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1  Version CVS HEAD (?)  Version CVS HEAD (?)
2    
3      * packaging changes:
4        - autoconf bugfix: the PKG_CONFIG variable wasn't initialized properly,
5          causing e.g. the libgig test to fail when
6          "./configure --disable-jack-driver" was used
7          (patch by Alexis Ballier)
8        - fixed compilation with gcc 4.3
9        - fixes for building on OS X (thanks to Ebrahim Mayat for testing)
10        - fixed configure so it detects x86_64 (#107)
11        - fixes for building with newer MinGW versions
12        - fix for building with bison 2.4 (#111)
13        - fixed building with libgig installed in a non-standard directory
14        - minor fix in configure for mmsystem.h detection on MinGW
15        - Windows: look for editor plugins and Fantasia using base
16          directory of liblinuxsampler dll
17        - configure script fix: removed unconditional use of SSE
18    
19      * general changes:
20        - bugfix: on some POSIX systems instrument editor plugins refused to
21          load as we used a non-portable Linux specific struct field
22          (fixes bug #70, patch by Ronald Baljeu)
23        - fixed endless loop which occured when loading an instrument editor
24          plugin DLL on Windows systems failed
25        - fixed memory leaks that occurred when liblinuxsampler was unloaded
26        - optimized the SynchronizedConfig class so it doesn't wait
27          unnecessarily long after an update
28        - added support for notifying instrument editors on note-on / note-off
29          events (e.g. to highlight the pressed keys on the virtual keyboard
30          of gigedit)
31        - added support for triggering notes by instrument editors (see above)
32        - be verbose on DLL load errors (on Linux)
33        - fixed di-harmonic triangle LFO implementation (this LFO implementation
34          is only used by very few systems, most pick the int math
35          implementation, which is usually faster)
36        - fixes for audio drivers with varying buffer sizes
37        - experimental support for running LinuxSampler as a DSSI, LV2 and
38          VST plugin
39        - notification events for stream/voice count statistics are now sent
40          only when there are actual changes
41        - added memory ordering constraints to improve stability on
42          multi-core and multi-cpu systems
43        - maximum voices and disk streams can now be altered at runtime
44        - fixed CPU feature detection on x86_64 (maybe fixes #108)
45        - automatic stacktrace mechanism is now turned off by default and can
46          be switched on by command line option "--stacktrace" (the automatic
47          stacktrace mechanism seems to be broken on most systems at the moment)
48        - C++ API method InstrumentManager::LaunchInstrumentEditor() now returns
49          a pointer to the launched InstrumentEditor object
50        - added optional 3rd party user data parameter for following
51          liblinuxsampler C++ API methods: InstrumentEditor::Main(),
52          InstrumentEditor::Launch(),
53          InstrumentManager::LaunchInstrumentEditor()
54        - theoretical fix: made SynchronizedConfig follow C++0x memory
55          model more strictly
56        - fixes for using large audio device buffers
57    
58      * audio driver:
59        - removed the nonsense audio channel constraint (which was hard coded to
60          max. 100 audio channels) for most audio drivers
61        - JACK audio driver did not offer a device parameter "SAMPLERATE" as
62          opposed to the LSCP specs
63        - bugfix: the SAMPLERATE parameter of some drivers (e.g. JACK)
64          reflected the wrong value
65        - fixed a memory management bug in ASIO driver
66        - Makefile fix: JACK_CFLAGS wasn't used
67        - JACK: use jack_client_open instead of the deprecated
68          jack_client_new
69        - added (experimental) CoreAudio driver
70        - applied old fixes to the ASIO driver that were included in the
71          previous binary release but accidentally never committed to CVS
72          (fixes #117)
73        - fixes for ASIO on mingw-w64 (iasio wrapper is not needed on
74          win64)
75        - VST: added support for sample rate and buffer size changes
76        - VST: close editor (Fantasia) when the VST is removed
77    
78      * MIDI driver:
79        - added JACK MIDI driver
80        - dispatch bank select as ordinary CC as well, the user might seriously
81          want to (mis)use it for some purpose ("fixed" in all current MIDI
82          input drivers: ALSA, CoreMIDI, JACK, MidiShare, MME)
83        - bugfix: pitch bend wasn't working with JackMidi, VST, LV2, MME,
84          CoreMidi or AU
85        - fixed mingw-w64 compilation error in MME driver
86    
87      * instruments database:
88        - avoid time consuming samples scanning when adding instruments
89          to the instruments database
90        - added support for handling lost files in the instruments database
91        - Implemented option for adding instruments in separate directories
92          in the instruments database
93          (patch by Chris Cherrett & Andrew Williams, a bit adjusted)
94    
95      * Gigasampler format engine:
96        - fixed a memory leak that could happen when a channel was deleted
97          while notes were playing
98        - made it possible to load an instrument even if the audio thread
99          isn't running
100        - added partial support for the "Controller Triggered" MIDI rule,
101          enough for piano gigs with pedal noise samples
102        - minor fix: only mark FX sends as being modified if really the
103          respective FX send MIDI controller was used
104        - added support for GM global device volume SysEx message
105          (can be selected at compile time to either apply globally to the
106          whole sampler [default] or only to the sampler channels that are
107          connected to the respective MIDI input port the SysEx message arrived
108          on)
109        - bugfix: notes triggered at position 0 in the audio buffer were
110          sometimes wrongly killed in the same buffer, causing no sound to
111          be played
112        - added support for chromatic / drumkit mode Roland GS Sysex message
113          which is usally used to switch a part between chromatic sounds and
114          drumkit sounds (as opposed to their common default setting of MIDI
115          part 10 being a drumkit part and all other ones chromatic parts), in
116          LS however one can switch between the first 16 MIDI instrument maps
117          defined for the sampler
118        - made it possible to create multiple sample channels even if the
119          audio thread isn't running
120        - fixed crash when removing channel with active voices (#116)
121        - bugfix: on sample reference changes (instrument editor), only
122          un-cache the respective sample if it's really not used by any
123          sampler engine anymore
124        - re-cache samples in case they were changed by an instrument editor,
125          e.g. when a sample was added while playing (#82)
126        - fixed hanging notes which occured when note-off event had the exact
127          same time stamp as the voice's note-on event and occured both in the
128          same audio fragment cycle (fixes bug #112)
129        - added support for the "fine tune" and "pitch bend range"
130          instrument-level gig parameters
131        - fixed minor artifacts in pitch bend handling
132        - added support for GS Reset SysEx message
133        - allow gig files to use unlimited downward pitch shifting
134        - added a limit check for upward pitch shifting
135        - bugfix: sometimes, when playing a note twice fast, the second
136          note was silent
137    
138      * LSCP server:
139        - added new LSCP event "CHANNEL_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
140          react on MIDI data arriving on certain sampler channels (so far only
141          Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
142        - added new LSCP event "DEVICE_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
143          react on MIDI data arriving on certain MIDI input devices (so far only
144          Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
145        - added new LSCP commands: FIND LOST DB_INSTRUMENT_FILES and
146          SET DB_INSTRUMENT FILE_PATH
147        - added new LSCP command: SEND CHANNEL MIDI_DATA which can be used by
148          frontends to send MIDI messages to specific sampler channel
149        - added two additional fields to GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO command -
150          KEY_BINDINGS and KEYSWITCH_BINDINGS
151        - bugfix: the bank number provided by MIDI_INSTRUMENT_INFO notifications
152          was incorrect
153        - Optimized the retrieval of the MIDI instrument mappings
154        - added new LSCP command "SET VOICES" to globally alter the maximum
155          amount of voices, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:VOICES" which will
156          be triggered respectively
157        - added new LSCP command "SET STREAMS" to globally alter the maximum
158          amount of disk streams, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:STREAMS"
159          which will be triggered respectively
160        - bugfix: retry if "select" returns EINTR (this fixes a crash when
161          a gigedit file dialog is opened)
162        - close all connections when LSCPServer is deleted
163        - hard close of all sockets on exit
164        - bugfix: SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE didn't work with the MME
165          driver
166    
167      * Bug fixes:
168        - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel waiting
169          to start instrument loading after another channel
170        - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel with
171          instrument loading in progress (bug #113)
172        - fixed termination caused by uncaught exception when adding MIDI
173          instrument with PERSISTENT load mode
174        - fixed possible iterator invalidations when resetting the sampler
175        - fixed memory leaks when issuing the following LSCP commands:
176          GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO
177          GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO
178          GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO
179          GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO
180        - fixed possible compilation error when sqlite is not present
181        - fixed orphaned pointers when setting maximum voices limit (bug #118)
182        - fixed crash when changing the audio output device of a sampler
183          channel with loaded instrument and start playing notes
184        - fixed endless loop in Engine::SuspendAll() (bug #120)
185        - fixed a low-level atomic load function that was broken on 64-bit
186          PowerPC, which probably could cause crashes on that platform
187        - fixed a memory management error which could cause a crash when a
188          plugin was unloaded
189        - bugfix: two private structs had the same name, which could cause
190          problems if the linker chose the wrong constructor
191    
192    
193    Version 0.5.1 (6 December 2007)
194    
195      * packaging changes:
196        - added autoconf checks for pthread library
197        - added autoconf check for pthread bug found on certain NPTL-enabled
198          glibc versions (see Gentoo bug report #194076)
199        - added autoconf checks for MS Windows
200    
201      * general changes:
202        - bugfix: the thread used by an editor plugin didn't die when the
203          editor closed
204        - bugfix: Ringbuffer.h: fill_write_space_with_null() did not zero
205          out all the space. operator--() did not apply size_mask after
206          decrementing the read_ptr. DEFAULT_WRAP_ELEMENTS set to 0 in
207          order to avoid problems with the _NonVolatileReader functions.
208        - bugfix: Stream.h: added a missing divide by BytesPerSample in
209          GetWriteSpace(). Since this function is currently only used in
210          the stream's qsort() compare function, it didn't trigger any
211          bugs.
212        - Resampler.h, Synthesizer.h: cubic interpolation now works in
213          24bit mode too. Faster method to read 24bit words on little
214          endian machines (x86): replaced 3 byte reads + shifts with a 1
215          unaligned 32bit read and shift
216        - experimental support for MS Windows (MIDI input via MME, AUDIO
217          output via ASIO)
218        - made handling of SIGINT signal (Ctrl-C) a bit more robust
219        - support for monitoring the total number of active disk streams
220          (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT,
221          SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT)
222    
223      * AUDIO driver:
224        - added Windows ASIO low latency audio driver
225    
226      * MIDI driver:
227        - added MME Windows MIDI driver
228    
229      * LSCP server:
230        - added support for Windows style path / filenames, however with
231          forward slash path separators instead of backslash
232          (i.e. "C:/foo/bar.gig")
233        - allow naughty liblscp to send non-string device parameters within
234          apostrophes as well
235        - added new LSCP commands: "GET FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>",
236          "LIST FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>" and
237          "GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO <file> <index>" for retrieving informations
238          about an arbitrary instrument file on the system where the sampler is
239          running on
240    
241    Version 0.5.0 (15 October 2007)
242    
243      * packaging changes:
244        - config.h is not going to be installed along with liblinuxsampler's
245          API header files anymore
246        - only the API relevant header (and source) files will be exported to
247          the Doxygen API documentation (explicitly listed in Doxyfile.in)
248        - added completely new XCode project files for Mac OSX which is now
249          capable to execute our autoconf environment, thus no need anymore
250          to maintain the compile time configuration file (osx/version.h) for
251          OSX manually (patch by Toshi Nagata)
252        - fixed buggy boolean --enable-foo / --disable-foo configure script
253          parameters
254        - global.h now only covers global definitions that are needed for the
255          C++ API header files, all implementation internal global definitions
256          are now in global_private.h
257        - atomic.h is not exposed to the C++ API anymore
258        - no need to include config.h anymore for using LS's API header files
259        - fixed warnings in API doc generation
260    
261    * general changes:    * general changes:
262      - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a      - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a
263        flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary        flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary
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275        MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually        MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually
276        a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and        a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and
277        drumkits is possible        drumkits is possible
278      - new notification events for tracking audio/MIDI device changes,      - new notification events for tracking changes to audio/MIDI devices,
279        MIDI instrument map changes and MIDI instrument changes        MIDI instrument maps, MIDI instruments, FX sends, global volume.
280      - sampler was limited to load max. 200 instruments in the background      - sampler was limited to load max. 200 instruments in the background
281        due to a constant size RingBuffer FIFO which is now replaced by a        due to a constant size RingBuffer FIFO which is now replaced by a
282        dynamic (unlimited) size std::list FIFO        dynamic (unlimited) size std::list FIFO
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285        (i.e. jack-rack), the send levels are controllable via arbitrary MIDI        (i.e. jack-rack), the send levels are controllable via arbitrary MIDI
286        controllers        controllers
287      - global (sampler wide) volume can now be controlled at runtime      - global (sampler wide) volume can now be controlled at runtime
288        - Implemented new, improved notification system
289        - fixed compilation errors regarding OSX
290          (patch by Toshi Nagata)
291        - implemented instruments database
292        - added support for escape sequences to the instruments database
293        - added highly experimental support for on-the-fly instrument editing
294          within the sampler's process (by using instrument editor plugins),
295          you'll notice the new "Registered instrument editors:" message on
296          startup, added a new LSCP command:
297          "EDIT CHANNEL INSTRUMENT <sampler-channel>"
298          to spawn a matching instrument editor for the instrument on the
299          given sampler channel, the plugin path can be overridden at compile
300          time with ./configure --enable-plugin-dir=/some/dir
301        - added experimental code for synchronizing instrument editors hosted
302          in the sampler's process to safely edit instruments while playing
303          without a crash (hopefully) by either suspending single regions
304          wherever possible or if unavoidable whole engine(s)
305        - fixed several issues in fundamental "Thread" class: set scheduling
306          policy and priority on thread level, set a minimum stack size for
307          thread (TODO: a reasonable value yet to be tested), bugfix: non-RT
308          threads simply inherited properties of starting thread instead of
309          setting their own policy and priority
310        - minor fix in our automatic stack trace mechanism on crashes, the
311          main process did not wait for the stack trace process to finish
312          its output
313        - fixed some minor memory leaks
314        - reenabled assembly features support, at the moment only for
315          enabling a fast denormal FPU mode (x86 platforms supporting SSE2)
316        - minor assembly fix in x86 features detection (don't use the PIC
317          register, to avoid relocations in the text segment at runtime)
318        - POSIX callback functions of Thread.h are hidden
319    
320    * MIDI driver:    * MIDI driver:
321      - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages      - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages
322    
323      * audio driver:
324        - the ALSA audio output driver parameters now reflect the correct
325          parameter value ranges for the respective selected sound card
326          (patch by Till Wimmer, a bit fixed and extended)
327    
328    * Gigasampler format engine:    * Gigasampler format engine:
329      - if a filter is used and EG2 finishes before EG1, let the voice      - if a filter is used and EG2 finishes before EG1, let the voice
330        die when EG2 has finished (this fixes a problem with clicks and        die when EG2 has finished (this fixes a problem with clicks and
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333      - all notes playing on a channel that changes its instrument keep      - all notes playing on a channel that changes its instrument keep
334        playing with the old instrument until they get a note off        playing with the old instrument until they get a note off
335        command        command
336        - EG fix: a release value of zero could cause noises or crash
337        - handle MIDI coarse tuning messages (MIDI RPN #0 MSB #2 LSB)
338        - EG fine tuning: when attack is zero the EG starts at a level
339          above max sustain level, which means that there is a decay phase
340          even if sustain is 100%
341        - more EG fixes: the level could sometimes go below zero and cause
342          noises or crashes
343        - minor fix of EGDecay (patch by Toshi Nagata)
344        - fixed compiler error when --enable-override-filter-type was
345          supplied to the configure script (fixes #46)
346        - disk thread: queue sizes are now proportional to CONFIG_MAX_STREAMS
347          instead of a fix value
348        - behavior fix: on MIDI CC# 65 (portamento on / off), 126 (mono mode),
349          127 (solo mode) only kill voices if the respective mode really
350          changed
351    
352      * LSCP server:
353        - fixed compile time error for old Bison versions
354          (i.e. v1.28 found on MacOS 10.4, patch by Toshi Nagata)
355        - parser now supports extended ASCII character set
356          (up to ASCII code 255, i.e. includes now umlauts and accents)
357        - filename arguments in LSCP commands now allow to use escape
358          sequences, that is directly literal as one of: \', \", \\, \n, \r,
359          \f, \t, \v, or as octal ASCII code value like \132, or as hex ASCII
360          code value like \xf2) (fixes bug #24)
361        - the following LSCP commands now also support escape sequences for at
362          least one of their text-based parameters (i.e. name, description):
363          "ADD MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP", "MAP MIDI_INSTRUMENT",
364          "SET MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP NAME", "SET FX_SEND NAME", "CREATE FX_SEND",
365          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY NAME",
366          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY DESCRIPTION", "SET DB_INSTRUMENT NAME",
367          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION", "FIND DB_INSTRUMENTS",
368          "FIND DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORIES"
369        - returns verbose syntax errors (line and column where syntax error
370          occured, the unexpected character and the actually expected, possible
371          character(s), the latter only if less than 5 possibilities)
372        - made sure that LSCP syntax is not affected by gigedit locale
373          settings
374        - bugfix regarding strings parameter lists: all comma separated lists
375          of strings were treated as being one string containing commas
376          (fixes #57)
377    
378    * Bug fixes:    * Bug fixes:
379      - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)      - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)
380      - another thread safety fix for lscp "load engine" and "set      - another thread safety fix for lscp "load engine" and "set
381        channel audio output device"        channel audio output device"
382        - fixed a crash which occurs when reassigning the same engine
383          on a sampler channel with connected MIDI device
384        - fixed a crash which occurs when changing the number of ports of a MIDI
385          device connected to a sampler channel to number less then or equal
386          to the index of the port to which the sampler channel is connected.
387        - The previous bindings were not been disconnected when altering
388          the ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS parameter. Introduced a NONE keyword for
389          unsubscribing from all bindings (e.g. ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS=NONE).
390        - The active stream/voice count statistic was incorrect.
391        - notification events were not been sent for some sampler
392          channel changes
393        - added default min and max values to restrict the number of allowed
394          audio output channels and MIDI input ports
395        - the connection to the PCM interface is now closed when destroying
396          an audio output device
397        - files with slash in their path or filename could not be loaded
398    
399      * test cases:
400        - updated and fixed (haven't been touched in a while)
401    
402  Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)  Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)
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