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Version 4.0.0 (14 Jul 2015) |
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This major release of libgig adds support for other file formats: |
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SoundFont 2 (.sf2), KORG multi sample instruments (.KSF, .KMP) and AKAI |
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format sounds. The AKAI classes are a fork of Sébastien Métrot's libakai and |
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since it is released under a different license (LGPL) than libgig is (GPL), |
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the AKAI classes are built as separate DLL file. All other classes of those |
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new file formats are built and bundled with the existing libgig DLL. Thanks |
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to Grigor Iliev for his work on the SoundFont 2 classes! Please note that |
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there is currently no support for KORG's .PCG file format yet. That's because |
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this file format changes a lot and is not only dependent to the precise KORG |
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keyboard model, but also to the precise OS version on the same model. And |
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since basic conversion can also be done by just accessing the .KSF and .KMP |
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files (sample data, loop informations), the current classes should be |
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sufficient for many tasks. Adding support for KORG's .PCG files is not |
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planned at the moment. |
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Various new command line tools have been added as well to dump, extract and |
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convert between all those file formats now. Each one of it has a man page, |
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so please refer to the respective man page of the individual command line |
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tool for details. |
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The GigaStudio/Gigasampler classes received a load of fixes during the last |
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six years. And support for features introduced with the last official |
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GigaStudio 4 software (RIP) were added, for instance support for so called |
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"iMIDI Rules". Those rules allow i.e. to trigger notes by MIDI CC and to |
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define a sample set for legato playing style. In the meantime it seems as if |
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the GigaStudio software has seen its last version with GigaStudio 4, because |
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Tascam discontinued this product and the intellectual property of GigaStudio |
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had been sold several times between companies. It is currently not possible |
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to buy a new copy of GigaStudio anymore and we personally don't expect that |
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this situation will ever change. |
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Does this also mean the end of new features for libgig? Not really! Actually |
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we already started to add new features to the GigaStudio/Gigasampler format |
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which never existed with the GigaStudio/Gigasampler software: The most |
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noteworthy new feature added by us is support for real-time instrument |
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scripts. These are little "programs" which you can bundle with your .gig |
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sounds to add a custom behavior to your sounds when playing them with i.e. |
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LinuxSampler. Find out more about this new major feature on: |
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http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Instrument_Scripts/ |
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There are also some more minor extensions to the .gig format, for example |
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support for far more MIDI CC's than originally allowed by the GigaStudio |
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software. Obviously all those custom extensions will not work with any |
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version of the official GigaStudio software, those new features will only |
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work with a recent version of LinuxSampler and gigedit at the moment. |
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Besides those major changes, a load of convenient methods have been added to |
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the existing libgig classes to reduce the overall effort working with all |
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those file formats with software applications based on libgig. |
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Version 3.3.0 (30 Jul 2009) |
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Partial support for MIDI rules, the rest are just bug fixes. |
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Version 3.2.1 (5 Dec 2007) |
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Just some minor performance optimizations. |
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Version 3.2.0 (14 Oct 2007) |
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This release once again comes with a huge bunch of fixes regarding |
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Gigasampler write support. Instrument files created from scratch with |
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libgig can finally be loaded into the Gigasampler application as well. |
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libgig's home has moved! From now on you can find it on: |
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http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/ |
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Please update your links and bookmarks! |
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Version 3.1.1 (24 Mar 2007) |
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This is a bugfix release, fixing one important bug regarding gig v3 |
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support (custom split points) and a lot of bugs regarding .gig write |
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support. And this is the first official release for the Windows platform. |
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Version 3.1.0 (24 Nov 2006) |
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libgig's home has moved (slightly) from |
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http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~cschoene/projects/libgig/ to |
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http://stud.hs-heilbronn.de/~cschoene/projects/libgig/, please update your |
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links and bookmarks! This is due to the recent renaming of the University |
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of Heilbronn, which kindly hosts this and other projects. |
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Version 3.0.0 (28 Apr 2006) |
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This is the first release which allows to create new and modify existing |
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.gig files. Beside that it also includes another bunch of bug fixes and |
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Gigasampler v3 support improvements. |