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1    Version 4.0.0 (14 Jul 2015)
2    
3      This major release of libgig adds support for other file formats:
4      SoundFont 2 (.sf2), KORG multi sample instruments (.KSF, .KMP) and AKAI
5      format sounds. The AKAI classes are a fork of Sébastien Métrot's libakai and
6      since it is released under a different license (LGPL) than libgig is (GPL),
7      the AKAI classes are built as separate DLL file. All other classes of those
8      new file formats are built and bundled with the existing libgig DLL. Thanks
9      to Grigor Iliev for his work on the SoundFont 2 classes! Please note that
10      there is currently no support for KORG's .PCG file format yet. That's because
11      this file format changes a lot and is not only dependent to the precise KORG
12      keyboard model, but also to the precise OS version on the same model. And
13      since basic conversion can also be done by just accessing the .KSF and .KMP
14      files (sample data, loop informations), the current classes should be
15      sufficient for many tasks. Adding support for KORG's .PCG files is not
16      planned at the moment.
17    
18      Various new command line tools have been added as well to dump, extract and
19      convert between all those file formats now. Each one of it has a man page,
20      so please refer to the respective man page of the individual command line
21      tool for details.
22    
23      The GigaStudio/Gigasampler classes received a load of fixes during the last
24      six years. And support for features introduced with the last official
25      GigaStudio 4 software (RIP) were added, for instance support for so called
26      "iMIDI Rules". Those rules allow i.e. to trigger notes by MIDI CC and to
27      define a sample set for legato playing style. In the meantime it seems as if
28      the GigaStudio software has seen its last version with GigaStudio 4, because
29      Tascam discontinued this product and the intellectual property of GigaStudio
30      had been sold several times between companies. It is currently not possible
31      to buy a new copy of GigaStudio anymore and we personally don't expect that
32      this situation will ever change.
33    
34      Does this also mean the end of new features for libgig? Not really! Actually
35      we already started to add new features to the GigaStudio/Gigasampler format
36      which never existed with the GigaStudio/Gigasampler software: The most
37      noteworthy new feature added by us is support for real-time instrument
38      scripts. These are little "programs" which you can bundle with your .gig
39      sounds to add a custom behavior to your sounds when playing them with i.e.
40      LinuxSampler. Find out more about this new major feature on:
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42            http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Instrument_Scripts/
43    
44      There are also some more minor extensions to the .gig format, for example
45      support for far more MIDI CC's than originally allowed by the GigaStudio
46      software. Obviously all those custom extensions will not work with any
47      version of the official GigaStudio software, those new features will only
48      work with a recent version of LinuxSampler and gigedit at the moment.
49    
50      Besides those major changes, a load of convenient methods have been added to
51      the existing libgig classes to reduce the overall effort working with all
52      those file formats with software applications based on libgig.
53    
54  Version 3.3.0 (30 Jul 2009)  Version 3.3.0 (30 Jul 2009)
55    
56    Partial support for MIDI rules, the rest are just bug fixes.    Partial support for MIDI rules, the rest are just bug fixes.

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