--- web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/osx.html 2008/01/03 19:05:04 1614
+++ web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/osx.html 2008/01/03 20:26:03 1615
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@
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
@@ -54,24 +56,14 @@
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
+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.
+
@@ -81,21 +73,29 @@