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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        - The previous bindings were not been disconnected when altering
113          the ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS parameter. Introduced a NONE keyword for
114          unsubscribing from all bindings (e.g. ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS=NONE).
115    
116      * test cases:
117        - updated and fixed (haven't been touched in a while)
118    
119    Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)
120    
121      * packaging changes:
122        - changed deprecated copyright attribute to license; added ldconfig
123          to post-(un)install steps; added devel package for liblinuxsampler;
124          to linuxsampler.spec (RPM)
125        - install necessary development header files for allowing 3rd party
126          applications to link against liblinuxsampler
127        - liblinuxsampler's API documentation can be generated with 'make docs'
128          (Doxygen required)
129        - added benchmark to automatically detect the best triangle LFO
130          implementation (currently either an integer math solution or a
131          di-harmonic approximation), automatic detection can be overriden
132          with --enable-signed-triang-algo=x and --enable-unsigned-triang-algo=x
133          configure script argument though (mandatory for cross-compilation)
134        - do not automatically pick optimized gcc flags if the user already
135          provided some on his own (as CXXFLAGS)
136        - added compile time option to disable processing of All-Notes-Off MIDI
137          messages
138        - added compile time options to allow disabling the various audio and
139          MIDI drivers
140        - fixed automatic GCC CPU switch detection on PPC
141          (patch by Ebrahim Mayat)
142    
143      * Gigasampler format engine:
144        - extensive synthesis optimization
145          (reimplementation of EGs and LFO(s), removed synthesis parameter
146          prerendering and the synthesis parameter matrix in general, splitting
147          each audio fragment into subfragments now where each subfragment uses
148          constant pitch and filter coefficients. The volume coefficient is
149          linearly interpolated inside a subfragment, unless
150          --disable-interpolate-volume is set.)
151        - fine tuning of the EG modulation parameters
152        - improved filter cutoff calculation by adding support for the
153          following gig parameters: Cutoff freq (used when no cutoff
154          controller is defined), Control invert, Minimum cutoff, Velocity
155          curve and Velocity range. The keyboard tracking now scales
156          cutoff frequency instead of resonance.
157        - added support for gig parameter Resonance.
158        - fixed bug in sysex handling (patch by Juan Linietsky)
159        - added global volume attenuation of -9 dB (0.35f) to prevent clipping
160          which can be overridden with --enable-global-attenuation
161        - EG fixes: made the length of "attack hold" stage more
162          accurate. Release stage can now start before attack stage
163          ends. Cancel release didn't work when sustain was zero. Attack
164          time now has a minimal value to prevent clicks.
165        - fixed pitch changes larger than one octave
166        - fixed EG3 (pitch envelope) synthesis which was neutral all the time
167        - implemented portamento mode and solo mode (a.k.a 'mono mode'):
168          all modes can be altered via standard GM messages, that is CC5 for
169          altering portamento time, CC65 for enabling / disabling portamento
170          mode, CC126 for enabling solo mode and CC127 for disabling solo mode
171        - fine tuning of the curves for volume (CC7), pan (CC10 and gig
172          parameter) and crossfade
173        - added support for the "attenuation controller threshold" gig
174          parameter
175        - added smoothing of volume changes caused by control change
176          messages
177        - sample loop parameters are now taken from the DimensionRegion
178          instead of the wave chunk
179        - fixed keyswitching for v3 gigs with a number of keyswitch splits
180          not equal to a power of two
181        - reimplementation of the filter algorithm. The new filter is more
182          accurate and supports all gig filter types, including bandreject
183          and lowpass turbo.
184        - real support for 24 bit samples - samples are not truncated to
185          16 bits anymore
186        - support for aftertouch (channel pressure, not polyphonic
187          aftertouch)
188        - LFO1 behaviour fixed (dampening from max volume instead of
189          amplifying from 0)
190    
191      * LSCP server:
192        - fixed application exit on broken pipe error (fixes bug #20)
193        - fixed the notification messages delay due to lack of
194          network activity (fixes bug #26)
195        - fixed parser bug which occured on space(s) within device parameters
196          (e.g. "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 SOMEPARAM='foo bar'")
197    
198      * audio driver:
199        - added aRts audio output driver (by no means RT safe)
200    
201      * MIDI driver:
202        - fixed legacy sysex code which caused dispatching of MIDI SysEx
203          messages several times instead of once
204        - API extension for MIDI drivers which already supply exact time stamps
205          for events (i.e. for offline rendering based MIDI drivers)
206        - added checks for bad MIDI data
207    
208      * linuxsampler application:
209        - show available sampler engine types on startup
210    
211      * general changes:
212        - support for muting sampler channels and solo mode of the same, two new
213          LSCP commands ("SET CHANNEL MUTE" and "SET CHANNEL SOLO") and two new
214          fields ("MUTE" and "SOLO") for command "GET CHANNEL INFO" were
215          introduced for this, the behavior is the same like on a mixer console
216          (patch by Grigor Iliev, a bit adjusted). Also added configure option
217          --enable-process-muted-channels which can be used to enable the
218          processing of muted channels.
219        - support for sostenuto pedal
220        - support for monitoring the total number of active voices
221          (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT_MAX,
222          SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT)
223        - fixed some memory management errors
224        - fixed some concurrency problems that could lead to crashes when
225          LSCP commands were executed
226        - fixed crash when instrument loading failed previously on the same
227          sampler channel (fixes bug #36)
228    
229    Version 0.3.3 (15 July 2005)
230    
231      * packaging changes:
232        - fixed compilation with gcc 4.0
233    
234      * Gigasampler format engine:
235        - LFO preprocessing was performed even though the respective LFO was
236          disabled by the instrument patch (minor efficiency fix)
237        - if period time of chosen audio device is too small (< MIN_RELEASE_TIME)
238          for volume ramp downs in the same fragment (needed for current voice
239          stealing implementation) then simply inform the user with a warning
240          about possible click sounds and reduce the volume ramp down
241          appropriately instead of cancelling the audio device connection
242    
243    Version 0.3.2 (24 June 2005)
244    
245      * packaging changes:
246      - updated autotools build files to compile on OS X      - updated autotools build files to compile on OS X
247        (conditional compilation of CoreMIDI and MidiShare drivers)        (conditional compilation of CoreMIDI and MidiShare drivers)
248      - hand-crafted assembly optimization code can be disabled with      - hand-crafted assembly optimization code can be disabled with
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264        instead of when the respective voice is actually launched        instead of when the respective voice is actually launched
265        (fixes undefined behavior if stolen voices belonged to a key group -        (fixes undefined behavior if stolen voices belonged to a key group -
266        this case was followed by a "killed voice survived" error message)        this case was followed by a "killed voice survived" error message)
267        - fixed minor issue with null/silence samples
268          (those stole voices even though they don't need a voice at all which
269          resulted in "voice stealing didn't work out" messages)
270        - don't reset volume, pan, pitch and MIDI controller values on
271          instrument or audio output device change
272    
273    * LSCP server:    * LSCP server:
274      - fixed some crashes (patch by Grigor Iliev, fixes #19)      - fixed some crashes (patch by Grigor Iliev, fixes #19)
275      - fixed LSCP event "CHANNEL_INFO" notification      - fixed LSCP event "CHANNEL_INFO" notification
276        (e.g. did not notify on volume changes)        (e.g. did not notify on volume changes or MIDI program change events)
277    
278    * linuxsampler application:    * linuxsampler application:
279      - added command line parameters --lscp-addr and --lscp-port to override      - added command line parameters --lscp-addr and --lscp-port to override

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