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<h2><center>LinuxSampler for Mac OS X <img src="gfx/logos/apple.png"> HOWTO by Toshi Nagata </center></h2> |
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<center>January 6th, 2008</center><br> |
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<a href="#intro">1. Introduction</a><br> |
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<a href="#requirements">2. Requirements</a><br> |
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<a href="#installation">3. Installation</a><br> |
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<a href="#using">4. Using the Applications</a><br> |
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<a href="#setup_midi"> 4.1 Setting up MIDI Input</a><br> |
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<a href="#setup_audio"> 4.2 Setting up Audio Output</a><br> |
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<a href="#load_samples"> 4.3 Loading Samples</a><br> |
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<a href="#save_session"> 4.4 Saving a Sampler Session</a><br> |
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<a href="#houston">5. Installation Troubleshooting</a><br> |
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<a href="#docs">6. Detailed Documentation</a><br> |
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<a href="#bugs">7. Bugs, Problems and Feature Requests</a><br> |
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<a href="#contact">8. Credits</a><br> |
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<a href="#contact">9. Contact</a><br> |
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<a name="intro"></a> |
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<h3>1. Introduction</h3> |
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The LinuxSampler development team is happy to announce the release of |
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a new version of LinuxSampler of Mac OS X. More information will be added here soon, so check back frequently.<br> |
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For now the sampler supports the CoreMIDI interface |
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for MIDI input and <A HREF="http://www.jackosx.com">jack</A> for audio out. This means it currently runs only |
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as a standalone application. An AU/VST interface will follow at a later stage, along with |
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a network module to run multiple sampler slaves distributed on OS/X, Windows or |
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Linux machines (Linux provides better performance) all controlled from a |
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OS X or Windows box i.e. running the AU / VST sequencer.<br> |
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Even though LinuxSampler presently runs only as standalone app, |
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thanks to jack you can comfortably route the sampler's audio outs back into your sequencer. |
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LinuxSampler is implemented as a client/server application. This means |
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the sampling engine (the server / backend) runs |
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independently from the GUI (the client / frontend). Sampling engine and |
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client can be run on the same box or on different machines too, connected |
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over the network.<br> |
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The Mac OS X version provides all the features of the Linux version |
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since it is built from the same source code base. |
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This means when new features will come out the |
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Mac OS X version will usually provide the same feature set as the Linux |
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version. This was made possible by the very modular design of both |
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low level, operating system functions and flexible audio / MIDI driver |
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system.<br> |
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The Mac OS X version comes as an easy to install DMG file which will |
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install all the necessary modules to run both the server ( linuxsampler.exe ) |
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and the GUI client. For now it installs only the qsampler GUI client |
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as JSampler, the sampler frontend written in Java requires Java 1.6 which is not |
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available on OS X yet. Of course you can run JSampler on a Windows or Linux box |
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connected over the network to your OS X box or you could try to run it in a windows |
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virtual machine. We discourage running a virtual machine along with the sampler |
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as both applicationes are very CPU and RAM hungry therefore the performance |
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of LinuxSampler will be suboptimal.<br> |
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<a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/pix/screenshots/osx_qsampler_0_2_1.jpg"> |
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<img src="screenshots/osx_qsampler_0_2_1_preview.png" border="0"> |
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<a name="requirements"></a> |
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<h3>2. Requirements</h3> |
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<li>PPC or Intel Mac (an Intel Mac should provide much better performance) |
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<li>Mac OS Tiger or later (Leopard should work too)</li> |
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<li><A HREF="http://www.jackosx.com">JackOSX</A>. Install it before LinuxSampler</li> |
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<a name="installation"></a> |
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<h3>3.a Installation</h3> |
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<li>Install <A HREF="http://www.jackosx.com">JackOSX</A> |
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(if you don't have it already). |
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<li>Download the latest version of the LinuxSampler Mac OS X installer |
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from the <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">LinuxSampler |
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Download Page</a>, and mount it on Finder. |
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<li>You will find a single folder "linuxsampler051-mac-20080102". Copy this |
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folder to wherever you like (e.g. under /Applications). |
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<h3>4. Using the Applications</h3> |
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The folder contains three items, "bin", "linuxsampler" and |
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"qsampler". |
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<li>Start qsampler.app. The application launches, and you |
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will see messages saying that linuxsampler is now running. After a |
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while, you will also see that the JackPilot application (installed by |
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the JackOSX installer) automatically launches showing the Jack server |
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already running. |
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Since CoreMIDI is sometimes too slow to respond when creating a new MIDI device. |
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so you need to increase "Timeout" parameter in the |
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Options:Server Settings to, 10000 msec. |
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<a name="setup_midi"></a> |
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<h3>4.1 Setting up MIDI Input</h3> |
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In qsampler click on the device configuration tab. |
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Click on the MIDI devices icon and then on Create. |
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You can create an arbitrary number of MIDI input devices by repeating |
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the procedure above. |
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Each MIDI device can be routed to arbitrary sampler channels. |
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<h3>4.2 Setting up Audio Output</h3> |
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LinuxSampler currently only supports the jack driver model for audio output |
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on Mac OS X. |
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Click on AUDIO devices icon and then on Create. |
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You can of course save and load sampler session as LSCP files which will |
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automaticall set up audio and midi devices and load samples into the channel strips. |
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Connect audio ports: |
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In the "Connections Manager" pane of JackPilot: linuxsampler --> Built-in audio: in1 & in2 |
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In the "Connections" window of qjackctl: linuxsampler --> coreaudio<br> |
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<a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/pix/screenshots/osx_qjackctl.jpg"> |
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Start MIDI Patchbay.app and connect your MIDI Input instance (probably your MIDI interface or USB-enabled keyboard) to the "LinuxSampler_in_0" |
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MIDI Output<br> |
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<a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/pix/screenshots/osx_patchbay.jpg"> |
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<h3>4.3 Loading Samples</h3> |
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Click on Add Channel. A dialog will appear. |
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Select the GIG file you want to load, the instrument within the GIG file, |
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Audio device, MIDI device, MIDI port and channel. |
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Click OK. |
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<h3>5. Installation Troubleshooting</h3> |
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TODO |
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<h3>6. Detailed Documentation</h3> |
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You find more detailed documentation about our software on our official <a href="http://linuxsampler.org/documentation.html"> |
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LinuxSampler documentation site</a>. |
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<h3>7. Bugs, Problems and Feature Requests</h3> |
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There could be several bugs in the Mac OS X version of LinuxSampler which we hope to root out soon. |
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Please report them using our bug tracking system:<br> |
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<a href="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org/">http://bugs.linuxsampler.org/</a><br> |
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Some bugs and problems we discovered so far: |
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<li>The current LinuxSampler for Mac OS X binary distribution does not ship with gigedit yet |
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Toshi writes: I tried gigedit with X11 and gtk on my Mac. It worked, but the |
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installation process was too much complicated for ordinary users (so |
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complicated that I cannot remember exactly how I did that myself). We |
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still have a long way before gigedit can be part of binary distribution |
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for Mac. |
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<li>if you overload the sampler (CPU overload or disk overload) it |
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produces noises</li> |
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QSampler crashes when one tries to create a second port of jack. |
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An error dialog saying the device was not created, after the dialog is dismissed the QSampler crashes. |
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Another problem in QSampler. It sometimes fails to quit |
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gracefully, and I need to do "Force Quit". After force quitting, the |
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linuxsampler subprocess is still running and I need to stop it by |
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"killall linuxsampler". |
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<h3>8. Credits</h3> |
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Thanks to Stephane Letz (Initial OS X port) and Ebrahim Mayat (OSX Howto fixes, testing, screenshots) |
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<a name="contact"></a> |
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<h3>9. Contact</h3> |
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If you have questions or want to help us to improve the sampler, |
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subscribe to the <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html"> |
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LinuxSampler Developer's mailing list</a>. |
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That's it, enjoy!<br> |
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