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        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
+       been extended to
+       <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html#effects">manage such effects</a>
+       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,
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      <h3>New GigaStudio format features</h3>
      <p>
-       <img src="gigedit_imidi_rules.png" caption="MIDI rules editing with Gigedit">
+       <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
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        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 MIDI instrument mapping system to
+       the VST plugin now uses the sampler's
-       show a list of available sounds to allow the user to switch among them.
+       <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" caption="Suppress warnings about custom Giga format extensions">
+      <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.
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      <h3>Improvements to Dimension Management</h3>
      <p>
-       Also managing dimensions have been improved: previously to change the
+       <img src="gigedit_change_dim_type.png">
-       amount of zones of a dimension you had to delete and recreate the
+       Also managing dimensions has been improved: previously to change the
+       type 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
+       dimension manager dialog, double click on the displayed dimension type
-       a dimension with few clicks. Same applies to the dimension type: you may
+       and select another type for the respective dimension.
-       now simply open the dimension manager dialog and alter the type of a
+     </p>
-       dimension with few clicks.
+     <p>
+       <img src="gigedit_manage_dims_all_regions.png">
+       Another great enhancement of the dimension manager is the ability to alter
+       the dimensions of all regions of an instrument at once. Previously you had
+       to do that for each region on the keyboard separately. For example to
+       delete a velocity split dimension, you had to double click on a region,
+       delete the velocity dimension with the dimension manager dialog, then
+       double click on the next region, delete the velocity dimension there as
+       well, and so on. Now you can just click on the "All Regions" check box of
+       the dimension manager, select the velocity dimension, click on "Remove"
+       and that's it. Also notice the different display style in this
+       "All Regions" mode, like shown on the screen shot left: Since you are
+       viewing the dimension properties of not just one region, but of all
+       regions of your instrument, we thought we also need to show you in case
+       individual regions differ regarding their precise dimension properties.
+       For example on the screen shot on the left you see that some regions have
+       a velocity dimension with 2 zones, whereas other regions have a velocity
+       dimension with 4 zones instead. Also there seem to be some regions which
+       have a modulation wheel dimension and other regions which do not have a
+       modulation wheel dimension at all. Same applies to the Layer dimension:
+       in this particular example not all regions do have a Layer dimension.
+       However all regions seem to have a Sample Channel (Stereo) dimension,
+       and all regions even have the same amount of zones for that particular dimension.
      </p>
      <h3>Monitoring Sample References</h3>
      <p>
-       <img src="gigedit_sample_references.png" caption="Show all references of selected sample">
+       <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
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        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 may then might rename to some more
+       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.
+       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" caption="Create a silent case">
+       <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 the sample reference field on the "Sample" tab
+       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.
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      <h3>Reordering Instruments</h3>
      <p>
-       <img src="gigedit_reorder_instruments.png" caption="Re-order instruments with drag &amp; drop">
+       <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
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      <h3>Combine Tool</h3>
      <p>
-       <img src="gigedit_combine_tool.png" caption="Combine Tool">
+       <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
-       click) from your currently open Giga file and combine those selected
+       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
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        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.
+       time while working on your sounds with Gigedit.
      </p>
      <h2>QSampler 0.3.0</h2>
      <p>
+       <img src="qsampler_sf2_selection.png">
        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
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        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>
+     <img src="qsampler_quick_switch.png" caption="Drop down list for fast switching between instruments">
      <h3>Suppressing Error Popups</h3>
      <p>
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        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>
+     <img src="http://download.linuxsampler.org/pix/screenshots/mac_installer_1.jpg">
      <p>
        Using the sampler has also been improved on Mac. Before you first had to
        launch the LinuxSampler backend separately and then launch QSampler.

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