--- linuxsampler/trunk/ChangeLog 2009/06/05 14:22:20 1910 +++ linuxsampler/trunk/ChangeLog 2010/01/30 10:30:02 2055 @@ -1,5 +1,51 @@ 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 + - Introduced support for optional environment variable + "LINUXSAMPLER_PLUGIN_DIR" which allows to override the directory + where the sampler shall look for instrument editor plugins + (patch by Luis Garrido, slightly modified). + + * 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) + - added support for v2 multiple stage envelope generators + - added a fine-tuned v1 envelope generator instead of using the + one from the gig engine + + * 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 @@ -13,8 +59,12 @@ - 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 + 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 @@ -54,6 +104,9 @@ - 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 @@ -77,6 +130,15 @@ - 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 @@ -86,6 +148,9 @@ - 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 @@ -96,10 +161,14 @@ (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 - relative file path for instruments db in order to work in both - standalone and VST similar to the editor plugins still need to - be implemented + - 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 @@ -143,6 +212,8 @@ - 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 @@ -197,6 +268,8 @@ 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)