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revision 1041 by schoenebeck, Wed Feb 7 17:45:19 2007 UTC revision 1687 by schoenebeck, Thu Feb 14 14:59:30 2008 UTC
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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    
9      * general changes:
10        - bugfix: on some POSIX systems instrument editor plugins refused to
11          load as we used a non-portable Linux specific struct field
12          (fixes bug #70, patch by Ronald Baljeu)
13        - fixed endless loop which occured when loading an instrument editor
14          plugin DLL on Windows systems failed
15        - fixed memory leaks that occurred when liblinuxsampler was unloaded
16        - optimized the SynchronizedConfig class so it doesn't wait
17          unnecessarily long after an update
18        - added support for notifying instrument editors on note-on / note-off
19          events (e.g. to highlight the pressed keys on the virtual keyboard
20          of gigedit)
21        - added support for triggering notes by instrument editors (see above)
22        - be verbose on DLL load errors (on Linux)
23        - fixed di-harmonic triangle LFO implementation (this LFO implementation
24          is only used by very few systems, most pick the int math
25          implementation, which is usually faster)
26    
27      * audio driver:
28        - removed the nonsense audio channel constraint (which was hard coded to
29          max. 100 audio channels) for most audio drivers
30        - JACK audio driver did not offer a device parameter "SAMPLERATE" as
31          opposed to the LSCP specs
32        - bugfix: the SAMPLERATE parameter of some drivers (e.g. JACK)
33          reflected the wrong value
34        - fixed a memory management bug in ASIO driver
35    
36      * MIDI driver:
37        - added JACK MIDI driver
38    
39      * instruments database:
40        - avoid time consuming samples scanning when adding instruments
41          to the instruments database
42    
43      * Gigasampler format engine:
44        - fixed a memory leak that could happen when a channel was deleted
45          while notes were playing
46        - made it possible to load an instrument even if the audio thread
47          isn't running
48    
49      * LSCP server:
50        - added new LSCP event "CHANNEL_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
51          react on MIDI data arriving on certain sampler channels (so far only
52          Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
53    
54    Version 0.5.1 (6 December 2007)
55    
56      * packaging changes:
57        - added autoconf checks for pthread library
58        - added autoconf check for pthread bug found on certain NPTL-enabled
59          glibc versions (see Gentoo bug report #194076)
60        - added autoconf checks for MS Windows
61    
62      * general changes:
63        - bugfix: the thread used by an editor plugin didn't die when the
64          editor closed
65        - bugfix: Ringbuffer.h: fill_write_space_with_null() did not zero
66          out all the space. operator--() did not apply size_mask after
67          decrementing the read_ptr. DEFAULT_WRAP_ELEMENTS set to 0 in
68          order to avoid problems with the _NonVolatileReader functions.
69        - bugfix: Stream.h: added a missing divide by BytesPerSample in
70          GetWriteSpace(). Since this function is currently only used in
71          the stream's qsort() compare function, it didn't trigger any
72          bugs.
73        - Resampler.h, Synthesizer.h: cubic interpolation now works in
74          24bit mode too. Faster method to read 24bit words on little
75          endian machines (x86): replaced 3 byte reads + shifts with a 1
76          unaligned 32bit read and shift
77        - experimental support for MS Windows (MIDI input via MME, AUDIO
78          output via ASIO)
79        - made handling of SIGINT signal (Ctrl-C) a bit more robust
80        - support for monitoring the total number of active disk streams
81          (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT,
82          SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT)
83    
84      * AUDIO driver:
85        - added Windows ASIO low latency audio driver
86    
87      * MIDI driver:
88        - added MME Windows MIDI driver
89    
90      * LSCP server:
91        - added support for Windows style path / filenames, however with
92          forward slash path separators instead of backslash
93          (i.e. "C:/foo/bar.gig")
94        - allow naughty liblscp to send non-string device parameters within
95          apostrophes as well
96        - added new LSCP commands: "GET FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>",
97          "LIST FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>" and
98          "GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO <file> <index>" for retrieving informations
99          about an arbitrary instrument file on the system where the sampler is
100          running on
101    
102    Version 0.5.0 (15 October 2007)
103    
104      * packaging changes:
105        - config.h is not going to be installed along with liblinuxsampler's
106          API header files anymore
107        - only the API relevant header (and source) files will be exported to
108          the Doxygen API documentation (explicitly listed in Doxyfile.in)
109        - added completely new XCode project files for Mac OSX which is now
110          capable to execute our autoconf environment, thus no need anymore
111          to maintain the compile time configuration file (osx/version.h) for
112          OSX manually (patch by Toshi Nagata)
113        - fixed buggy boolean --enable-foo / --disable-foo configure script
114          parameters
115        - global.h now only covers global definitions that are needed for the
116          C++ API header files, all implementation internal global definitions
117          are now in global_private.h
118        - atomic.h is not exposed to the C++ API anymore
119        - no need to include config.h anymore for using LS's API header files
120        - fixed warnings in API doc generation
121    
122    * general changes:    * general changes:
123      - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a      - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a
124        flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary        flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary
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136        MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually        MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually
137        a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and        a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and
138        drumkits is possible        drumkits is possible
139      - new notification events for tracking audio/MIDI device changes,      - new notification events for tracking changes to audio/MIDI devices,
140        MIDI instrument map changes and MIDI instrument changes        MIDI instrument maps, MIDI instruments, FX sends, global volume.
141      - sampler was limited to load max. 200 instruments in the background      - sampler was limited to load max. 200 instruments in the background
142        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
143        dynamic (unlimited) size std::list FIFO        dynamic (unlimited) size std::list FIFO
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146        (i.e. jack-rack), the send levels are controllable via arbitrary MIDI        (i.e. jack-rack), the send levels are controllable via arbitrary MIDI
147        controllers        controllers
148      - global (sampler wide) volume can now be controlled at runtime      - global (sampler wide) volume can now be controlled at runtime
149        - Implemented new, improved notification system
150        - fixed compilation errors regarding OSX
151          (patch by Toshi Nagata)
152        - implemented instruments database
153        - added support for escape sequences to the instruments database
154        - added highly experimental support for on-the-fly instrument editing
155          within the sampler's process (by using instrument editor plugins),
156          you'll notice the new "Registered instrument editors:" message on
157          startup, added a new LSCP command:
158          "EDIT CHANNEL INSTRUMENT <sampler-channel>"
159          to spawn a matching instrument editor for the instrument on the
160          given sampler channel, the plugin path can be overridden at compile
161          time with ./configure --enable-plugin-dir=/some/dir
162        - added experimental code for synchronizing instrument editors hosted
163          in the sampler's process to safely edit instruments while playing
164          without a crash (hopefully) by either suspending single regions
165          wherever possible or if unavoidable whole engine(s)
166        - fixed several issues in fundamental "Thread" class: set scheduling
167          policy and priority on thread level, set a minimum stack size for
168          thread (TODO: a reasonable value yet to be tested), bugfix: non-RT
169          threads simply inherited properties of starting thread instead of
170          setting their own policy and priority
171        - minor fix in our automatic stack trace mechanism on crashes, the
172          main process did not wait for the stack trace process to finish
173          its output
174        - fixed some minor memory leaks
175        - reenabled assembly features support, at the moment only for
176          enabling a fast denormal FPU mode (x86 platforms supporting SSE2)
177        - minor assembly fix in x86 features detection (don't use the PIC
178          register, to avoid relocations in the text segment at runtime)
179        - POSIX callback functions of Thread.h are hidden
180    
181    * MIDI driver:    * MIDI driver:
182      - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages      - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages
183    
184      * audio driver:
185        - the ALSA audio output driver parameters now reflect the correct
186          parameter value ranges for the respective selected sound card
187          (patch by Till Wimmer, a bit fixed and extended)
188    
189    * Gigasampler format engine:    * Gigasampler format engine:
190      - 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
191        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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196        command        command
197      - EG fix: a release value of zero could cause noises or crash      - EG fix: a release value of zero could cause noises or crash
198      - handle MIDI coarse tuning messages (MIDI RPN #0 MSB #2 LSB)      - handle MIDI coarse tuning messages (MIDI RPN #0 MSB #2 LSB)
199        - EG fine tuning: when attack is zero the EG starts at a level
200          above max sustain level, which means that there is a decay phase
201          even if sustain is 100%
202        - more EG fixes: the level could sometimes go below zero and cause
203          noises or crashes
204        - minor fix of EGDecay (patch by Toshi Nagata)
205        - fixed compiler error when --enable-override-filter-type was
206          supplied to the configure script (fixes #46)
207        - disk thread: queue sizes are now proportional to CONFIG_MAX_STREAMS
208          instead of a fix value
209        - behavior fix: on MIDI CC# 65 (portamento on / off), 126 (mono mode),
210          127 (solo mode) only kill voices if the respective mode really
211          changed
212    
213      * LSCP server:
214        - fixed compile time error for old Bison versions
215          (i.e. v1.28 found on MacOS 10.4, patch by Toshi Nagata)
216        - parser now supports extended ASCII character set
217          (up to ASCII code 255, i.e. includes now umlauts and accents)
218        - filename arguments in LSCP commands now allow to use escape
219          sequences, that is directly literal as one of: \', \", \\, \n, \r,
220          \f, \t, \v, or as octal ASCII code value like \132, or as hex ASCII
221          code value like \xf2) (fixes bug #24)
222        - the following LSCP commands now also support escape sequences for at
223          least one of their text-based parameters (i.e. name, description):
224          "ADD MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP", "MAP MIDI_INSTRUMENT",
225          "SET MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP NAME", "SET FX_SEND NAME", "CREATE FX_SEND",
226          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY NAME",
227          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY DESCRIPTION", "SET DB_INSTRUMENT NAME",
228          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION", "FIND DB_INSTRUMENTS",
229          "FIND DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORIES"
230        - returns verbose syntax errors (line and column where syntax error
231          occured, the unexpected character and the actually expected, possible
232          character(s), the latter only if less than 5 possibilities)
233        - made sure that LSCP syntax is not affected by gigedit locale
234          settings
235        - bugfix regarding strings parameter lists: all comma separated lists
236          of strings were treated as being one string containing commas
237          (fixes #57)
238    
239    * Bug fixes:    * Bug fixes:
240      - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)      - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)
241      - another thread safety fix for lscp "load engine" and "set      - another thread safety fix for lscp "load engine" and "set
242        channel audio output device"        channel audio output device"
243        - fixed a crash which occurs when reassigning the same engine
244          on a sampler channel with connected MIDI device
245        - fixed a crash which occurs when changing the number of ports of a MIDI
246          device connected to a sampler channel to number less then or equal
247          to the index of the port to which the sampler channel is connected.
248        - The previous bindings were not been disconnected when altering
249          the ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS parameter. Introduced a NONE keyword for
250          unsubscribing from all bindings (e.g. ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS=NONE).
251        - The active stream/voice count statistic was incorrect.
252        - notification events were not been sent for some sampler
253          channel changes
254        - added default min and max values to restrict the number of allowed
255          audio output channels and MIDI input ports
256        - the connection to the PCM interface is now closed when destroying
257          an audio output device
258        - files with slash in their path or filename could not be loaded
259    
260      * test cases:
261        - updated and fixed (haven't been touched in a while)
262    
263  Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)  Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)
264    

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