--- 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 @@
  • Mac OS Tiger or later (Leopard should work too)
  • JackOSX. Install it before LinuxSampler
  • - -

    3.a  Installation

    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. +Download Page,
    + 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.

    4.  Using the Applications

    Now that we installed everything, let's get wet and start the applications:
      -
    1. Start qsampler, the GUI frontend. It should automatically start linuxsampler the backend application
    2. +
    3. Start QSampler, the GUI frontend. It should automatically start LinuxSampler the backend application
    @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@

    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.