LinuxSampler For Linux

LinuxSampler is a software audio sampler with professional grade features.

LinuxSampler was designed as a sampler backend, decoupled from any user interface. It provides a network interface using an ASCII based protocol called LSCP for controlling the sampler and managing sampler sessions. But don't be afraid, with QSampler we already have a convenient GUI frontend (based on the cross-platform GUI library Qt) for LinuxSampler and due to the decoupled design you can even control the sampler with the GUI frontend from another computer, probably even running another OS like Windows or OS X. Beside our own custom network control layer we planned to add existing ones as well (e.g. OSC). With the planned SMP and cluster support LinuxSampler might become a very interesting tool for high-end studios and concerts in future.

It is planned to support all common sampler formats in LinuxSampler, but at the moment we chose to concentrate on the Gigasampler format, because we think it's currently the best sampler format in regards of quality and power, especially for the synthesis of natural instruments like pianos, brass and bowed instruments. But we already made good advance in implementing this format, so we are optimistic to start with adding other formats soon. Beside that we also planned to design our own, sophisticated sampler format to introduce a more powerful and more flexible sampler format compared to any sampler format currently available in the world. Be encouraged to share your ideas about such a new format with us!

Anyway, there are so many things to do and our hands are limited. So don't hesitate on participating to the project!

Here are some key features of "LinuxSampler":

Sampler Engines � Gigasampler Engine � Gig file loader � Generic playback (RAM & disk streaming) � Dimension switching � Sustain pedal support � Key velocity volume mapping � Looping � Pitchbend wheel support � Bidirectional voice state transition � Filter (VCF) � Highpass � Bandpass � Bandreject � Lowpass � Turbo lowpass � Cutoff frequency controllable by MIDI controller � Resonance controllable by MIDI controller � VCA Envelope Generator (Volume) � VCF Envelope Generator (Filter) � VCO Envelope Generator (Pitch) � VCA Low Frequency Oscillator (Volume) � VCF Low Frequency Oscillator (Filter Cutoff) � VCO Low Frequency Oscillator (Pitch) � Layers � Crossfades � Key Groups (a.k.a Exclusive Groups) � Release Triggered Voices � Key Switching � Voice Stealing � DLS Engine � DLS file loader (DLS version 1 & 2) � Generic playback � Akai Engine � Akai file loader (S1000, S3000 series) � Generic playback � Custom, modular Engine � Control interfaces � Custom network interface for frontends (LSCP) � OSC � MIDI input drivers � ALSA � VSTi � MIDI over ethernet (Distributed MIDI) � CoreMIDI (Mac OS X) � MidiShare (Linux, OS X, Windows) � Audio output drivers � ALSA � JACK � VSTi � Audio over ethernet � CoreAudio (Mac OS X) � Time stamp event system & jitter correction � Multi channel & multi engine support � Pitch shifter / Interpolation � Linear interpolation � Cubic interpolation � Formant frequency correction / formant manipulation � Dynamic engine recompilation � Extensive SMP (multi processor) support � Network cluster support � (Graphical) frontends � Qt based frontend (QSampler) � VSTi frontend (based on the Qt frontend)