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1    Version 0.5.1 (6 December 2007)
2    
3      This is the first release for the Windows platform, providing a MME MIDI
4      input driver and ASIO audio output driver. Note that the instruments DB
5      feature is not yet available for Windows systems, since the respective
6      code base has yet to be ported. Needless to say that there still might be
7      plenty of issues on MS systems. Beside that support for Windows, this is
8      merely a bugfix release (i.e. fixing one serious crash) with only minor
9      new features.
10    
11    Version 0.5.0 (15 October 2007)
12    
13      This release comes with a bunch of important new features. We implemented
14      a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not only
15      allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
16      change number (and bank select number), it also allows further parameters
17      like whether the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed
18      (and likewise freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of
19      effect sends for each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI
20      controller for controlling the effect send level in realtime and can
21      flexible be routed to some of the sampler's audio output channel, i.e.
22      to a dedicated one for a certain effect type. The new instruments
23      database allows you to keep track even of largest instrument library
24      collections. You can order them in categories and search by various
25      criteria. The sampler now allows third party applications to offer so
26      called 'instrument editor plugins' which the sampler can use to spawn
27      an appropriate instrument editor application for a selected instrument
28      and for allowing to edit instruments with such an external editor
29      application on-the-fly, that is all modifications made with the editor
30      will immediately be audible with the sampler. No need to reload instrument
31      files anymore. Checkout our brand new instrument editor application called
32      'gigedit' which you can use for this feature. Loading huge instruments may
33      take a long time, that's why the sampler now allows to play an instrument
34      while loading. That way you can i.e. play and hold notes on the keyboard
35      while loading a new instrument on the same sampler channel at the same
36      time. Beside these new features, you can find the common huge list of bug
37      fixes and quality improvements.
38    
39    Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)
40    
41      Finally a new release after a long development cycle. The sampler now has
42      a completely revised synthesis core. Note that due to this, most of the
43      assembly code became incompatible and is thus deactivated at compile
44      time. So don't bother trying to activate the assembly option, it won't
45      compile! That's not an issue though, because even without assembly, the
46      new synthesis core is faster than the old one with assembly. The
47      Gigasampler engine now has real support for 24 bit samples, that is they
48      won't be truncated anymore, and finally supports all filter types of the
49      Gigasampler format. A lot of effort has been put into making all filters
50      under all parameters being as accurate as possible, compared to the
51      original Gigasampler ones. Analogue to hardware mixers, sampler channels
52      can now be muted and solo-ed and there is support for GM portamento and
53      GM mono mode (single note per channel) as well as support for sostenuto
54      pedal. Beside LSCP, third-party applications can now also link against
55      liblinuxsampler directly (using the sampler's C++ API). Beside these,
56      there have been of course a huge bunch of fixes and quality improvements.
57    
58    Version 0.3.3 (15 July 2005)
59    
60      Another bug fix release. It solves one usability issue regarding small
61      fragments / high sampling rates of audio drivers, fixes some compile time
62      errors with GCC 4.0 and fixes a minor efficiency bug.
63    
64    Version 0.3.2 (24 June 2005)
65    
66      This is more or less just a bug fix release. Beside a bunch of little
67      fixes it solves a serious crash in conjunction with voice stealing and
68      slightly improves Gigasampler format playback accuracy.

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