--- gigedit/trunk/NEWS 2017/11/25 17:31:53 3373 +++ gigedit/trunk/NEWS 2017/11/25 22:24:28 3374 @@ -1,3 +1,110 @@ +Version 1.1.0 (2017-11-25) + + This release adds various improvements for the NKSP real-time instrument + script editor of gigedit. LinuxSampler's NKSP script editor API is now + used by gigedit to visualize all issues of scripts (errors and warnings) + in real-time while you are typing with the script editor. The respective + locations of script errors / warnings are automatically highlighted in + red and yellow color respectively and when the mouse pointer is moved + over those code locations, then the precise error / warning message is + displayed as tooltip. And since gigedit's script editor is now tightly + coupled with the sampler's script engine this way, all the heavy work of + handling all aspects of the script language is now performed by the actual + sampler's script engine and thus you can now be sure and immediately see + whether there are any issues with your scripts with any character you are + typing, and if yes what kind of issues exactly, and that without + requiring to actually load the script into the sampler. To use these + features, gigedit must be compiled and linked against liblinuxsampler. + If gigedit is not compiled with liblinuxsampler support then the old hand + written, error prone and very feature limited script editor implementation + is used instead. Needless to say that compiling gigedit without + liblinuxsampler support is discouraged. Additionally when clicking on the + script editor's "Apply" button or using Ctrl+S keyboard shortcut, then + the script is automatically reloaded by the sampler. So you no longer + have to reload the respective instrument manually while you are + developing instrument scripts. There are also visual enhancements for the + script editor, for example the line numbers are now shown on the left, + the font size can be altered by the user, and unused code portions (i.e. + disabled by NKSP preprocessor statements) are automatically striked + through. + + Another major new feature in this release are macros. A macro is a set of + changes that should be applied to currently selected instrument. Such + macros can be reviewed and edited, and they can be saved permanently for + example as templates for common instrument creation tasks. Macros can be + assigned to F keys on the keyboard so that they can be quickly triggered, + you can transfer them over the OS clipboard and you can write comments + to your macros so that you never forget what kind of purpose you had in + mind for them. The macro features are based on libgig's new + "Serialization" framework and accordingly you need at least libgig 4.1.0 + for using these macro features. + + All user settings of gigedit are now persistently saved and automatically + restored. This also includes gigedit's windows' dimensions and positions. + + Multi-row selection has been added to all list views now, so you can now + more efficiently apply actions to multiple samples, instruments or scripts + simultaneously at once, instead of requesting those actions for each item + individually. + + Also modifying key features of several dimension region zones + simultaneously is now supported. That means you can now delete, split and + resize multiple dimension region zones at once. + + You will also note that there are now icons displayed on the individual + regions and dimension region zones. Those icons visualize common key + features of regions and dimension region zones. For example if you forgot + to assign any sample to one of them, then you will see a red dot on the + respective region or dimension region zone. Another icon type is showing + you whether a region or dimension region zone uses a sample loop. This way + you can immediately see and control the key features of all regions + and their dimension region zones, without requiring to browse through all + of them individually. + + Various new keyboard shortcuts have been added so you can work more + efficiently on your sounds. For example you can now use Ctrl+Left and + Ctrl+Right to navigate through all regions of the currently selected + instrument, and likewise you can use Alt+Left, Alt+Right, Alt+Up and + Alt+Down to navigate through all dimension region zones of the currently + selected region. Since there are many actions that can be either applied + on instrument level, or on region level, or on dimension region level, as + a general rule, for all keyboard shortcuts the Alt key is used by gigedit + for actions on dimension region level, whereas the Ctrl key is used on + region level and the Shift key is used for actions on instrument level. + So as another example you may copy all parameters of the currently + selected dimension region zone by hitting Alt+C, then you might select + another dimension region zone, or another instrument and then use Alt+V + to apply the parameters from the clipboard. While the parameters are + (as macro actually) on the clipboard you can also review, edit and + delete the individual parameters before applying them. As a final + example for new important shortcuts you may now use Shift+Up and + Shift+Down for switching between instruments. + + Also the Combine Tool has been improved. You can now simply select the + (multiple) instruments you want to combine directly from the applications + main window, i.e. by Ctrl or Shift clicking them from the instruments + list view, and then right click to call the combine tool on that + selection. The Combine Tool now also shows you as preview the order in + which the selected instruments are going to be combined. This is + especially useful when combining instruments with certain dimension + types where the order matters for the actual resulting sound; for example + when using the velocity dimension. Simply use drag n drop to reorder + the previously selected instruments before combining. + + Since LinuxSampler 2.1.0 added a Giga format extension which allows to + control the envelope generators' state machines more precisely; new + options have been added to gigedit to control these new EG features. + For example there are new check box which you can use to define for + each envelope whether the individual EG stages should still be completed + or rather aborted if a note-off was received. These new EG settings matter + a lot for certain instrument types like percussive instruments. + + And last but not least a filter option field had been added to the + instruments list and samples list, which allows you to find specific + samples and instruments very quickly by typing search key words, which is + especially very helpful in case you are working on gig files which contain + a very large amount of samples or instruments in a single gig file. + Version 1.0.0 (2015-07-17) With this release we added support for new GigaStudio 4 features, for