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[LAA] LinuxSampler on OS X
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LAA stands for Linux Audio Announce. LinuxSampler is a high quality sampler, comprised of an engine (linuxsampler) and at least one client (Qsampler). Uses Gigabanks, as well as DLS, and possibly some others, please see the website. From the website news page:
2008-01-03 Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our downloads site. Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look at the OS X HOWTO for an easy start.
I know there are a lot of Mac users here, and it was just the other day Dach was asking me about free software (as in freedom) for Mac OS X.
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01/04/08
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Squeal
Cool! I will check this out on my linux laptop. Do you use it?
BTW Ubuntu + real time kernel = 1ms latency!!! with the onboard soundcard! I'm so pumped on linux right now. I'm just a hot little potato about linux.
My laptop will be the ultimate pure data live sound mangler/guitar stompbox.
01/04/08
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soft
That is pretty sweet!
I noticed a few weeks ago that eXT is available for linux and now OSX.
I've been wanting to try linux for a while and remembered I still have my old P4 laptop ... so im gonna try and get linux on there.
... is ubuntu the one i want?
everamzah - could you help if i get stuck? .... pretty plzz?
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Squeal
Ya I wanna try out eXT.
Ubuntu is nice, but I haven't tried any other. Everamzah has, so he could tell you more. I know there are less flashy distros that may run faster on older hardware, but I don't think it is such a huge issue.
Ubuntu is pretty well baked and documented, compared to other linux distros, but it still takes some work to get all of your particular hardware to work right, unlike windows or mac. I've probably put 10-12 hours into it since I upgraded last week, and so far everything is working.
01/05/08
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everamzah
now i kinda wanna try eXT. it'd prolly be more stable than most this
shit. LOL, anyways, i do use LinuxSampler a lot more now. I was using
Specimen a lot for a long time, but now I'm using both and I can do
huge libraries easilly, making gigabanks from all these samples I've
stored up. I couldn't really do that with Specimen, though I'll still
use it for a lot of sampling, especially quick sampling.
As for distributions, I've used Debian* the most of all. Yet, I'll say
it doesn't matter which one you use, because of any of them, they can
be tuned to your needs. For some the distance is too great. A rule of
thumb is that if a lot of people use it, and know about it, which
seems to be the case with Ubuntu, than use it. It'll be easier tofind
people who can assist you. And yes, I will, especially if your
question were in the forums somewhere.
* Planet CCRMA is a very mature and well respected audio and
multimedia Linux distribution. It is based on Red
Hat. Pure. link
* Ubuntu is based on Debian, and once installed can be easilly turned
into multimedia distribution. Simply install the realtime kernel (or
better yet, configure and compile your own) and some audio
applications (jackd, ladspa, ardour, jamin, for example package
names; example command line: sudo apt-get install jackd ladspa swh
tap-plugins caps blop ardour jamin qjackctl linux-kernel-rt). This is the
rabbit hole.
* UbuntuStudio is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. To me,
this is a stretch because it's basically an artpack expansion for
Ubuntu (I imagine for the screenshots) and a bunch of multimedia
packages that are already in the Ubuntu repositories stored on one
giant DVD that you must download as an image. Sweet jeeberz, count me
out. I imagine it may work for most people, LOL! Who knows?
For a near-complete list of distributions catering to multimedia
needs, see
link
I have used and enjoyed Musix, m-audio (both are LiveCDs), Planet
CCRMA, puredyne, Dynebolic 1 and 2. 64 Studio is well regarded.
Again, these distros are just prepackaged systems, based on other
systems. It's good to know that if you expect to understand your
instrument, so to speak.
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everamzah
rabbit hole: link for ubuntu steps to turn into linux audio system. not entirely accurate, as some systems will require slightly different tunings. see link or link or even link or link ... each link being generally of greather depth.
or on another tip, link browse thru my bookmarks
01/05/08
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everamzah
okay, in case i scare people who are not interested in the whys and hows, you basically install the distro, make sure JACK is installed and use a program called QJackCtl to control it and setup its parameters. If you're using a USB, or FireWire audio I/O, or whatever PCI or otherwise, make sure you setup JACK, using QJackCtl to match your hardware. If you do this, you should be in buisness. If you need less latency, adjust your kernel either by installing a prepackaged realtime kernel (on Ubuntu this is linux-rt, use the graphical application Synaptic if you got Ubuntu, to install it), or dare to compile your own, as you'll usually always get finer performance if the kernel's configuration matches your hardware. It's true, sometimes you don't have to, it's always true sometimes you desire more speed and effeciency 
OKAY, i think i can shuddup now
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