--- web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/osx.html 2008/01/03 22:14:58 1622
+++ web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/osx.html 2008/01/09 14:41:30 1638
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
LinuxSampler for Mac OS X 
HOWTO by Toshi Nagata
-January 3rd, 2008
+January 6th, 2008
@@ -55,16 +56,17 @@
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 )
+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.
-
-
+of LinuxSampler will be suboptimal.
+
+ 
+
2. Requirements
@@ -72,6 +74,7 @@
PPC or Intel Mac (an Intel Mac should provide much better performance)
Mac OS Tiger or later (Leopard should work too)
JackOSX. Install it before LinuxSampler
+ Pete Yandell's MIDI Patchbay or a similar tool
@@ -84,7 +87,7 @@
from the LinuxSampler
Download Page, and mount it on Finder.
- You will find a single folder "linuxsampler051-mac-20080102". Copy this
+ You will find a single folder "linuxsampler051-mac". Copy this
folder to wherever you like (e.g. under /Applications).
@@ -92,22 +95,31 @@
4. Using the Applications
The folder contains three items, "bin", "linuxsampler" and
-"qsampler". Double-click on qsampler. The application launches, and you
+"qsampler".
+
+- 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
@@ -115,8 +127,27 @@
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
@@ -162,14 +193,20 @@
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.
That's it, enjoy!
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