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a network module to run multiple sampler slaves distributed on OS/X, Windows or
Linux machines (Linux provides better performance) all controlled from a
OS X or Windows box i.e. running the AU / VST sequencer.
+Even though LinuxSampler presently runs only as standalone app,
+thanks to jack you can comfortably route the sampler's audio outs back into your sequencer.
LinuxSampler is implemented as a client/server application. This means
the sampling engine (the server / backend) runs
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system.
The Mac OS X version comes as an easy to install DMG file which will
-install all the necessary modules to run both the server ( linuxsampler.exe )
-and the GUI client. For now it installes only the qsampler GUI client
-as Jsampler, the sampler frontend written in JAVA requires Java 1.6 which is not
-available on OS/X yet. Of course you can run JSampler on a Windows or Linux box
+install all the necessary modules to run both the server ( bin/linuxsampler )
+and the GUI client. For now it installs only the qsampler GUI client
+as JSampler, the sampler frontend written in Java requires Java 1.6 which is not
+available on OS X yet. Of course you can run JSampler on a Windows or Linux box
connected over the network to your OS X box or you could try to run it in a windows
virtual machine. We discourage running a virtual machine along with the sampler
as both applicationes are very CPU and RAM hungry therefore the performance
-of LinuxSampler will be suboptimal.
-
-Download the DMG and mount it on Finder. You
-will find a single folder "linuxsampler051-mac-20080102". Copy this
-folder to wherever you like (e.g. under /Applications).
-
-The folder contains three items, "bin", "linuxsampler" and
-"qsampler". Double-click on qsampler. The application launches, and you
-will see messages saying that linuxsampler is now running. After a
-while, you will also see that the JackPilot application (installed by
-the JackOSX installer) automatically launches showing the Jack server
-already running.
-
+of LinuxSampler will be suboptimal.
+
+
+
2. Requirements
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PPC or Intel Mac (an Intel Mac should provide much better performance)
-Simply download the latest version of the LinuxSampler Mac OS X installer
-from the LinuxSampler
-Download Page, and install it as any OS X application.
-
+
+
Install JackOSX
+ (if you don't have it already).
+
+
Download the latest version of the LinuxSampler Mac OS X installer
+ from the LinuxSampler
+ Download Page, and mount it on Finder.
+
+
You will find a single folder "linuxsampler051-mac". Copy this
+ folder to wherever you like (e.g. under /Applications).
+
+
4. Using the Applications
-Now that we installed everything, let's get wet and start the applications:
+The folder contains three items, "bin", "linuxsampler" and
+"qsampler".
-
Start qsampler, the GUI frontend. It should automatically start linuxsampler the backend application
+
Start qsampler.app. The application launches, and you
+will see messages saying that linuxsampler is now running. After a
+while, you will also see that the JackPilot application (installed by
+the JackOSX installer) automatically launches showing the Jack server
+already running.
+
+
+Since CoreMIDI is sometimes too slow to respond when creating a new MIDI device.
+so you need to increase "Timeout" parameter in the
+Options:Server Settings to 10000 msec. (Added note on Jan 7, 2008: this value is now set by default)
+
-
4.1 Setting up MIDI Input
In qsampler click on the device configuration tab.
Click on the MIDI devices icon and then on Create.
-
-You can create an arbitrary number of MIDI input devices by repeating
-the procedure above.
-Each MIDI device can be routed to arbitrary sampler channels.
+If you need multiple MIDI input device, set the "Number of ports" to 2, 3, ... before creating the MIDI device. The multiple ports will be accessible from other MIDI applications as "Linuxsampler_in_0", "Linuxsampler_in_1", etc.
+
+
+(You should be able to create an arbitrary number of MIDI input devices by repeating "Create", but this feature does not work well yet.)
4.2 Setting up Audio Output
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on Mac OS X.
Click on AUDIO devices icon and then on Create.
-
-
+You can of course save and load sampler session as LSCP files which will
+automaticall set up audio and midi devices and load samples into the channel strips.
+
+
+ Connect audio ports:
+ In the "Connections Manager" pane of JackPilot: linuxsampler --> Built-in audio: in1 & in2
+ or
+ In the "Connections" window of qjackctl: linuxsampler --> coreaudio
+
+
+
+ Intel Mac Note: to use built-in audio in Jack, you need to create an "aggregated device" by using "Audio MIDI Setup". Please look up Jack manual for details.
+
+
+ Start MIDI Patchbay.app and connect your MIDI Input instance (probably your MIDI interface or USB-enabled keyboard) to the "LinuxSampler_in_0"
+ MIDI Output
+
+
+
+
+
4.3 Loading Samples
Click on Add Channel. A dialog will appear.
-Select the GIG file you want to load, the instrument within the GIG file.
+Select the GIG file you want to load, the instrument within the GIG file,
Audio device, MIDI device, MIDI port and channel.
Click OK.
5. Installation Troubleshooting
-
+TODO
6. Detailed Documentation
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7. Bugs, Problems and Feature Requests
+Our Forum is a good place to ask for help:
+
+ https://bb.linuxsampler.org
+
+We have a dedicated forum section for
+newbies and support.
+
There could be several bugs in the Mac OS X version of LinuxSampler which we hope to root out soon.
Please report them using our bug tracking system:
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linuxsampler subprocess is still running and I need to stop it by
"killall linuxsampler".
-
+
+ JackPilot may not launch automatically after QSampler launches. On the other hand, if it is already running, the screen of JackPilot may not display correctly the current status of the jack daemon. In such cases please quit and restart JackPilot manually.
+
+
+
8. Credits
+Thanks to Stephane Letz (Initial OS X port) and Ebrahim Mayat (OSX Howto fixes, testing, screenshots)
+
-
8. Contact
+
9. Contact
If you have questions or want to help us to improve the sampler,
subscribe to the
-LinuxSampler Developer's mailing list.
+LinuxSampler Developer's mailing list.
HOWTO by Toshi Nagata 
HOWTO by Toshi Nagata 
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