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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     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor63">5.6</a>&nbsp;
283     Global commands<br />
284     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor64">5.6.1</a>&nbsp;
285     Reset sampler<br />
286     <a href="#anchor65">6.</a>&nbsp;
287     Command Syntax<br />
288     <a href="#anchor66">7.</a>&nbsp;
289     Events<br />
290     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor67">7.1</a>&nbsp;
291     Number of sampler channels changed<br />
292     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor68">7.2</a>&nbsp;
293     Number of active voices changed<br />
294     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor69">7.3</a>&nbsp;
295     Number of active disk streams changed<br />
296     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor70">7.4</a>&nbsp;
297     Disk stream buffer fill state changed<br />
298     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor71">7.5</a>&nbsp;
299     Channel information changed<br />
300     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#anchor72">7.6</a>&nbsp;
301     Miscellaneous and debugging events<br />
302     <a href="#anchor73">8.</a>&nbsp;
303     Security Considerations<br />
304     <a href="#anchor74">9.</a>&nbsp;
305     Acknowledgments<br />
306     <a href="#rfc.references1">&#167;.</a>&nbsp;
307     References<br />
308     <a href="#rfc.authors">&#167;</a>&nbsp;
309     Author's Address<br />
310     <a href="#rfc.copyright">&#167;</a>&nbsp;
311     Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements<br />
312     </p>
313     <br clear="all" />
314    
315     <a name="anchor1"></a><br /><hr />
316     <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>
317     <a name="rfc.section.1"></a><h3>1.&nbsp;Requirements notation</h3>
318    
319     <p>The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL",
320     "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY",
321     and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as
322     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>.
323     </p>
324     <p>This protocol is always case-sensitive if not explicitly
325     claimed the opposite.
326     </p>
327     <p>In examples, "C:" and "S:" indicate lines sent by the client
328     (front-end) and server (LinuxSampler) respectively. Lines in
329     examples must be interpreted as every line being CRLF
330     terminated (carriage return character followed by line feed
331     character as defined in the ASCII standard), thus the following
332     example:
333     </p>
334     <p></p>
335     <blockquote class="text">
336     <p>C: "some line"
337     </p>
338     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"another line"
339     </p>
340     </blockquote>
341    
342     <p>must actually be interpreted as client sending the following
343     message:
344     </p>
345     <p></p>
346     <blockquote class="text">
347     <p>"some line&lt;CR&gt;&lt;LF&gt;another
348     line&lt;CR&gt;&lt;LF&gt;"
349     </p>
350     </blockquote>
351    
352     <p>where &lt;CR&gt; symbolizes the carriage return character and
353     &lt;LF&gt; the line feed character as defined in the ASCII
354     standard.
355     </p>
356     <p>Due to technical reasons, messages can arbitrary be
357     fragmented, means the following example:
358     </p>
359     <p></p>
360     <blockquote class="text">
361     <p>S: "abcd"
362     </p>
363     </blockquote>
364    
365     <p>could also happen to be sent in three messages like in the
366     following sequence scenario:
367     </p>
368     <p></p>
369     <ul class="text">
370     <li>server sending message "a"
371     </li>
372     <li>followed by a delay (pause) with
373     arbitrary duration
374     </li>
375     <li>followed by server sending message
376     "bcd&lt;CR&gt;"
377     </li>
378     <li>again followed by a delay (pause) with arbitrary
379     duration
380     </li>
381     <li>followed by server sending the message
382     "&lt;LF&gt;"
383     </li>
384     </ul>
385    
386     <p>where again &lt;CR&gt; and &lt;LF&gt; symbolize the carriage
387     return and line feed characters respectively.
388     </p>
389     <a name="anchor2"></a><br /><hr />
390     <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>
391     <a name="rfc.section.2"></a><h3>2.&nbsp;Introduction</h3>
392    
393     <p>LinuxSampler is a so called software sampler application
394     capable to playback audio samples from a computer's Random
395     Access Memory (RAM) as well as directly streaming it from disk.
396     LinuxSampler is designed to be modular. It provides several so
397     called "sampler engines" where each engine is specialized for a
398     certain purpose. LinuxSampler has virtual channels which will be
399     referred in this document as "sampler channels". The channels
400     are in such way virtual as they can be connected to an
401     arbitrary MIDI input method and arbitrary MIDI channel (e.g.
402     sampler channel 17 could be connected to an ALSA sequencer
403     device 64:0 and listening to MIDI channel 1 there). Each sampler
404     engine will be assigned an own instance of one of the available
405     sampler engines (e.g. GigEngine, DLSEngine). The audio output of
406     each sampler channel can be routed to an arbitrary audio output
407     method (ALSA / JACK) and an arbitrary audio output channel
408     there.
409     </p>
410     <a name="anchor3"></a><br /><hr />
411     <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>
412     <a name="rfc.section.3"></a><h3>3.&nbsp;Focus of this protocol</h3>
413    
414     <p>Main focus of this protocol is to provide a way to configure
415     a running LinuxSampler instance and to retrieve information
416     about it. The focus of this protocol is not to provide a way to
417     control synthesis parameters or even to trigger or release
418     notes. Or in other words; the focus are those functionalities
419     which are not covered by MIDI or which may at most be handled
420     via MIDI System Exclusive Messages.
421     </p>
422     <a name="anchor4"></a><br /><hr />
423     <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>
424     <a name="rfc.section.4"></a><h3>4.&nbsp;Communication Overview</h3>
425    
426     <p>There are two distinct methods of communication between a
427     running instance of LinuxSampler and one or more control
428     applications, so called "front-ends": a simple request/response
429     communication method used by the clients to give commands to the
430     server as well as to inquire about server's status and a
431     subscribe/notify communication method used by the client to
432     subscribe to and receive notifications of certain events as they
433     happen on the server. The latter needs more effort to be
434     implemented in the front-end application. The two communication
435     methods will be described next.
436     </p>
437     <a name="rfc.section.4.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor5">4.1</a>&nbsp;Request/response communication method</h4>
438    
439     <p>This simple communication method is based on TCP. The
440     front-end application establishes a TCP connection to the
441     LinuxSampler instance on a certain host system. Then the
442     front-end application will send certain ASCII based commands
443     as defined in this document (every command line must be CRLF
444     terminated - see "Conventions used in this document" at the
445     beginning of this document) and the LinuxSampler application
446     will response after a certain process time with an
447     appropriate ASCII based answer, also as defined in this
448     document. So this TCP communication is simply based on query
449     and answer paradigm. That way LinuxSampler is only able to
450     answer on queries from front-ends, but not able to
451     automatically send messages to the client if it's not asked
452     to. The fronted should not reconnect to LinuxSampler for
453     every single command, instead it should keep the connection
454     established and simply resend message(s) for subsequent
455     commands. To keep information in the front-end up-to-date
456     the front-end has to periodically send new requests to get
457     the current information from the LinuxSampler instance. This
458     is often referred to as "polling". While polling is simple
459     to implement and may be OK to use in some cases, there may
460     be disadvantages to polling such as network traffic overhead
461     and information being out of date.
462     It is possible for a client or several clients to open more
463     than one connection to the server at the same time. It is
464     also possible to send more than one request to the server
465     at the same time but if those requests are sent over the
466     same connection server MUST execute them sequentially. Upon
467     executing a request server will produce a result set and
468     send it to the client. Each and every request made by the
469     client MUST result in a result set being sent back to the
470     client. No other data other than a result set may be sent by
471     a server to a client. No result set may be sent to a client
472     without the client sending request to the server first. On
473     any particular connection, result sets MUST be sent in their
474     entirety without being interrupted by other result sets. If
475     several requests got queued up at the server they MUST be
476     processed in the order they were received and result sets
477     MUST be sent back in the same order.
478     </p>
479     <a name="rfc.section.4.1.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor6">4.1.1</a>&nbsp;Result format</h4>
480    
481     <p>Result set could be one of the following types:
482     </p>
483     <p></p>
484     <ol class="text">
485     <li>Normal
486     </li>
487     <li>Warning
488     </li>
489     <li>Error
490     </li>
491     </ol>
492    
493     <p>Warning and Error result sets MUST be single line and
494     have the following format:
495     </p>
496     <p></p>
497     <ul class="text">
498     <li>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;"
499     </li>
500     <li>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;"
501     </li>
502     </ul>
503    
504     <p>Where &lt;warning-code&gt; and &lt;error-code&gt; are
505     numeric unique identifiers of the warning or error and
506     &lt;warning-message&gt; and &lt;error-message&gt; are
507     human readable descriptions of the warning or error
508     respectively.
509     </p>
510     <p>Normal result sets could be:
511     </p>
512     <p></p>
513     <ol class="text">
514     <li>Empty
515     </li>
516     <li>Single line
517     </li>
518     <li>Multi-line
519     </li>
520     </ol>
521    
522     <p> Empty result set is issued when the server only
523     needed to acknowledge the fact that the request was
524     received and it was processed successfully and no
525     additional information is available. This result set has
526     the following format:
527     </p>
528     <p></p>
529     <blockquote class="text">
530     <p>"OK"
531     </p>
532     </blockquote>
533    
534     <p>Single line result sets are command specific. One
535     example of a single line result set is an empty line.
536     Multi-line result sets are command specific and may
537     include one or more lines of information. They MUST
538     always end with the following line:
539     </p>
540     <p></p>
541     <blockquote class="text">
542     <p>"."
543     </p>
544     </blockquote>
545    
546     <p>In addition to above mentioned formats, warnings and
547     empty result sets MAY be indexed. In this case, they
548     have the following formats respectively:
549     </p>
550     <p></p>
551     <ul class="text">
552     <li>"WRN[&lt;index&gt;]:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;"
553     </li>
554     <li>"OK[&lt;index&gt;]"
555     </li>
556     </ul>
557    
558     <p>where &lt;index&gt; is command specific and is used
559     to indicate channel number that the result set was
560     related to or other integer value.
561     </p>
562     <p>Each line of the result set MUST end with
563     &lt;CRLF&gt;.
564     </p>
565     <a name="rfc.section.4.2"></a><h4><a name="anchor7">4.2</a>&nbsp;Subscribe/notify communication method</h4>
566    
567     <p>This more sophisticated communication method is actually
568     only an extension of the simple request/response
569     communication method. The front-end still uses a TCP
570     connection and sends the same commands on the TCP
571     connection. Two extra commands are SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE
572     commands that allow a client to tell the server that it is
573     interested in receiving notifications about certain events
574     as they happen on the server. The SUBSCRIBE command has the
575     following syntax:
576     </p>
577     <p></p>
578     <blockquote class="text">
579     <p>SUBSCRIBE &lt;event-id&gt;
580     </p>
581     </blockquote>
582    
583     <p>where &lt;event-id&gt; will be replaced by the respective
584     event that client wants to subscribe to. Upon receiving such
585     request, server SHOULD respond with OK and start sending
586     EVENT notifications when a given even has occurred to the
587     front-end when an event has occurred. It MAY be possible
588     certain events may be sent before OK response during real
589     time nature of their generation. Event messages have the
590     following format:
591     </p>
592     <p></p>
593     <blockquote class="text">
594     <p>NOTIFY:&lt;event-id&gt;:&lt;custom-event-data&gt;
595     </p>
596     </blockquote>
597    
598     <p>where &lt;event-id&gt; uniquely identifies the event that
599     has occurred and &lt;custom-event-data&gt; is event
600     specific.
601     </p>
602     <p>Several rules must be followed by the server when
603     generating events:
604     </p>
605     <p></p>
606     <ol class="text">
607     <li>Events MUST NOT be sent to any client who has not
608     issued an appropriate SUBSCRIBE command.
609     </li>
610     <li>Events MUST only be sent using the same
611     connection that was used to subscribe to them.
612     </li>
613     <li>When response is being sent to the client, event
614     MUST be inserted in the stream before or after the
615     response, but NOT in the middle. Same is true about
616     the response. It should never be inserted in the
617     middle of the event message as well as any other
618     response.
619     </li>
620     </ol>
621    
622     <p>If the client is not interested in a particular event
623     anymore it MAY issue UNSUBSCRIBE command using the following
624     syntax:
625     </p>
626     <p></p>
627     <blockquote class="text">
628     <p>UNSUBSCRIBE &lt;event-id&gt;
629     </p>
630     </blockquote>
631    
632     <p>where &lt;event-id&gt; will be replace by the respective
633     event that client is no longer interested in receiving. For
634     a list of supported events see chapter 6.
635     </p>
636     <p>Example: the fill states of disk stream buffers have
637     changed on sampler channel 4 and the LinuxSampler instance
638     will react by sending the following message to all clients
639     who subscribed to this event:
640     </p>
641     <p></p>
642     <blockquote class="text">
643     <p>NOTIFY:CHANNEL_BUFFER_FILL:4 [35]62%,[33]80%,[37]98%
644     </p>
645     </blockquote>
646    
647     <p>Which means there are currently three active streams on
648     sampler channel 4, where the stream with ID "35" is filled
649     by 62%, stream with ID 33 is filled by 80% and stream with
650     ID 37 is filled by 98%.
651     </p>
652     <p>Clients may choose to open more than one connection to
653     the server and use some connections to receive notifications
654     while using other connections to issue commands to the
655     back-end. This is entirely legal and up to the
656     implementation. This does not change the protocol in any way
657     and no special restrictions exist on the server to allow or
658     disallow this or to track what connections belong to what
659     front-ends. Server will listen on a single port, accept
660     multiple connections and support protocol described in this
661     specification in it's entirety on this single port on each
662     connection that it accepted.
663     </p>
664     <p>Due to the fact that TCP is used for this communication,
665     dead peers will be detected automatically by the OS TCP
666     stack. While it may take a while to detect dead peers if no
667     traffic is being sent from server to client (TCP keep-alive
668     timer is set to 2 hours on many OSes) it will not be an
669     issue here as when notifications are sent by the server,
670     dead client will be detected quickly.
671     </p>
672     <p>When connection is closed for any reason server MUST
673     forget all subscriptions that were made on this connection.
674     If client reconnects it MUST resubscribe to all events that
675     it wants to receive.
676     </p>
677     <a name="anchor8"></a><br /><hr />
678     <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>
679     <a name="rfc.section.5"></a><h3>5.&nbsp;Description for control commands</h3>
680    
681     <p>This chapter will describe the available control commands
682     that can be sent on the TCP connection in detail. Some certain
683     commands (e.g. "GET CHANNEL INFO" or "GET ENGINE INFO") lead to
684     multiple-line responses. In this case LinuxSampler signals the
685     end of the response by a "." (single dot) line.
686     </p>
687     <a name="rfc.section.5.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor9">5.1</a>&nbsp;Ignored lines and comments</h4>
688    
689     <p>White lines, that is lines which only contain space and
690     tabulator characters, and lines that start with a "#"
691     character are ignored, thus it's possible for example to
692     group commands and to place comments in a LSCP script
693     file.
694     </p>
695     <a name="rfc.section.5.2"></a><h4><a name="anchor10">5.2</a>&nbsp;Configuring audio drivers</h4>
696    
697     <p>Instances of drivers in LinuxSampler are called devices.
698     You can use multiple audio devices simultaneously, e.g. to
699     output the sound of one sampler channel using the ALSA audio
700     output driver, and on another sampler channel you might want
701     to use the JACK audio output driver. For particular audio
702     output systems it's also possible to create several devices
703     of the same audio output driver, e.g. two separate ALSA
704     audio output devices for using two different sound cards at
705     the same time. This chapter describes all commands to
706     configure LinuxSampler's audio output devices and their
707     parameters.
708     </p>
709     <p>Instead of defining commands and parameters for each
710     driver individually, all possible parameters, their meanings
711     and possible values have to be obtained at runtime. This
712     makes the protocol a bit abstract, but has the advantage,
713     that front-ends can be written independently of what drivers
714     are currently implemented and what parameters these drivers
715     are actually offering. This means front-ends can even handle
716     drivers which are implemented somewhere in future without
717     modifying the front-end at all.
718     </p>
719     <p>Note: examples in this chapter showing particular
720     parameters of drivers are not meant as specification of the
721     drivers' parameters. Driver implementations in LinuxSampler
722     might have complete different parameter names and meanings
723     than shown in these examples or might change in future, so
724     these examples are only meant for showing how to retrieve
725     what parameters drivers are offering, how to retrieve their
726     possible values, etc.
727     </p>
728     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor11">5.2.1</a>&nbsp;Getting all available audio output drivers</h4>
729    
730     <p>Use the following command to list all audio output
731     drivers currently available for the LinuxSampler
732     instance:
733     </p>
734     <p></p>
735     <blockquote class="text">
736     <p>GET AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS
737     </p>
738     </blockquote>
739    
740     <p>Possible Answers:
741     </p>
742     <p></p>
743     <blockquote class="text">
744     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending comma
745     separated character strings, each symbolizing an
746     audio output driver.
747     </p>
748     </blockquote>
749    
750     <p>Example:
751     </p>
752     <p></p>
753     <blockquote class="text">
754     <p>C: "GET AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS"
755     </p>
756     <p>S: "ALSA,JACK"
757     </p>
758     </blockquote>
759    
760     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.2"></a><h4><a name="anchor12">5.2.2</a>&nbsp;Getting information about a specific audio
761     output driver</h4>
762    
763     <p>Use the following command to get detailed information
764     about a specific audio output driver:
765     </p>
766     <p></p>
767     <blockquote class="text">
768     <p>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO
769     &lt;audio-output-driver&gt;
770     </p>
771     </blockquote>
772    
773     <p>Where &lt;audio-output-driver&gt; is the name of the
774     audio output driver, returned by the "GET
775     AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS" command.
776     </p>
777     <p>Possible Answers:
778     </p>
779     <p></p>
780     <blockquote class="text">
781     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a
782     &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list. Each answer line
783     begins with the information category name
784     followed by a colon and then a space character
785     &lt;SP&gt; and finally the info character string
786     to that info category. At the moment the
787     following information categories are
788     defined:
789     </p>
790     <p></p>
791     <blockquote class="text">
792     <p>DESCRIPTION -
793     </p>
794     <blockquote class="text">
795     <p> character string describing the
796     audio output driver
797     </p>
798     </blockquote>
799    
800     <p>VERSION -
801     </p>
802     <blockquote class="text">
803     <p>character string reflecting the
804     driver's version
805     </p>
806     </blockquote>
807    
808     <p>PARAMETERS -
809     </p>
810     <blockquote class="text">
811     <p>comma separated list of all
812     parameters available for the given
813     audio output driver, at least
814     parameters 'channels', 'samplerate'
815     and 'active' are offered by all audio
816     output drivers
817     </p>
818     </blockquote>
819    
820     </blockquote>
821    
822     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be
823     in particular order.
824     </p>
825     </blockquote>
826    
827     <p>Example:
828     </p>
829     <p></p>
830     <blockquote class="text">
831     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO ALSA"
832     </p>
833     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: Advanced Linux Sound
834     Architecture"
835     </p>
836     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"VERSION: 1.0"
837     </p>
838     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"PARAMETERS:
839     DRIVER,CHANNELS,SAMPLERATE,ACTIVE,FRAGMENTS,
840     FRAGMENTSIZE,CARD"
841     </p>
842     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
843     </p>
844     </blockquote>
845    
846     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.3"></a><h4><a name="anchor13">5.2.3</a>&nbsp;Getting information about specific audio
847     output driver parameter</h4>
848    
849     <p>Use the following command to get detailed information
850     about a specific audio output driver parameter:
851     </p>
852     <p></p>
853     <blockquote class="text">
854     <p>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO &lt;audio&gt; &lt;prm&gt; [&lt;deplist&gt;]
855     </p>
856     </blockquote>
857    
858     <p>Where &lt;audio&gt; is the name of the audio output
859     driver as returned by the "GET AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS" command,
860     &lt;prm&gt; a specific parameter name for which information should be
861     obtained (as returned by the "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO" command) and
862     &lt;deplist&gt; is an optional list of parameters on which the sought
863     parameter &lt;prm&gt; depends on, &lt;deplist&gt; is a list of key-value
864     pairs in form of "key1=val1 key2=val2 ...", where character string values
865     are encapsulated into apostrophes ('). Arguments given with &lt;deplist&gt;
866     which are not dependency parameters of &lt;prm&gt; will be ignored, means
867     the front-end application can simply put all parameters into &lt;deplist&gt;
868     with the values already selected by the user.
869     </p>
870     <p>Possible Answers:
871     </p>
872     <p></p>
873     <blockquote class="text">
874     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a
875     &lz;CRLF&gt; separated list.
876     Each answer line begins with the information category name
877     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and
878     finally
879     the info character string to that info category. There are
880     information which is always returned, independently of the
881     given driver parameter and there are optional information
882     which is only shown dependently to given driver parameter. At
883     the moment the following information categories are defined:
884     </p>
885     </blockquote>
886    
887     <p></p>
888     <blockquote class="text">
889     <p>TYPE -
890     </p>
891     <blockquote class="text">
892     <p>either "BOOL" for boolean value(s) or
893     "INT" for integer
894     value(s) or "FLOAT" for dotted number(s) or "STRING" for
895     character string(s)
896     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
897     </p>
898     </blockquote>
899    
900     <p>DESCRIPTION -
901     </p>
902     <blockquote class="text">
903     <p>arbitrary text describing the purpose of the parameter
904     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
905     </p>
906     </blockquote>
907    
908     <p>MANDATORY -
909     </p>
910     <blockquote class="text">
911     <p>either true or false, defines if this parameter must be
912     given when the device is to be created with the
913     'CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE' command
914     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
915     </p>
916     </blockquote>
917    
918     <p>FIX -
919     </p>
920     <blockquote class="text">
921     <p>either true or false, if false then this parameter can
922     be changed at any time, once the device is created by
923     the 'CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE' command
924     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
925     </p>
926     </blockquote>
927    
928     <p>MULTIPLICITY -
929     </p>
930     <blockquote class="text">
931     <p>either true or false, defines if this parameter allows
932     only one value or a list of values, where true means
933     multiple values and false only a single value allowed
934     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
935     </p>
936     </blockquote>
937    
938     <p>DEPENDS -
939     </p>
940     <blockquote class="text">
941     <p>comma separated list of paramters this parameter depends
942     on, means the values for fields 'DEFAULT', 'RANGE_MIN',
943     'RANGE_MAX' and 'POSSIBILITIES' might depend on these
944     listed parameters, for example assuming that an audio
945     driver (like the ALSA driver) offers parameters 'card'
946     and 'samplerate' then parameter 'samplerate' would
947     depend on 'card' because the possible values for
948     'samplerate' depends on the sound card which can be
949     chosen by the 'card' parameter
950     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
951     </p>
952     </blockquote>
953    
954     <p>DEFAULT -
955     </p>
956     <blockquote class="text">
957     <p>reflects the default value for this parameter which is
958     used when the device is created and not explicitly
959     given with the 'CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE' command,
960     in case of MULTIPLCITY=true, this is a comma separated
961     list, that's why character strings are encapsulated into
962     apostrophes (')
963     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
964     </p>
965     </blockquote>
966    
967     <p>RANGE_MIN -
968     </p>
969     <blockquote class="text">
970     <p>defines lower limit of the allowed value range for this
971     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
972     number, this parameter is often used in conjunction
973     with RANGE_MAX, but may also appear without
974     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
975     </p>
976     </blockquote>
977    
978     <p>RANGE_MAX -
979     </p>
980     <blockquote class="text">
981     <p>defines upper limit of the allowed value range for this
982     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
983     number, this parameter is often used in conjunction with
984     RANGE_MIN, but may also appear without
985     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
986     </p>
987     </blockquote>
988    
989     <p>POSSIBILITES -
990     </p>
991     <blockquote class="text">
992     <p>comma separated list of possible values for this
993     parameter, character strings are encapsulated into
994     apostrophes
995     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
996     </p>
997     </blockquote>
998    
999     </blockquote>
1000    
1001     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.
1002     </p>
1003     <p>Examples:
1004     </p>
1005     <p></p>
1006     <blockquote class="text">
1007     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO ALSA CARD"
1008     </p>
1009     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: sound card to be used"
1010     </p>
1011     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: STRING"
1012     </p>
1013     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MANDATORY: false"
1014     </p>
1015     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: true"
1016     </p>
1017     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: false"
1018     </p>
1019     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEFAULT: '0,0'"
1020     </p>
1021     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"POSSIBILITES: '0,0','1,0','2,0'"
1022     </p>
1023     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1024     </p>
1025     </blockquote>
1026    
1027     <p></p>
1028     <blockquote class="text">
1029     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO ALSA SAMPLERATE"
1030     </p>
1031     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: output sample rate in Hz"
1032     </p>
1033     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: INT"
1034     </p>
1035     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MANDATORY: false"
1036     </p>
1037     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"
1038     </p>
1039     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: false"
1040     </p>
1041     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEPENDS: card"
1042     </p>
1043     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEFAULT: 44100"
1044     </p>
1045     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1046     </p>
1047     </blockquote>
1048    
1049     <p></p>
1050     <blockquote class="text">
1051     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO ALSA SAMPLERATE CARD='0,0'"
1052     </p>
1053     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: output sample rate in Hz"
1054     </p>
1055     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: INT"
1056     </p>
1057     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MANDATORY: false"
1058     </p>
1059     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"
1060     </p>
1061     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: false"
1062     </p>
1063     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEPENDS: card"
1064     </p>
1065     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEFAULT: 44100"
1066     </p>
1067     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"RANGE_MIN: 22050"
1068     </p>
1069     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"RANGE_MAX: 96000"
1070     </p>
1071     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1072     </p>
1073     </blockquote>
1074    
1075     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.4"></a><h4><a name="anchor14">5.2.4</a>&nbsp;Creating an audio output device</h4>
1076    
1077     <p>Use the following command to create a new audio output device for the desired audio output system:
1078     </p>
1079     <p></p>
1080     <blockquote class="text">
1081     <p>CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE &lt;audio-output-driver&gt; [&lt;param-list&gt;]
1082     </p>
1083     </blockquote>
1084    
1085     <p>Where &lt;audio-output-driver&gt; should be replaced by the desired audio
1086     output system and &lt;param-list&gt; by an optional list of driver
1087     specific parameters in form of "key1=val1 key2=val2 ...", where
1088     character string values should be encapsulated into apostrophes (').
1089     Note that there might be drivers which require parameter(s) to be
1090     given with this command. Use the previously described commands in
1091     this chapter to get this information.
1092     </p>
1093     <p>Possible Answers:
1094     </p>
1095     <p></p>
1096     <blockquote class="text">
1097     <p>"OK[&lt;device-id&gt;]" -
1098     </p>
1099     <blockquote class="text">
1100     <p>in case the device was successfully created, where
1101     &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the new device
1102     </p>
1103     </blockquote>
1104    
1105     <p>"WRN[&lt;device-id&gt;]:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
1106     </p>
1107     <blockquote class="text">
1108     <p>in case the device was created successfully, where
1109     &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the new device, but there
1110     are noteworthy issue(s) related (e.g. sound card doesn't
1111     support given hardware parameters and the driver is using
1112     fall-back values), providing an appropriate warning code and
1113     warning message
1114     </p>
1115     </blockquote>
1116    
1117     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
1118     </p>
1119     <blockquote class="text">
1120     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
1121     </p>
1122     </blockquote>
1123    
1124     </blockquote>
1125    
1126     <p>Examples:
1127     </p>
1128     <p></p>
1129     <blockquote class="text">
1130     <p>C: "CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE ALSA"
1131     </p>
1132     <p>S: "OK[0]"
1133     </p>
1134     </blockquote>
1135    
1136     <p></p>
1137     <blockquote class="text">
1138     <p>C: "CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE ALSA CARD='2,0' SAMPLERATE=96000"
1139     </p>
1140     <p>S: "OK[1]"
1141     </p>
1142     </blockquote>
1143    
1144     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.5"></a><h4><a name="anchor15">5.2.5</a>&nbsp;Destroying an audio output device</h4>
1145    
1146     <p>Use the following command to destroy a created output device:
1147     </p>
1148     <p></p>
1149     <blockquote class="text">
1150     <p>DESTROY AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE &lt;device-id&gt;
1151     </p>
1152     </blockquote>
1153    
1154     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the
1155     audio output device as given by the "CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE" or
1156     "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES" command.
1157     </p>
1158     <p>Possible Answers:
1159     </p>
1160     <p></p>
1161     <blockquote class="text">
1162     <p>"OK" -
1163     </p>
1164     <blockquote class="text">
1165     <p>in case the device was successfully destroyed
1166     </p>
1167     </blockquote>
1168    
1169     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
1170     </p>
1171     <blockquote class="text">
1172     <p>in case the device was destroyed successfully, but there are
1173     noteworthy issue(s) related (e.g. an audio over ethernet
1174     driver was unloaded but the other host might not be
1175     informed about this situation), providing an appropriate
1176     warning code and warning message
1177     </p>
1178     </blockquote>
1179    
1180     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
1181     </p>
1182     <blockquote class="text">
1183     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
1184     error message
1185     </p>
1186     </blockquote>
1187    
1188     </blockquote>
1189    
1190     <p>Example:
1191     </p>
1192     <p></p>
1193     <blockquote class="text">
1194     <p>C: "DESTROY AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 0"
1195     </p>
1196     <p>S: "OK"
1197     </p>
1198     </blockquote>
1199    
1200     <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>
1201    
1202     <p>Use the following command to count all created audio output devices:
1203     </p>
1204     <p></p>
1205     <blockquote class="text">
1206     <p>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES
1207     </p>
1208     </blockquote>
1209    
1210     <p>Possible Answers:
1211     </p>
1212     <p></p>
1213     <blockquote class="text">
1214     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending the current number of all
1215     audio output devices.
1216     </p>
1217     </blockquote>
1218    
1219     <p>Example:
1220     </p>
1221     <p></p>
1222     <blockquote class="text">
1223     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES"
1224     </p>
1225     <p>S: "4"
1226     </p>
1227     </blockquote>
1228    
1229     <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>
1230    
1231     <p>Use the following command to list all created audio output devices:
1232     </p>
1233     <p></p>
1234     <blockquote class="text">
1235     <p>LIST AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES
1236     </p>
1237     </blockquote>
1238    
1239     <p>Possible Answers:
1240     </p>
1241     <p></p>
1242     <blockquote class="text">
1243     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a comma separated list with
1244     the numerical IDs of all audio output devices.
1245     </p>
1246     </blockquote>
1247    
1248     <p>Example:
1249     </p>
1250     <p></p>
1251     <blockquote class="text">
1252     <p>C: "LIST AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES"
1253     </p>
1254     <p>S: "0,1,4,5"
1255     </p>
1256     </blockquote>
1257    
1258     <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>
1259    
1260     <p>Use the following command to get current settings of a specific, created audio output device:
1261     </p>
1262     <p></p>
1263     <blockquote class="text">
1264     <p>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE INFO &lt;device-id&gt;
1265     </p>
1266     </blockquote>
1267    
1268     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by be numerical ID
1269     of the audio output device as e.g. returned by the
1270     "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES" command.
1271     </p>
1272     <p>Possible Answers:
1273     </p>
1274     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
1275     Each answer line begins with the information category name
1276     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
1277     the info character string to that info category. As some
1278     parameters might allow multiple values, character strings are
1279     encapsulated into apostrophes ('). At the moment the following
1280     information categories are defined (independently of device):
1281     </p>
1282     <p></p>
1283     <blockquote class="text">
1284     <p>DRIVER -
1285     </p>
1286     <blockquote class="text">
1287     <p>identifier of the used audio output driver, as also
1288     returned by the "GET AVAILABLE_AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVERS"
1289     command
1290     </p>
1291     </blockquote>
1292    
1293     <p>CHANNELS -
1294     </p>
1295     <blockquote class="text">
1296     <p>amount of audio output channels this device currently
1297     offers
1298     </p>
1299     </blockquote>
1300    
1301     <p>SAMPLERATE -
1302     </p>
1303     <blockquote class="text">
1304     <p>playback sample rate the device uses
1305     </p>
1306     </blockquote>
1307    
1308     <p>ACTIVE -
1309     </p>
1310     <blockquote class="text">
1311     <p>either true or false, if false then the audio device is
1312     inactive and doesn't output any sound, nor do the
1313     sampler channels connected to this audio device render
1314     any audio
1315     </p>
1316     </blockquote>
1317    
1318     </blockquote>
1319    
1320     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular
1321     order. The fields above are only those fields which are
1322     returned by all audio output devices. Every audio output driver
1323     might have its own, additional driver specific parameters (see
1324     "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO" command) which are also returned
1325     by this command.
1326     </p>
1327     <p>Example:
1328     </p>
1329     <p></p>
1330     <blockquote class="text">
1331     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE INFO 0"
1332     </p>
1333     <p>S: "DRIVER: ALSA"
1334     </p>
1335     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"CHANNELS: 2"
1336     </p>
1337     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"SAMPLERATE: 44100"
1338     </p>
1339     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"ACTIVE: true"
1340     </p>
1341     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FRAGMENTS: 2"
1342     </p>
1343     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FRAGMENTSIZE: 128"
1344     </p>
1345     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"CARD: '0,0'"
1346     </p>
1347     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1348     </p>
1349     </blockquote>
1350    
1351     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.9"></a><h4><a name="anchor19">5.2.9</a>&nbsp;Changing settings of audio output devices</h4>
1352    
1353     <p>Use the following command to alter a specific setting of a created audio output device:
1354     </p>
1355     <p></p>
1356     <blockquote class="text">
1357     <p>SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;key&gt;=&lt;value&gt;
1358     </p>
1359     </blockquote>
1360    
1361     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the
1362     audio output device, &lt;key&gt; by the name of the parameter to change
1363     and &lt;value&gt; by the new value for this parameter.
1364     </p>
1365     <p>Possible Answers:
1366     </p>
1367     <p></p>
1368     <blockquote class="text">
1369     <p>"OK" -
1370     </p>
1371     <blockquote class="text">
1372     <p>in case setting was successfully changed
1373     </p>
1374     </blockquote>
1375    
1376     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
1377     </p>
1378     <blockquote class="text">
1379     <p>in case setting was changed successfully, but there are
1380     noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
1381     warning code and warning message
1382     </p>
1383     </blockquote>
1384    
1385     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
1386     </p>
1387     <blockquote class="text">
1388     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
1389     error message
1390     </p>
1391     </blockquote>
1392    
1393     </blockquote>
1394    
1395     <p>Example:
1396     </p>
1397     <p></p>
1398     <blockquote class="text">
1399     <p>C: "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER 0 FRAGMENTSIZE=128"
1400     </p>
1401     <p>S: "OK"
1402     </p>
1403     </blockquote>
1404    
1405     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.10"></a><h4><a name="anchor20">5.2.10</a>&nbsp;Getting information about an audio channel</h4>
1406    
1407     <p>Use the following command to get information about an audio channel:
1408     </p>
1409     <p></p>
1410     <blockquote class="text">
1411     <p>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;audio-chan&gt;
1412     </p>
1413     </blockquote>
1414    
1415     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the audio output device
1416     and &lt;audio-chan&gt; the audio channel number.
1417     </p>
1418     <p>Possible Answers:
1419     </p>
1420     <p></p>
1421     <blockquote class="text">
1422     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
1423     Each answer line begins with the information category name
1424     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
1425     the info character string to that info category. At the moment
1426     the following information categories are defined:
1427     </p>
1428     <p></p>
1429     <blockquote class="text">
1430     <p>NAME -
1431     </p>
1432     <blockquote class="text">
1433     <p>arbitrary character string naming the channel, which
1434     doesn't have to be unique (always returned by all audio channels)
1435     </p>
1436     </blockquote>
1437    
1438     <p>IS_MIX_CHANNEL -
1439     </p>
1440     <blockquote class="text">
1441     <p>either true or false, a mix-channel is not a real,
1442     independent audio channel, but a virtual channel which
1443     is mixed to another real channel, this mechanism is
1444     needed for sampler engines which need more audio
1445     channels than the used audio system might be able to offer
1446     (always returned by all audio channels)
1447     </p>
1448     </blockquote>
1449    
1450     <p>MIX_CHANNEL_DESTINATION -
1451     </p>
1452     <blockquote class="text">
1453     <p>reflects the real audio channel (of the same audio
1454     output device) this mix channel refers to, means where
1455     the audio signal actually will be routed / added to
1456     (only returned in case the audio channel is mix channel)
1457     </p>
1458     </blockquote>
1459    
1460     </blockquote>
1461    
1462     </blockquote>
1463    
1464     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular
1465     order. The fields above are only those fields which are
1466     generally returned for the described cases by all audio
1467     channels regardless of the audio driver. Every audio channel
1468     might have its own, additional driver and channel specific
1469     parameters.
1470     </p>
1471     <p>Examples:
1472     </p>
1473     <p></p>
1474     <blockquote class="text">
1475     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO 0 0"
1476     </p>
1477     <p>S: "NAME: studio monitor left"
1478     </p>
1479     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"IS_MIX_CHANNEL: false"
1480     </p>
1481     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1482     </p>
1483     </blockquote>
1484    
1485     <p></p>
1486     <blockquote class="text">
1487     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO 0 1"
1488     </p>
1489     <p>S: "NAME: studio monitor right"
1490     </p>
1491     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"IS_MIX_CHANNEL: false"
1492     </p>
1493     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1494     </p>
1495     </blockquote>
1496    
1497     <p></p>
1498     <blockquote class="text">
1499     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO 0 2"
1500     </p>
1501     <p>S: "NAME: studio monitor left"
1502     </p>
1503     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"IS_MIX_CHANNEL: true"
1504     </p>
1505     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MIX_CHANNEL_DESTINATION: 1"
1506     </p>
1507     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1508     </p>
1509     </blockquote>
1510    
1511     <p></p>
1512     <blockquote class="text">
1513     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO 1 0"
1514     </p>
1515     <p>S: "NAME: 'ardour (left)'"
1516     </p>
1517     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"IS_MIX_CHANNEL: false"
1518     </p>
1519     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"JACK_BINDINGS: 'ardour:0'"
1520     </p>
1521     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1522     </p>
1523     </blockquote>
1524    
1525     <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>
1526    
1527     <p>Use the following command to get detailed information about specific audio channel parameter:
1528     </p>
1529     <p></p>
1530     <blockquote class="text">
1531     <p>GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER INFO &lt;dev-id&gt; &lt;chan&gt; &lt;param&gt;
1532     </p>
1533     </blockquote>
1534    
1535     <p>Where &lt;dev-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the audio output device as returned
1536     by the "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICES" command, &lt;chan&gt; the audio channel number
1537     and &lt;param&gt; a specific channel parameter name for which information should
1538     be obtained (as returned by the "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL INFO" command).
1539     </p>
1540     <p>Possible Answers:
1541     </p>
1542     <p></p>
1543     <blockquote class="text">
1544     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
1545     Each answer line begins with the information category name
1546     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
1547     the info character string to that info category. There are
1548     information which is always returned, independently of the
1549     given channel parameter and there is optional information
1550     which is only shown dependently to the given audio channel. At
1551     the moment the following information categories are defined:
1552     </p>
1553     <p></p>
1554     <blockquote class="text">
1555     <p>TYPE -
1556     </p>
1557     <blockquote class="text">
1558     <p>either "BOOL" for boolean value(s) or "INT" for integer
1559     value(s) or "FLOAT" for dotted number(s) or "STRING" for
1560     character string(s)
1561     (always returned)
1562     </p>
1563     </blockquote>
1564    
1565     <p>DESCRIPTION -
1566     </p>
1567     <blockquote class="text">
1568     <p>arbitrary text describing the purpose of the parameter (always returned)
1569     </p>
1570     </blockquote>
1571    
1572     <p>FIX -
1573     </p>
1574     <blockquote class="text">
1575     <p>either true or false, if true then this parameter is
1576     read only, thus cannot be altered
1577     (always returned)
1578     </p>
1579     </blockquote>
1580    
1581     <p>MULTIPLICITY -
1582     </p>
1583     <blockquote class="text">
1584     <p>either true or false, defines if this parameter allows
1585     only one value or a list of values, where true means
1586     multiple values and false only a single value allowed
1587     (always returned)
1588     </p>
1589     </blockquote>
1590    
1591     <p>RANGE_MIN -
1592     </p>
1593     <blockquote class="text">
1594     <p>defines lower limit of the allowed value range for this
1595     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
1596     number, usually used in conjunction with 'RANGE_MAX',
1597     but may also appear without
1598     (optionally returned, dependent to driver and channel
1599     parameter)
1600     </p>
1601     </blockquote>
1602    
1603     <p>RANGE_MAX -
1604     </p>
1605     <blockquote class="text">
1606     <p>defines upper limit of the allowed value range for this
1607     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
1608     number, usually used in conjunction with 'RANGE_MIN',
1609     but may also appear without
1610     (optionally returned, dependent to driver and channel
1611     parameter)
1612     </p>
1613     </blockquote>
1614    
1615     <p>POSSIBILITES -
1616     </p>
1617     <blockquote class="text">
1618     <p>comma separated list of possible values for this
1619     parameter, character strings are encapsulated into
1620     apostrophes
1621     (optionally returned, dependent to driver and channel
1622     parameter)
1623     </p>
1624     </blockquote>
1625    
1626     </blockquote>
1627    
1628     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.
1629     </p>
1630     </blockquote>
1631    
1632     <p>Example:
1633     </p>
1634     <p></p>
1635     <blockquote class="text">
1636     <p>C: "GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER INFO 1 0 JACK_BINDINGS"
1637     </p>
1638     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: bindings to other JACK clients"
1639     </p>
1640     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: STRING"
1641     </p>
1642     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"
1643     </p>
1644     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: true"
1645     </p>
1646     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"POSSIBILITES: 'PCM:0','PCM:1','ardour:0','ardour:1'"
1647     </p>
1648     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1649     </p>
1650     </blockquote>
1651    
1652     <a name="rfc.section.5.2.12"></a><h4><a name="anchor22">5.2.12</a>&nbsp;Changing settings of audio output channels</h4>
1653    
1654     <p>Use the following command to alter a specific setting of an audio output channel:
1655     </p>
1656     <p></p>
1657     <blockquote class="text">
1658     <p>SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER &lt;dev-id&gt; &lt;chn&gt; &lt;key&gt;=&lt;value&gt;
1659     </p>
1660     </blockquote>
1661    
1662     <p>Where &lt;dev-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the audio
1663     device, &lt;chn&gt; by the audio channel number, &lt;key&gt; by the name of the
1664     parameter to change and &lt;value&gt; by the new value for this parameter.
1665     </p>
1666     <p>Possible Answers:
1667     </p>
1668     <p></p>
1669     <blockquote class="text">
1670     <p>"OK" -
1671     </p>
1672     <blockquote class="text">
1673     <p>in case setting was successfully changed
1674     </p>
1675     </blockquote>
1676    
1677     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
1678     </p>
1679     <blockquote class="text">
1680     <p>in case setting was changed successfully, but there are
1681     noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
1682     warning code and warning message
1683     </p>
1684     </blockquote>
1685    
1686     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
1687     </p>
1688     <blockquote class="text">
1689     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
1690     error message
1691     </p>
1692     </blockquote>
1693    
1694     </blockquote>
1695    
1696     <p>Example:
1697     </p>
1698     <p></p>
1699     <blockquote class="text">
1700     <p>C: "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL PARAMETER 0 0 JACK_BINDINGS='PCM:0'"
1701     </p>
1702     <p>S: "OK"
1703     </p>
1704     </blockquote>
1705    
1706     <p></p>
1707     <blockquote class="text">
1708     <p>C: "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL PARAMETER 0 0 NAME='monitor left'"
1709     </p>
1710     <p>S: "OK"
1711     </p>
1712     </blockquote>
1713    
1714     <a name="rfc.section.5.3"></a><h4><a name="anchor23">5.3</a>&nbsp;Configuring MIDI input drivers</h4>
1715    
1716     <p>Instances of drivers in LinuxSampler are called devices. You can use
1717     multiple MIDI devices simultaneously, e.g. to use MIDI over ethernet as
1718     MIDI input on one sampler channel and ALSA as MIDI input on another sampler
1719     channel. For particular MIDI input systems it's also possible to create
1720     several devices of the same MIDI input type. This chapter describes all
1721     commands to configure LinuxSampler's MIDI input devices and their parameters.
1722     </p>
1723     <p>Instead of defining commands and parameters for each driver individually,
1724     all possible parameters, their meanings and possible values have to be obtained
1725     at runtime. This makes the protocol a bit abstract, but has the advantage, that
1726     front-ends can be written independently of what drivers are currently implemented
1727     and what parameters these drivers are actually offering. This means front-ends can
1728     even handle drivers which are implemented somewhere in future without modifying
1729     the front-end at all.
1730     </p>
1731     <p>Commands for configuring MIDI input devices are pretty much the same as the
1732     commands for configuring audio output drivers, already described in the last
1733     chapter.
1734     </p>
1735     <p>Note: examples in this chapter showing particular parameters of drivers are
1736     not meant as specification of the drivers' parameters. Driver implementations in
1737     LinuxSampler might have complete different parameter names and meanings than shown
1738     in these examples or might change in future, so these examples are only meant for
1739     showing how to retrieve what parameters drivers are offering, how to retrieve their
1740     possible values, etc.
1741     </p>
1742     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor24">5.3.1</a>&nbsp;Getting all available MIDI input drivers</h4>
1743    
1744     <p>Use the following command to list all MIDI input drivers currently available
1745     for the LinuxSampler instance:
1746     </p>
1747     <p></p>
1748     <blockquote class="text">
1749     <p>GET AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS
1750     </p>
1751     </blockquote>
1752    
1753     <p>Possible Answers:
1754     </p>
1755     <p></p>
1756     <blockquote class="text">
1757     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending comma separated character
1758     strings, each symbolizing a MIDI input driver.
1759     </p>
1760     </blockquote>
1761    
1762     <p>Example:
1763     </p>
1764     <p></p>
1765     <blockquote class="text">
1766     <p>C: "GET AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS"
1767     </p>
1768     <p>S: "ALSA,JACK"
1769     </p>
1770     </blockquote>
1771    
1772     <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>
1773    
1774     <p>Use the following command to get detailed information about a specific MIDI input driver:
1775     </p>
1776     <p></p>
1777     <blockquote class="text">
1778     <p>GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO &lt;midi-input-driver&gt;
1779     </p>
1780     </blockquote>
1781    
1782     <p>Where &lt;midi-input-driver&gt; is the name of the MIDI input driver.
1783     </p>
1784     <p>Possible Answers:
1785     </p>
1786     <p></p>
1787     <blockquote class="text">
1788     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
1789     Each answer line begins with the information category name
1790     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
1791     the info character string to that info category. At the moment
1792     the following information categories are defined:
1793     </p>
1794     <p></p>
1795     <blockquote class="text">
1796     <p>DESCRIPTION -
1797     </p>
1798     <blockquote class="text">
1799     <p>arbitrary description text about the MIDI input driver
1800     </p>
1801     </blockquote>
1802    
1803     <p>VERSION -
1804     </p>
1805     <blockquote class="text">
1806     <p>arbitrary character string regarding the driver's version
1807     </p>
1808     </blockquote>
1809    
1810     <p>PARAMETERS -
1811     </p>
1812     <blockquote class="text">
1813     <p>comma separated list of all parameters available for the given MIDI input driver
1814     </p>
1815     </blockquote>
1816    
1817     </blockquote>
1818    
1819     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.
1820     </p>
1821     </blockquote>
1822    
1823     <p>Example:
1824     </p>
1825     <p></p>
1826     <blockquote class="text">
1827     <p>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO ALSA"
1828     </p>
1829     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture"
1830     </p>
1831     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"VERSION: 1.0"
1832     </p>
1833     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"PARAMETERS: DRIVER,ACTIVE"
1834     </p>
1835     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
1836     </p>
1837     </blockquote>
1838    
1839     <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>
1840    
1841     <p>Use the following command to get detailed information about a specific parameter of a specific MIDI input driver:
1842     </p>
1843     <p></p>
1844     <blockquote class="text">
1845     <p>GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO &lt;midit&gt; &lt;param&gt; [&lt;deplist&gt;]
1846     </p>
1847     </blockquote>
1848    
1849     <p>Where &lt;midi-t&gt; is the name of the MIDI input driver as returned
1850     by the "GET AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS" command, &lt;param&gt; a specific
1851     parameter name for which information should be obtained (as returned by the
1852     "GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO" command) and &lt;deplist&gt; is an optional list
1853     of parameters on which the sought parameter &lt;param&gt; depends on,
1854     &lt;deplist&gt; is a key-value pair list in form of "key1=val1 key2=val2 ...",
1855     where character string values are encapsulated into apostrophes ('). Arguments
1856     given with &lt;deplist&gt; which are not dependency parameters of &lt;param&gt;
1857     will be ignored, means the front-end application can simply put all parameters
1858     in &lt;deplist&gt; with the values selected by the user.
1859     </p>
1860     <p>Possible Answers:
1861     </p>
1862     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF> separated list.
1863     Each answer line begins with the information category name
1864     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP> and finally
1865     the info character string to that info category. There is
1866     information which is always returned, independent of the
1867     given driver parameter and there is optional information
1868     which is only shown dependent to given driver parameter. At
1869     the moment the following information categories are defined:
1870     </p>
1871     <p></p>
1872     <blockquote class="text">
1873     <p>TYPE -
1874     </p>
1875     <blockquote class="text">
1876     <p>either "BOOL" for boolean value(s) or "INT" for integer
1877     value(s) or "FLOAT" for dotted number(s) or "STRING" for
1878     character string(s)
1879     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
1880     </p>
1881     </blockquote>
1882    
1883     <p>DESCRIPTION -
1884     </p>
1885     <blockquote class="text">
1886     <p>arbitrary text describing the purpose of the parameter
1887     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
1888     </p>
1889     </blockquote>
1890    
1891     <p>MANDATORY -
1892     </p>
1893     <blockquote class="text">
1894     <p>either true or false, defines if this parameter must be
1895     given when the device is to be created with the
1896     'CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE' command
1897     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
1898     </p>
1899     </blockquote>
1900    
1901     <p>FIX -
1902     </p>
1903     <blockquote class="text">
1904     <p>either true or false, if false then this parameter can
1905     be changed at any time, once the device is created by
1906     the 'CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE' command
1907     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
1908     </p>
1909     </blockquote>
1910    
1911     <p>MULTIPLICITY -
1912     </p>
1913     <blockquote class="text">
1914     <p>either true or false, defines if this parameter allows
1915     only one value or a list of values, where true means
1916     multiple values and false only a single value allowed
1917     (always returned, no matter which driver parameter)
1918     </p>
1919     </blockquote>
1920    
1921     <p>DEPENDS -
1922     </p>
1923     <blockquote class="text">
1924     <p>comma separated list of paramters this parameter depends
1925     on, means the values for fields 'DEFAULT', 'RANGE_MIN',
1926     'RANGE_MAX' and 'POSSIBILITIES' might depend on these
1927     listed parameters, for example assuming that an audio
1928     driver (like the ALSA driver) offers parameters 'card'
1929     and 'samplerate' then parameter 'samplerate' would
1930     depend on 'card' because the possible values for
1931     'samplerate' depends on the sound card which can be
1932     chosen by the 'card' parameter
1933     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
1934     </p>
1935     </blockquote>
1936    
1937     <p>DEFAULT -
1938     </p>
1939     <blockquote class="text">
1940     <p>reflects the default value for this parameter which is
1941     used when the device is created and not explicitly
1942     given with the 'CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE' command,
1943     in case of MULTIPLCITY=true, this is a comma separated
1944     list, that's why character strings are encapsulated into
1945     apostrophes (')
1946     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
1947     </p>
1948     </blockquote>
1949    
1950     <p>RANGE_MIN -
1951     </p>
1952     <blockquote class="text">
1953     <p>defines lower limit of the allowed value range for this
1954     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
1955     number, this parameter is often used in conjunction
1956     with RANGE_MAX, but may also appear without
1957     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
1958     </p>
1959     </blockquote>
1960    
1961     <p>RANGE_MAX -
1962     </p>
1963     <blockquote class="text">
1964     <p>defines upper limit of the allowed value range for this
1965     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
1966     number, this parameter is often used in conjunction with
1967     RANGE_MIN, but may also appear without
1968     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
1969     </p>
1970     </blockquote>
1971    
1972     <p>POSSIBILITES -
1973     </p>
1974     <blockquote class="text">
1975     <p>comma separated list of possible values for this
1976     parameter, character strings are encapsulated into
1977     apostrophes
1978     (optionally returned, dependent to driver parameter)
1979     </p>
1980     </blockquote>
1981    
1982     </blockquote>
1983    
1984     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.
1985     </p>
1986     <p>Example:
1987     </p>
1988     <p></p>
1989     <blockquote class="text">
1990     <p>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO ALSA ACTIVE"
1991     </p>
1992     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: Whether device is enabled"
1993     </p>
1994     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: BOOL"
1995     </p>
1996     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MANDATORY: false"
1997     </p>
1998     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"
1999     </p>
2000     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: false"
2001     </p>
2002     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"DEFAULT: true"
2003     </p>
2004     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
2005     </p>
2006     </blockquote>
2007    
2008     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.4"></a><h4><a name="anchor27">5.3.4</a>&nbsp;Creating a MIDI input device</h4>
2009    
2010     <p>Use the following command to create a new MIDI input device for the desired MIDI input system:
2011     </p>
2012     <p></p>
2013     <blockquote class="text">
2014     <p>CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE &lt;midi-input-driver&gt; [&lt;param-list&gt;]
2015     </p>
2016     </blockquote>
2017    
2018     <p>Where &lt;midi-input-driver&gt; should be replaced by the desired MIDI input system and &lt;param-list&gt; by an
2019     optional list of driver specific parameters in form of "key1=val1 key2=val2 ...", where
2020     character string values should be encapsulated into apostrophes (').
2021     Note that there might be drivers which require parameter(s) to be
2022     given with this command. Use the previously described commands in
2023     this chapter to get that information.
2024     </p>
2025     <p>Possible Answers:
2026     </p>
2027     <p></p>
2028     <blockquote class="text">
2029     <p>"OK[&lt;device-id&gt;]" -
2030     </p>
2031     <blockquote class="text">
2032     <p>in case the device was successfully created, where
2033     &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the new device
2034     </p>
2035     </blockquote>
2036    
2037     <p>"WRN[&lt;device-id&gt;]:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2038     </p>
2039     <blockquote class="text">
2040     <p>in case the driver was loaded successfully, where
2041     &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the new device, but
2042     there are noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an
2043     appropriate warning code and warning message
2044     </p>
2045     </blockquote>
2046    
2047     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2048     </p>
2049     <blockquote class="text">
2050     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
2051     </p>
2052     </blockquote>
2053    
2054     </blockquote>
2055    
2056     <p>Example:
2057     </p>
2058     <p></p>
2059     <blockquote class="text">
2060     <p>C: "CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE ALSA"
2061     </p>
2062     <p>S: "OK[0]"
2063     </p>
2064     </blockquote>
2065    
2066     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.5"></a><h4><a name="anchor28">5.3.5</a>&nbsp;Destroying a MIDI input device</h4>
2067    
2068     <p>Use the following command to destroy a created MIDI input device:
2069     </p>
2070     <p></p>
2071     <blockquote class="text">
2072     <p>DESTROY MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE &lt;device-id&gt;
2073     </p>
2074     </blockquote>
2075    
2076     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the device's numerical ID.
2077     </p>
2078     <p>Possible Answers:
2079     </p>
2080     <p></p>
2081     <blockquote class="text">
2082     <p>"OK" -
2083     </p>
2084     <blockquote class="text">
2085     <p>in case the device was successfully destroyed
2086     </p>
2087     </blockquote>
2088    
2089     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2090     </p>
2091     <blockquote class="text">
2092     <p>in case the device was destroyed, but there are noteworthy
2093     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
2094     warning message
2095     </p>
2096     </blockquote>
2097    
2098     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2099     </p>
2100     <blockquote class="text">
2101     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
2102     </p>
2103     </blockquote>
2104    
2105     </blockquote>
2106    
2107     <p>Example:
2108     </p>
2109     <p></p>
2110     <blockquote class="text">
2111     <p>C: "DESTROY MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 0"
2112     </p>
2113     <p>S: "OK"
2114     </p>
2115     </blockquote>
2116    
2117     <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>
2118    
2119     <p>Use the following command to count all created MIDI input devices:
2120     </p>
2121     <p></p>
2122     <blockquote class="text">
2123     <p>GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES
2124     </p>
2125     </blockquote>
2126    
2127     <p>Possible Answers:
2128     </p>
2129     <p></p>
2130     <blockquote class="text">
2131     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending the current number of all
2132     MIDI input devices.
2133     </p>
2134     </blockquote>
2135    
2136     <p>Example:
2137     </p>
2138     <p></p>
2139     <blockquote class="text">
2140     <p>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES"
2141     </p>
2142     <p>S: "3"
2143     </p>
2144     </blockquote>
2145    
2146     <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>
2147    
2148     <p>Use the following command to list all created MIDI input devices:
2149     </p>
2150     <p></p>
2151     <blockquote class="text">
2152     <p>LIST MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES
2153     </p>
2154     </blockquote>
2155    
2156     <p>Possible Answers:
2157     </p>
2158     <p></p>
2159     <blockquote class="text">
2160     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a comma separated list
2161     with the numerical Ids of all created MIDI input devices.
2162     </p>
2163     </blockquote>
2164    
2165     <p>Examples:
2166     </p>
2167     <p></p>
2168     <blockquote class="text">
2169     <p>C: "LIST MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES"
2170     </p>
2171     <p>S: "0,1,2"
2172     </p>
2173     </blockquote>
2174    
2175     <p></p>
2176     <blockquote class="text">
2177     <p>C: "LIST MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES"
2178     </p>
2179     <p>S: "1,3"
2180     </p>
2181     </blockquote>
2182    
2183     <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>
2184    
2185     <p>Use the following command to get current settings of a specific, created MIDI input device:
2186     </p>
2187     <p></p>
2188     <blockquote class="text">
2189     <p>GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE INFO &lt;device-id&gt;
2190     </p>
2191     </blockquote>
2192    
2193     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the MIDI input device.
2194     </p>
2195     <p>Possible Answers:
2196     </p>
2197     <p></p>
2198     <blockquote class="text">
2199     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
2200     Each answer line begins with the information category name
2201     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
2202     the info character string to that info category. As some
2203     parameters might allow multiple values, character strings are
2204     encapsulated into apostrophes ('). At the moment the following
2205     information categories are defined (independent of driver):
2206     </p>
2207     <p></p>
2208     <blockquote class="text">
2209     <p>DRIVER -
2210     </p>
2211     <blockquote class="text">
2212     <p>identifier of the used MIDI input driver, as e.g.
2213     returned by the "GET AVAILABLE_MIDI_INPUT_DRIVERS"
2214     command
2215     </p>
2216     </blockquote>
2217    
2218     </blockquote>
2219     <blockquote class="text">
2220     <p><p>ACTIVE -
2221     </p>
2222     <blockquote class="text">
2223     <p>either true or false, if false then the MIDI device is
2224     inactive and doesn't listen to any incoming MIDI events
2225     and thus doesn't forward them to connected sampler
2226     channels
2227     </p>
2228     </blockquote>
2229    
2230     </blockquote>
2231    
2232     </blockquote>
2233    
2234     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular
2235     order. The fields above are only those fields which are
2236     returned by all MIDI input devices. Every MIDI input driver
2237     might have its own, additional driver specific parameters (see
2238     "GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO" command) which are also returned
2239     by this command.
2240     </p>
2241     <p>Example:
2242     </p>
2243     <p></p>
2244     <blockquote class="text">
2245     <p>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE INFO 0"
2246     </p>
2247     <p>S: "DRIVER: ALSA"
2248     </p>
2249     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"ACTIVE: true"
2250     </p>
2251     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
2252     </p>
2253     </blockquote>
2254    
2255     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.9"></a><h4><a name="anchor32">5.3.9</a>&nbsp;Changing settings of audio output devices</h4>
2256    
2257     <p>Use the following command to alter a specific setting of a created MIDI input device:
2258     </p>
2259     <p></p>
2260     <blockquote class="text">
2261     <p>SET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;key&gt;=&lt;value&gt;
2262     </p>
2263     </blockquote>
2264    
2265     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the
2266     MIDI input device, &lt;key&gt; by the name of the parameter to change and
2267     &lt;value&gt; by the new value for this parameter.
2268     </p>
2269     <p>Possible Answers:
2270     </p>
2271     <p></p>
2272     <blockquote class="text">
2273     <p>"OK" -
2274     </p>
2275     <blockquote class="text">
2276     <p>in case setting was successfully changed
2277     </p>
2278     </blockquote>
2279    
2280     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2281     </p>
2282     <blockquote class="text">
2283     <p>in case setting was changed successfully, but there are
2284     noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
2285     warning code and warning message
2286     </p>
2287     </blockquote>
2288    
2289     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2290     </p>
2291     <blockquote class="text">
2292     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
2293     </p>
2294     </blockquote>
2295    
2296     </blockquote>
2297    
2298     <p>Example:
2299     </p>
2300     <p></p>
2301     <blockquote class="text">
2302     <p>C: "SET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE PARAMETER 0 ACTIVE=false"
2303     </p>
2304     <p>S: "OK"
2305     </p>
2306     </blockquote>
2307    
2308     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.10"></a><h4><a name="anchor33">5.3.10</a>&nbsp;Getting information about a MIDI port</h4>
2309    
2310     <p>Use the following command to get information about a MIDI port:
2311     </p>
2312     <p></p>
2313     <blockquote class="text">
2314     <p>GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT INFO &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;midi-port&gt;
2315     </p>
2316     </blockquote>
2317    
2318     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the MIDI input device
2319     and &lt;midi-port&gt; the MIDI input port number.
2320     </p>
2321     <p>Possible Answers:
2322     </p>
2323     <p></p>
2324     <blockquote class="text">
2325     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
2326     Each answer line begins with the information category name
2327     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
2328     the info character string to that info category. At the moment
2329     the following information categories are defined:
2330     </p>
2331     <p>NAME -
2332     </p>
2333     <blockquote class="text">
2334     <p>arbitrary character string naming the port
2335     </p>
2336     </blockquote>
2337    
2338     </blockquote>
2339    
2340     <p>The field above is only the one which is returned by all MIDI
2341     ports regardless of the MIDI driver and port. Every MIDI port
2342     might have its own, additional driver and port specific
2343     parameters.
2344     </p>
2345     <p>Example:
2346     </p>
2347     <p></p>
2348     <blockquote class="text">
2349     <p>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT INFO 0 0"
2350     </p>
2351     <p>S: "NAME: 'Masterkeyboard'"
2352     </p>
2353     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS: '64:0'"
2354     </p>
2355     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
2356     </p>
2357     </blockquote>
2358    
2359     <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>
2360    
2361     <p>Use the following command to get detailed information about specific MIDI port parameter:
2362     </p>
2363     <p></p>
2364     <blockquote class="text">
2365     <p>GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER INFO &lt;dev-id&gt; &lt;port&gt; &lt;param&gt;
2366     </p>
2367     </blockquote>
2368    
2369     <p>Where &lt;dev-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the MIDI input device as returned
2370     by the "GET MIDI_INPUT_DEVICES" command, &lt;port&gt; the MIDI port number and
2371     &lt;param&gt; a specific port parameter name for which information should be
2372     obtained (as returned by the "GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT INFO" command).
2373     </p>
2374     <p>Possible Answers:
2375     </p>
2376     <p></p>
2377     <blockquote class="text">
2378     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
2379     Each answer line begins with the information category name
2380     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
2381     the info character string to that info category. There is
2382     information which is always returned, independently of the
2383     given channel parameter and there is optional information
2384     which are only shown dependently to the given MIDI port. At the
2385     moment the following information categories are defined:
2386     </p>
2387     <p>TYPE -
2388     </p>
2389     <blockquote class="text">
2390     <p>either "BOOL" for boolean value(s) or "INT" for integer
2391     value(s) or "FLOAT" for dotted number(s) or "STRING" for
2392     character string(s)
2393     (always returned)
2394     </p>
2395     </blockquote>
2396    
2397     <p>DESCRIPTION -
2398     </p>
2399     <blockquote class="text">
2400     <p>arbitrary text describing the purpose of the parameter
2401     (always returned)
2402     </p>
2403     </blockquote>
2404    
2405     <p>FIX -
2406     </p>
2407     <blockquote class="text">
2408     <p>either true or false, if true then this parameter is
2409     read only, thus cannot be altered
2410     (always returned)
2411     </p>
2412     </blockquote>
2413    
2414     <p>MULTIPLICITY -
2415     </p>
2416     <blockquote class="text">
2417     <p>either true or false, defines if this parameter allows
2418     only one value or a list of values, where true means
2419     multiple values and false only a single value allowed
2420     (always returned)
2421     </p>
2422     </blockquote>
2423    
2424     <p>RANGE_MIN -
2425     </p>
2426     <blockquote class="text">
2427     <p>defines lower limit of the allowed value range for this
2428     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
2429     number, this parameter is usually used in conjunction
2430     with 'RANGE_MAX' but may also appear without
2431     (optionally returned, dependent to driver and port
2432     parameter)
2433     </p>
2434     </blockquote>
2435    
2436     <p>RANGE_MAX -
2437     </p>
2438     <blockquote class="text">
2439     <p>defines upper limit of the allowed value range for this
2440     parameter, can be an integer value as well as a dotted
2441     number, this parameter is usually used in conjunction
2442     with 'RANGE_MIN' but may also appear without
2443     (optionally returned, dependent to driver and port
2444     parameter)
2445     </p>
2446     </blockquote>
2447    
2448     <p>POSSIBILITES -
2449     </p>
2450     <blockquote class="text">
2451     <p>comma separated list of possible values for this
2452     parameter, character strings are encapsulated into
2453     apostrophes
2454     (optionally returned, dependent to device and port
2455     parameter)
2456     </p>
2457     </blockquote>
2458    
2459     </blockquote>
2460    
2461     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.
2462     </p>
2463     <p>Example:
2464     </p>
2465     <p></p>
2466     <blockquote class="text">
2467     <p>C: "GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER INFO 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS"
2468     </p>
2469     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: bindings to other ALSA sequencer clients"
2470     </p>
2471     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"TYPE: STRING"
2472     </p>
2473     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"FIX: false"
2474     </p>
2475     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MULTIPLICITY: true"
2476     </p>
2477     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"POSSIBILITES: '64:0','68:0','68:1'"
2478     </p>
2479     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
2480     </p>
2481     </blockquote>
2482    
2483     <a name="rfc.section.5.3.12"></a><h4><a name="anchor35">5.3.12</a>&nbsp;Changing settings of MIDI input ports</h4>
2484    
2485     <p>Use the following command to alter a specific setting of a MIDI input port:
2486     </p>
2487     <p></p>
2488     <blockquote class="text">
2489     <p>SET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER &lt;device-id&gt; &lt;port&gt; &lt;key&gt;=&lt;value&gt;
2490     </p>
2491     </blockquote>
2492    
2493     <p>Where &lt;device-id&gt; should be replaced by the numerical ID of the
2494     MIDI device, &lt;port&gt; by the MIDI port number, &lt;key&gt; by the name of
2495     the parameter to change and &lt;value&gt; by the new value for this
2496     parameter.
2497     </p>
2498     <p>Possible Answers:
2499     </p>
2500     <p></p>
2501     <blockquote class="text">
2502     <p>"OK" -
2503     </p>
2504     <blockquote class="text">
2505     <p>in case setting was successfully changed
2506     </p>
2507     </blockquote>
2508    
2509     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2510     </p>
2511     <blockquote class="text">
2512     <p>in case setting was changed successfully, but there are
2513     noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
2514     warning code and warning message
2515     </p>
2516     </blockquote>
2517    
2518     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2519     </p>
2520     <blockquote class="text">
2521     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
2522     </p>
2523     </blockquote>
2524    
2525     </blockquote>
2526    
2527     <p>Example:
2528     </p>
2529     <p></p>
2530     <blockquote class="text">
2531     <p>
2532     </p>
2533     </blockquote>
2534    
2535     <a name="rfc.section.5.4"></a><h4><a name="anchor36">5.4</a>&nbsp;Configuring sampler channels</h4>
2536    
2537     <p>The following commands describe how to add and remove sampler channels, deploy
2538     sampler engines, load instruments and connect sampler channels to MIDI and audio devices.
2539     </p>
2540     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor37">5.4.1</a>&nbsp;Loading an instrument</h4>
2541    
2542     <p>An instrument file can be loaded and assigned to a sampler channel by one of the following commands:
2543     </p>
2544     <p></p>
2545     <blockquote class="text">
2546     <p>LOAD INSTRUMENT [NON_MODAL] '&lt;filename&gt;' &lt;instr-index&gt; &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
2547     </p>
2548     </blockquote>
2549    
2550     <p>Where &lt;filename&gt; is the name of the instrument file on the
2551     LinuxSampler instance's host system, &lt;instr-index&gt; the index of the
2552     instrument in the instrument file and &lt;sampler-channel> is the
2553     number of the sampler channel the instrument should be assigned to.
2554     Each sampler channel can only have one instrument.
2555     </p>
2556     <p>The difference between regular and NON_MODAL versions of the command
2557     is that the regular command returns OK only after the instrument has been
2558     fully loaded and the channel is ready to be used while NON_MODAL version
2559     returns immediately and a background process is launched to load the instrument
2560     on the channel. GET CHANNEL INFO command can be used to obtain loading
2561     progress from INSTRUMENT_STATUS field. LOAD command will perform sanity checks
2562     such as making sure that the file could be read and it is of a proper format
2563     and SHOULD return ERR and SHOULD not launch the background process should any
2564     errors be detected at that point.
2565     </p>
2566     <p>Possible Answers:
2567     </p>
2568     <p></p>
2569     <blockquote class="text">
2570     <p>"OK" -
2571     </p>
2572     <blockquote class="text">
2573     <p>in case the instrument was successfully loaded
2574     </p>
2575     </blockquote>
2576    
2577     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2578     </p>
2579     <blockquote class="text">
2580     <p>in case the instrument was loaded successfully, but there
2581     are noteworthy issue(s) related (e.g. Engine doesn't support
2582     one or more patch parameters provided by the loaded
2583     instrument file), providing an appropriate warning code and
2584     warning message
2585     </p>
2586     </blockquote>
2587    
2588     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2589     </p>
2590     <blockquote class="text">
2591     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
2592     </p>
2593     </blockquote>
2594    
2595     </blockquote>
2596    
2597     <p>Example:
2598     </p>
2599     <p></p>
2600     <blockquote class="text">
2601     <p>
2602     </p>
2603     </blockquote>
2604    
2605     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.2"></a><h4><a name="anchor38">5.4.2</a>&nbsp;Loading a sampler engine</h4>
2606    
2607     <p>A sample engine can be deployed and assigned to a specific sampler
2608     channel by the following command:
2609     </p>
2610     <p></p>
2611     <blockquote class="text">
2612     <p>LOAD ENGINE &lt;engine-name&gt; &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
2613     </p>
2614     </blockquote>
2615    
2616     <p>Where &lt;engine-name&gt; is usually the C++ class name of the engine
2617     implementation and &lt;sampler-channel&gt; the sampler channel the
2618     deployed engine should be assigned to. Even if the respective
2619     sampler channel has already a deployed engine with that engine
2620     name, a new engine instance will be assigned to the sampler channel.
2621     </p>
2622     <p>Possible Answers:
2623     </p>
2624     <p></p>
2625     <blockquote class="text">
2626     <p>"OK" -
2627     </p>
2628     <blockquote class="text">
2629     <p>in case the engine was successfully deployed
2630     </p>
2631     </blockquote>
2632    
2633     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2634     </p>
2635     <blockquote class="text">
2636     <p>in case the engine was deployed successfully, but there
2637     are noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
2638     warning code and warning message
2639     </p>
2640     </blockquote>
2641    
2642     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2643     </p>
2644     <blockquote class="text">
2645     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
2646     error message
2647     </p>
2648     </blockquote>
2649    
2650     </blockquote>
2651    
2652     <p>Example:
2653     </p>
2654     <p></p>
2655     <blockquote class="text">
2656     <p>
2657     </p>
2658     </blockquote>
2659    
2660     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.3"></a><h4><a name="anchor39">5.4.3</a>&nbsp;Getting all created sampler channel count</h4>
2661    
2662     <p>The number of sampler channels can change on runtime. To get the
2663     current amount of sampler channels, the front-end can send the
2664     following command:
2665     </p>
2666     <p></p>
2667     <blockquote class="text">
2668     <p>GET CHANNELS
2669     </p>
2670     </blockquote>
2671    
2672     <p>Possible Answers:
2673     </p>
2674     <p></p>
2675     <blockquote class="text">
2676     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by returning the current number of sampler channels.
2677     </p>
2678     </blockquote>
2679    
2680     <p>Example:
2681     </p>
2682     <p></p>
2683     <blockquote class="text">
2684     <p>C: "GET CHANNELS"
2685     </p>
2686     <p>S: "12"
2687     </p>
2688     </blockquote>
2689    
2690     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.4"></a><h4><a name="anchor40">5.4.4</a>&nbsp;Getting all created sampler channel list</h4>
2691    
2692     <p>The number of sampler channels can change on runtime. To get the
2693     current list of sampler channels, the front-end can send the
2694     following command:
2695     </p>
2696     <p></p>
2697     <blockquote class="text">
2698     <p>LIST CHANNELS
2699     </p>
2700     </blockquote>
2701    
2702     <p>Possible Answers:
2703     </p>
2704     <p></p>
2705     <blockquote class="text">
2706     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by returning a comma separated list
2707     with all sampler channels numerical IDs.
2708     </p>
2709     </blockquote>
2710    
2711     <p>Example:
2712     </p>
2713     <p></p>
2714     <blockquote class="text">
2715     <p>C: "LIST CHANNELS"
2716     </p>
2717     <p>S: "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,9,10,11,15,20"
2718     </p>
2719     </blockquote>
2720    
2721     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.5"></a><h4><a name="anchor41">5.4.5</a>&nbsp;Adding a new sampler channel</h4>
2722    
2723     <p>A new sampler channel can be added to the end of the sampler
2724     channel list by sending the following command:
2725     </p>
2726     <p></p>
2727     <blockquote class="text">
2728     <p>ADD CHANNEL
2729     </p>
2730     </blockquote>
2731    
2732     <p>This will increment the sampler channel count by one and the new
2733     sampler channel will be appended to the end of the sampler channel
2734     list. The front-end should send the respective, related commands
2735     right after to e.g. load an engine, load an instrument and setting
2736     input, output method and eventually other commands to initialize
2737     the new channel. The front-end should use the sampler channel
2738     returned by the answer of this command to perform the previously
2739     recommended commands, to avoid race conditions e.g. with other
2740     front-ends that might also have sent an "ADD CHANNEL" command.
2741     </p>
2742     <p>Possible Answers:
2743     </p>
2744     <p></p>
2745     <blockquote class="text">
2746     <p>"OK[&lt;sampler-channel&gt;]" -
2747     </p>
2748     <blockquote class="text">
2749     <p>in case a new sampler channel could be added, where
2750     &lt;sampler-channel&gt; reflects the channel number of the new
2751     created sampler channel which should the be used to set up
2752     the sampler channel by sending subsequent intialization
2753     commands
2754     </p>
2755     </blockquote>
2756    
2757     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2758     </p>
2759     <blockquote class="text">
2760     <p>in case a new channel was added successfully, but there are
2761     noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
2762     warning code and warning message
2763     </p>
2764     </blockquote>
2765    
2766     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2767     </p>
2768     <blockquote class="text">
2769     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
2770     error message
2771     </p>
2772     </blockquote>
2773    
2774     </blockquote>
2775    
2776     <p>Example:
2777     </p>
2778     <p></p>
2779     <blockquote class="text">
2780     <p>
2781     </p>
2782     </blockquote>
2783    
2784     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.6"></a><h4><a name="anchor42">5.4.6</a>&nbsp;Removing a sampler channel</h4>
2785    
2786     <p>A sampler channel can be removed by sending the following command:
2787     </p>
2788     <p></p>
2789     <blockquote class="text">
2790     <p>REMOVE CHANNEL &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
2791     </p>
2792     </blockquote>
2793    
2794     <p>This will decrement the sampler channel count by one and also
2795     decrement the channel numbers of all subsequent sampler channels by
2796     one.
2797     </p>
2798     <p>Possible Answers:
2799     </p>
2800     <p></p>
2801     <blockquote class="text">
2802     <p>"OK" -
2803     </p>
2804     <blockquote class="text">
2805     <p>in case the given sampler channel could be removed
2806     </p>
2807     </blockquote>
2808    
2809     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
2810     </p>
2811     <blockquote class="text">
2812     <p>in case the given channel was removed, but there are
2813     noteworthy issue(s) related, providing an appropriate
2814     warning code and warning message
2815     </p>
2816     </blockquote>
2817    
2818     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
2819     </p>
2820     <blockquote class="text">
2821     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
2822     error message
2823     </p>
2824     </blockquote>
2825    
2826     </blockquote>
2827    
2828     <p>Example:
2829     </p>
2830     <p></p>
2831     <blockquote class="text">
2832     <p>
2833     </p>
2834     </blockquote>
2835    
2836     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.7"></a><h4><a name="anchor43">5.4.7</a>&nbsp;Getting all available engines</h4>
2837    
2838     <p>The front-end can ask for all available engines by sending the following command:
2839     </p>
2840     <p></p>
2841     <blockquote class="text">
2842     <p>GET AVAILABLE_ENGINES
2843     </p>
2844     </blockquote>
2845    
2846     <p>Possible Answers:
2847     </p>
2848     <p></p>
2849     <blockquote class="text">
2850     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a comma separated character
2851     string of the engines' C++ class names.
2852     </p>
2853     </blockquote>
2854    
2855     <p>Example:
2856     </p>
2857     <p></p>
2858     <blockquote class="text">
2859     <p>C: "GET AVAILABLE_ENGINES"
2860     </p>
2861     <p>S: "GigEngine,AkaiEngine,DLSEngine,JoesCustomEngine"
2862     </p>
2863     </blockquote>
2864    
2865     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.8"></a><h4><a name="anchor44">5.4.8</a>&nbsp;Getting information about an engine</h4>
2866    
2867     <p>The front-end can ask for information about a specific engine by
2868     sending the following command:
2869     </p>
2870     <p></p>
2871     <blockquote class="text">
2872     <p>GET ENGINE INFO &lt;engine-name&gt;
2873     </p>
2874     </blockquote>
2875    
2876     <p>Where &lt;engine-name&gt; is usually the C++ class name of the engine implementation.
2877     </p>
2878     <p>Possible Answers:
2879     </p>
2880     <p></p>
2881     <blockquote class="text">
2882     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending &lt;&gt; separated list.
2883     Each answer line begins with the information category name
2884     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
2885     the info character string to that info category. At the moment
2886     the following categories are defined:
2887     </p>
2888     <p></p>
2889     <blockquote class="text">
2890     <p>DESCRIPTION -
2891     </p>
2892     <blockquote class="text">
2893     <p>arbitrary description text about the engine
2894     </p>
2895     </blockquote>
2896    
2897     <p>VERSION -
2898     </p>
2899     <blockquote class="text">
2900     <p>arbitrary character string regarding the engine's version
2901     </p>
2902     </blockquote>
2903    
2904     </blockquote>
2905    
2906     </blockquote>
2907    
2908     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.
2909     </p>
2910     <p>Example:
2911     </p>
2912     <p></p>
2913     <blockquote class="text">
2914     <p>C: "GET ENGINE INFO JoesCustomEngine"
2915     </p>
2916     <p>S: "DESCRIPTION: this is Joe's custom sampler engine"
2917     </p>
2918     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"VERSION: testing-1.0"
2919     </p>
2920     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
2921     </p>
2922     </blockquote>
2923    
2924     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.9"></a><h4><a name="anchor45">5.4.9</a>&nbsp;Getting sampler channel information</h4>
2925    
2926     <p>The front-end can ask for the current settings of a sampler channel
2927     by sending the following command:
2928     </p>
2929     <p></p>
2930     <blockquote class="text">
2931     <p>GET CHANNEL INFO &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
2932     </p>
2933     </blockquote>
2934    
2935     <p>Where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the sampler channel number the front-end is interested in.
2936     </p>
2937     <p>Possible Answers:
2938     </p>
2939     <p></p>
2940     <blockquote class="text">
2941     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by sending a &lt;CRLF&gt; separated list.
2942     Each answer line begins with the settings category name
2943     followed by a colon and then a space character &lt;SP&gt; and finally
2944     the info character string to that setting category. At the
2945     moment the following categories are defined:
2946     </p>
2947     <p></p>
2948     <blockquote class="text">
2949     <p>ENGINE_NAME -
2950     </p>
2951     <blockquote class="text">
2952     <p>name of the engine that is deployed on the sampler
2953     channel, "NONE" if there's no engine deployed yet for
2954     this sampler channel
2955     </p>
2956     </blockquote>
2957    
2958     <p>AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE -
2959     </p>
2960     <blockquote class="text">
2961     <p>numerical ID of the audio output device which is
2962     currently connected to this sampler channel to output
2963     the audio signal, "NONE" if there's no device
2964     connected to this sampler channel
2965     </p>
2966     </blockquote>
2967    
2968     <p>AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNELS -
2969     </p>
2970     <blockquote class="text">
2971     <p>number of output channels the sampler channel offers
2972     (dependent to used sampler engine and loaded instrument)
2973     </p>
2974     </blockquote>
2975    
2976     <p>AUDIO_OUTPUT_ROUTING -
2977     </p>
2978     <blockquote class="text">
2979     <p>comma separated list which reflects to which audio
2980     channel of the selected audio output device each
2981     sampler output channel is routed to, e.g. "0,3" would
2982     mean the engine's output channel 0 is routed to channel
2983     0 of the audio output device and the engine's output
2984     channel 1 is routed to the channel 3 of the audio
2985     output device
2986     </p>
2987     </blockquote>
2988    
2989     <p>INSTRUMENT_FILE -
2990     </p>
2991     <blockquote class="text">
2992     <p>the file name of the loaded instrument, "NONE" if
2993     there's no instrument yet loaded for this sampler
2994     channel
2995     </p>
2996     </blockquote>
2997    
2998     <p>INSTRUMENT_NR -
2999     </p>
3000     <blockquote class="text">
3001     <p>the instrument index number of the loaded instrument
3002     </p>
3003     </blockquote>
3004    
3005     <p>INSTRUMENT_STATUS -
3006     </p>
3007     <blockquote class="text">
3008     <p>integer values 0 to 100 indicating loading progress percentage for the instrument. Negative
3009     value indicates a loading exception. Value of 100 indicates that the instrument is fully
3010     loaded.
3011     </p>
3012     </blockquote>
3013    
3014     <p>MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE -
3015     </p>
3016     <blockquote class="text">
3017     <p>numerical ID of the MIDI input device which is
3018     currently connected to this sampler channel to deliver
3019     MIDI input commands, "NONE" if there's no device
3020     connected to this sampler channel
3021     </p>
3022     </blockquote>
3023    
3024     <p>MIDI_INPUT_PORT -
3025     </p>
3026     <blockquote class="text">
3027     <p>port number of the MIDI input device
3028     </p>
3029     </blockquote>
3030    
3031     <p>MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL -
3032     </p>
3033     <blockquote class="text">
3034     <p>the MIDI input channel number this sampler channel
3035     should listen to or "ALL" to listen on all MIDI channels
3036     </p>
3037     </blockquote>
3038    
3039     <p>VOLUME -
3040     </p>
3041     <blockquote class="text">
3042     <p>optionally dotted number for the channel volume factor
3043     (where a value < 1.0 means attenuation and a value >
3044     1.0 means amplification)
3045     </p>
3046     </blockquote>
3047    
3048     </blockquote>
3049    
3050     </blockquote>
3051    
3052     <p>The mentioned fields above don't have to be in particular order.
3053     </p>
3054     <p>Example:
3055     </p>
3056     <p></p>
3057     <blockquote class="text">
3058     <p>C: "GET CHANNEL INFO 34"
3059     </p>
3060     <p>S: "ENGINE_NAME: GigEngine"
3061     </p>
3062     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"VOLUME: 1.0"
3063     </p>
3064     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE: 0"
3065     </p>
3066     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNELS: 2"
3067     </p>
3068     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"AUDIO_OUTPUT_ROUTING: 0,1"
3069     </p>
3070     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"INSTRUMENT_FILE: /home/joe/FazioliPiano.gig"
3071     </p>
3072     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"INSTRUMENT_NR: 0"
3073     </p>
3074     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"INSTRUMENT_STATUS: 100"
3075     </p>
3076     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE: 0"
3077     </p>
3078     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MIDI_INPUT_PORT: 0"
3079     </p>
3080     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL: 5"
3081     </p>
3082     <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"."
3083     </p>
3084     </blockquote>
3085    
3086     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.10"></a><h4><a name="anchor46">5.4.10</a>&nbsp;Current number of active voices</h4>
3087    
3088     <p>The front-end can ask for the current number of active voices on a
3089     sampler channel by sending the following command:
3090     </p>
3091     <p></p>
3092     <blockquote class="text">
3093     <p>GET CHANNEL VOICE_COUNT &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
3094     </p>
3095     </blockquote>
3096    
3097     <p>Where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the sampler channel number the front-end is interested in.
3098     </p>
3099     <p>Possible Answers:
3100     </p>
3101     <p></p>
3102     <blockquote class="text">
3103     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by returning the number of active
3104     voices on that channel.
3105     </p>
3106     </blockquote>
3107    
3108     <p>Example:
3109     </p>
3110     <p></p>
3111     <blockquote class="text">
3112     <p>
3113     </p>
3114     </blockquote>
3115    
3116     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.11"></a><h4><a name="anchor47">5.4.11</a>&nbsp;Current number of active disk streams</h4>
3117    
3118     <p>The front-end can ask for the current number of active disk streams
3119     on a sampler channel by sending the following command:
3120     </p>
3121     <p></p>
3122     <blockquote class="text">
3123     <p>GET CHANNEL STREAM_COUNT &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
3124     </p>
3125     </blockquote>
3126    
3127     <p>Where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the sampler channel number the front-end is interested in.
3128     </p>
3129     <p>Possible Answers:
3130     </p>
3131     <p></p>
3132     <blockquote class="text">
3133     <p>LinuxSampler will answer by returning the number of active
3134     disk streams on that channel in case the engine supports disk
3135     streaming, if the engine doesn't support disk streaming it will
3136     return "NA" for not available.
3137     </p>
3138     </blockquote>
3139    
3140     <p>Example:
3141     </p>
3142     <p></p>
3143     <blockquote class="text">
3144     <p>
3145     </p>
3146     </blockquote>
3147    
3148     <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>
3149    
3150     <p>The front-end can ask for the current fill state of all disk streams
3151     on a sampler channel by sending the following command:
3152     </p>
3153     <p></p>
3154     <blockquote class="text">
3155     <p>GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL BYTES &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
3156     </p>
3157     </blockquote>
3158    
3159     <p>to get the fill state in bytes or
3160     </p>
3161     <p></p>
3162     <blockquote class="text">
3163     <p>GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL PERCENTAGE &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
3164     </p>
3165     </blockquote>
3166    
3167     <p>to get the fill state in percent, where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the
3168     sampler channel number the front-end is interested in.
3169     </p>
3170     <p>Possible Answers:
3171     </p>
3172     <p></p>
3173     <blockquote class="text">
3174     <p>LinuxSampler will either answer by returning a comma separated
3175     string with the fill state of all disk stream buffers on that
3176     channel or an empty line if there are no active disk streams or
3177     "NA" for *not available* in case the engine which is deployed
3178     doesn't support disk streaming. Each entry in the answer list
3179     will begin with the stream's ID in brackets followed by the
3180     numerical representation of the fill size (either in bytes or
3181     percentage). Note: due to efficiency reasons the fill states in
3182     the response are not in particular order, thus the front-end has
3183     to sort them by itself if necessary.
3184     </p>
3185     </blockquote>
3186    
3187     <p>Examples:
3188     </p>
3189     <p></p>
3190     <blockquote class="text">
3191     <p>C: "GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL BYTES 4"
3192     </p>
3193     <p>S: "[115]420500,[116]510300,[75]110000,[120]230700"
3194     </p>
3195     </blockquote>
3196     <blockquote class="text">
3197     <p><p>C: "GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL PERCENTAGE 4"
3198     </p>
3199     <p>S: "[115]90%,[116]98%,[75]40%,[120]62%"
3200     </p>
3201     </blockquote>
3202     <blockquote class="text">
3203     <p><p>C: "GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL PERCENTAGE 4"
3204     </p>
3205     <p>S: ""
3206     </p>
3207     </blockquote>
3208    
3209     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.13"></a><h4><a name="anchor49">5.4.13</a>&nbsp;Setting audio output device</h4>
3210    
3211     <p>The front-end can set the audio output device on a specific sampler
3212     channel by sending the following command:
3213     </p>
3214     <p></p>
3215     <blockquote class="text">
3216     <p>SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;audio-device-id&gt;
3217     </p>
3218     </blockquote>
3219    
3220     <p>Where &lt;audio-device-id&gt; is the numerical ID of the audio output
3221     device and &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the respective sampler channel
3222     number.
3223     </p>
3224     <p>Possible Answers:
3225     </p>
3226     <p></p>
3227     <blockquote class="text">
3228     <p>"OK" -
3229     </p>
3230     <blockquote class="text">
3231     <p>on success
3232     </p>
3233     </blockquote>
3234    
3235     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3236     </p>
3237     <blockquote class="text">
3238     <p>if audio output device was set, but there are noteworthy
3239     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3240     warning message
3241     </p>
3242     </blockquote>
3243    
3244     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3245     </p>
3246     <blockquote class="text">
3247     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
3248     </p>
3249     </blockquote>
3250    
3251     </blockquote>
3252    
3253     <p>Examples:
3254     </p>
3255     <p></p>
3256     <blockquote class="text">
3257     <p>
3258     </p>
3259     </blockquote>
3260    
3261     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.14"></a><h4><a name="anchor50">5.4.14</a>&nbsp;Setting audio output type</h4>
3262    
3263     <p>DEPRECATED: THIS COMMAND WILL DISAPPEAR SOON!
3264     </p>
3265     <p>The front-end can alter the audio output type on a specific sampler
3266     channel by sending the following command:
3267     </p>
3268     <p></p>
3269     <blockquote class="text">
3270     <p>SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;audio-output-type&gt;
3271     </p>
3272     </blockquote>
3273    
3274     <p>Where &lt;audio-output-type&gt; is currently either "ALSA" or "JACK" and
3275     &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the respective sampler channel number.
3276     </p>
3277     <p>Possible Answers:
3278     </p>
3279     <p></p>
3280     <blockquote class="text">
3281     <p>"OK" -
3282     </p>
3283     <blockquote class="text">
3284     <p>on success
3285     </p>
3286     </blockquote>
3287    
3288     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3289     </p>
3290     <blockquote class="text">
3291     <p>if audio output type was set, but there are noteworthy
3292     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3293     warning message
3294     </p>
3295     </blockquote>
3296    
3297     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3298     </p>
3299     <blockquote class="text">
3300     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
3301     </p>
3302     </blockquote>
3303    
3304     </blockquote>
3305    
3306     <p>Examples:
3307     </p>
3308     <p></p>
3309     <blockquote class="text">
3310     <p>
3311     </p>
3312     </blockquote>
3313    
3314     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.15"></a><h4><a name="anchor51">5.4.15</a>&nbsp;Setting audio output channel</h4>
3315    
3316     <p>The front-end can alter the audio output channel on a specific
3317     sampler channel by sending the following command:
3318     </p>
3319     <p></p>
3320     <blockquote class="text">
3321     <p>SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL &lt;sampler-chan&gt; &lt;audio-out&gt; &lt;audio-in&gt;
3322     </p>
3323     </blockquote>
3324    
3325     <p>Where &lt;sampler-chan&gt; is the sampler channel, &lt;audio-out&gt; is the
3326     sampler channel's audio output channel which should be
3327     rerouted and &lt;audio-in&gt; the audio channel of the selected audio
3328     output device where &lt;audio-out&gt; should be routed to.
3329     </p>
3330     <p>Possible Answers:
3331     </p>
3332     <p></p>
3333     <blockquote class="text">
3334     <p>"OK" -
3335     </p>
3336     <blockquote class="text">
3337     <p>on success
3338     </p>
3339     </blockquote>
3340    
3341     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3342     </p>
3343     <blockquote class="text">
3344     <p>if audio output channel was set, but there are noteworthy
3345     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3346     warning message
3347     </p>
3348     </blockquote>
3349    
3350     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3351     </p>
3352     <blockquote class="text">
3353     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
3354     </p>
3355     </blockquote>
3356    
3357     </blockquote>
3358    
3359     <p>Examples:
3360     </p>
3361     <p></p>
3362     <blockquote class="text">
3363     <p>
3364     </p>
3365     </blockquote>
3366    
3367     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.16"></a><h4><a name="anchor52">5.4.16</a>&nbsp;Setting MIDI input device</h4>
3368    
3369     <p>The front-end can set the MIDI input device on a specific sampler
3370     channel by sending the following command:
3371     </p>
3372     <p></p>
3373     <blockquote class="text">
3374     <p>SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;midi-device-id&gt;
3375     </p>
3376     </blockquote>
3377    
3378     <p>
3379     </p>
3380     <p>Possible Answers:
3381     </p>
3382     <p></p>
3383     <blockquote class="text">
3384     <p>"OK" -
3385     </p>
3386     <blockquote class="text">
3387     <p>on success
3388     </p>
3389     </blockquote>
3390    
3391     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3392     </p>
3393     <blockquote class="text">
3394     <p>if MIDI input device was set, but there are noteworthy
3395     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3396     warning message
3397     </p>
3398     </blockquote>
3399    
3400     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3401     </p>
3402     <blockquote class="text">
3403     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
3404     </p>
3405     </blockquote>
3406    
3407     </blockquote>
3408    
3409     <p>Examples:
3410     </p>
3411     <p></p>
3412     <blockquote class="text">
3413     <p>
3414     </p>
3415     </blockquote>
3416    
3417     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.17"></a><h4><a name="anchor53">5.4.17</a>&nbsp;Setting MIDI input type</h4>
3418    
3419     <p>DEPRECATED: THIS COMMAND WILL DISAPPEAR SOON!
3420     </p>
3421     <p>The front-end can alter the MIDI input type on a specific sampler
3422     channel by sending the following command:
3423     </p>
3424     <p></p>
3425     <blockquote class="text">
3426     <p>SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;midi-input-type&gt;
3427     </p>
3428     </blockquote>
3429    
3430     <p>Where &lt;midi-input-type&gt; is currently only "ALSA" and
3431     &lt;sampler-channel&gt; is the respective sampler channel number.
3432     </p>
3433     <p>Possible Answers:
3434     </p>
3435     <p></p>
3436     <blockquote class="text">
3437     <p>"OK" -
3438     </p>
3439     <blockquote class="text">
3440     <p>on success
3441     </p>
3442     </blockquote>
3443    
3444     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3445     </p>
3446     <blockquote class="text">
3447     <p>if MIDI input type was set, but there are noteworthy
3448     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3449     warning message
3450     </p>
3451     </blockquote>
3452    
3453     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3454     </p>
3455     <blockquote class="text">
3456     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
3457     </p>
3458     </blockquote>
3459    
3460     </blockquote>
3461    
3462     <p>Examples:
3463     </p>
3464     <p></p>
3465     <blockquote class="text">
3466     <p>
3467     </p>
3468     </blockquote>
3469    
3470     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.18"></a><h4><a name="anchor54">5.4.18</a>&nbsp;Setting MIDI input port</h4>
3471    
3472     <p>The front-end can alter the input MIDI port on a specific sampler
3473     channel by sending the following command:
3474     </p>
3475     <p></p>
3476     <blockquote class="text">
3477     <p>SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;midi-input-port&gt;
3478     </p>
3479     </blockquote>
3480    
3481     <p>Where &lt;midi-input-port&gt; is a MIDI input port number of the
3482     MIDI input device connected to the sampler channel given by
3483     &lt;sampler-channel&gt;.
3484     </p>
3485     <p>Possible Answers:
3486     </p>
3487     <p></p>
3488     <blockquote class="text">
3489     <p>"OK" -
3490     </p>
3491     <blockquote class="text">
3492     <p>on success
3493     </p>
3494     </blockquote>
3495    
3496     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3497     </p>
3498     <blockquote class="text">
3499     <p>if MIDI input port was set, but there are noteworthy
3500     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3501     warning message
3502     </p>
3503     </blockquote>
3504    
3505     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3506     </p>
3507     <blockquote class="text">
3508     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error messag
3509     </p>
3510     </blockquote>
3511    
3512     </blockquote>
3513    
3514     <p>Examples:
3515     </p>
3516     <p></p>
3517     <blockquote class="text">
3518     <p>
3519     </p>
3520     </blockquote>
3521    
3522     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.19"></a><h4><a name="anchor55">5.4.19</a>&nbsp;Setting MIDI input channel</h4>
3523    
3524     <p>The front-end can alter the MIDI channel a sampler channel should
3525     listen to by sending the following command:
3526     </p>
3527     <p></p>
3528     <blockquote class="text">
3529     <p>SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;midi-input-chan&gt;
3530     </p>
3531     </blockquote>
3532    
3533     <p>Where &lt;midi-input-chan&gt; is the new MIDI input channel where
3534     &lt;sampler-channel&gt; should listen to or "ALL" to listen on all 16 MIDI
3535     channels.
3536     </p>
3537     <p>Possible Answers:
3538     </p>
3539     <p></p>
3540     <blockquote class="text">
3541     <p>"OK" -
3542     </p>
3543     <blockquote class="text">
3544     <p>on success
3545     </p>
3546     </blockquote>
3547    
3548     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3549     </p>
3550     <blockquote class="text">
3551     <p>if MIDI input channel was set, but there are noteworthy
3552     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3553     warning message
3554     </p>
3555     </blockquote>
3556    
3557     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3558     </p>
3559     <blockquote class="text">
3560     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
3561     </p>
3562     </blockquote>
3563    
3564     </blockquote>
3565    
3566     <p>Examples:
3567     </p>
3568     <p></p>
3569     <blockquote class="text">
3570     <p>
3571     </p>
3572     </blockquote>
3573    
3574     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.20"></a><h4><a name="anchor56">5.4.20</a>&nbsp;Setting channel volume</h4>
3575    
3576     <p>The front-end can alter the volume of a sampler channel by sending
3577     the following command:
3578     </p>
3579     <p></p>
3580     <blockquote class="text">
3581     <p>SET CHANNEL VOLUME &lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;volume&gt;
3582     </p>
3583     </blockquote>
3584    
3585     <p>Where &lt;volume&gt; is an optionally dotted positive number (a value
3586     smaller than 1.0 means attenuation, whereas a value greater than
3587     1.0 means amplification) and &lt;sampler-channel&gt; defines the sampler
3588     channel where this volume factor should be set.
3589     </p>
3590     <p>Possible Answers:
3591     </p>
3592     <p></p>
3593     <blockquote class="text">
3594     <p>"OK" -
3595     </p>
3596     <blockquote class="text">
3597     <p>on success
3598     </p>
3599     </blockquote>
3600    
3601     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3602     </p>
3603     <blockquote class="text">
3604     <p>if channel volume was set, but there are noteworthy
3605     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3606     warning message
3607     </p>
3608     </blockquote>
3609    
3610     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3611     </p>
3612     <blockquote class="text">
3613     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and error message
3614     </p>
3615     </blockquote>
3616    
3617     </blockquote>
3618    
3619     <p>Examples:
3620     </p>
3621     <p></p>
3622     <blockquote class="text">
3623     <p>
3624     </p>
3625     </blockquote>
3626    
3627     <a name="rfc.section.5.4.21"></a><h4><a name="anchor57">5.4.21</a>&nbsp;Resetting a sampler channel</h4>
3628    
3629     <p>The front-end can reset a particular sampler channel by sending the following command:
3630     </p>
3631     <p></p>
3632     <blockquote class="text">
3633     <p>RESET CHANNEL &lt;sampler-channel&gt;
3634     </p>
3635     </blockquote>
3636    
3637     <p>
3638     Where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; defines the sampler channel to be reset.
3639     This will cause the engine on that sampler channel, its voices and
3640     eventually disk streams and all control and status variables to be
3641     reset.
3642     </p>
3643     <p>Possible Answers:
3644     </p>
3645     <p></p>
3646     <blockquote class="text">
3647     <p>"OK" -
3648     </p>
3649     <blockquote class="text">
3650     <p>on success
3651     </p>
3652     </blockquote>
3653    
3654     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3655     </p>
3656     <blockquote class="text">
3657     <p>if channel was reset, but there are noteworthy issue(s)
3658     related, providing an appropriate warning code and warning
3659     message
3660     </p>
3661     </blockquote>
3662    
3663     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3664     </p>
3665     <blockquote class="text">
3666     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
3667     error message
3668     </p>
3669     </blockquote>
3670    
3671     </blockquote>
3672    
3673     <p>Examples:
3674     </p>
3675     <p></p>
3676     <blockquote class="text">
3677     <p>
3678     </p>
3679     </blockquote>
3680    
3681     <a name="rfc.section.5.5"></a><h4><a name="anchor58">5.5</a>&nbsp;Controlling connection</h4>
3682    
3683     <p>The following commands are used to control the connection to LinuxSampler.
3684     </p>
3685     <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>
3686    
3687     <p>The front-end can register itself to the LinuxSampler application to
3688     be informed about noteworthy events by sending this command:
3689     </p>
3690     <p></p>
3691     <blockquote class="text">
3692     <p>SUBSCRIBE &lt;event-id&gt;
3693     </p>
3694     </blockquote>
3695    
3696     <p>where &lt;event-id&gt; will be replaced by the respective event that
3697     client wants to subscribe to.
3698     </p>
3699     <p>Possible Answers:
3700     </p>
3701     <p></p>
3702     <blockquote class="text">
3703     <p>"OK" -
3704     </p>
3705     <blockquote class="text">
3706     <p>on success
3707     </p>
3708     </blockquote>
3709    
3710     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3711     </p>
3712     <blockquote class="text">
3713     <p>if registration succeeded, but there are noteworthy
3714     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3715     warning message
3716     </p>
3717     </blockquote>
3718    
3719     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3720     </p>
3721     <blockquote class="text">
3722     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
3723     error message
3724     </p>
3725     </blockquote>
3726    
3727     </blockquote>
3728    
3729     <p>Examples:
3730     </p>
3731     <p></p>
3732     <blockquote class="text">
3733     <p>
3734     </p>
3735     </blockquote>
3736    
3737     <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>
3738    
3739     <p>The front-end can unregister itself if it doesn't want to receive event
3740     messages anymore by sending the following command:
3741     </p>
3742     <p></p>
3743     <blockquote class="text">
3744     <p>UNSUBSCRIBE &lt;event-id&gt;
3745     </p>
3746     </blockquote>
3747    
3748     <p>Where &lt;event-id&gt; will be replaced by the respective event that
3749     client doesn't want to receive anymore.
3750     </p>
3751     <p>Possible Answers:
3752     </p>
3753     <p></p>
3754     <blockquote class="text">
3755     <p>"OK" -
3756     </p>
3757     <blockquote class="text">
3758     <p>on success
3759     </p>
3760     </blockquote>
3761    
3762     <p>"WRN:&lt;warning-code&gt;:&lt;warning-message&gt;" -
3763     </p>
3764     <blockquote class="text">
3765     <p>if unregistration succeeded, but there are noteworthy
3766     issue(s) related, providing an appropriate warning code and
3767     warning message
3768     </p>
3769     </blockquote>
3770    
3771     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3772     </p>
3773     <blockquote class="text">
3774     <p>in case it failed, providing an appropriate error code and
3775     error message
3776     </p>
3777     </blockquote>
3778    
3779     </blockquote>
3780    
3781     <p>Examples:
3782     </p>
3783     <p></p>
3784     <blockquote class="text">
3785     <p>
3786     </p>
3787     </blockquote>
3788    
3789     <a name="rfc.section.5.5.3"></a><h4><a name="anchor61">5.5.3</a>&nbsp;Enable or disable echo of commands</h4>
3790    
3791     <p>To enable or disable back sending of commands to the client the following command can be used:
3792     </p>
3793     <p></p>
3794     <blockquote class="text">
3795     <p>SET ECHO &lt;value&gt;
3796     </p>
3797     </blockquote>
3798    
3799     <p>Where &lt;value&gt; should be replaced either by "1" to enable echo mode
3800     or "0" to disable echo mode. When echo mode is enabled, all
3801     commands send to LinuxSampler will be immediately send back and
3802     after this echo the actual response to the command will be
3803     returned. Echo mode will only be altered for the client connection
3804     that issued the "SET ECHO" command, not globally for all client
3805     connections.
3806     </p>
3807     <p>Possible Answers:
3808     </p>
3809     <p></p>
3810     <blockquote class="text">
3811     <p>"OK" -
3812     </p>
3813     <blockquote class="text">
3814     <p>usually
3815     </p>
3816     </blockquote>
3817    
3818     <p>"ERR:&lt;error-code&gt;:&lt;error-message&gt;" -
3819     </p>
3820     <blockquote class="text">
3821     <p>on syntax error, e.g. non boolean value
3822     </p>
3823     </blockquote>
3824    
3825     </blockquote>
3826    
3827     <p>Examples:
3828     </p>
3829     <p></p>
3830     <blockquote class="text">
3831     <p>
3832     </p>
3833     </blockquote>
3834    
3835     <a name="rfc.section.5.5.4"></a><h4><a name="anchor62">5.5.4</a>&nbsp;Close client connection</h4>
3836    
3837     <p>The client can close its network connection to LinuxSampler by sending the following command:
3838     </p>
3839     <p></p>
3840     <blockquote class="text">
3841     <p>QUIT
3842     </p>
3843     </blockquote>
3844    
3845     <p>This is probably more interesting for manual telnet connections to
3846     LinuxSampler than really useful for a front-end implementation.
3847     </p>
3848     <a name="rfc.section.5.6"></a><h4><a name="anchor63">5.6</a>&nbsp;Global commands</h4>
3849    
3850     <p>The following commands have global impact on the sampler.
3851     </p>
3852     <a name="rfc.section.5.6.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor64">5.6.1</a>&nbsp;Reset sampler</h4>
3853    
3854     <p>The front-end can reset the whole sampler by sending the following command:
3855     </p>
3856     <p></p>
3857     <blockquote class="text">
3858     <p>RESET
3859     </p>
3860     </blockquote>
3861    
3862     <p>Possible Answers:
3863     </p>
3864     <p></p>
3865     <blockquote class="text">
3866     <p>"OK" -
3867     </p>
3868     <blockquote class="text">
3869     <p>always
3870     </p>
3871     </blockquote>
3872    
3873     </blockquote>
3874    
3875     <p>Examples:
3876     </p>
3877     <p></p>
3878     <blockquote class="text">
3879     <p>
3880     </p>
3881     </blockquote>
3882    
3883     <a name="anchor65"></a><br /><hr />
3884     <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>
3885     <a name="rfc.section.6"></a><h3>6.&nbsp;Command Syntax</h3>
3886    
3887     <p>TODO: will soon automatically included from src/network/lscp.y,
3888     meanwhile have a look at that file to get the exact definition of
3889     the command syntax.
3890     </p>
3891     <a name="anchor66"></a><br /><hr />
3892     <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>
3893     <a name="rfc.section.7"></a><h3>7.&nbsp;Events</h3>
3894    
3895     <p>This chapter will describe all currently defined events supported by LinuxSampler.
3896     </p>
3897     <a name="rfc.section.7.1"></a><h4><a name="anchor67">7.1</a>&nbsp;Number of sampler channels changed</h4>
3898    
3899     <p>Client may want to be notified when the total number of channels on the
3900     back-end changes by issuing the following command:
3901     </p>
3902     <p></p>
3903     <blockquote class="text">
3904     <p>SUBSCRIBE CHANNELS
3905     </p>
3906     </blockquote>
3907    
3908     <p>Server will start sending the following notification messages:
3909     </p>
3910     <p></p>
3911     <blockquote class="text">
3912     <p>"NOTIFY:CHANNELS:&lt;channels&gt;"
3913     </p>
3914     </blockquote>
3915    
3916     <p>where &lt;channels&gt; will be replaced by the new number
3917     of sampler channels.
3918     </p>
3919     <a name="rfc.section.7.2"></a><h4><a name="anchor68">7.2</a>&nbsp;Number of active voices changed</h4>
3920    
3921     <p>Client may want to be notified when the number of voices on the
3922     back-end changes by issuing the following command:
3923     </p>
3924     <p></p>
3925     <blockquote class="text">
3926     <p>SUBSCRIBE VOICE_COUNT
3927     </p>
3928     </blockquote>
3929    
3930     <p>Server will start sending the following notification messages:
3931     </p>
3932     <p></p>
3933     <blockquote class="text">
3934     <p>"NOTIFY:VOICE_COUNT:&lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;voices>&gt;
3935     </p>
3936     </blockquote>
3937    
3938     <p>where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; will be replaced by the sampler channel the
3939     voice count change occurred and &lt;voices>&gt; by the new number of
3940     active voices on that channel.
3941     </p>
3942     <a name="rfc.section.7.3"></a><h4><a name="anchor69">7.3</a>&nbsp;Number of active disk streams changed</h4>
3943    
3944     <p>Client may want to be notified when the number of streams on the back-end
3945     changes by issuing the following command: SUBSCRIBE STREAM_COUNT
3946     </p>
3947     <p></p>
3948     <blockquote class="text">
3949     <p>SUBSCRIBE STREAM_COUNT
3950     </p>
3951     </blockquote>
3952    
3953     <p>Server will start sending the following notification messages:
3954     </p>
3955     <p></p>
3956     <blockquote class="text">
3957     <p>"NOTIFY:STREAM_COUNT:&lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;streams&gt;"
3958     </p>
3959     </blockquote>
3960    
3961     <p>where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; will be replaced by the sampler channel the
3962     stream count change occurred and &lt;streams&gt; by the new number of
3963     active disk streams on that channel.
3964     </p>
3965     <a name="rfc.section.7.4"></a><h4><a name="anchor70">7.4</a>&nbsp;Disk stream buffer fill state changed</h4>
3966    
3967     <p>Client may want to be notified when the number of streams on the back-end
3968     changes by issuing the following command:
3969     </p>
3970     <p></p>
3971     <blockquote class="text">
3972     <p>SUBSCRIBE BUFFER_FILL
3973     </p>
3974     </blockquote>
3975    
3976     <p>Server will start sending the following notification messages:
3977     </p>
3978     <p></p>
3979     <blockquote class="text">
3980     <p>"NOTIFY:BUFFER_FILL:&lt;sampler-channel&gt; &lt;fill-data&gt;"
3981     </p>
3982     </blockquote>
3983    
3984     <p>where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; will be replaced by the sampler channel the
3985     buffer fill state change occurred and &lt;fill-data&gt; will be replaced by the
3986     buffer fill data for this channel as described in 4.4.12 as if the
3987     "GET CHANNEL BUFFER_FILL PERCENTAGE" was issued on this channel.
3988     </p>
3989     <a name="rfc.section.7.5"></a><h4><a name="anchor71">7.5</a>&nbsp;Channel information changed</h4>
3990    
3991     <p>Client may want to be notified when changes were made to sampler channels on the
3992     back-end changes by issuing the following command:
3993     </p>
3994     <p></p>
3995     <blockquote class="text">
3996     <p>SUBSCRIBE INFO
3997     </p>
3998     </blockquote>
3999    
4000     <p>Server will start sending the following notification messages:
4001     </p>
4002     <p></p>
4003     <blockquote class="text">
4004     <p>"NOTIFY:INFO:&lt;sampler-channel&gt;"
4005     </p>
4006     </blockquote>
4007    
4008     <p>where &lt;sampler-channel&gt; will be replaced by the sampler channel the
4009     channel info change occurred. The front-end will have to send
4010     the respective command to actually get the channel info. Because these messages
4011     will be triggered by LSCP commands issued by other clients rather than real
4012     time events happening on the server, it is believed that an empty notification
4013     message is sufficient here.
4014     </p>
4015     <a name="rfc.section.7.6"></a><h4><a name="anchor72">7.6</a>&nbsp;Miscellaneous and debugging events</h4>
4016    
4017     <p>Client may want to be notified of miscellaneous and debugging events occurring at
4018     the server by issuing the following command:
4019     </p>
4020     <p></p>
4021     <blockquote class="text">
4022     <p>SUBSCRIBE MISCELLANEOUS
4023     </p>
4024     </blockquote>
4025    
4026     <p>Server will start sending the following notification messages:
4027     </p>
4028     <p></p>
4029     <blockquote class="text">
4030     <p>"NOTIFY:MISCELLANEOUS:&lt;string&gt;"
4031     </p>
4032     </blockquote>
4033    
4034     <p>where &lt;string&gt; will be replaced by whatever data server
4035     wants to send to the client. Client MAY display this data to the
4036     user AS IS to facilitate debugging.
4037     </p>
4038     <a name="anchor73"></a><br /><hr />
4039     <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>
4040     <a name="rfc.section.8"></a><h3>8.&nbsp;Security Considerations</h3>
4041    
4042     <p>As there is so far no method of authentication and authorization
4043     defined and so not required for a client applications to succeed to
4044     connect, running LinuxSampler might be a security risk for the host
4045     system the LinuxSampler instance is running on.
4046     </p>
4047     <a name="anchor74"></a><br /><hr />
4048     <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>
4049     <a name="rfc.section.9"></a><h3>9.&nbsp;Acknowledgments</h3>
4050    
4051     <p>This document has benefited greatly from the comments of the
4052     following people, discussed on the LinuxSampler developer's mailing
4053     list:
4054     </p>
4055     <p></p>
4056     <blockquote class="text">
4057     <p>Rui Nuno Capela
4058     </p>
4059     <p>Vladimir Senkov
4060     </p>
4061     <p>Mark Knecht
4062     </p>
4063     </blockquote>
4064    
4065     <a name="rfc.references1"></a><br /><hr />
4066     <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>
4067     <h3>10&nbsp;References</h3>
4068     <table width="99%" border="0">
4069     <tr><td class="author-text" valign="top"><a name="RFC2119">[RFC2119]</a></td>
4070     <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>
4071     </table>
4072    
4073     <a name="rfc.authors"></a><br /><hr />
4074     <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>
4075     <h3>Author's Address</h3>
4076     <table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
4077     <tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
4078     <td class="author-text">C.
4079     Schoenebeck</td></tr>
4080     <tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
4081     <td class="author-text">Interessengemeinschaft Software Engineering e. V.</td></tr>
4082     <tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
4083     <td class="author-text">Max-Planck-Str. 39</td></tr>
4084     <tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
4085     <td class="author-text">74081 Heilbronn</td></tr>
4086     <tr><td class="author-text">&nbsp;</td>
4087     <td class="author-text">Germany</td></tr>
4088     <tr><td class="author" align="right">EMail:&nbsp;</td>
4089     <td class="author-text"><a href="mailto:schoenebeck at software minus engineering dot org">schoenebeck at software minus engineering dot org</a></td></tr>
4090     </table>
4091     <a name="rfc.copyright"></a><br /><hr />
4092     <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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