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revision 877 by persson, Sun Jun 25 13:54:17 2006 UTC revision 1295 by iliev, Mon Aug 13 20:05:56 2007 UTC
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1  Version CVS HEAD (?)  Version CVS HEAD (?)
2    
3    * packaging changes:    * packaging changes:
4        - config.h is not going to be installed along with liblinuxsampler's
5          API header files anymore
6        - only the API relevant header (and source) files will be exported to
7          the Doxygen API documentation (explicitly listed in Doxyfile.in)
8        - added completely new XCode project files for Mac OSX which is now
9          capable to execute our autoconf environment, thus no need anymore
10          to maintain the compile time configuration file (osx/version.h) for
11          OSX manually (patch by Toshi Nagata)
12    
13      * general changes:
14        - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a
15          flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary
16          (MIDI bank, MIDI program) pairs with arbitrary
17          (engine type, instrument file, file index) triplets which will be
18          loaded on the respective channel when such MIDI program change
19          messages arrive, beside that, each entry allows to define a life-time
20          strategy for the instrument, so the user can define whether the
21          instrument should i.e. be permanently loaded (to be able to switch
22          quickly among sounds) or i.e. loaded just on demand when the
23          respective program change arrives (to safe RAM space), as well as a
24          global volume factor for each entry, so the user can adjust the volume
25          dynamic of his mapped instrument collection without having to modify
26          the instrument files, also one can manage arbitrary amount of such
27          MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually
28          a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and
29          drumkits is possible
30        - new notification events for tracking changes to audio/MIDI devices,
31          MIDI instrument maps, MIDI instruments, FX sends, global volume.
32        - sampler was limited to load max. 200 instruments in the background
33          due to a constant size RingBuffer FIFO which is now replaced by a
34          dynamic (unlimited) size std::list FIFO
35        - added FX sends, these allow to route audio signals to arbitrary audio
36          output channels for being processed by external effect processors
37          (i.e. jack-rack), the send levels are controllable via arbitrary MIDI
38          controllers
39        - global (sampler wide) volume can now be controlled at runtime
40        - Implemented new, improved notification system
41        - fixed compilation errors regarding OSX
42          (patch by Toshi Nagata)
43        - implemented instruments database
44        - added highly experimental support for on-the-fly instrument editing
45          within the sampler's process (by using instrument editor plugins),
46          you'll notice the new "Registered instrument editors:" message on
47          startup, added a new LSCP command "EDIT INSTRUMENT <sampler-channel>"
48          to spawn a matching instrument editor for the instrument on the
49          given sampler channel, the plugin path can be overridden at compile
50          time with ./configure --enable-plugin-dir=/some/dir
51        - fixed several issues in fundamental "Thread" class: set scheduling
52          policy and priority on thread level, set a minimum stack size for
53          thread (TODO: a reasonable value yet to be tested), bugfix: non-RT
54          threads simply inherited properties of starting thread instead of
55          setting their own policy and priority
56        - minor fix in our automatic stack trace mechanism on crashes, the
57          main process did not wait for the stack trace process to finish
58          its output
59        - fixed some minor memory leaks
60        - reenabled assembly features support, at the moment only for
61          enabling a fast denormal FPU mode (x86 platforms supporting SSE2)
62    
63      * MIDI driver:
64        - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages
65    
66      * audio driver:
67        - the ALSA audio output driver parameters now reflect the correct
68          parameter value ranges for the respective selected sound card
69          (patch by Till Wimmer, a bit fixed and extended)
70    
71      * Gigasampler format engine:
72        - if a filter is used and EG2 finishes before EG1, let the voice
73          die when EG2 has finished (this fixes a problem with clicks and
74          voice starvation for some gigs)
75        - playback is no longer disabled during instrument loading
76        - all notes playing on a channel that changes its instrument keep
77          playing with the old instrument until they get a note off
78          command
79        - EG fix: a release value of zero could cause noises or crash
80        - handle MIDI coarse tuning messages (MIDI RPN #0 MSB #2 LSB)
81        - EG fine tuning: when attack is zero the EG starts at a level
82          above max sustain level, which means that there is a decay phase
83          even if sustain is 100%
84        - more EG fixes: the level could sometimes go below zero and cause
85          noises or crashes
86        - minor fix of EGDecay (patch by Toshi Nagata)
87        - fixed compiler error when --enable-override-filter-type was
88          supplied to the configure script (fixes #46)
89    
90      * LSCP server:
91        - fixed compile time error for old Bison versions
92          (i.e. v1.28 found on MacOS 10.4, patch by Toshi Nagata)
93        - parser now supports extended ASCII character set
94          (up to ASCII code 255, i.e. includes now umlauts and accents)
95        - filename arguments in LSCP commands now allow to use escape
96          sequences, that is directly literal as one of: \', \", \\, \n, \r,
97          \f, \t, \v, or as octal ASCII code value like \132, or as hex ASCII
98          code value like \xf2) (fixes bug #24)
99        - returns verbose syntax errors (line and column where syntax error
100          occured, the unexpected character and the actually expected, possible
101          character(s), the latter only if less than 5 possibilities)
102    
103      * Bug fixes:
104        - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)
105        - another thread safety fix for lscp "load engine" and "set
106          channel audio output device"
107        - fixed a crash which occurs when reassigning the same engine
108          on a sampler channel with connected MIDI device
109        - fixed a crash which occurs when changing the number of ports of a MIDI
110          device connected to a sampler channel to number less then or equal
111          to the index of the port to which the sampler channel is connected.
112    
113      * test cases:
114        - updated and fixed (haven't been touched in a while)
115    
116    Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)
117    
118      * packaging changes:
119      - changed deprecated copyright attribute to license; added ldconfig      - changed deprecated copyright attribute to license; added ldconfig
120        to post-(un)install steps; added devel package for liblinuxsampler;        to post-(un)install steps; added devel package for liblinuxsampler;
121        to linuxsampler.spec (RPM)        to linuxsampler.spec (RPM)
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134        messages        messages
135      - added compile time options to allow disabling the various audio and      - added compile time options to allow disabling the various audio and
136        MIDI drivers        MIDI drivers
137        - fixed automatic GCC CPU switch detection on PPC
138          (patch by Ebrahim Mayat)
139    
140    * Gigasampler format engine:    * Gigasampler format engine:
141      - extensive synthesis optimization      - extensive synthesis optimization
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178      - reimplementation of the filter algorithm. The new filter is more      - reimplementation of the filter algorithm. The new filter is more
179        accurate and supports all gig filter types, including bandreject        accurate and supports all gig filter types, including bandreject
180        and lowpass turbo.        and lowpass turbo.
181        - real support for 24 bit samples - samples are not truncated to
182          16 bits anymore
183        - support for aftertouch (channel pressure, not polyphonic
184          aftertouch)
185        - LFO1 behaviour fixed (dampening from max volume instead of
186          amplifying from 0)
187    
188    * LSCP server:    * LSCP server:
189      - fixed application exit on broken pipe error (fixes bug #20)      - fixed application exit on broken pipe error (fixes bug #20)
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198    * MIDI driver:    * MIDI driver:
199      - fixed legacy sysex code which caused dispatching of MIDI SysEx      - fixed legacy sysex code which caused dispatching of MIDI SysEx
200        messages several times instead of once        messages several times instead of once
201        - API extension for MIDI drivers which already supply exact time stamps
202          for events (i.e. for offline rendering based MIDI drivers)
203        - added checks for bad MIDI data
204    
205      * linuxsampler application:
206        - show available sampler engine types on startup
207    
208    * general changes:    * general changes:
209      - support for muting sampler channels and solo mode of the same, two new      - support for muting sampler channels and solo mode of the same, two new
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220      - fixed some memory management errors      - fixed some memory management errors
221      - fixed some concurrency problems that could lead to crashes when      - fixed some concurrency problems that could lead to crashes when
222        LSCP commands were executed        LSCP commands were executed
223        - fixed crash when instrument loading failed previously on the same
224          sampler channel (fixes bug #36)
225    
226  Version 0.3.3 (15 July 2005)  Version 0.3.3 (15 July 2005)
227    

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