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revision 685 by persson, Tue Jul 5 19:30:37 2005 UTC revision 2201 by iliev, Thu Jul 7 19:19:09 2011 UTC
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1    Version CVS HEAD (?)
2    
3      * plugin changes:
4        - LV2 Persist + Files support (patch by David Robillard)
5    
6      * packaging changes:
7        - fixed building with newer MinGW-w64
8        - Mac OS X: support the new dir for Core Audio SDK
9        - Mac OS X: fixed building outside source directory
10        - made sure all source files for hostplugins are included when
11          doing "make dist"
12        - removed empty directories left from the cvs to svn migration
13        - fixed compilation with gcc 4.6.1
14        - another "make dist" fix, for LV2 plugin
15        - made --enable-pthread-testcancel default on Mac OS X
16        - minor Makefile fix for building lscpparser when build and source
17          directories are separate
18    
19      * general changes:
20        - Refactoring: moved the independent code from
21          the Gigasampler format engine to base classes
22        - command line option '--profile' is currently disabled, since the
23          respective profiling code is currently broken
24        - Introduced support for optional environment variable
25          "LINUXSAMPLER_PLUGIN_DIR" which allows to override the directory
26          where the sampler shall look for instrument editor plugins
27          (patch by Luis Garrido, slightly modified).
28        - implemented Roland GS NRPN 1ArrH which allows to set volume per note
29        - implemented Roland GS NRPN 1CrrH which allows to set pan per note
30        - implemented Roland GS NRPN 1DrrH which allows to set reverb send per
31          note (in this implementation of the sampler its simply hard routed to
32          the 1st effect send of the sampler channel, no matter what the actual
33          effect type is)
34        - implemented Roland GS NRPN 1ErrH which allows to set chorus send per
35          note (in this implementation of the sampler its simply hard routed to
36          the 2nd effect send of the sampler channel, no matter what the actual
37          effect type is)
38        - implemented support for internal LADSPA effects
39        - raised limit of program change queue from 100 to 512
40          (as suggested by Alex Stone)
41    
42      * Gigasampler format engine:
43        - implemented the "round robin keyboard" dimension
44        - fixed round robin and random dimensions for cases when number of
45          dimension zones is not a power of two
46        - made round robin use a counter for each region instead of each
47          key
48    
49      * SFZ format engine:
50        - Initial implementation (not usable yet)
51        - added support for v2 multiple stage envelope generators
52        - added a fine-tuned v1 envelope generator instead of using the
53          one from the gig engine
54        - fixed memory leak and memory handling errors
55        - added support for trigger=first, trigger=legato and sw_previous
56        - allow non-numerical key values ("C#4" for example)
57        - "key" opcode now sets pitch_keycenter too
58        - fixed error when unloading instrument with same sample used by
59          multiple regions
60        - added some opcode aliases, like loopmode for loop_mode, to be
61          more compatible
62        - added support for trigger=release and rt_decay
63        - added support for off_mode=normal
64        - added support for random, seq_position, seq_length and volume
65        - added v1 LFO opcodes to parser (no support in engine yet)
66        - added support for amp_veltrack and amp_velcurve_N
67        - fine-tuned the default velocity curve
68        - added support for transpose
69        - fixed crash when using sw_down/up
70        - improved logic for sw_lokey/hikey/up/down/last
71        - added more v1 aliases to parser
72        - reduced memory usage for sfz data
73        - RT-safeness: avoid malloc in audio thread
74        - fixed a bug that could cause voice stealing to fail
75        - optimized sample lookup
76        - improved support for exclusive groups (group, off_by and
77          off_mode)
78        - added support for controller triggered regions (on_locc/on_hicc)
79        - added support for loop_mode=one_shot
80        - fixed playback of 16 bit wav files on big endian CPUs
81        - added support for Ogg Vorbis sample files
82        - use loop markers from sample file if loop_start and loop_end are
83          not set in sfz file
84        - implemeted filters. Filter types: lowpass, bandpass, bandreject
85          and highpass. 1, 2, 4 and 6 pole filters. Opcodes: fil_type,
86          cutoff, resonance, fil_veltrack, fil_keytrack, fil_keycenter,
87          cutoff_cc, cutoff_chanaft.
88        - bugfix: zero ampeg_sustain didn't work
89        - added support for velocity effect on amplifier envelope time
90          (ampeg_vel2attack, ampeg_vel2decay, ampeg_vel2sustain and
91          ampeg_vel2release)
92    
93      * SoundFont format engine:
94        - Initial implementation (not usable yet)
95        - RT-safeness: avoid malloc in audio thread
96        - fixed a bug that could cause voice stealing to fail
97    
98      * Gigasampler format engine:
99        - bugfix: pitch LFO controller "internal+aftertouch" was broken
100        - bugfix: filter keyboard tracking was broken
101        - filter performance fix (an unnecessary copy was made of the
102          filter parameters in each sub fragment)
103    
104      * Host plugins:
105        - AU bugfix: failed to destroy its audio/MIDI devices
106        - Listen to all interfaces on Mac OS X (INADDR_ANY)
107        - VST bugfix: If the host called resume() before and after
108          changing sample rate or block size, the number of channels was
109          incorrectly set to two. This caused silence in Cubase 5.
110        - save engine type (gig, sfz or sf2) in plugin state
111        - VST: when opening Fantasia, look for both 32 and 64 bit Java on
112          64 bit Windows
113        - AU: changed number of output channels from one stereo to 16
114          stereo
115        - VST: made it possible to build the VST plugin for Mac
116        - AU: link AU plugin dynamically if --disable-shared isn't
117          specified
118            
119      * MIDI driver:
120        - ALSA MIDI driver supports now "NAME" device parameter, for overriding
121          the ALSA sequencer client name
122        - removed limit of maximum amount of MIDI ports per MIDI device, since
123          there is no reason for this limit
124    
125      * audio driver:
126        - ASIO driver fixes for newer gcc versions (fix from PortAudio)
127    
128      * LSCP server:
129        - added support for sending MIDI CC messages via LSCP command
130          "SEND CHANNEL MIDI_DATA CC <sampler-chan> <ctrl> <val>"
131        - added LSCP command "GET AVAILABLE_EFFECTS"
132        - added LSCP command "LIST AVAILABLE_EFFECTS"
133        - added LSCP command "GET EFFECT INFO <effect-index>"
134        - added LSCP command "CREATE EFFECT_INSTANCE <effect-index>"
135        - added LSCP command
136          "CREATE EFFECT_INSTANCE <effect-system> <module> <effect-name>"
137        - added LSCP command "DESTROY EFFECT_INSTANCE <effect-instance>"
138        - added LSCP command "GET EFFECT_INSTANCES"
139        - added LSCP command "LIST EFFECT_INSTANCES"
140        - added LSCP command "GET EFFECT_INSTANCE INFO <effect-instance>"
141        - added LSCP command
142          "GET EFFECT_INSTANCE_INPUT_CONTROL INFO <effect-instance> <input-control>"
143        - added LSCP command "SET EFFECT_INSTANCE_INPUT_CONTROL VALUE
144          <effect-instance> <input-control> <value>"
145        - added LSCP command "GET SEND_EFFECT_CHAINS <audio-device>"
146        - added LSCP command "LIST SEND_EFFECT_CHAINS <audio-device>"
147        - added LSCP command "ADD SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN <audio-device>"
148        - added LSCP command
149          "REMOVE SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN <audio-device> <effect-chain>"
150        - added LSCP command
151          "GET SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN INFO <audio-device> <effect-chain>"
152        - added LSCP command "APPEND SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN EFFECT <audio-device>
153          <effect-chain> <effect-instance>"
154        - added LSCP command "INSERT SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN EFFECT <audio-device>
155          <effect-chain> <effect-chain-pos> <effect-instance>"
156        - added LSCP command "REMOVE SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN EFFECT <audio-device>
157          <effect-chain> <chain-pos>"
158        - added LSCP command "SET FX_SEND EFFECT <sampler_channel>
159          <fx_send_id> <effect_chain> <chain_pos>"
160        - added LSCP command "REMOVE FX_SEND EFFECT <sampler_channel> <fx_send_id>"
161        - added LSCP commands "SUBSCRIBE EFFECT_INSTANCE_COUNT",
162          "SUBSCRIBE EFFECT_INSTANCE_INFO", "SUBSCRIBE SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN_COUNT",
163          "SUBSCRIBE SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN_INFO"
164    
165      * Bug fixes:
166        - Fixed crash which may occur when MIDI key + transpose is out of range
167        - minor valgrind fixes
168        - fixed crash which occurred when changing an already deployed sampler
169          channel to a different engine type
170        - fixed crash when deleting a sampler channel or changing engine
171          type while an instrument load was in progress
172        - bugfix: playing a note while changing the instrument could cause
173          a crash, or give "Handing back unknown region" error messages
174        - bugfix: calling SET VOICES (which Fantasia does on start and
175          refresh) could cause instruments to be unloaded
176        - Mac OS X: fixed name collision of enum in EffectControl and
177          wrong name of destructor in AudioOutputDeviceCoreAudio.cpp
178        - Mac OS X: fixed hanging threads
179        - Windows: disabled the previous thread fix on non-Mac systems, as
180          it caused hanging threads on Windows
181        - Fixed possible crashes due to corrupted MIDI/audio device list
182          after MIDI/audio device creation failure
183    
184    Version 1.0.0 (31 July 2009)
185    
186      * packaging changes:
187        - autoconf bugfix: the PKG_CONFIG variable wasn't initialized properly,
188          causing e.g. the libgig test to fail when
189          "./configure --disable-jack-driver" was used
190          (patch by Alexis Ballier)
191        - fixed compilation with gcc 4.3
192        - fixes for building on OS X (thanks to Ebrahim Mayat for testing)
193        - fixed configure so it detects x86_64 (#107)
194        - fixes for building with newer MinGW versions
195        - fix for building with bison 2.4 (#111)
196        - fixed building with libgig installed in a non-standard directory
197        - minor fix in configure for mmsystem.h detection on MinGW
198        - Windows: look for editor plugins and Fantasia using base
199          directory of liblinuxsampler dll (look in the same directory and one
200          directory above)
201        - configure script fix: removed unconditional use of SSE
202        - fixed building with sqlite installed in a non-standard directory
203        - when cross-compiling, don't try to create instruments.db
204        - fix for new mingw-w64 version, which has usleep
205    
206      * general changes:
207        - bugfix: on some POSIX systems instrument editor plugins refused to
208          load as we used a non-portable Linux specific struct field
209          (fixes bug #70, patch by Ronald Baljeu)
210        - fixed endless loop which occured when loading an instrument editor
211          plugin DLL on Windows systems failed
212        - fixed memory leaks that occurred when liblinuxsampler was unloaded
213        - optimized the SynchronizedConfig class so it doesn't wait
214          unnecessarily long after an update
215        - added support for notifying instrument editors on note-on / note-off
216          events (e.g. to highlight the pressed keys on the virtual keyboard
217          of gigedit)
218        - added support for triggering notes by instrument editors (see above)
219        - be verbose on DLL load errors (on Linux)
220        - fixed di-harmonic triangle LFO implementation (this LFO implementation
221          is only used by very few systems, most pick the int math
222          implementation, which is usually faster)
223        - fixes for audio drivers with varying buffer sizes
224        - experimental support for running LinuxSampler as a DSSI, LV2 and
225          VST plugin
226        - notification events for stream/voice count statistics are now sent
227          only when there are actual changes
228        - added memory ordering constraints to improve stability on
229          multi-core and multi-cpu systems
230        - maximum voices and disk streams can now be altered at runtime
231        - fixed CPU feature detection on x86_64 (maybe fixes #108)
232        - automatic stacktrace mechanism is now turned off by default and can
233          be switched on by command line option "--stacktrace" (the automatic
234          stacktrace mechanism seems to be broken on most systems at the moment)
235        - C++ API method InstrumentManager::LaunchInstrumentEditor() now returns
236          a pointer to the launched InstrumentEditor object
237        - added optional 3rd party user data parameter for following
238          liblinuxsampler C++ API methods: InstrumentEditor::Main(),
239          InstrumentEditor::Launch(),
240          InstrumentManager::LaunchInstrumentEditor()
241        - theoretical fix: made SynchronizedConfig follow C++0x memory
242          model more strictly
243        - fixes for using large audio device buffers
244        - Windows: add the installation directory to the DLL search path
245          when loading an editor plugin (solves problems with VST and
246          gigedit on systems with other GTK versions installed)
247    
248      * audio driver:
249        - removed the nonsense audio channel constraint (which was hard coded to
250          max. 100 audio channels) for most audio drivers
251        - JACK audio driver did not offer a device parameter "SAMPLERATE" as
252          opposed to the LSCP specs
253        - bugfix: the SAMPLERATE parameter of some drivers (e.g. JACK)
254          reflected the wrong value
255        - fixed a memory management bug in ASIO driver
256        - Makefile fix: JACK_CFLAGS wasn't used
257        - JACK: use jack_client_open instead of the deprecated
258          jack_client_new
259        - added (experimental) CoreAudio driver
260        - applied old fixes to the ASIO driver that were included in the
261          previous binary release but accidentally never committed to CVS
262          (fixes #117)
263        - fixes for ASIO on mingw-w64 (iasio wrapper is not needed on
264          win64)
265        - VST: added support for sample rate and buffer size changes
266        - VST: close editor (Fantasia) when the VST is removed
267        - VST: avoid opening Fantasia more than once for each VST instance
268        - VST: export main function as "main" on Linux too (fix for
269          energyXT)
270        - VST: changed number of output channels from one stereo to 16
271          stereo
272        - added channel routing, fxsends and midi maps to the settings
273          stored in the plugin state
274        - performance optimization of AudioChannel::MixTo() and
275          AudioChannel::CopyTo() methods using GCC vector exensions
276          (if available)
277        - ASIO fixes: avoid initializing the device twice, avoid throwing
278          exception when getting parameters from a disconnected device
279    
280      * MIDI driver:
281        - added JACK MIDI driver
282        - dispatch bank select as ordinary CC as well, the user might seriously
283          want to (mis)use it for some purpose ("fixed" in all current MIDI
284          input drivers: ALSA, CoreMIDI, JACK, MidiShare, MME)
285        - bugfix: pitch bend wasn't working with JackMidi, VST, LV2, MME,
286          CoreMidi or AU
287        - fixed mingw-w64 compilation error in MME driver
288        - made program change handling in MIDI thread real-time safe by
289          moving the logic to a non-RT thread
290        - fixed minor memory leak in ALSA driver
291    
292      * instruments database:
293        - avoid time consuming samples scanning when adding instruments
294          to the instruments database
295        - added support for handling lost files in the instruments database
296        - Implemented option for adding instruments in separate directories
297          in the instruments database
298          (patch by Chris Cherrett & Andrew Williams, a bit adjusted)
299        - work-around for missing fnmatch function on Windows to make
300          instrument database compilable
301        - added instrument database support on Windows
302          works with both standalone mode and VST plugin.
303          the instruments DB file is located in
304          %USERPROFILE%\.linuxsampler\instruments.db which allows different
305          databases for each windows user
306          if no DB is present it automatically creates the .linuxsampler subdir
307          and then creates an empty DB
308        - fixed recursive import, which was broken on Windows
309    
310      * Gigasampler format engine:
311        - fixed a memory leak that could happen when a channel was deleted
312          while notes were playing
313        - made it possible to load an instrument even if the audio thread
314          isn't running
315        - added partial support for the "Controller Triggered" MIDI rule,
316          enough for piano gigs with pedal noise samples
317        - minor fix: only mark FX sends as being modified if really the
318          respective FX send MIDI controller was used
319        - added support for GM global device volume SysEx message
320          (can be selected at compile time to either apply globally to the
321          whole sampler [default] or only to the sampler channels that are
322          connected to the respective MIDI input port the SysEx message arrived
323          on)
324        - bugfix: notes triggered at position 0 in the audio buffer were
325          sometimes wrongly killed in the same buffer, causing no sound to
326          be played
327        - added support for chromatic / drumkit mode Roland GS Sysex message
328          which is usally used to switch a part between chromatic sounds and
329          drumkit sounds (as opposed to their common default setting of MIDI
330          part 10 being a drumkit part and all other ones chromatic parts), in
331          LS however one can switch between the first 16 MIDI instrument maps
332          defined for the sampler
333        - made it possible to create multiple sample channels even if the
334          audio thread isn't running
335        - fixed crash when removing channel with active voices (#116)
336        - bugfix: on sample reference changes (instrument editor), only
337          un-cache the respective sample if it's really not used by any
338          sampler engine anymore
339        - re-cache samples in case they were changed by an instrument editor,
340          e.g. when a sample was added while playing (#82)
341        - fixed hanging notes which occured when note-off event had the exact
342          same time stamp as the voice's note-on event and occured both in the
343          same audio fragment cycle (fixes bug #112)
344        - added support for the "fine tune" and "pitch bend range"
345          instrument-level gig parameters
346        - fixed minor artifacts in pitch bend handling
347        - added support for GS Reset SysEx message
348        - allow gig files to use unlimited downward pitch shifting
349        - added a limit check for upward pitch shifting
350        - bugfix: sometimes, when playing a note twice fast, the second
351          note was silent
352        - fixed crash happening when a pitch bend event arrived at the
353          same time a new instrument was loading
354    
355      * LSCP server:
356        - added new LSCP event "CHANNEL_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
357          react on MIDI data arriving on certain sampler channels (so far only
358          Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
359        - added new LSCP event "DEVICE_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
360          react on MIDI data arriving on certain MIDI input devices (so far only
361          Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
362        - added new LSCP commands: FIND LOST DB_INSTRUMENT_FILES and
363          SET DB_INSTRUMENT FILE_PATH
364        - added new LSCP command: SEND CHANNEL MIDI_DATA which can be used by
365          frontends to send MIDI messages to specific sampler channel
366        - added two additional fields to GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO command -
367          KEY_BINDINGS and KEYSWITCH_BINDINGS
368        - bugfix: the bank number provided by MIDI_INSTRUMENT_INFO notifications
369          was incorrect
370        - Optimized the retrieval of the MIDI instrument mappings
371        - added new LSCP command "SET VOICES" to globally alter the maximum
372          amount of voices, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:VOICES" which will
373          be triggered respectively
374        - added new LSCP command "SET STREAMS" to globally alter the maximum
375          amount of disk streams, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:STREAMS"
376          which will be triggered respectively
377        - bugfix: retry if "select" returns EINTR (this fixes a crash when
378          a gigedit file dialog is opened)
379        - close all connections when LSCPServer is deleted
380        - hard close of all sockets on exit
381        - bugfix: SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE didn't work with the MME
382          driver
383    
384      * Bug fixes:
385        - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel waiting
386          to start instrument loading after another channel
387        - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel with
388          instrument loading in progress (bug #113)
389        - fixed termination caused by uncaught exception when adding MIDI
390          instrument with PERSISTENT load mode
391        - fixed possible iterator invalidations when resetting the sampler
392        - fixed memory leaks when issuing the following LSCP commands:
393          GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO
394          GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO
395          GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO
396          GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO
397        - fixed possible compilation error when sqlite is not present
398        - fixed orphaned pointers when setting maximum voices limit (bug #118)
399        - fixed crash when changing the audio output device of a sampler
400          channel with loaded instrument and start playing notes
401        - fixed endless loop in Engine::SuspendAll() (bug #120)
402        - fixed a low-level atomic load function that was broken on 64-bit
403          PowerPC, which probably could cause crashes on that platform
404        - fixed a memory management error which could cause a crash when a
405          plugin was unloaded
406        - bugfix: two private structs had the same name, which could cause
407          problems if the linker chose the wrong constructor
408        - fixed low-level ConditionServer usage bug that caused lockups on
409          Windows
410    
411    
412    Version 0.5.1 (6 December 2007)
413    
414      * packaging changes:
415        - added autoconf checks for pthread library
416        - added autoconf check for pthread bug found on certain NPTL-enabled
417          glibc versions (see Gentoo bug report #194076)
418        - added autoconf checks for MS Windows
419    
420      * general changes:
421        - bugfix: the thread used by an editor plugin didn't die when the
422          editor closed
423        - bugfix: Ringbuffer.h: fill_write_space_with_null() did not zero
424          out all the space. operator--() did not apply size_mask after
425          decrementing the read_ptr. DEFAULT_WRAP_ELEMENTS set to 0 in
426          order to avoid problems with the _NonVolatileReader functions.
427        - bugfix: Stream.h: added a missing divide by BytesPerSample in
428          GetWriteSpace(). Since this function is currently only used in
429          the stream's qsort() compare function, it didn't trigger any
430          bugs.
431        - Resampler.h, Synthesizer.h: cubic interpolation now works in
432          24bit mode too. Faster method to read 24bit words on little
433          endian machines (x86): replaced 3 byte reads + shifts with a 1
434          unaligned 32bit read and shift
435        - experimental support for MS Windows (MIDI input via MME, AUDIO
436          output via ASIO)
437        - made handling of SIGINT signal (Ctrl-C) a bit more robust
438        - support for monitoring the total number of active disk streams
439          (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT,
440          SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT)
441    
442      * AUDIO driver:
443        - added Windows ASIO low latency audio driver
444    
445      * MIDI driver:
446        - added MME Windows MIDI driver
447    
448      * LSCP server:
449        - added support for Windows style path / filenames, however with
450          forward slash path separators instead of backslash
451          (i.e. "C:/foo/bar.gig")
452        - allow naughty liblscp to send non-string device parameters within
453          apostrophes as well
454        - added new LSCP commands: "GET FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>",
455          "LIST FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>" and
456          "GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO <file> <index>" for retrieving informations
457          about an arbitrary instrument file on the system where the sampler is
458          running on
459    
460    Version 0.5.0 (15 October 2007)
461    
462      * packaging changes:
463        - config.h is not going to be installed along with liblinuxsampler's
464          API header files anymore
465        - only the API relevant header (and source) files will be exported to
466          the Doxygen API documentation (explicitly listed in Doxyfile.in)
467        - added completely new XCode project files for Mac OSX which is now
468          capable to execute our autoconf environment, thus no need anymore
469          to maintain the compile time configuration file (osx/version.h) for
470          OSX manually (patch by Toshi Nagata)
471        - fixed buggy boolean --enable-foo / --disable-foo configure script
472          parameters
473        - global.h now only covers global definitions that are needed for the
474          C++ API header files, all implementation internal global definitions
475          are now in global_private.h
476        - atomic.h is not exposed to the C++ API anymore
477        - no need to include config.h anymore for using LS's API header files
478        - fixed warnings in API doc generation
479    
480      * general changes:
481        - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a
482          flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary
483          (MIDI bank, MIDI program) pairs with arbitrary
484          (engine type, instrument file, file index) triplets which will be
485          loaded on the respective channel when such MIDI program change
486          messages arrive, beside that, each entry allows to define a life-time
487          strategy for the instrument, so the user can define whether the
488          instrument should i.e. be permanently loaded (to be able to switch
489          quickly among sounds) or i.e. loaded just on demand when the
490          respective program change arrives (to safe RAM space), as well as a
491          global volume factor for each entry, so the user can adjust the volume
492          dynamic of his mapped instrument collection without having to modify
493          the instrument files, also one can manage arbitrary amount of such
494          MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually
495          a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and
496          drumkits is possible
497        - new notification events for tracking changes to audio/MIDI devices,
498          MIDI instrument maps, MIDI instruments, FX sends, global volume.
499        - sampler was limited to load max. 200 instruments in the background
500          due to a constant size RingBuffer FIFO which is now replaced by a
501          dynamic (unlimited) size std::list FIFO
502        - added FX sends, these allow to route audio signals to arbitrary audio
503          output channels for being processed by external effect processors
504          (i.e. jack-rack), the send levels are controllable via arbitrary MIDI
505          controllers
506        - global (sampler wide) volume can now be controlled at runtime
507        - Implemented new, improved notification system
508        - fixed compilation errors regarding OSX
509          (patch by Toshi Nagata)
510        - implemented instruments database
511        - added support for escape sequences to the instruments database
512        - added highly experimental support for on-the-fly instrument editing
513          within the sampler's process (by using instrument editor plugins),
514          you'll notice the new "Registered instrument editors:" message on
515          startup, added a new LSCP command:
516          "EDIT CHANNEL INSTRUMENT <sampler-channel>"
517          to spawn a matching instrument editor for the instrument on the
518          given sampler channel, the plugin path can be overridden at compile
519          time with ./configure --enable-plugin-dir=/some/dir
520        - added experimental code for synchronizing instrument editors hosted
521          in the sampler's process to safely edit instruments while playing
522          without a crash (hopefully) by either suspending single regions
523          wherever possible or if unavoidable whole engine(s)
524        - fixed several issues in fundamental "Thread" class: set scheduling
525          policy and priority on thread level, set a minimum stack size for
526          thread (TODO: a reasonable value yet to be tested), bugfix: non-RT
527          threads simply inherited properties of starting thread instead of
528          setting their own policy and priority
529        - minor fix in our automatic stack trace mechanism on crashes, the
530          main process did not wait for the stack trace process to finish
531          its output
532        - fixed some minor memory leaks
533        - reenabled assembly features support, at the moment only for
534          enabling a fast denormal FPU mode (x86 platforms supporting SSE2)
535        - minor assembly fix in x86 features detection (don't use the PIC
536          register, to avoid relocations in the text segment at runtime)
537        - POSIX callback functions of Thread.h are hidden
538    
539      * MIDI driver:
540        - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages
541    
542      * audio driver:
543        - the ALSA audio output driver parameters now reflect the correct
544          parameter value ranges for the respective selected sound card
545          (patch by Till Wimmer, a bit fixed and extended)
546    
547      * Gigasampler format engine:
548        - if a filter is used and EG2 finishes before EG1, let the voice
549          die when EG2 has finished (this fixes a problem with clicks and
550          voice starvation for some gigs)
551        - playback is no longer disabled during instrument loading
552        - all notes playing on a channel that changes its instrument keep
553          playing with the old instrument until they get a note off
554          command
555        - EG fix: a release value of zero could cause noises or crash
556        - handle MIDI coarse tuning messages (MIDI RPN #0 MSB #2 LSB)
557        - EG fine tuning: when attack is zero the EG starts at a level
558          above max sustain level, which means that there is a decay phase
559          even if sustain is 100%
560        - more EG fixes: the level could sometimes go below zero and cause
561          noises or crashes
562        - minor fix of EGDecay (patch by Toshi Nagata)
563        - fixed compiler error when --enable-override-filter-type was
564          supplied to the configure script (fixes #46)
565        - disk thread: queue sizes are now proportional to CONFIG_MAX_STREAMS
566          instead of a fix value
567        - behavior fix: on MIDI CC# 65 (portamento on / off), 126 (mono mode),
568          127 (solo mode) only kill voices if the respective mode really
569          changed
570    
571      * LSCP server:
572        - fixed compile time error for old Bison versions
573          (i.e. v1.28 found on MacOS 10.4, patch by Toshi Nagata)
574        - parser now supports extended ASCII character set
575          (up to ASCII code 255, i.e. includes now umlauts and accents)
576        - filename arguments in LSCP commands now allow to use escape
577          sequences, that is directly literal as one of: \', \", \\, \n, \r,
578          \f, \t, \v, or as octal ASCII code value like \132, or as hex ASCII
579          code value like \xf2) (fixes bug #24)
580        - the following LSCP commands now also support escape sequences for at
581          least one of their text-based parameters (i.e. name, description):
582          "ADD MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP", "MAP MIDI_INSTRUMENT",
583          "SET MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP NAME", "SET FX_SEND NAME", "CREATE FX_SEND",
584          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY NAME",
585          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY DESCRIPTION", "SET DB_INSTRUMENT NAME",
586          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION", "FIND DB_INSTRUMENTS",
587          "FIND DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORIES"
588        - returns verbose syntax errors (line and column where syntax error
589          occured, the unexpected character and the actually expected, possible
590          character(s), the latter only if less than 5 possibilities)
591        - made sure that LSCP syntax is not affected by gigedit locale
592          settings
593        - bugfix regarding strings parameter lists: all comma separated lists
594          of strings were treated as being one string containing commas
595          (fixes #57)
596    
597      * Bug fixes:
598        - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)
599        - another thread safety fix for lscp "load engine" and "set
600          channel audio output device"
601        - fixed a crash which occurs when reassigning the same engine
602          on a sampler channel with connected MIDI device
603        - fixed a crash which occurs when changing the number of ports of a MIDI
604          device connected to a sampler channel to number less then or equal
605          to the index of the port to which the sampler channel is connected.
606        - The previous bindings were not been disconnected when altering
607          the ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS parameter. Introduced a NONE keyword for
608          unsubscribing from all bindings (e.g. ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS=NONE).
609        - The active stream/voice count statistic was incorrect.
610        - notification events were not been sent for some sampler
611          channel changes
612        - added default min and max values to restrict the number of allowed
613          audio output channels and MIDI input ports
614        - the connection to the PCM interface is now closed when destroying
615          an audio output device
616        - files with slash in their path or filename could not be loaded
617    
618      * test cases:
619        - updated and fixed (haven't been touched in a while)
620    
621    Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)
622    
623      * packaging changes:
624        - changed deprecated copyright attribute to license; added ldconfig
625          to post-(un)install steps; added devel package for liblinuxsampler;
626          to linuxsampler.spec (RPM)
627        - install necessary development header files for allowing 3rd party
628          applications to link against liblinuxsampler
629        - liblinuxsampler's API documentation can be generated with 'make docs'
630          (Doxygen required)
631        - added benchmark to automatically detect the best triangle LFO
632          implementation (currently either an integer math solution or a
633          di-harmonic approximation), automatic detection can be overriden
634          with --enable-signed-triang-algo=x and --enable-unsigned-triang-algo=x
635          configure script argument though (mandatory for cross-compilation)
636        - do not automatically pick optimized gcc flags if the user already
637          provided some on his own (as CXXFLAGS)
638        - added compile time option to disable processing of All-Notes-Off MIDI
639          messages
640        - added compile time options to allow disabling the various audio and
641          MIDI drivers
642        - fixed automatic GCC CPU switch detection on PPC
643          (patch by Ebrahim Mayat)
644    
645      * Gigasampler format engine:
646        - extensive synthesis optimization
647          (reimplementation of EGs and LFO(s), removed synthesis parameter
648          prerendering and the synthesis parameter matrix in general, splitting
649          each audio fragment into subfragments now where each subfragment uses
650          constant pitch and filter coefficients. The volume coefficient is
651          linearly interpolated inside a subfragment, unless
652          --disable-interpolate-volume is set.)
653        - fine tuning of the EG modulation parameters
654        - improved filter cutoff calculation by adding support for the
655          following gig parameters: Cutoff freq (used when no cutoff
656          controller is defined), Control invert, Minimum cutoff, Velocity
657          curve and Velocity range. The keyboard tracking now scales
658          cutoff frequency instead of resonance.
659        - added support for gig parameter Resonance.
660        - fixed bug in sysex handling (patch by Juan Linietsky)
661        - added global volume attenuation of -9 dB (0.35f) to prevent clipping
662          which can be overridden with --enable-global-attenuation
663        - EG fixes: made the length of "attack hold" stage more
664          accurate. Release stage can now start before attack stage
665          ends. Cancel release didn't work when sustain was zero. Attack
666          time now has a minimal value to prevent clicks.
667        - fixed pitch changes larger than one octave
668        - fixed EG3 (pitch envelope) synthesis which was neutral all the time
669        - implemented portamento mode and solo mode (a.k.a 'mono mode'):
670          all modes can be altered via standard GM messages, that is CC5 for
671          altering portamento time, CC65 for enabling / disabling portamento
672          mode, CC126 for enabling solo mode and CC127 for disabling solo mode
673        - fine tuning of the curves for volume (CC7), pan (CC10 and gig
674          parameter) and crossfade
675        - added support for the "attenuation controller threshold" gig
676          parameter
677        - added smoothing of volume changes caused by control change
678          messages
679        - sample loop parameters are now taken from the DimensionRegion
680          instead of the wave chunk
681        - fixed keyswitching for v3 gigs with a number of keyswitch splits
682          not equal to a power of two
683        - reimplementation of the filter algorithm. The new filter is more
684          accurate and supports all gig filter types, including bandreject
685          and lowpass turbo.
686        - real support for 24 bit samples - samples are not truncated to
687          16 bits anymore
688        - support for aftertouch (channel pressure, not polyphonic
689          aftertouch)
690        - LFO1 behaviour fixed (dampening from max volume instead of
691          amplifying from 0)
692    
693      * LSCP server:
694        - fixed application exit on broken pipe error (fixes bug #20)
695        - fixed the notification messages delay due to lack of
696          network activity (fixes bug #26)
697        - fixed parser bug which occured on space(s) within device parameters
698          (e.g. "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 SOMEPARAM='foo bar'")
699    
700      * audio driver:
701        - added aRts audio output driver (by no means RT safe)
702    
703      * MIDI driver:
704        - fixed legacy sysex code which caused dispatching of MIDI SysEx
705          messages several times instead of once
706        - API extension for MIDI drivers which already supply exact time stamps
707          for events (i.e. for offline rendering based MIDI drivers)
708        - added checks for bad MIDI data
709    
710      * linuxsampler application:
711        - show available sampler engine types on startup
712    
713      * general changes:
714        - support for muting sampler channels and solo mode of the same, two new
715          LSCP commands ("SET CHANNEL MUTE" and "SET CHANNEL SOLO") and two new
716          fields ("MUTE" and "SOLO") for command "GET CHANNEL INFO" were
717          introduced for this, the behavior is the same like on a mixer console
718          (patch by Grigor Iliev, a bit adjusted). Also added configure option
719          --enable-process-muted-channels which can be used to enable the
720          processing of muted channels.
721        - support for sostenuto pedal
722        - support for monitoring the total number of active voices
723          (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT_MAX,
724          SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT)
725        - fixed some memory management errors
726        - fixed some concurrency problems that could lead to crashes when
727          LSCP commands were executed
728        - fixed crash when instrument loading failed previously on the same
729          sampler channel (fixes bug #36)
730    
731    Version 0.3.3 (15 July 2005)
732    
733      * packaging changes:
734        - fixed compilation with gcc 4.0
735    
736      * Gigasampler format engine:
737        - LFO preprocessing was performed even though the respective LFO was
738          disabled by the instrument patch (minor efficiency fix)
739        - if period time of chosen audio device is too small (< MIN_RELEASE_TIME)
740          for volume ramp downs in the same fragment (needed for current voice
741          stealing implementation) then simply inform the user with a warning
742          about possible click sounds and reduce the volume ramp down
743          appropriately instead of cancelling the audio device connection
744    
745  Version 0.3.2 (24 June 2005)  Version 0.3.2 (24 June 2005)
746    
747    * packaging changes:    * packaging changes:
# Line 8  Version 0.3.2 (24 June 2005) Line 752  Version 0.3.2 (24 June 2005)
752      - fixed 'make dist' rule to include all necessary files      - fixed 'make dist' rule to include all necessary files
753      - require automake (>= 1.5) for 'make -f Makefile.cvs'      - require automake (>= 1.5) for 'make -f Makefile.cvs'
754        (due to 'dist-bzip2' automake option)        (due to 'dist-bzip2' automake option)
     - fixed compilation with gcc 4.0  
755    
756    * Gigasampler format engine:    * Gigasampler format engine:
757      - support for the gig parameters for "release velocity response" curves      - support for the gig parameters for "release velocity response" curves

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