--- linuxsampler/trunk/ChangeLog 2008/11/30 09:10:07 1794 +++ linuxsampler/trunk/ChangeLog 2010/01/11 21:14:14 2047 @@ -1,5 +1,44 @@ Version CVS HEAD (?) + * General changes: + - Refactoring: moved the independent code from + the Gigasampler format engine to base classes + - command line option '--profile' is currently disabled, since the + respective profiling code is currently broken + + * Gigasampler format engine: + - implemented the "round robin keyboard" dimension + - fixed round robin and random dimensions for cases when number of + dimension zones is not a power of two + - made round robin use a counter for each region instead of each + key + + * SFZ format engine: + - Initial implementation (not usable yet) + + * SoundFont format engine: + - Initial implementation (not usable yet) + + * Host plugins: + - AU bugfix: failed to destroy its audio/MIDI devices + - Listen to all interfaces on Mac OS X (INADDR_ANY) + - VST bugfix: If the host called resume() before and after + changing sample rate or block size, the number of channels was + incorrectly set to two. This caused silence in Cubase 5. + + * MIDI driver: + - ALSA MIDI driver supports now "NAME" device parameter, for overriding + the ALSA sequencer client name + + * LSCP server: + - added support for sending MIDI CC messages via LSCP command + "SEND CHANNEL MIDI_DATA CC " + + * Bug fixes: + - Fixed crash which may occur when MIDI key + transpose is out of range + +Version 1.0.0 (31 July 2009) + * packaging changes: - autoconf bugfix: the PKG_CONFIG variable wasn't initialized properly, causing e.g. the libgig test to fail when @@ -8,6 +47,17 @@ - fixed compilation with gcc 4.3 - fixes for building on OS X (thanks to Ebrahim Mayat for testing) - fixed configure so it detects x86_64 (#107) + - fixes for building with newer MinGW versions + - fix for building with bison 2.4 (#111) + - fixed building with libgig installed in a non-standard directory + - minor fix in configure for mmsystem.h detection on MinGW + - Windows: look for editor plugins and Fantasia using base + directory of liblinuxsampler dll (look in the same directory and one + directory above) + - configure script fix: removed unconditional use of SSE + - fixed building with sqlite installed in a non-standard directory + - when cross-compiling, don't try to create instruments.db + - fix for new mingw-w64 version, which has usleep * general changes: - bugfix: on some POSIX systems instrument editor plugins refused to @@ -33,6 +83,23 @@ only when there are actual changes - added memory ordering constraints to improve stability on multi-core and multi-cpu systems + - maximum voices and disk streams can now be altered at runtime + - fixed CPU feature detection on x86_64 (maybe fixes #108) + - automatic stacktrace mechanism is now turned off by default and can + be switched on by command line option "--stacktrace" (the automatic + stacktrace mechanism seems to be broken on most systems at the moment) + - C++ API method InstrumentManager::LaunchInstrumentEditor() now returns + a pointer to the launched InstrumentEditor object + - added optional 3rd party user data parameter for following + liblinuxsampler C++ API methods: InstrumentEditor::Main(), + InstrumentEditor::Launch(), + InstrumentManager::LaunchInstrumentEditor() + - theoretical fix: made SynchronizedConfig follow C++0x memory + model more strictly + - fixes for using large audio device buffers + - Windows: add the installation directory to the DLL search path + when loading an editor plugin (solves problems with VST and + gigedit on systems with other GTK versions installed) * audio driver: - removed the nonsense audio channel constraint (which was hard coded to @@ -45,12 +112,38 @@ - Makefile fix: JACK_CFLAGS wasn't used - JACK: use jack_client_open instead of the deprecated jack_client_new + - added (experimental) CoreAudio driver + - applied old fixes to the ASIO driver that were included in the + previous binary release but accidentally never committed to CVS + (fixes #117) + - fixes for ASIO on mingw-w64 (iasio wrapper is not needed on + win64) + - VST: added support for sample rate and buffer size changes + - VST: close editor (Fantasia) when the VST is removed + - VST: avoid opening Fantasia more than once for each VST instance + - VST: export main function as "main" on Linux too (fix for + energyXT) + - VST: changed number of output channels from one stereo to 16 + stereo + - added channel routing, fxsends and midi maps to the settings + stored in the plugin state + - performance optimization of AudioChannel::MixTo() and + AudioChannel::CopyTo() methods using GCC vector exensions + (if available) + - ASIO fixes: avoid initializing the device twice, avoid throwing + exception when getting parameters from a disconnected device * MIDI driver: - added JACK MIDI driver - dispatch bank select as ordinary CC as well, the user might seriously want to (mis)use it for some purpose ("fixed" in all current MIDI input drivers: ALSA, CoreMIDI, JACK, MidiShare, MME) + - bugfix: pitch bend wasn't working with JackMidi, VST, LV2, MME, + CoreMidi or AU + - fixed mingw-w64 compilation error in MME driver + - made program change handling in MIDI thread real-time safe by + moving the logic to a non-RT thread + - fixed minor memory leak in ALSA driver * instruments database: - avoid time consuming samples scanning when adding instruments @@ -59,6 +152,16 @@ - Implemented option for adding instruments in separate directories in the instruments database (patch by Chris Cherrett & Andrew Williams, a bit adjusted) + - work-around for missing fnmatch function on Windows to make + instrument database compilable + - added instrument database support on Windows + works with both standalone mode and VST plugin. + the instruments DB file is located in + %USERPROFILE%\.linuxsampler\instruments.db which allows different + databases for each windows user + if no DB is present it automatically creates the .linuxsampler subdir + and then creates an empty DB + - fixed recursive import, which was broken on Windows * Gigasampler format engine: - fixed a memory leak that could happen when a channel was deleted @@ -85,6 +188,25 @@ defined for the sampler - made it possible to create multiple sample channels even if the audio thread isn't running + - fixed crash when removing channel with active voices (#116) + - bugfix: on sample reference changes (instrument editor), only + un-cache the respective sample if it's really not used by any + sampler engine anymore + - re-cache samples in case they were changed by an instrument editor, + e.g. when a sample was added while playing (#82) + - fixed hanging notes which occured when note-off event had the exact + same time stamp as the voice's note-on event and occured both in the + same audio fragment cycle (fixes bug #112) + - added support for the "fine tune" and "pitch bend range" + instrument-level gig parameters + - fixed minor artifacts in pitch bend handling + - added support for GS Reset SysEx message + - allow gig files to use unlimited downward pitch shifting + - added a limit check for upward pitch shifting + - bugfix: sometimes, when playing a note twice fast, the second + note was silent + - fixed crash happening when a pitch bend event arrived at the + same time a new instrument was loading * LSCP server: - added new LSCP event "CHANNEL_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to @@ -102,10 +224,45 @@ - bugfix: the bank number provided by MIDI_INSTRUMENT_INFO notifications was incorrect - Optimized the retrieval of the MIDI instrument mappings + - added new LSCP command "SET VOICES" to globally alter the maximum + amount of voices, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:VOICES" which will + be triggered respectively + - added new LSCP command "SET STREAMS" to globally alter the maximum + amount of disk streams, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:STREAMS" + which will be triggered respectively + - bugfix: retry if "select" returns EINTR (this fixes a crash when + a gigedit file dialog is opened) + - close all connections when LSCPServer is deleted + - hard close of all sockets on exit + - bugfix: SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE didn't work with the MME + driver * Bug fixes: - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel waiting to start instrument loading after another channel + - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel with + instrument loading in progress (bug #113) + - fixed termination caused by uncaught exception when adding MIDI + instrument with PERSISTENT load mode + - fixed possible iterator invalidations when resetting the sampler + - fixed memory leaks when issuing the following LSCP commands: + GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO + GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO + GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO + GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO + - fixed possible compilation error when sqlite is not present + - fixed orphaned pointers when setting maximum voices limit (bug #118) + - fixed crash when changing the audio output device of a sampler + channel with loaded instrument and start playing notes + - fixed endless loop in Engine::SuspendAll() (bug #120) + - fixed a low-level atomic load function that was broken on 64-bit + PowerPC, which probably could cause crashes on that platform + - fixed a memory management error which could cause a crash when a + plugin was unloaded + - bugfix: two private structs had the same name, which could cause + problems if the linker chose the wrong constructor + - fixed low-level ConditionServer usage bug that caused lockups on + Windows Version 0.5.1 (6 December 2007)