--- web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/osx.html 2008/01/03 22:14:58 1622
+++ web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/osx.html 2008/01/06 19:15:32 1633
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
LinuxSampler for Mac OS X 
HOWTO by Toshi Nagata
-January 3rd, 2008
+January 6th, 2008
@@ -62,9 +63,10 @@
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
@@ -92,11 +95,20 @@
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.
+
+
4.1 Setting up MIDI Input
@@ -115,8 +127,26 @@
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
+
+ 
+
+
+ -
+ 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 +192,17 @@
linuxsampler subprocess is still running and I need to stop it by
"killall linuxsampler".
-
+
+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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+ 
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+