp;Getting all created sampler channel list</h4>
2687    
2688     <p>The number of sampler channels can change on runtime. To get the
2689     current list of sampler channels, the front-end can send the
2690     following command:
2691     </p>
2692     <p></p>
2693     <blockquote class="text">
2694     <p>LIST CHANNELS
2695     </p>
2696     </blockquote>
2697    
2698     <p>Possible Answers:
2699     </p>
2700     <p></p>
2701     <blockquote class="text">
2702     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by returning a comma separated list
2703     with all sampler channels numerical IDs.
2704     </p>
2705     </blockquote>
2706    
2707     <p>Example:
2708     </p>
2709     <p></p>
2710     <blockquote class="text">
2711     <p>C: "LIST CHANNELS"
2712     </p>
2713     <p>S: "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,9,10,11,15,20"
2714     </p>
2715     </blockquote>
2716    
2717     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.5"></a><h4><a name="anchor41">5.4.5</a>&nbsp;Adding a new sampler channel</h4>
2718    
2719     <p>A new sampler channel can be added to the end of the sampler
2720     channel list by sending the following command:
2721     </p>
2722     <p></p>
2723     <blockquote class="text">
2724     <p>ADD CHANNEL
2725     </p>
2726     </blockquote>
2727    
2728     <p>This will increment the sampler channel count by one and the new
2729     sampler channel will be appended to the end of the sampler channel
2730     list. The front-end should send the respective, related commands
2731     right after to e.g. load an engine, load an instrument and setting
2732     input, output method and eventually other commands to initialize
2733     the new channel. The front-end should use the sampler channel
2734     returned by the answer of this command to perform the previously
2735     recommended commands, to avoid race conditions e.g. with other
2736     front-ends that might also have sent an "ADD CHANNEL" command.
2737     </p>
2738     <p>Possible Answers:
2739     </p>
2740     <p></p>
2741     <blockquote class="text">
2742     <p>"OK[&lt;sampler-channel&gt;]" -
2743     </p>
2744     <blockquote class="text">
2745     <p>in case a new sampler channel could be added, where
2746     &lt;sampler-channel&gt; reflects the channel number of the new
2747     created sampler channel which should the be used to set up
2748     the sampler channel by sending subsequent intialization
2749     commands
2750     </p>
2751     </blockquote>
2752    
2753     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2754     </p>
2755     <blockquote class="text">
2756     <p>in case a new channel was added successfully, but there are
2757     noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
2758     warning code and warning message
2759     </p>
2760     </blockquote>
2761    
2762     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2763     </p>
2764     <blockquote class="text">
2765     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
2766     error message
2767     </p>
2768     </blockquote>
2769    
2770     </blockquote>
2771    
2772     <p>Example:
2773     </p>
2774     <p></p>
2775     <blockquote class="text">
2776     <p>
2777     </p>
2778     </blockquote>
2779    
2780     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.6"></a><h4><a name="anchor42">5.4.6</a>&nbsp;Removing a sampler channel</h4>
2781    
2782     <p>A sampler channel can be removed by sending the following command:
2783     </p>
2784     <p></p>
2785     <blockquote class="text">
2786     <p>REMOVE CHANNEL &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
2787     </p>
2788     </blockquote>
2789    
2790     <p>This will decrement the sampler channel count by one and also
2791     decrement the channel numbers of all subsequent sampler channels by
2792     one.
2793     </p>
2794     <p>Possible Answers:
2795     </p>
2796     <p></p>
2797     <blockquote class="text">
2798     <p>"OK" -
2799     </p>
2800     <blockquote class="text">
2801     <p>in case the given sampler channel could be removed
2802     </p>
2803     </blockquote>
2804    
2805     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2806     </p>
2807     <blockquote class="text">
2808     <p>in case the given channel was removed, but there are
2809     noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
2810     warning code and warning message
2811     </p>
2812     </blockquote>
2813    
2814     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2815     </p>
2816     <blockquote class="text">
2817     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
2818     error message
2819     </p>
2820     </blockquote>
2821    
2822     </blockquote>
2823    
2824     <p>Example:
2825     </p>
2826     <p></p>
2827     <blockquote class="text">
2828     <p>
2829     </p>
2830     </blockquote>
2831    
2832     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.7"></a><h4><a name="anchor43">5.4.7</a>&nbsp;Getting all available engines</h4>
2833    
2834     <p>The front-end can ask for all available engines by sending the following command:
2835     </p>
2836     <p></p>
2837     <blockquote class="text">
2838     <p>GET AVAILABLE_ENGINES
2839     </p>
2840     </blockquote>
2841    
2842     <p>Possible Answers:
2843     </p>
2844     <p></p>
2845     <blockquote class="text">
2846     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a comma separated character
2847     string of the engines' C++ class names.
2848     </p>
2849     </blockquote>
2850    
2851     <p>Example:
2852     </p>
2853     <p></p>
2854     <blockquote class="text">
2855     <p>C: "GET AVAILABLE_ENGINES"
2856     </p>
2857     <p>S: "GigEngine,AkaiEngine,DLSEngine,JoesCustomEngine"
2858     </p>
2859     </blockquote>
2860    
2861     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.8"></a><h4><a name="anchor44">5.4.8</a>&nbsp;Getting information about an engine</h4>
2862    
2863     <p>The front-end can ask for information about a specific engine by
2864     sending the following command:
2865     </p>
2866     <p></p>
2867     <blockquote class="text">
2868     <p>GET ENGINE INFO &lt;engine-name&gt;
2869     </p>
2870     </blockquote>
2871    
2872     <p>Where &lt;engine-name&gt; is usually the C++ class name of the engine implementation.
2873     </p>
2874     <p>Possible Answers:
2875     </p>
2876     <p></p>
2877     <blockquote class="text">
2878     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending &lt;&gt; separated list.
2879     Each answer line begins with the information category name
2880     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
2881     the info character string to that info category. At the moment
2882     the following categories are defined:
2883     </p>
2884     <p></p>
2885     <blockquote class="text">
2886     <p>DESCRIPTION -
2887     </p>
2888     <blockquote class="text">
2889     <p>arbitrary description text about the engine
2890     </p>
2891     </blockquote>
2892    
2893     <p>VERSION -
2894     </p>
2895     <blockquote class="text">
2896     <p>arbitrary character string regarding the engine's version
2897     </p>
2898     </blockquote>
2899    
2900     </blockquote>
2901    
2902     </blockquote>
2903    
2904     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.
2905     </p>
2906     <p>Example:
2907     </p>
2908     <p></p>
2909     <blockquote class="text">
2910     <p>C: "GET ENGINE INFO JoesCustomEngine"
2911     </p>
2912     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: this is Joe's custom sampler engine"
2913     </p>
2914     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"VERSION: testing-1.0"
2915     </p>
2916     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
2917     </p>
2918     </blockquote>
2919    
2920     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.9"></a><h4><a name="anchor45">5.4.9</a>&nbsp;Getting sampler channel information</h4>
2921    
2922     <p>The front-end can ask for the current settings of a sampler channel
2923     by sending the following command:
2924     </p>
2925     <p></p>
2926     <blockquote class="text">
2927     <p>GET CHANNEL INFO &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
2928     </p>
2929     </blockquote>
2930    
2931     <p>Where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the sampler channel number the front-end is interested in.
2932     </p>
2933     <p>Possible Answers:
2934     </p>
2935     <p></p>
2936     <blockquote class="text">
2937     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
2938     Each answer line begins with the settings category name
2939     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
2940     the info character string to that setting category. At the
2941     moment the following categories are defined:
2942     </p>
2943     <p></p>
2944     <blockquote class="text">
2945     <p>ENGINE_NAME -
2946     </p>
2947     <blockquote class="text">
2948     <p>name of the engine that is deployed on the sampler
2949     channel, "NONE" if there's no engine deployed yet for
2950     this sampler channel
2951     </p>
2952     </blockquote>
2953    
2954     <p>AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE -
2955     </p>
2956     <blockquote class="text">
2957     <p>numerical ID of the audio output device which is
2958     currently connected to this sampler channel to output
2959     the audio signal, "NONE" if there's no device
2960     connected to this sampler channel
2961     </p>
2962     </blockquote>
2963    
2964     <p>AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNELS -
2965     </p>
2966     <blockquote class="text">
2967     <p>number of output channels the sampler channel offers
2968     (dependent to used sampler engine and loaded instrument)
2969     </p>
2970     </blockquote>
2971    
2972     <p>AUDIO_OUTPUT_ROUTING -
2973     </p>
2974     <blockquote class="text">
2975     <p>comma separated list which reflects to which audio
2976     channel of the selected audio output device each
2977     sampler output channel is routed to, e.g. "0,3" would
2978     mean the engine's output channel 0 is routed to channel
2979     0 of the audio output device and the engine's output
2980     channel 1 is routed to the channel 3 of the audio
2981     output device
2982     </p>
2983     </blockquote>
2984    
2985     <p>INSTRUMENT_FILE -
2986     </p>
2987     <blockquote class="text">
2988     <p>the file name of the loaded instrument, "NONE" if
2989     there's no instrument yet loaded for this sampler
2990     channel
2991     </p>
2992     </blockquote>
2993    
2994     <p>INSTRUMENT_NR -
2995     </p>
2996     <blockquote class="text">
2997     <p>the instrument index number of the loaded instrument
2998     </p>
2999     </blockquote>
3000    
3001     <p>INSTRUMENT_STATUS -
3002     </p>
3003     <blockquote class="text">
3004     <p>integer values 0 to 100 indicating loading progress percentage for the instrument. Negative
3005     value indicates a loading exception. Value of 100 indicates that the instrument is fully
3006     loaded.
3007     </p>
3008     </blockquote>
3009    
3010     <p>MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE -
3011     </p>
3012     <blockquote class="text">
3013     <p>numerical ID of the MIDI input device which is
3014     currently connected to this sampler channel to deliver
3015     MIDI input commands, "NONE" if there's no device
3016     connected to this sampler channel
3017     </p>
3018     </blockquote>
3019    
3020     <p>MIDI_INPUT_PORT -
3021     </p>
3022     <blockquote class="text">
3023     <p>port number of the MIDI input device
3024     </p>
3025     </blockquote>
3026    
3027     <p>MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL -
3028     </p>
3029     <blockquote class="text">
3030     <p>the MIDI input channel number this sampler channel
3031     should listen to or "ALL" to listen on all MIDI channels
3032     </p>
3033     </blockquote>
3034    
3035     <p>VOLUME -
3036     </p>
3037     <blockquote class="text">
3038     <p>optionally dotted number for the channel volume factor
3039     (where a value < 1.0 means attenuation and a value >
3040     1.0 means amplification)
3041     </p>
3042     </blockquote>
3043    
3044     </blockquote>
3045    
3046     </blockquote>
3047    
3048     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.
3049     </p>
3050     <p>Example:
3051     </p>
3052     <p></p>
3053     <blockquote class="text">
3054     <p>C: "GET CHANNEL INFO 34"
3055     </p>
3056     <p>S: "ENGINE_NAME: GigEngine"
3057     </p>
3058     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"VOLUME: 1.0"
3059     </p>
3060     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE: 0"
3061     </p>
3062     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNELS: 2"
3063     </p>
3064     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"AUDIO_OUTPUT_ROUTING: 0,1"
3065     </p>
3066     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"INSTRUMENT_FILE: /home/joe/FazioliPiano.gig"
3067     </p>
3068     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"INSTRUMENT_NR: 0"
3069     </p>
3070     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"INSTRUMENT_STATUS: 100"
3071     </p>
3072     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE: 0"
3073     </p>
3074     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MIDI_INPUT_PORT: 0"
3075     </p>
3076     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL: 5"
3077     </p>
3078     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
3079     </p>
3080     </blockquote>
3081    
3082     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.10"></a><h4><a name="anchor46">5.4.10</a>&nbsp;Current number of active voices</h4>
3083    
3084     <p>The front-end can ask for the current number of active voices on a
3085     sampler channel by sending the following command:
3086     </p>
3087     <p></p>
3088     <blockquote class="text">
3089     <p>GET CHANNEL VOICE_COUNT &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
3090     </p>
3091     </blockquote>
3092    
3093     <p>Where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the sampler channel number the front-end is interested in.
3094     </p>
3095     <p>Possible Answers:
3096     </p>
3097     <p></p>
3098     <blockquote class="text">
3099     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by returning the number of active
3100     voices on that channel.
3101     </p>
3102     </blockquote>
3103    
3104     <p>Example:
3105     </p>
3106     <p></p>
3107     <blockquote class="text">
3108     <p>
3109     </p>
3110     </blockquote>
3111    
3112     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.11"></a><h4><a name="anchor47">5.4.11</a>&nbsp;Current number of active disk streams</h4>
3113    
3114     <p>The front-end can ask for the current number of active disk streams
3115     on a sampler channel by sending the following command:
3116     </p>
3117     <p></p>
3118     <blockquote class="text">
3119     <p>GET CHANNEL STREAM_COUNT &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
3120     </p>
3121     </blockquote>
3122    
3123     <p>Where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the sampler channel number the front-end is interested in.
3124     </p>
3125     <p>Possible Answers:
3126     </p>
3127     <p></p>
3128     <blockquote class="text">
3129     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by returning the number of active
3130     disk streams on that channel in case the engine supports disk
3131     streaming, if the engine doesn't support disk streaming it will
3132     return "NA" for not available.
3133     </p>
3134     </blockquote>
3135    
3136     <p>Example:
3137     </p>
3138     <p></p>
3139     <blockquote class="text">
3140     <p>
3141     </p>
3142     </blockquote>
3143    
3144     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.12"></a><h4><a name="anchor48">5.4.12</a>&nbsp;Current fill state of disk stream buffers</h4>
3145    
3146     <p>The front-end can ask for the current fill state of all disk streams
3147     on a sampler channel by sending the following command:
3148     </p>
3149     <p></p>
3150     <blockquote class="text">
3151     <p>GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL BYTES &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
3152     </p>
3153     </blockquote>
3154    
3155     <p>to get the fill state in bytes or
3156     </p>
3157     <p></p>
3158     <blockquote class="text">
3159     <p>GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL PERCENTAGE &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
3160     </p>
3161     </blockquote>
3162    
3163     <p>to get the fill state in percent, where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the
3164     sampler channel number the front-end is interested in.
3165     </p>
3166     <p>Possible Answers:
3167     </p>
3168     <p></p>
3169     <blockquote class="text">
3170     <p>LinuxSampler will either answer by returning a comma separated
3171     string with the fill state of all disk stream buffers on that
3172     channel or an empty line if there are no active disk streams or
3173     "NA" for *not available* in case the engine which is deployed
3174     doesn't support disk streaming. Each entry in the answer list
3175     will begin with the stream's ID in brackets followed by the
3176     numerical representation of the fill size (either in bytes or
3177     percentage). Note: due to efficiency reasons the fill states in
3178     the response are not in particular order, thus the front-end has
3179     to sort them by itself if necessary.
3180     </p>
3181     </blockquote>
3182    
3183     <p>Examples:
3184     </p>
3185     <p></p>
3186     <blockquote class="text">
3187     <p>C: "GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL BYTES 4"
3188     </p>
3189     <p>S: "[115]420500,[116]510300,[75]110000,[120]230700"
3190     </p>
3191     </blockquote>
3192     <blockquote class="text">
3193     <p><p>C: "GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL PERCENTAGE 4"
3194     </p>
3195     <p>S: "[115]90%,[116]98%,[75]40%,[120]62%"
3196     </p>
3197     </blockquote>
3198     <blockquote class="text">
3199     <p><p>C: "GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL PERCENTAGE 4"
3200     </p>
3201     <p>S: ""
3202     </p>
3203     </blockquote>
3204    
3205     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.13"></a><h4><a name="anchor49">5.4.13</a>&nbsp;Setting audio output device</h4>
3206    
3207     <p>The front-end can set the audio output device on a specific sampler
3208     channel by sending the following command:
3209     </p>
3210     <p></p>
3211     <blockquote class="text">
3212     <p>SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;audio-device-id&gt;
3213     </p>
3214     </blockquote>
3215    
3216     <p>Where &lt;audio-device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the audio output
3217     device and &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the respective sampler channel
3218     number.
3219     </p>
3220     <p>Possible Answers:
3221     </p>
3222     <p></p>
3223     <blockquote class="text">
3224     <p>"OK" -
3225     </p>
3226     <blockquote class="text">
3227     <p>on success
3228     </p>
3229     </blockquote>
3230    
3231     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3232     </p>
3233     <blockquote class="text">
3234     <p>if audio output device was set, but there are noteworthy
3235     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3236     warning message
3237     </p>
3238     </blockquote>
3239    
3240     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3241     </p>
3242     <blockquote class="text">
3243     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
3244     </p>
3245     </blockquote>
3246    
3247     </blockquote>
3248    
3249     <p>Examples:
3250     </p>
3251     <p></p>
3252     <blockquote class="text">
3253     <p>
3254     </p>
3255     </blockquote>
3256    
3257     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.14"></a><h4><a name="anchor50">5.4.14</a>&nbsp;Setting audio output type</h4>
3258    
3259     <p>DEPRECATED: THIS COMMAND WILL DISAPPEAR SOON!
3260     </p>
3261     <p>The front-end can alter the audio output type on a specific sampler
3262     channel by sending the following command:
3263     </p>
3264     <p></p>
3265     <blockquote class="text">
3266     <p>SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;audio-output-type&gt;
3267     </p>
3268     </blockquote>
3269    
3270     <p>Where &lt;audio-output-type&gt; is currently either "Alsa" or "Jack" and
3271     &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the respective sampler channel number.
3272     </p>
3273     <p>Possible Answers:
3274     </p>
3275     <p></p>
3276     <blockquote class="text">
3277     <p>"OK" -
3278     </p>
3279     <blockquote class="text">
3280     <p>on success
3281     </p>
3282     </blockquote>
3283    
3284     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3285     </p>
3286     <blockquote class="text">
3287     <p>if audio output type was set, but there are noteworthy
3288     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3289     warning message
3290     </p>
3291     </blockquote>
3292    
3293     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3294     </p>
3295     <blockquote class="text">
3296     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
3297     </p>
3298     </blockquote>
3299    
3300     </blockquote>
3301    
3302     <p>Examples:
3303     </p>
3304     <p></p>
3305     <blockquote class="text">
3306     <p>
3307     </p>
3308     </blockquote>
3309    
3310     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.15"></a><h4><a name="anchor51">5.4.15</a>&nbsp;Setting audio output channel</h4>
3311    
3312     <p>The front-end can alter the audio output channel on a specific
3313     sampler channel by sending the following command:
3314     </p>
3315     <p></p>
3316     <blockquote class="text">
3317     <p>SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL &lt;sampler-chan&gt; &lt;audio-out&gt; &lt;audio-in&gt;
3318     </p>
3319     </blockquote>
3320    
3321     <p>Where &lt;sampler-chan&gt; is the sampler channel, &lt;audio-out&gt; is the
3322     sampler channel's audio output channel which should be
3323     rerouted and &lt;audio-in&gt; the audio channel of the selected audio
3324     output device where &lt;audio-out&gt; should be routed to.
3325     </p>
3326     <p>Possible Answers:
3327     </p>
3328     <p></p>
3329     <blockquote class="text">
3330     <p>"OK" -
3331     </p>
3332     <blockquote class="text">
3333     <p>on success
3334     </p>
3335     </blockquote>
3336    
3337     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3338     </p>
3339     <blockquote class="text">
3340     <p>if audio output channel was set, but there are noteworthy
3341     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3342     warning message
3343     </p>
3344     </blockquote>
3345    
3346     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3347     </p>
3348     <blockquote class="text">
3349     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
3350     </p>
3351     </blockquote>
3352    
3353     </blockquote>
3354    
3355     <p>Examples:
3356     </p>
3357     <p></p>
3358     <blockquote class="text">
3359     <p>
3360     </p>
3361     </blockquote>
3362    
3363     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.16"></a><h4><a name="anchor52">5.4.16</a>&nbsp;Setting MIDI input device</h4>
3364    
3365     <p>The front-end can set the MIDI input device on a specific sampler
3366     channel by sending the following command:
3367     </p>
3368     <p></p>
3369     <blockquote class="text">
3370     <p>SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;midi-device-id&gt;
3371     </p>
3372     </blockquote>
3373    
3374     <p>
3375     </p>
3376     <p>Possible Answers:
3377     </p>
3378     <p></p>
3379     <blockquote class="text">
3380     <p>"OK" -
3381     </p>
3382     <blockquote class="text">
3383     <p>on success
3384     </p>
3385     </blockquote>
3386    
3387     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3388     </p>
3389     <blockquote class="text">
3390     <p>if MIDI input device was set, but there are noteworthy
3391     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3392     warning message
3393     </p>
3394     </blockquote>
3395    
3396     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3397     </p>
3398     <blockquote class="text">
3399     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
3400     </p>
3401     </blockquote>
3402    
3403     </blockquote>
3404    
3405     <p>Examples:
3406     </p>
3407     <p></p>
3408     <blockquote class="text">
3409     <p>
3410     </p>
3411     </blockquote>
3412    
3413     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.17"></a><h4><a name="anchor53">5.4.17</a>&nbsp;Setting MIDI input type</h4>
3414    
3415     <p>DEPRECATED: THIS COMMAND WILL DISAPPEAR SOON!
3416     </p>
3417     <p>The front-end can alter the MIDI input type on a specific sampler
3418     channel by sending the following command:
3419     </p>
3420     <p></p>
3421     <blockquote class="text">
3422     <p>SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;midi-input-type&gt;
3423     </p>
3424     </blockquote>
3425    
3426     <p>Where &lt;midi-input-type&gt; is currently only "Alsa" and
3427     &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the respective sampler channel number.
3428     </p>
3429     <p>Possible Answers:
3430     </p>
3431     <p></p>
3432     <blockquote class="text">
3433     <p>"OK" -
3434     </p>
3435     <blockquote class="text">
3436     <p>on success
3437     </p>
3438     </blockquote>
3439    
3440     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3441     </p>
3442     <blockquote class="text">
3443     <p>if MIDI input type was set, but there are noteworthy
3444     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3445     warning message
3446     </p>
3447     </blockquote>
3448    
3449     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3450     </p>
3451     <blockquote class="text">
3452     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
3453     </p>
3454     </blockquote>
3455    
3456     </blockquote>
3457    
3458     <p>Examples:
3459     </p>
3460     <p></p>
3461     <blockquote class="text">
3462     <p>
3463     </p>
3464     </blockquote>
3465    
3466     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.18"></a><h4><a name="anchor54">5.4.18</a>&nbsp;Setting MIDI input port</h4>
3467    
3468     <p>The front-end can alter the input MIDI port on a specific sampler
3469     channel by sending the following command:
3470     </p>
3471     <p></p>
3472     <blockquote class="text">
3473     <p>SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;midi-input-port&gt;
3474     </p>
3475     </blockquote>
3476    
3477     <p>Where &lt;midi-input-port&gt; is a MIDI input port number of the
3478     MIDI input device connected to the sampler channel given by
3479     &lt;sampler-channel&gt;.
3480     </p>
3481     <p>Possible Answers:
3482     </p>
3483     <p></p>
3484     <blockquote class="text">
3485     <p>"OK" -
3486     </p>
3487     <blockquote class="text">
3488     <p>on success
3489     </p>
3490     </blockquote>
3491    
3492     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3493     </p>
3494     <blockquote class="text">
3495     <p>if MIDI input port was set, but there are noteworthy
3496     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3497     warning message
3498     </p>
3499     </blockquote>
3500    
3501     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3502     </p>
3503     <blockquote class="text">
3504     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error messag
3505     </p>
3506     </blockquote>
3507    
3508     </blockquote>
3509    
3510     <p>Examples:
3511     </p>
3512     <p></p>
3513     <blockquote class="text">
3514     <p>
3515     </p>
3516     </blockquote>
3517    
3518     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.19"></a><h4><a name="anchor55">5.4.19</a>&nbsp;Setting MIDI input channel</h4>
3519    
3520     <p>The front-end can alter the MIDI channel a sampler channel should
3521     listen to by sending the following command:
3522     </p>
3523     <p></p>
3524     <blockquote class="text">
3525     <p>SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;midi-input-chan&gt;
3526     </p>
3527     </blockquote>
3528    
3529     <p>Where &lt;midi-input-chan&gt; is the new MIDI input channel where
3530     &lt;sampler-channel&gt; should listen to or "ALL" to listen on all 16 MIDI
3531     channels.
3532     </p>
3533     <p>Possible Answers:
3534     </p>
3535     <p></p>
3536     <blockquote class="text">
3537     <p>"OK" -
3538     </p>
3539     <blockquote class="text">
3540     <p>on success
3541     </p>
3542     </blockquote>
3543    
3544     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3545     </p>
3546     <blockquote class="text">
3547     <p>if MIDI input channel was set, but there are noteworthy
3548     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3549     warning message
3550     </p>
3551     </blockquote>
3552    
3553     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3554     </p>
3555     <blockquote class="text">
3556     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
3557     </p>
3558     </blockquote>
3559    
3560     </blockquote>
3561    
3562     <p>Examples:
3563     </p>
3564     <p></p>
3565     <blockquote class="text">
3566     <p>
3567     </p>
3568     </blockquote>
3569    
3570     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.20"></a><h4><a name="anchor56">5.4.20</a>&nbsp;Setting channel volume</h4>
3571    
3572     <p>The front-end can alter the volume of a sampler channel by sending
3573     the following command:
3574     </p>
3575     <p></p>
3576     <blockquote class="text">
3577     <p>SET CHANNEL VOLUME &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;volume&gt;
3578     </p>
3579     </blockquote>
3580    
3581     <p>Where &lt;volume&gt; is an optionally dotted positive number (a value
3582     smaller than 1.0 means attenuation, whereas a value greater than
3583     1.0 means amplification) and &lt;sampler-channel&gt; defines the sampler
3584     channel where this volume factor should be set.
3585     </p>
3586     <p>Possible Answers:
3587     </p>
3588     <p></p>
3589     <blockquote class="text">
3590     <p>"OK" -
3591     </p>
3592     <blockquote class="text">
3593     <p>on success
3594     </p>
3595     </blockquote>
3596    
3597     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3598     </p>
3599     <blockquote class="text">
3600     <p>if channel volume was set, but there are noteworthy
3601     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3602     warning message
3603     </p>
3604     </blockquote>
3605    
3606     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3607     </p>
3608     <blockquote class="text">
3609     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
3610     </p>
3611     </blockquote>
3612    
3613     </blockquote>
3614    
3615     <p>Examples:
3616     </p>
3617     <p></p>
3618     <blockquote class="text">
3619     <p>
3620     </p>
3621     </blockquote>
3622    
3623     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.21"></a><h4><a name="anchor57">5.4.21</a>&nbsp;Resetting a sampler channel</h4>
3624    
3625     <p>The front-end can reset a particular sampler channel by sending the following command:
3626     </p>
3627     <p></p>
3628     <blockquote class="text">
3629     <p>RESET CHANNEL &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
3630     </p>
3631     </blockquote>
3632    
3633     <p>
3634     Where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; defines the sampler channel to be reset.
3635     This will cause the engine on that sampler channel, its voices and
3636     eventually disk streams and all control and status variables to be
3637     reset.
3638     </p>
3639     <p>Possible Answers:
3640     </p>
3641     <p></p>
3642     <blockquote class="text">
3643     <p>"OK" -
3644     </p>
3645     <blockquote class="text">
3646     <p>on success
3647     </p>
3648     </blockquote>
3649    
3650     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3651     </p>
3652     <blockquote class="text">
3653     <p>if channel was reset, but there are noteworthy issue(s)
3654     related, providing an appropriate warning code and warning
3655     message
3656     </p>
3657     </blockquote>
3658    
3659     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3660     </p>
3661     <blockquote class="text">
3662     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
3663     error message
3664     </p>
3665     </blockquote>
3666    
3667     </blockquote>
3668    
3669     <p>Examples:
3670     </p>
3671     <p></p>
3672     <blockquote class="text">
3673     <p>
3674     </p>
3675     </blockquote>
3676    
3677     <a name="rfc.section.5.5"></a><h4><a name="anchor58">5.5</a>&nbsp;Controlling connection</h4>
3678    
3679     <p>The following commands are used to control the connection to LinuxSampler.
3680     </p>
3681     <a name="rfc.section.5.5.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor59">5.5.1</a>&nbsp;Register front-end for receiving event messages</h4>
3682    
3683     <p>The front-end can register itself to the LinuxSampler application to
3684     be informed about noteworthy events by sending this command:
3685     </p>
3686     <p></p>
3687     <blockquote class="text">
3688     <p>SUBSCRIBE &lt;event-id&gt;
3689     </p>
3690     </blockquote>
3691    
3692     <p>where &lt;event-id&gt; will be replaced by the respective event that
3693     client wants to subscribe to.
3694     </p>
3695     <p>Possible Answers:
3696     </p>
3697     <p></p>
3698     <blockquote class="text">
3699     <p>"OK" -
3700     </p>
3701     <blockquote class="text">
3702     <p>on success
3703     </p>
3704     </blockquote>
3705    
3706     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3707     </p>
3708     <blockquote class="text">
3709     <p>if registration succeeded, but there are noteworthy
3710     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3711     warning message
3712     </p>
3713     </blockquote>
3714    
3715     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3716     </p>
3717     <blockquote class="text">
3718     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
3719     error message
3720     </p>
3721     </blockquote>
3722    
3723     </blockquote>
3724    
3725     <p>Examples:
3726     </p>
3727     <p></p>
3728     <blockquote class="text">
3729     <p>
3730     </p>
3731     </blockquote>
3732    
3733     <a name="rfc.section.5.5.2"></a><h4><a name="anchor60">5.5.2</a>&nbsp;Unregister front-end for not receiving UDP event messages anymore</h4>
3734    
3735     <p>The front-end can unregister itself if it doesn't want to receive event
3736     messages anymore by sending the following command:
3737     </p>
3738     <p></p>
3739     <blockquote class="text">
3740     <p>UNSUBSCRIBE &lt;event-id&gt;
3741     </p>
3742     </blockquote>
3743    
3744     <p>Where &lt;event-id&gt; will be replaced by the respective event that
3745     client doesn't want to receive anymore.
3746     </p>
3747     <p>Possible Answers:
3748     </p>
3749     <p></p>
3750     <blockquote class="text">
3751     <p>"OK" -
3752     </p>
3753     <blockquote class="text">
3754     <p>on success
3755     </p>
3756     </blockquote>
3757    
3758     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3759     </p>
3760     <blockquote class="text">
3761     <p>if unregistration succeeded, but there are noteworthy
3762     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3763     warning message
3764     </p>
3765     </blockquote>
3766    
3767     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3768     </p>
3769     <blockquote class="text">
3770     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
3771     error message
3772     </p>
3773     </blockquote>
3774    
3775     </blockquote>
3776    
3777     <p>Examples:
3778     </p>
3779     <p></p>
3780     <blockquote class="text">
3781     <p>
3782     </p>
3783     </blockquote>
3784    
3785     <a name="rfc.section.5.5.3"></a><h4><a name="anchor61">5.5.3</a>&nbsp;Enable or disable echo of commands</h4>
3786    
3787     <p>To enable or disable back sending of commands to the client the following command can be used:
3788     </p>
3789     <p></p>
3790     <blockquote class="text">
3791     <p>SET ECHO &lt;value&gt;
3792     </p>
3793     </blockquote>
3794    
3795     <p>Where &lt;value&gt; should be replaced either by "1" to enable echo mode
3796     or "0" to disable echo mode. When echo mode is enabled, all
3797     commands send to LinuxSampler will be immediately send back and
3798     after this echo the actual response to the command will be
3799     returned. Echo mode will only be altered for the client connection
3800     that issued the "SET ECHO" command, not globally for all client
3801     connections.
3802     </p>
3803     <p>Possible Answers:
3804     </p>
3805     <p></p>
3806     <blockquote class="text">
3807     <p>"OK" -
3808     </p>
3809     <blockquote class="text">
3810     <p>usually
3811     </p>
3812     </blockquote>
3813    
3814     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3815     </p>
3816     <blockquote class="text">
3817     <p>on syntax error, e.g. non boolean value
3818     </p>
3819     </blockquote>
3820    
3821     </blockquote>
3822    
3823     <p>Examples:
3824     </p>
3825     <p></p>
3826     <blockquote class="text">
3827     <p>
3828     </p>
3829     </blockquote>
3830    
3831     <a name="rfc.section.5.5.4"></a><h4><a name="anchor62">5.5.4</a>&nbsp;Close client connection</h4>
3832    
3833     <p>The client can close its network connection to LinuxSampler by sending the following command:
3834     </p>
3835     <p></p>
3836     <blockquote class="text">
3837     <p>QUIT
3838     </p>
3839     </blockquote>
3840    
3841     <p>This is probably more interesting for manual telnet connections to
3842     LinuxSampler than really useful for a front-end implementation.
3843     </p>
3844     <a name="anchor63"></a><br /><hr />
3845     <table summary="layout" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" class="bug" align="right"><tr><td class="bug"><a href="#toc" class="link2">&nbsp;TOC&nbsp;</a></td></tr></table>
3846     <a name="rfc.section.6"></a><h3>6.&nbsp;Command Syntax</h3>
3847    
3848     <p>TODO: will soon automatically included from src/network/lscp.y
3849     </p>
3850     <a name="anchor64"></a><br /><hr />
3851     <table summary="layout" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" class="bug" align="right"><tr><td class="bug"><a href="#toc" class="link2">&nbsp;TOC&nbsp;</a></td></tr></table>
3852     <a name="rfc.section.7"></a><h3>7.&nbsp;Events</h3>
3853    
3854     <p>This chapter will describe all currently defined events supported by LinuxSampler.
3855     </p>
3856     <a name="rfc.section.7.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor65">7.1</a>&nbsp;Number of sampler channels changed</h4>
3857    
3858     <p>Client may want to be notified when the total number of channels on the
3859     back-end changes by issuing the following command:
3860     </p>
3861     <p></p>
3862     <blockquote class="text">
3863     <p>SUBSCRIBE CHANNELS
3864     </p>
3865     </blockquote>
3866    
3867     <p>Server will start sending the following notification messages:
3868     </p>
3869     <p></p>
3870     <blockquote class="text">
3871     <p>"NOTIFY:CHANNELS:&lt;channels&gt;"
3872     </p>
3873     </blockquote>
3874    
3875     <p>where &lt;channels&gt; will be replaced by the new number
3876     of sampler channels.
3877     </p>
3878     <a name="rfc.section.7.2"></a><h4><a name="anchor66">7.2</a>&nbsp;Number of active voices changed</h4>
3879    
3880     <p>Client may want to be notified when the number of voices on the
3881     back-end changes by issuing the following command:
3882     </p>
3883     <p></p>
3884     <blockquote class="text">
3885     <p>SUBSCRIBE VOICE_COUNT
3886     </p>
3887     </blockquote>
3888    
3889     <p>Server will start sending the following notification messages:
3890     </p>
3891     <p></p>
3892     <blockquote class="text">
3893     <p>"NOTIFY:VOICE_COUNT:&lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;voices>&gt;
3894     </p>
3895     </blockquote>
3896    
3897     <p>where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; will be replaced by the sampler channel the
3898     voice count change occurred and &lt;voices>&gt; by the new number of
3899     active voices on that channel.
3900     </p>
3901     <a name="rfc.section.7.3"></a><h4><a name="anchor67">7.3</a>&nbsp;Number of active disk streams changed</h4>
3902    
3903     <p>Client may want to be notified when the number of streams on the back-end
3904     changes by issuing the following command: SUBSCRIBE STREAM_COUNT
3905     </p>
3906     <p></p>
3907     <blockquote class="text">
3908     <p>SUBSCRIBE STREAM_COUNT
3909     </p>
3910     </blockquote>
3911    
3912     <p>Server will start sending the following notification messages:
3913     </p>
3914     <p></p>
3915     <blockquote class="text">
3916     <p>"NOTIFY:STREAM_COUNT:&lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;streams&gt;"
3917     </p>
3918     </blockquote>
3919    
3920     <p>where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; will be replaced by the sampler channel the
3921     stream count change occurred and &lt;streams&gt; by the new number of
3922     active disk streams on that channel.
3923     </p>
3924     <a name="rfc.section.7.4"></a><h4><a name="anchor68">7.4</a>&nbsp;Disk stream buffer fill state changed</h4>
3925    
3926     <p>Client may want to be notified when the number of streams on the back-end
3927     changes by issuing the following command:
3928     </p>
3929     <p></p>
3930     <blockquote class="text">
3931     <p>SUBSCRIBE BUFFER_FILL
3932     </p>
3933     </blockquote>
3934    
3935     <p>Server will start sending the following notification messages:
3936     </p>
3937     <p></p>
3938     <blockquote class="text">
3939     <p>"NOTIFY:BUFFER_FILL:&lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;fill-data&gt;"
3940     </p>
3941     </blockquote>
3942    
3943     <p>where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; will be replaced by the sampler channel the
3944     buffer fill state change occurred and &lt;fill-data&gt; will be replaced by the
3945     buffer fill data for this channel as described in 4.4.12 as if the
3946     "GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL PERCENTAGE" was issued on this channel.
3947     </p>
3948     <a name="rfc.section.7.5"></a><h4><a name="anchor69">7.5</a>&nbsp;Channel information changed</h4>
3949    
3950     <p>Client may want to be notified when changes were made to sampler channels on the
3951     back-end changes by issuing the following command:
3952     </p>
3953     <p></p>
3954     <blockquote class="text">
3955     <p>SUBSCRIBE INFO
3956     </p>
3957     </blockquote>
3958    
3959     <p>Server will start sending the following notification messages:
3960     </p>
3961     <p></p>
3962     <blockquote class="text">
3963     <p>"NOTIFY:INFO:&lt;sampler-channel&gt;"
3964     </p>
3965     </blockquote>
3966    
3967     <p>where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; will be replaced by the sampler channel the
3968     channel info change occurred. The front-end will have to send
3969     the respective command to actually get the channel info. Because these messages
3970     will be triggered by LSCP commands issued by other clients rather than real
3971     time events happening on the server, it is believed that an empty notification
3972     message is sufficient here.
3973     </p>
3974     <a name="rfc.section.7.6"></a><h4><a name="anchor70">7.6</a>&nbsp;Miscellaneous and debugging events</h4>
3975    
3976     <p>Client may want to be notified of miscellaneous and debugging events occurring at
3977     the server by issuing the following command:
3978     </p>
3979     <p></p>
3980     <blockquote class="text">
3981     <p>SUBSCRIBE MISCELLANEOUS
3982     </p>
3983     </blockquote>
3984    
3985     <p>Server will start sending the following notification messages:
3986     </p>
3987     <p></p>
3988     <blockquote class="text">
3989     <p>"NOTIFY:MISCELLANEOUS:&lt;string&gt;"
3990     </p>
3991     </blockquote>
3992    
3993     <p>where &lt;string&gt; will be replaced by whatever data server
3994     wants to send to the client. Client MAY display this data to the
3995     user AS IS to facilitate debugging.
3996     </p>
3997     <a name="anchor71"></a><br /><hr />
3998     <table summary="layout" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" class="bug" align="right"><tr><td class="bug"><a href="#toc" class="link2">&nbsp;TOC&nbsp;</a></td></tr></table>
3999     <a name="rfc.section.8"></a><h3>8.&nbsp;Security Considerations</h3>
4000    
4001     <p>As there is so far no method of authentication and authorization
4002     defined and so not required for a client applications to succeed to
4003     connect, running LinuxSampler might be a security risk for the host
4004     system the LinuxSampler instance is running on.
4005     </p>
4006     <a name="anchor72"></a><br /><hr />
4007     <table summary="layout" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" class="bug" align="right"><tr><td class="bug"><a href="#toc" class="link2">&nbsp;TOC&nbsp;</a></td></tr></table>
4008     <a name="rfc.section.9"></a><h3>9.&nbsp;Acknowledgments</h3>
4009    
4010     <p>This document has benefited greatly from the comments of the
4011     following people, discussed on the LinuxSampler developer's mailing
4012     list:
4013     </p>
4014     <p></p>
4015     <blockquote class="text">
4016     <p>Rui Nuno Capela
4017     </p>
4018     <p>Vladimir Senkov
4019     </p>
4020     <p>Mark Knecht
4021     </p>
4022     </blockquote>
4023    
4024     <a name="rfc.references1"></a><br /><hr />
4025     <table summary="layout" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" class="bug" align="right"><tr><td class="bug"><a href="#toc" class="link2">&nbsp;TOC&nbsp;</a></td></tr></table>
4026     <h3>10&nbsp;References</h3>
4027     <table width="99%" border="0">
4028     <tr><td class="author-text" valign="top"><a name="RFC2119">[RFC2119]</a></td>
4029     <td class="author-text"><a href="mailto:sob@harvard.edu">Bradner, S.</a>, "<a href="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2119.txt">Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels</a>", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997 (<a href="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2119.txt">TXT</a>, <a href="http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/html/rfc2119.html">HTML</a>, <a href="http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/xml/rfc2119.xml">XML</a>).</td></tr>
4030     </table>
4031    
4032     <a name="rfc.authors"></a><br /><hr />
4033     <table summary="layout" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" class="bug" align="right"><tr><td class="bug"><a href="#toc" class="link2">&nbsp;TOC&nbsp;</a></td></tr></table>
4034     <h3>Author's Address</h3>
4035     <table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
4036     <tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
4037     <td class="author-text">C.
4038     Schoenebeck</td></tr>
4039     <tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
4040     <td class="author-text">Interessengemeinschaft Software Engineering e. V.</td></tr>
4041     <tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
4042     <td class="author-text">Max-Planck-Str. 39</td></tr>
4043     <tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
4044     <td class="author-text">74081 Heilbronn</td></tr>
4045     <tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
4046     <td class="author-text">Germany</td></tr>
4047     <tr><td class="author" align="right">EMail:&nbsp;</td>
4048     <td class="author-text"><a href="mailto:schoenebeck at software minus engineering dot org">schoenebeck at software minus engineering dot org</a></td></tr>
4049     </table>
4050     <a name="rfc.copyright"></a><br /><hr />
4051     <table summary="layout" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" class="bug" align="right"><tr><td class="bug"><a href="#toc" class="link2">&nbsp;TOC&nbsp;</a></td></tr></table>
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