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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    
16      * general changes:
17        - bugfix: on some POSIX systems instrument editor plugins refused to
18          load as we used a non-portable Linux specific struct field
19          (fixes bug #70, patch by Ronald Baljeu)
20        - fixed endless loop which occured when loading an instrument editor
21          plugin DLL on Windows systems failed
22        - fixed memory leaks that occurred when liblinuxsampler was unloaded
23        - optimized the SynchronizedConfig class so it doesn't wait
24          unnecessarily long after an update
25        - added support for notifying instrument editors on note-on / note-off
26          events (e.g. to highlight the pressed keys on the virtual keyboard
27          of gigedit)
28        - added support for triggering notes by instrument editors (see above)
29        - be verbose on DLL load errors (on Linux)
30        - fixed di-harmonic triangle LFO implementation (this LFO implementation
31          is only used by very few systems, most pick the int math
32          implementation, which is usually faster)
33        - fixes for audio drivers with varying buffer sizes
34        - experimental support for running LinuxSampler as a DSSI, LV2 and
35          VST plugin
36        - notification events for stream/voice count statistics are now sent
37          only when there are actual changes
38        - added memory ordering constraints to improve stability on
39          multi-core and multi-cpu systems
40        - maximum voices and disk streams can now be altered at runtime
41        - fixed CPU feature detection on x86_64 (maybe fixes #108)
42        - automatic stacktrace mechanism is now turned off by default and can
43          be switched on by command line option "--stacktrace" (the automatic
44          stacktrace mechanism seems to be broken on most systems at the moment)
45        - C++ API method InstrumentManager::LaunchInstrumentEditor() now returns
46          a pointer to the launched InstrumentEditor object
47        - added optional 3rd party user data parameter for following
48          liblinuxsampler C++ API methods: InstrumentEditor::Main(),
49          InstrumentEditor::Launch(),
50          InstrumentManager::LaunchInstrumentEditor()
51        - theoretical fix: made SynchronizedConfig follow C++0x memory
52          model more strictly
53        - fixes for using large audio device buffers
54    
55      * audio driver:
56        - removed the nonsense audio channel constraint (which was hard coded to
57          max. 100 audio channels) for most audio drivers
58        - JACK audio driver did not offer a device parameter "SAMPLERATE" as
59          opposed to the LSCP specs
60        - bugfix: the SAMPLERATE parameter of some drivers (e.g. JACK)
61          reflected the wrong value
62        - fixed a memory management bug in ASIO driver
63        - Makefile fix: JACK_CFLAGS wasn't used
64        - JACK: use jack_client_open instead of the deprecated
65          jack_client_new
66        - added (experimental) CoreAudio driver
67        - applied old fixes to the ASIO driver that were included in the
68          previous binary release but accidentally never committed to CVS
69          (fixes #117)
70        - fixes for ASIO on mingw-w64 (iasio wrapper is not needed on
71          win64)
72        - VST: added support for sample rate and buffer size changes
73        - VST: close editor (Fantasia) when the VST is removed
74    
75      * MIDI driver:
76        - added JACK MIDI driver
77        - dispatch bank select as ordinary CC as well, the user might seriously
78          want to (mis)use it for some purpose ("fixed" in all current MIDI
79          input drivers: ALSA, CoreMIDI, JACK, MidiShare, MME)
80        - bugfix: pitch bend wasn't working with JackMidi, VST, LV2, MME,
81          CoreMidi or AU
82        - fixed mingw-w64 compilation error in MME driver
83    
84      * instruments database:
85        - avoid time consuming samples scanning when adding instruments
86          to the instruments database
87        - added support for handling lost files in the instruments database
88        - Implemented option for adding instruments in separate directories
89          in the instruments database
90          (patch by Chris Cherrett & Andrew Williams, a bit adjusted)
91    
92      * Gigasampler format engine:
93        - fixed a memory leak that could happen when a channel was deleted
94          while notes were playing
95        - made it possible to load an instrument even if the audio thread
96          isn't running
97        - added partial support for the "Controller Triggered" MIDI rule,
98          enough for piano gigs with pedal noise samples
99        - minor fix: only mark FX sends as being modified if really the
100          respective FX send MIDI controller was used
101        - added support for GM global device volume SysEx message
102          (can be selected at compile time to either apply globally to the
103          whole sampler [default] or only to the sampler channels that are
104          connected to the respective MIDI input port the SysEx message arrived
105          on)
106        - bugfix: notes triggered at position 0 in the audio buffer were
107          sometimes wrongly killed in the same buffer, causing no sound to
108          be played
109        - added support for chromatic / drumkit mode Roland GS Sysex message
110          which is usally used to switch a part between chromatic sounds and
111          drumkit sounds (as opposed to their common default setting of MIDI
112          part 10 being a drumkit part and all other ones chromatic parts), in
113          LS however one can switch between the first 16 MIDI instrument maps
114          defined for the sampler
115        - made it possible to create multiple sample channels even if the
116          audio thread isn't running
117        - fixed crash when removing channel with active voices (#116)
118        - bugfix: on sample reference changes (instrument editor), only
119          un-cache the respective sample if it's really not used by any
120          sampler engine anymore
121        - re-cache samples in case they were changed by an instrument editor,
122          e.g. when a sample was added while playing (#82)
123        - fixed hanging notes which occured when note-off event had the exact
124          same time stamp as the voice's note-on event and occured both in the
125          same audio fragment cycle (fixes bug #112)
126        - added support for the "fine tune" and "pitch bend range"
127          instrument-level gig parameters
128        - fixed minor artifacts in pitch bend handling
129        - added support for GS Reset SysEx message
130        - allow gig files to use unlimited downward pitch shifting
131        - added a limit check for upward pitch shifting
132    
133      * LSCP server:
134        - added new LSCP event "CHANNEL_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
135          react on MIDI data arriving on certain sampler channels (so far only
136          Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
137        - added new LSCP event "DEVICE_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
138          react on MIDI data arriving on certain MIDI input devices (so far only
139          Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
140        - added new LSCP commands: FIND LOST DB_INSTRUMENT_FILES and
141          SET DB_INSTRUMENT FILE_PATH
142        - added new LSCP command: SEND CHANNEL MIDI_DATA which can be used by
143          frontends to send MIDI messages to specific sampler channel
144        - added two additional fields to GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO command -
145          KEY_BINDINGS and KEYSWITCH_BINDINGS
146        - bugfix: the bank number provided by MIDI_INSTRUMENT_INFO notifications
147          was incorrect
148        - Optimized the retrieval of the MIDI instrument mappings
149        - added new LSCP command "SET VOICES" to globally alter the maximum
150          amount of voices, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:VOICES" which will
151          be triggered respectively
152        - added new LSCP command "SET STREAMS" to globally alter the maximum
153          amount of disk streams, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:STREAMS"
154          which will be triggered respectively
155        - bugfix: retry if "select" returns EINTR (this fixes a crash when
156          a gigedit file dialog is opened)
157        - close all connections when LSCPServer is deleted
158        - hard close of all sockets on exit
159    
160      * Bug fixes:
161        - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel waiting
162          to start instrument loading after another channel
163        - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel with
164          instrument loading in progress (bug #113)
165        - fixed termination caused by uncaught exception when adding MIDI
166          instrument with PERSISTENT load mode
167        - fixed possible iterator invalidations when resetting the sampler
168        - fixed memory leaks when issuing the following LSCP commands:
169          GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO
170          GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO
171          GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO
172          GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO
173        - fixed possible compilation error when sqlite is not present
174        - fixed orphaned pointers when setting maximum voices limit (bug #118)
175        - fixed crash when changing the audio output device of a sampler
176          channel with loaded instrument and start playing notes
177        - fixed endless loop in Engine::SuspendAll() (bug #120)
178        - fixed a low-level atomic load function that was broken on 64-bit
179          PowerPC, which probably could cause crashes on that platform
180        - fixed a memory management error which could cause a crash when a
181          plugin was unloaded
182    
183    
184    Version 0.5.1 (6 December 2007)
185    
186      * packaging changes:
187        - added autoconf checks for pthread library
188        - added autoconf check for pthread bug found on certain NPTL-enabled
189          glibc versions (see Gentoo bug report #194076)
190        - added autoconf checks for MS Windows
191    
192      * general changes:
193        - bugfix: the thread used by an editor plugin didn't die when the
194          editor closed
195        - bugfix: Ringbuffer.h: fill_write_space_with_null() did not zero
196          out all the space. operator--() did not apply size_mask after
197          decrementing the read_ptr. DEFAULT_WRAP_ELEMENTS set to 0 in
198          order to avoid problems with the _NonVolatileReader functions.
199        - bugfix: Stream.h: added a missing divide by BytesPerSample in
200          GetWriteSpace(). Since this function is currently only used in
201          the stream's qsort() compare function, it didn't trigger any
202          bugs.
203        - Resampler.h, Synthesizer.h: cubic interpolation now works in
204          24bit mode too. Faster method to read 24bit words on little
205          endian machines (x86): replaced 3 byte reads + shifts with a 1
206          unaligned 32bit read and shift
207        - experimental support for MS Windows (MIDI input via MME, AUDIO
208          output via ASIO)
209        - made handling of SIGINT signal (Ctrl-C) a bit more robust
210        - support for monitoring the total number of active disk streams
211          (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT,
212          SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT)
213    
214      * AUDIO driver:
215        - added Windows ASIO low latency audio driver
216    
217      * MIDI driver:
218        - added MME Windows MIDI driver
219    
220      * LSCP server:
221        - added support for Windows style path / filenames, however with
222          forward slash path separators instead of backslash
223          (i.e. "C:/foo/bar.gig")
224        - allow naughty liblscp to send non-string device parameters within
225          apostrophes as well
226        - added new LSCP commands: "GET FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>",
227          "LIST FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>" and
228          "GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO <file> <index>" for retrieving informations
229          about an arbitrary instrument file on the system where the sampler is
230          running on
231    
232    Version 0.5.0 (15 October 2007)
233    
234      * packaging changes:
235        - config.h is not going to be installed along with liblinuxsampler's
236          API header files anymore
237        - only the API relevant header (and source) files will be exported to
238          the Doxygen API documentation (explicitly listed in Doxyfile.in)
239        - added completely new XCode project files for Mac OSX which is now
240          capable to execute our autoconf environment, thus no need anymore
241          to maintain the compile time configuration file (osx/version.h) for
242          OSX manually (patch by Toshi Nagata)
243        - fixed buggy boolean --enable-foo / --disable-foo configure script
244          parameters
245        - global.h now only covers global definitions that are needed for the
246          C++ API header files, all implementation internal global definitions
247          are now in global_private.h
248        - atomic.h is not exposed to the C++ API anymore
249        - no need to include config.h anymore for using LS's API header files
250        - fixed warnings in API doc generation
251    
252    * general changes:    * general changes:
253      - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a      - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a
254        flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary        flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary
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266        MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually        MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually
267        a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and        a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and
268        drumkits is possible        drumkits is possible
269      - new notification events for tracking audio/MIDI device changes,      - new notification events for tracking changes to audio/MIDI devices,
270        MIDI instrument map changes and MIDI instrument changes        MIDI instrument maps, MIDI instruments, FX sends, global volume.
271      - sampler was limited to load max. 200 instruments in the background      - sampler was limited to load max. 200 instruments in the background
272        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
273        dynamic (unlimited) size std::list FIFO        dynamic (unlimited) size std::list FIFO
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276        (i.e. jack-rack), the send levels are controllable via arbitrary MIDI        (i.e. jack-rack), the send levels are controllable via arbitrary MIDI
277        controllers        controllers
278      - global (sampler wide) volume can now be controlled at runtime      - global (sampler wide) volume can now be controlled at runtime
279        - Implemented new, improved notification system
280        - fixed compilation errors regarding OSX
281          (patch by Toshi Nagata)
282        - implemented instruments database
283        - added support for escape sequences to the instruments database
284        - added highly experimental support for on-the-fly instrument editing
285          within the sampler's process (by using instrument editor plugins),
286          you'll notice the new "Registered instrument editors:" message on
287          startup, added a new LSCP command:
288          "EDIT CHANNEL INSTRUMENT <sampler-channel>"
289          to spawn a matching instrument editor for the instrument on the
290          given sampler channel, the plugin path can be overridden at compile
291          time with ./configure --enable-plugin-dir=/some/dir
292        - added experimental code for synchronizing instrument editors hosted
293          in the sampler's process to safely edit instruments while playing
294          without a crash (hopefully) by either suspending single regions
295          wherever possible or if unavoidable whole engine(s)
296        - fixed several issues in fundamental "Thread" class: set scheduling
297          policy and priority on thread level, set a minimum stack size for
298          thread (TODO: a reasonable value yet to be tested), bugfix: non-RT
299          threads simply inherited properties of starting thread instead of
300          setting their own policy and priority
301        - minor fix in our automatic stack trace mechanism on crashes, the
302          main process did not wait for the stack trace process to finish
303          its output
304        - fixed some minor memory leaks
305        - reenabled assembly features support, at the moment only for
306          enabling a fast denormal FPU mode (x86 platforms supporting SSE2)
307        - minor assembly fix in x86 features detection (don't use the PIC
308          register, to avoid relocations in the text segment at runtime)
309        - POSIX callback functions of Thread.h are hidden
310    
311    * MIDI driver:    * MIDI driver:
312      - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages      - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages
313    
314      * audio driver:
315        - the ALSA audio output driver parameters now reflect the correct
316          parameter value ranges for the respective selected sound card
317          (patch by Till Wimmer, a bit fixed and extended)
318    
319    * Gigasampler format engine:    * Gigasampler format engine:
320      - 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
321        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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329      - EG fine tuning: when attack is zero the EG starts at a level      - EG fine tuning: when attack is zero the EG starts at a level
330        above max sustain level, which means that there is a decay phase        above max sustain level, which means that there is a decay phase
331        even if sustain is 100%        even if sustain is 100%
332        - more EG fixes: the level could sometimes go below zero and cause
333          noises or crashes
334        - minor fix of EGDecay (patch by Toshi Nagata)
335        - fixed compiler error when --enable-override-filter-type was
336          supplied to the configure script (fixes #46)
337        - disk thread: queue sizes are now proportional to CONFIG_MAX_STREAMS
338          instead of a fix value
339        - behavior fix: on MIDI CC# 65 (portamento on / off), 126 (mono mode),
340          127 (solo mode) only kill voices if the respective mode really
341          changed
342    
343      * LSCP server:
344        - fixed compile time error for old Bison versions
345          (i.e. v1.28 found on MacOS 10.4, patch by Toshi Nagata)
346        - parser now supports extended ASCII character set
347          (up to ASCII code 255, i.e. includes now umlauts and accents)
348        - filename arguments in LSCP commands now allow to use escape
349          sequences, that is directly literal as one of: \', \", \\, \n, \r,
350          \f, \t, \v, or as octal ASCII code value like \132, or as hex ASCII
351          code value like \xf2) (fixes bug #24)
352        - the following LSCP commands now also support escape sequences for at
353          least one of their text-based parameters (i.e. name, description):
354          "ADD MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP", "MAP MIDI_INSTRUMENT",
355          "SET MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP NAME", "SET FX_SEND NAME", "CREATE FX_SEND",
356          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY NAME",
357          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY DESCRIPTION", "SET DB_INSTRUMENT NAME",
358          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION", "FIND DB_INSTRUMENTS",
359          "FIND DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORIES"
360        - returns verbose syntax errors (line and column where syntax error
361          occured, the unexpected character and the actually expected, possible
362          character(s), the latter only if less than 5 possibilities)
363        - made sure that LSCP syntax is not affected by gigedit locale
364          settings
365        - bugfix regarding strings parameter lists: all comma separated lists
366          of strings were treated as being one string containing commas
367          (fixes #57)
368    
369    * Bug fixes:    * Bug fixes:
370      - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)      - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)
371      - another thread safety fix for lscp "load engine" and "set      - another thread safety fix for lscp "load engine" and "set
372        channel audio output device"        channel audio output device"
373        - fixed a crash which occurs when reassigning the same engine
374          on a sampler channel with connected MIDI device
375        - fixed a crash which occurs when changing the number of ports of a MIDI
376          device connected to a sampler channel to number less then or equal
377          to the index of the port to which the sampler channel is connected.
378        - The previous bindings were not been disconnected when altering
379          the ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS parameter. Introduced a NONE keyword for
380          unsubscribing from all bindings (e.g. ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS=NONE).
381        - The active stream/voice count statistic was incorrect.
382        - notification events were not been sent for some sampler
383          channel changes
384        - added default min and max values to restrict the number of allowed
385          audio output channels and MIDI input ports
386        - the connection to the PCM interface is now closed when destroying
387          an audio output device
388        - files with slash in their path or filename could not be loaded
389    
390      * test cases:
391        - updated and fixed (haven't been touched in a while)
392    
393  Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)  Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)
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