[LAU] LinuxSampler: success

[Ken Restivo]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 07:13:13PM -0500, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
> Looking pretty good.  I imagine there is a much better way, but I don't 
> know what it is.  It turns out that JSampler did create an 
> instruments.db automatically -- but it did not "format" it.  After I 
> formatted it, using (JSampler only, not Q) Window/Instruments Database, 
> then Actions/Format Database, both J and Q began working perfectly.
> 
> So my current steps to get QSampler running reliably in AVLinux, after 
> installing all of the current LinuxSampler .deb's, are:
> 
> 1.  Get rid of all Java except Sun's, using Synaptic. 
> 
> 2.  Create folder /opt/java.
> 
> 3.  ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun ./latest
> 
> 4.  In /etc/profile, just before the line "export PATH", add:
> 
> PATH=/opt/java/latest/bin:$PATH
> export JAVA_HOME=/opt/java/latest
> export CLASSPATH=/opt/java/latest/lib/tools.jar:./
> 
> 5.  Create the /var/lib/linuxsampler directory and set its permissions:
> 
> mkdir /var/lib/linuxsampler
> chgrp audio /var/lib/linuxsampler
> chmod g=rwx /var/lib/linuxsampler
> 
> 6.  Download the .jar (binary) form of JSampler Fantasia, move it to 
> filename /usr/local/bin/JSampler-Fantasia-0.8a-jar, and run it:
> 
> java -jar /usr/local/bin/JSampler-Fantasia-0.8a-jar
> 
> 7.  Format the database, using the JSampler UI,
> 
> Main window:  Window/Instruments Database
> Instruments database window:  Actions/Format Database
> 
> And then it works :-)
> 


UI? There's a UI for LinuxSampler? Really? Hmm, that sound interesting.

I've been totally happy with the conf files and telnet interface.

:-)

-ken