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    <h1>LinuxSampler 2.0.0</h1>
    <p>
      Unbelievable six years have passed since the last release of LinuxSampler.
      A load of things have changed in silence, which I want to summarize for
      you in this article.
    </p>

    <h3>New Sampler Engines</h3>
    <p>
      The sampler's code base has seen substantial changes during that long
      period. The sampler engine code base has been unified to a set of common,
      abstract base classes which cleared the way for two new sampler engines:
      <ol>
        <li>The <b>SFZ2</b> format engine (.sfz).</li>
        <li>The <b>SoundFont 2</b> format engine (.sf2).</li>
      </ol>
      So LinuxSampler is not limited to just the GigaStudio/Gigasampler format
      (.gig) anymore.
    </p>

    <h3>Real-Time Instrument Scripts</h3>
    <p>
      Another major new feature is the brand new support for so called
      <i>Real-Time Instrument Scripts</i>, which are small programs that may be
      bundled with sound files to extend the sampler with custom behavior for
      individual sounds. You may know such instrument scripts from commercial
      software samplers. At the moment this scripting feature is yet limited to
      the Giga format engine. <a href="instrument_scripts.html">Find out more ...</a>
    </p>
    <img src="../../gigedit/scripts/gigedit_script_editor.png" caption="NKSP Instrument Script Editor of Gigedit">

    <h3>LSCP Shell</h3>
    <p>
      Also noteworthy is the new command line application <i>lscp</i>, which is
      a text based shell for controlling the sampler from the command line,
      providing colored output, type completion, help text while typing LSCP
      commands and other convenient features for terminal enthusiasts who want
      to use the sampler without GUI frontend applications.
      <a href="lscp_shell.html">Find out more ...</a>
    </p>
    <img src="../../lscp_shell/lscp_shell.png" caption="LSCP Shell">

    <h3>Internal Effects &amp; Extensions to LSCP</h3>
    <p>
      You may now also load external effects directly into the sampler. The
      <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html">LSCP network protocol</a>
      (<a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.7.html">v1.7</a>) has
      been extended to manage such effects respectively. Effect chains may be
      built, and the individual sampler parts may be routed to an individual
      position of effect chains. At this point only LADSPA plugins are supported
      yet. However the sampler's effect subsystem uses an abstract interface,
      which allows easy integration of other effect systems. Also new with
      latest LSCP version is the ability to trigger MIDI CCs by LSCP command.
    </p>

    <h3>New GigaStudio format features</h3>
    <p>
      <img src="gigedit_imidi_rules.png">
      You may have heard that the GigaStudio software has seen its last version
      with GigaStudio 4. Tascam officially discontinued this product, its
      intellectual property has been sold several times among companies and
      there is currently no way to buy a new copy of GigaStudio anymore. However
      the GigaStudio format is still under active development with LinuxSampler.
      We not only added support for the latest features introduced with
      GigaStudio 4: iMIDI rules for example which allow to trigger notes by
      MIDI CC and allow i.e. defining a set of legato samples; for the first
      time ever we also added our own extensions to the Giga format: one of it
      is the previously mentioned new instrument scripting feature and a more
      minor extension is support for various other MIDI CCs which were never
      supported by GigaStudio before. So you can now use any MIDI CC for EG1
      controller, EG2 controller and attenuation controller.
    </p>

    <h3>DAW Plugin Enhancements</h3>
    <p>
      The sampler's host plugins have also seen some enhancements: the LV2
      plugin now stores and restores the sampler's overall state with the song
      of your DAW application, the LV2 and AudioUnit plugin's outputs
      were increased from 2 audio channels to 16 upon request by some users and
      the VST plugin now uses the sampler's
      <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html#MIDI%20Instrument%20Mapping">MIDI instrument mapping system</a>
      to show a list of available sounds to allow the user to switch among them.
      And last but not least the VST plugin may also be used on Mac now.
    </p>

    <h2>Gigedit 1.0.0</h2>
    <p>
     <img src="gigedit_format_extension_warnings.png">
      Also <i>Gigedit</i>, our instrument editor for the GigaStudio/Gigasampler
      format, had been enhanced quite a lot during the last six years. As
      mentioned above, we introduced our own extensions to the Giga format.
      Obviously all those extensions will not work with any GigaStudio version,
      they only work with a recent version of Gigedit and LinuxSampler. Gigedit
      will inform you whenever you are using such kind of custom Giga format
      extension, so that you are always aware in case your changes to sounds are
      not cross/backward compatible with the GigaStudio software. You may also
      disable those warnings on the settings menu.
    </p>

    <h3>Multi-Selection of Dimension Zones</h3>
    <p>
      Until now you were only able to edit either exactly
      one dimension region or all dimension regions simultaneously with gigedit. With this
      release you may now hold the Ctrl button and select a specific set of
      dimension region zones in the dimension region selector area (on the very
      bottom of the Gigedit window) with your mouse. All synthesis parameters you
      then change, will all be applied to that precise set of dimension region
      zones.
    </p>
    <img src="gigedit_multi_zone_selection.png" caption="Multi-zone selection with Ctrl key">

    <h3>Improvements to Dimension Management</h3>
    <p>
      Also managing dimensions has been improved: previously to change the
      amount of zones of a dimension you had to delete and recreate the
      dimension. Which was not just inconvenient, but you also had to redefine
      your synthesis parameters from scratch. Now you can just open the
      dimension manager dialog and increase or decrease the amount of zones of
      a dimension with few clicks. Same applies to the dimension type: you may
      now simply open the dimension manager dialog and alter the type of a
      dimension with few clicks.
    </p>

    <h3>Monitoring Sample References</h3>
    <p>
      <img src="gigedit_sample_references.png">
      When working on complex Giga sounds you certainly noticed that one could
      easily get lost about which samples are exactly used by which
      instrument or even whether a sample is actually used at all by any
      instrument or just left orphaned and wasting disk space. This was also due
      to the fact that the Giga format does not require unique names for
      samples. We have worked on resolving this usability issue. In the samples
      list view you can now read the amount of times a sample is referenced by
      instruments of your .gig file. If a sample is not used at all, then it
      will be shown in striking red color in the sample list view. You may also
      right click on a sample and select "Show references...", a new
      window appears on your screen which will show you where exactly that
      particular sample is used by, that is by which instruments and by which
      regions of those instruments. Also the other way around has been
      addressed: when you now edit the synthesis parameters of a particular
      dimension region, you may now click on the new "&lt;- Select Sample"
      button and Gigedit automatically selects and displays the respective sample
      in the samples list view, which you then might rename to some more
      appropriate sample name, or you might check by which other instrument(s)
      that sample is used by, etc. You want to get rid of all unused samples?
      Simply right click on the samples list view and select
      "Remove unused samples", then select "Save" from the menu and all orphaned
      samples are gone.
    </p>
    <img src="gigedit_go_to_sample.png" caption="Find and select used sample">

    <h3>Silent Cases</h3>
    <p>
      <img src="gigedit_null_sample.png">
      You may now also remove the current sample reference from individual
      dimension regions (assigning a so called "NULL" sample instead) by clicking on
      the new "X" button next to the sample reference field on the "Sample" tab
      of a dimension region; this allows you to define "silent cases", that
      is a case where no sample should be played at all, for example this is
      often used for very low velocity ranges of i.e. between 0 and 6.
    </p>

    <h3>Reordering Instruments</h3>
    <p>
      <img src="gigedit_reorder_instruments.png">
      If you are working on .gig files with a large amount of Instruments, then
      you might also be glad to know that you can finally also re-order the
      instruments of a file by simply dragging the instruments around in the
      instruments list view.
    </p>

    <h3>Combine Tool</h3>
    <p>
      <img src="gigedit_combine_tool.png">
      Another handy new feature for sound designers is the new "Combine" tool,
      which you can reach from the main menu. It allows you to select two ore
      more instruments (by holding down the Ctrl key while selecting with mouse
      left click) from your currently open Giga file and combine those selected
      instruments to a new instrument. This way you may for example create
      stunning layered sounds, or you may create velocity splits, crossfade
      sounds by MIDI controller and much more, all with just a few clicks. This
      may sound like a trivial task, but if you have worked on this before, you
      certainly noticed that this was often a very time consuming and error
      prone task before, especially with complex individual sounds which had
      custom region ranges, custom velocity splits and much more exotic stuff
      to take care of. The combine tool handles all such cases for you
      automatically.
    </p>

    <h3>Improved Interaction with LinuxSampler</h3>
    <p>
      Last but not least, the interaction of Gigedit with LinuxSampler (in so
      called "live mode") had been improved: When you click on the "Edit"
      button of a channel strip in QSampler or Fantasia, Gigedit will be
      launched with the respective instrument automatically being selected.
      Vice versa you may now also just select another instrument with Gigedit's
      instrument list view and LinuxSampler will automatically load and play
      that instrument on the respective sampler part for you. So no more need
      to switch between the Gigedit window and QSampler/Fantasia window all the
      time while working on your sounds with Gigedit.
    </p>

    <h2>QSampler 0.3.0</h2>
    <p>
      As new sampler formats made it into LinuxSampler, this was also addressed
      with QSampler. The sound selection dialog now also enumerates the sounds
      of a selected SoundFont file. And to ease switching between sounds, you
      may now click on the name of the current instrument of a channel strip,
      a list will popup that alows you to quickly switch to another sound,
      without having to open the channel strip's detailed part dialog.
    </p>

    <h3>Suppressing Error Popups</h3>
    <p>
      In the past, error message dialogs frequently popped up on the screen.
      Most of them were just telling unuseful messages, even if the overall
      operation with the sampler was working correctly. There is now an "ignore"
      check box attached to those error message dialogs, which allow you to
      suppress most of the annoying error messages.
    </p>

    <h3>Improved Mac Support</h3>
    <p>
      Recently we created a convenient installer for Mac OS X, which
      conveniently installs all our software components on your Mac. So that
      includes the stand-alone version of the LinuxSampler backend, VST and
      AudioUnit plugin version of the sampler, "Fantasia" and "QSampler" frontends,
      our instrument editor "Gigedit", the LSCP shell and various other command
      line tools. You may also choose only some of them to be installed.
    </p>
    <p>
      Using the sampler has also been improved on Mac. Before you first had to
      launch the LinuxSampler backend separately and then launch QSampler.
      Sometimes the sampler backend even had to be killed explicitly. Now
      you can just click on the QSampler icon and it will automatically spawn
      the sampler backend for you and shows its output on QSampler's integrated
      terminal section. When you quit QSampler, it will also stop the sampler backend
      for you automatically (you may tell QSampler to keep the sampler running in the background).
    </p>

    <h2>libgig 4.0.0</h2>
    <p>
      Our fundamental file access C++ library
      <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/api/">libgig</a>
      is now more than just a supporter of the GigaStudio/Gigasampler file
      format. New file formats have been added and are now bundled with libgig:
      <ol>
        <li>
          <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/api/namespaceKorg.html">
            Classes for KORG's sample based instrument files
          </a> (.KSF, .KMP).
        </li>
        <li>
          <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/api/namespacesf2.html">
            Classes for SoundFont v2 files
          </a> (.sf2).
        </li>
        <li>
          <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/api/classResource.html">
            Classes for AKAI sampler data.
          </a>
        </li>
      </ol>
      Various command line tools have been added to libgig, which allow to
      dump, correct, extract and convert sounds between those various file formats.
      Refer to the individual <i>man pages</i> for details about how to use
      those new command line tools. As you can see, the ground had been prepared
      for further new sampler engines with LinuxSampler to come.
    </p>

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11			<h1>LinuxSampler 2.0.0</h1>
12			<p>
13			Unbelievable six years have passed since the last release of LinuxSampler.
14			A load of things have changed in silence, which I want to summarize for
15			you in this article.
16			</p>
17
18			<h3>New Sampler Engines</h3>
19			<p>
20			The sampler's code base has seen substantial changes during that long
21			period. The sampler engine code base has been unified to a set of common,
22			abstract base classes which cleared the way for two new sampler engines:
23			<ol>
24			<li>The <b>SFZ2</b> format engine (.sfz).</li>
25			<li>The <b>SoundFont 2</b> format engine (.sf2).</li>
26			</ol>
27			So LinuxSampler is not limited to just the GigaStudio/Gigasampler format
28			(.gig) anymore.
29			</p>
30
31			<h3>Real-Time Instrument Scripts</h3>
32			<p>
33			Another major new feature is the brand new support for so called
34			<i>Real-Time Instrument Scripts</i>, which are small programs that may be
35			bundled with sound files to extend the sampler with custom behavior for
36			individual sounds. You may know such instrument scripts from commercial
37			software samplers. At the moment this scripting feature is yet limited to
38			the Giga format engine. <a href="instrument_scripts.html">Find out more ...</a>
39			</p>
40	schoenebeck	2813	<img src="../../gigedit/scripts/gigedit_script_editor.png" caption="NKSP Instrument Script Editor of Gigedit">
41	schoenebeck	2811
42			<h3>LSCP Shell</h3>
43			<p>
44			Also noteworthy is the new command line application <i>lscp</i>, which is
45			a text based shell for controlling the sampler from the command line,
46			providing colored output, type completion, help text while typing LSCP
47			commands and other convenient features for terminal enthusiasts who want
48			to use the sampler without GUI frontend applications.
49	schoenebeck	2813	<a href="lscp_shell.html">Find out more ...</a>
50	schoenebeck	2811	</p>
51			<img src="../../lscp_shell/lscp_shell.png" caption="LSCP Shell">
52
53			<h3>Internal Effects & Extensions to LSCP</h3>
54			<p>
55			You may now also load external effects directly into the sampler. The
56			<a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html">LSCP network protocol</a>
57			(<a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/lscp-1.7.html">v1.7</a>) has
58			been extended to manage such effects respectively. Effect chains may be
59			built, and the individual sampler parts may be routed to an individual
60			position of effect chains. At this point only LADSPA plugins are supported
61			yet. However the sampler's effect subsystem uses an abstract interface,
62			which allows easy integration of other effect systems. Also new with
63			latest LSCP version is the ability to trigger MIDI CCs by LSCP command.
64			</p>
65
66			<h3>New GigaStudio format features</h3>
67			<p>
68	schoenebeck	2814	<img src="gigedit_imidi_rules.png">
69	schoenebeck	2811	You may have heard that the GigaStudio software has seen its last version
70			with GigaStudio 4. Tascam officially discontinued this product, its
71			intellectual property has been sold several times among companies and
72			there is currently no way to buy a new copy of GigaStudio anymore. However
73			the GigaStudio format is still under active development with LinuxSampler.
74			We not only added support for the latest features introduced with
75			GigaStudio 4: iMIDI rules for example which allow to trigger notes by
76			MIDI CC and allow i.e. defining a set of legato samples; for the first
77			time ever we also added our own extensions to the Giga format: one of it
78			is the previously mentioned new instrument scripting feature and a more
79			minor extension is support for various other MIDI CCs which were never
80			supported by GigaStudio before. So you can now use any MIDI CC for EG1
81			controller, EG2 controller and attenuation controller.
82			</p>
83
84			<h3>DAW Plugin Enhancements</h3>
85			<p>
86			The sampler's host plugins have also seen some enhancements: the LV2
87			plugin now stores and restores the sampler's overall state with the song
88			of your DAW application, the LV2 and AudioUnit plugin's outputs
89			were increased from 2 audio channels to 16 upon request by some users and
90	schoenebeck	2814	the VST plugin now uses the sampler's
91			<a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html#MIDI%20Instrument%20Mapping">MIDI instrument mapping system</a>
92			to show a list of available sounds to allow the user to switch among them.
93	schoenebeck	2811	And last but not least the VST plugin may also be used on Mac now.
94			</p>
95
96			<h2>Gigedit 1.0.0</h2>
97			<p>
98	schoenebeck	2814	<img src="gigedit_format_extension_warnings.png">
99	schoenebeck	2811	Also <i>Gigedit</i>, our instrument editor for the GigaStudio/Gigasampler
100			format, had been enhanced quite a lot during the last six years. As
101			mentioned above, we introduced our own extensions to the Giga format.
102			Obviously all those extensions will not work with any GigaStudio version,
103			they only work with a recent version of Gigedit and LinuxSampler. Gigedit
104			will inform you whenever you are using such kind of custom Giga format
105			extension, so that you are always aware in case your changes to sounds are
106			not cross/backward compatible with the GigaStudio software. You may also
107			disable those warnings on the settings menu.
108			</p>
109
110			<h3>Multi-Selection of Dimension Zones</h3>
111			<p>
112	schoenebeck	2813	Until now you were only able to edit either exactly
113			one dimension region or all dimension regions simultaneously with gigedit. With this
114	schoenebeck	2811	release you may now hold the Ctrl button and select a specific set of
115			dimension region zones in the dimension region selector area (on the very
116			bottom of the Gigedit window) with your mouse. All synthesis parameters you
117			then change, will all be applied to that precise set of dimension region
118			zones.
119			</p>
120	schoenebeck	2813	<img src="gigedit_multi_zone_selection.png" caption="Multi-zone selection with Ctrl key">
121	schoenebeck	2811
122			<h3>Improvements to Dimension Management</h3>
123			<p>
124	schoenebeck	2814	Also managing dimensions has been improved: previously to change the
125	schoenebeck	2811	amount of zones of a dimension you had to delete and recreate the
126			dimension. Which was not just inconvenient, but you also had to redefine
127			your synthesis parameters from scratch. Now you can just open the
128			dimension manager dialog and increase or decrease the amount of zones of
129			a dimension with few clicks. Same applies to the dimension type: you may
130			now simply open the dimension manager dialog and alter the type of a
131			dimension with few clicks.
132			</p>
133
134			<h3>Monitoring Sample References</h3>
135			<p>
136	schoenebeck	2814	<img src="gigedit_sample_references.png">
137	schoenebeck	2811	When working on complex Giga sounds you certainly noticed that one could
138			easily get lost about which samples are exactly used by which
139			instrument or even whether a sample is actually used at all by any
140			instrument or just left orphaned and wasting disk space. This was also due
141			to the fact that the Giga format does not require unique names for
142			samples. We have worked on resolving this usability issue. In the samples
143			list view you can now read the amount of times a sample is referenced by
144			instruments of your .gig file. If a sample is not used at all, then it
145			will be shown in striking red color in the sample list view. You may also
146			right click on a sample and select "Show references...", a new
147			window appears on your screen which will show you where exactly that
148			particular sample is used by, that is by which instruments and by which
149			regions of those instruments. Also the other way around has been
150			addressed: when you now edit the synthesis parameters of a particular
151			dimension region, you may now click on the new "<- Select Sample"
152			button and Gigedit automatically selects and displays the respective sample
153	schoenebeck	2814	in the samples list view, which you then might rename to some more
154	schoenebeck	2811	appropriate sample name, or you might check by which other instrument(s)
155	schoenebeck	2814	that sample is used by, etc. You want to get rid of all unused samples?
156			Simply right click on the samples list view and select
157			"Remove unused samples", then select "Save" from the menu and all orphaned
158			samples are gone.
159	schoenebeck	2811	</p>
160	schoenebeck	2813	<img src="gigedit_go_to_sample.png" caption="Find and select used sample">
161	schoenebeck	2811
162			<h3>Silent Cases</h3>
163			<p>
164	schoenebeck	2814	<img src="gigedit_null_sample.png">
165	schoenebeck	2811	You may now also remove the current sample reference from individual
166			dimension regions (assigning a so called "NULL" sample instead) by clicking on
167	schoenebeck	2814	the new "X" button next to the sample reference field on the "Sample" tab
168	schoenebeck	2811	of a dimension region; this allows you to define "silent cases", that
169			is a case where no sample should be played at all, for example this is
170			often used for very low velocity ranges of i.e. between 0 and 6.
171			</p>
172
173			<h3>Reordering Instruments</h3>
174			<p>
175	schoenebeck	2814	<img src="gigedit_reorder_instruments.png">
176	schoenebeck	2811	If you are working on .gig files with a large amount of Instruments, then
177			you might also be glad to know that you can finally also re-order the
178			instruments of a file by simply dragging the instruments around in the
179			instruments list view.
180			</p>
181
182			<h3>Combine Tool</h3>
183			<p>
184	schoenebeck	2814	<img src="gigedit_combine_tool.png">
185	schoenebeck	2811	Another handy new feature for sound designers is the new "Combine" tool,
186			which you can reach from the main menu. It allows you to select two ore
187			more instruments (by holding down the Ctrl key while selecting with mouse
188	schoenebeck	2814	left click) from your currently open Giga file and combine those selected
189	schoenebeck	2811	instruments to a new instrument. This way you may for example create
190			stunning layered sounds, or you may create velocity splits, crossfade
191			sounds by MIDI controller and much more, all with just a few clicks. This
192			may sound like a trivial task, but if you have worked on this before, you
193			certainly noticed that this was often a very time consuming and error
194			prone task before, especially with complex individual sounds which had
195			custom region ranges, custom velocity splits and much more exotic stuff
196			to take care of. The combine tool handles all such cases for you
197			automatically.
198			</p>
199
200			<h3>Improved Interaction with LinuxSampler</h3>
201			<p>
202			Last but not least, the interaction of Gigedit with LinuxSampler (in so
203			called "live mode") had been improved: When you click on the "Edit"
204			button of a channel strip in QSampler or Fantasia, Gigedit will be
205			launched with the respective instrument automatically being selected.
206			Vice versa you may now also just select another instrument with Gigedit's
207			instrument list view and LinuxSampler will automatically load and play
208			that instrument on the respective sampler part for you. So no more need
209			to switch between the Gigedit window and QSampler/Fantasia window all the
210	schoenebeck	2814	time while working on your sounds with Gigedit.
211	schoenebeck	2811	</p>
212
213			<h2>QSampler 0.3.0</h2>
214			<p>
215			As new sampler formats made it into LinuxSampler, this was also addressed
216			with QSampler. The sound selection dialog now also enumerates the sounds
217			of a selected SoundFont file. And to ease switching between sounds, you
218			may now click on the name of the current instrument of a channel strip,
219			a list will popup that alows you to quickly switch to another sound,
220			without having to open the channel strip's detailed part dialog.
221			</p>
222
223			<h3>Suppressing Error Popups</h3>
224			<p>
225			In the past, error message dialogs frequently popped up on the screen.
226			Most of them were just telling unuseful messages, even if the overall
227			operation with the sampler was working correctly. There is now an "ignore"
228			check box attached to those error message dialogs, which allow you to
229			suppress most of the annoying error messages.
230			</p>
231
232			<h3>Improved Mac Support</h3>
233			<p>
234			Recently we created a convenient installer for Mac OS X, which
235			conveniently installs all our software components on your Mac. So that
236			includes the stand-alone version of the LinuxSampler backend, VST and
237			AudioUnit plugin version of the sampler, "Fantasia" and "QSampler" frontends,
238			our instrument editor "Gigedit", the LSCP shell and various other command
239			line tools. You may also choose only some of them to be installed.
240			</p>
241			<p>
242			Using the sampler has also been improved on Mac. Before you first had to
243			launch the LinuxSampler backend separately and then launch QSampler.
244			Sometimes the sampler backend even had to be killed explicitly. Now
245			you can just click on the QSampler icon and it will automatically spawn
246			the sampler backend for you and shows its output on QSampler's integrated
247			terminal section. When you quit QSampler, it will also stop the sampler backend
248			for you automatically (you may tell QSampler to keep the sampler running in the background).
249			</p>
250
251			<h2>libgig 4.0.0</h2>
252			<p>
253			Our fundamental file access C++ library
254			<a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/api/">libgig</a>
255			is now more than just a supporter of the GigaStudio/Gigasampler file
256			format. New file formats have been added and are now bundled with libgig:
257			<ol>
258			<li>
259			<a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/api/namespaceKorg.html">
260			Classes for KORG's sample based instrument files
261			</a> (.KSF, .KMP).
262			</li>
263			<li>
264			<a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/api/namespacesf2.html">
265			Classes for SoundFont v2 files
266			</a> (.sf2).
267			</li>
268			<li>
269			<a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/api/classResource.html">
270			Classes for AKAI sampler data.
271			</a>
272			</li>
273			</ol>
274			Various command line tools have been added to libgig, which allow to
275			dump, correct, extract and convert sounds between those various file formats.
276			Refer to the individual <i>man pages</i> for details about how to use
277			those new command line tools. As you can see, the ground had been prepared
278			for further new sampler engines with LinuxSampler to come.
279			</p>
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