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103 <h1><span class="hidden">The LinuxSampler Project</span></h1>
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123
124 <h2>Documentation</h2>
125 <p class="default">
126 This is still quite under construction. Be welcome to help us with writing some documentation!
127 </p>
128
129 <h2>gigedit</h2>
130 <p class="default">
131 This is our graphical instrument editor based on the Gtk toolkit.
132 It can be used stand-alone or in conjunction with LinuxSampler.
133 Read the <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html">Gigedit Quickstart</a>
134 for a short tutorial. Please notice that this quickstart document
135 is automatically generated from CVS and thus might reflect
136 features and behaviors only available in the very latest, bleeding
137 edge development version of gigedit from CVS.
138 </p>
139
140 <h2>JSampler</h2>
141 <p class="default">
142 JSampler is an opensource, platform-independent,
143 GUI front-end for LinuxSampler, written entirely in Java.
144 Read the <a href="jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html">JSampler manual</a>
145 for more information.
146 </p>
147
148 <h2>libgig</h2>
149 <p class="default">
150 libgig is a C++ library used to load and modify Gigasampler format files.
151 If you're a developer and might want to use libgig, here is its
152 <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/api/">API documentation</a>
153 (automatically daily updated from CVS).
154 </p>
155
156 <h2>liblscp</h2>
157 <p class="default">
158 liblscp is C library as convenient wrapper around the <i>LinuxSampler Control Protocol</i>.
159 If you're a developer and might want to use liblscp, here is its
160 <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/liblscp/">API documentation</a>
161 (automatically daily updated from CVS).
162 </p>
163
164 <h2>LSCP Reference</h2>
165 <p class="default">
166 The following documents define the <i>LinuxSampler Control Protocol</i>,
167 a network protocol with which LinuxSampler can be controlled locally as well as remotely.
168 As this is a simple ASCII based protocol it's possible to write a frontend for LinuxSampler in
169 any programming language and GUI library. There's still a big demand especially for a Gtk and
170 ncurses based frontend, so be encouraged and let
171 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</a> know if you wrote a frontend for
172 LinuxSampler!
173 </p>
174
175 <table class="decorated">
176 <thead>
177 <tr>
178 <td class="decorated_header">Protocol Name</td>
179 <td class="decorated_header">Document Types</td>
180 <td class="decorated_header">Description</td>
181 </tr>
182 </thead>
183 <tbody>
184 <tr>
185 <td class="decorated">LSCP&nbsp;1.0</td>
186 <td class="decorated">
187 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.0.txt">ASCII</a>,
188 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.0.html">HTML</a>,
189 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.0.xml">XML</a>
190 </td>
191 <td class="decorated">
192 Protocol specification of the old official release of LinuxSampler (0.3.3).
193 </td>
194 </tr>
195 <tr>
196 <td class="decorated">LSCP&nbsp;1.1</td>
197 <td class="decorated">
198 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.1.txt">ASCII</a>,
199 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.1.html">HTML</a>,
200 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.1.xml">XML</a>
201 </td>
202 <td class="decorated">
203 Protocol specification of the latest official release of LinuxSampler (0.4.0).
204 </td>
205 </tr>
206 <tr>
207 <td class="decorated">LSCP&nbsp;draft</td>
208 <td class="decorated">
209 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.txt">ASCII</a>,
210 <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html">HTML</a>,
211 <a href="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/linuxsampler/Documentation/lscp.xml?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/xml">XML</a>
212 </td>
213 <td class="decorated">
214 Very latest draft of the protocol (which usually reflects the
215 latest development state from CVS or may even not be implemented
216 yet).
217 </td>
218 </tr>
219 </tbody>
220 </table>
221
222 <p class="default">
223 The protocol will be extended from time to time. You may look at the
224 <a href="features.html#LSCP">features</a> site to see which control
225 commands are already implemented and which are not.
226 </p>
227
228
229 <a name="example_lscp_scripts">
230 <h3>Example LSCP scripts</h3>
231 <p class="default">
232 If you don't want / can't use a GUI frontend you will probably write some LSCP scripts for
233 using with linuxsampler to setup your needed sampler session. It follows some common LSCP
234 examples to give you a good starting point for writing your own ones. Adjust it to your needs
235 and send it to the running linuxsampler application with:
236 </p>
237 <pre class="code">cat yourscript.lscp | netcat localhost 8888</pre>
238 <p class="default">
239 Optionally you can also use a graphical frontend like QSampler one time to setup a working
240 sampler session for your needs and save it. Because you have to know that the files saved
241 by our frontends are actually pure LSCP scripts, thus you can i.e. use those files simply with
242 the mentioned netcat command from above to setup the sampler session without a frontend.
243 </p>
244 <p class="default">
245 Here is a simple LSCP example which uses ALSA as MIDI input and as audio output driver as well,
246 it creates only one sampler channel using the Gigasampler engine and loads a Piano instrument
247 on that sampler channel:
248 </p>
249 <pre class="code">#enable echo mode
250 SET ECHO 1
251
252 # load the ALSA audio driver
253 # (parameter CARD is optional, I use it here to select my 2nd sound card
254 # you can use 'GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO ALSA CARD' to get
255 # all available sound cards)
256 CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE ALSA CARD='1,0'
257
258 # load the ALSA MIDI driver
259 CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE ALSA
260
261 # connect my MIDI keyboard which has ALSA seq ID '72:0'
262 # (see 'aconnect -i' for the IDs of your MIDI devices
263 # or use 'GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER INFO 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS')
264 SET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS='72:0'
265
266 # setup a sampler channel
267 ADD CHANNEL
268 LOAD ENGINE gig 0
269 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 0 0
270 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 0 0
271 LOAD INSTRUMENT '/home/me/Gigs/PMI Steinway D.gig' 0 0
272
273 # finally show our channel setup (optional of course)
274 GET CHANNEL INFO 0
275
276 # quit connection
277 QUIT</pre>
278 <p class="default">
279 The next example uses JACK as audio output driver instead and automatically connects the two
280 output channels of LS's JACK client to the first two ALSA PCM channels, so you can hear
281 something without having to manually connect it e.g. with qjackctl:
282 </p>
283 <pre class="code">#enable echo mode
284 SET ECHO 1
285
286 # load the JACK audio driver
287 CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE JACK
288
289 # connect to ALSA playback JACK client so we can hear something
290 # (you can use 'GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER INFO 0 0 JACK_BINDINGS'
291 # to get all available JACK clients / ports)
292 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_1'
293 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 1 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_2'
294
295 # load the ALSA MIDI driver
296 CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE ALSA
297
298 # connect my MIDI keyboard which has ALSA seq ID '72:0'
299 # (see 'aconnect -i' for the IDs of your MIDI devices
300 # or use 'GET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER INFO 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS')
301 SET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS='72:0'
302
303 # setup one sampler channel
304 ADD CHANNEL
305 LOAD ENGINE gig 0
306 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 0 0
307 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 0 0
308 LOAD INSTRUMENT '/home/me/Gigs/PMI Steinway D.gig' 0 0
309
310 # finally show our channel setup (optional of course)
311 GET CHANNEL INFO 0
312
313 # quit connection
314 QUIT</pre>
315 <p class="default">
316 The next example is a bit more complex.
317 It shows how to setup a more realistic sampler session, handle routing of MIDI input channels,
318 handle routing of audio channels, it uses JACK again as audio
319 output driver, but creates the JACK client with four output channels instead, it creates two
320 sampler channels, loads two different instrument on those two sampler channels and alters
321 the audio channel routing so that the two output channels of sampler channel 1 are routed to
322 the first two JACK output channels and the two output channels of sampler channel 2 are routed
323 the second pair of the JACK client's output channels. That way you could e.g. record the output
324 of those two sampler channels independently or apply independent LADSPA effects on it.
325 </p>
326 <pre class="code"># enable echo mode
327 SET ECHO 1
328
329 # load audio and MIDI driver
330 CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE JACK
331 CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE ALSA
332
333 # increase the amount of output channels of the LS"s Jack client e.g. to 4
334 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE_PARAMETER 0 CHANNELS=4
335
336 # connect to MIDI keyboard
337 SET MIDI_INPUT_PORT_PARAMETER 0 0 ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS="64:0"
338
339 # set up 1st sampler channel (using default output channels, that is 0 and 1)
340 ADD CHANNEL
341 LOAD ENGINE gig 0
342 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 0 0
343 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 0 0
344 LOAD INSTRUMENT "/somedir/The Bosendorfer Imperial Grand Version 2.2.gig" 0 0
345 SET CHANNEL VOLUME 0 0.40
346 # by default every sampler channel / engine listens to ALL MIDI channels
347 # but for multi channel setup it makes sense to distinguish the inputs, so
348 # let sampler channel 0 listen to MIDI channel 0 (instead of ALL)
349 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL 0 0
350
351 # set up 2nd sampler channel (using output channels 2 and 3)
352 ADD CHANNEL
353 LOAD ENGINE gig 1
354 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 1 0
355 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 1 0
356 LOAD INSTRUMENT "/home/me/Gigs/NemeSys_1GB_Grand.gig" 0 1
357 SET CHANNEL VOLUME 1 0.40
358 # let sampler channel 1 listen to MIDI channel 1 (instead of ALL)
359 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL 1 1
360 # this will alter the audio channel routing
361 # connect the engines output channel 0 to JACK clients output 2
362 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL 1 0 2
363 # connect the engines output channel 1 to JACK clients output 3
364 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL 1 1 3
365
366 # automatic connection between the four 4 ports of LS's Jack client and the
367 # ALSA PCM JACK client (assuming your sound card has at least 4 outputs ;-)
368 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_1'
369 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 1 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_2'
370 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 2 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_3'
371 SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 3 JACK_BINDINGS='alsa_pcm:playback_4'
372
373 # not necessary, just to see our setup
374 GET CHANNEL INFO 0
375 GET CHANNEL INFO 1</pre>
376 <p class="default">
377 For a detailed description about LSCP read the <a href="api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html">LSCP reference</a>.
378 Be welcome to ask details on the mailing list.
379 </p>
380
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