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1  Version CVS HEAD (?)  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    
17      * general changes:
18        - Refactoring: moved the independent code from
19          the Gigasampler format engine to base classes
20        - command line option '--profile' is currently disabled, since the
21          respective profiling code is currently broken
22        - Introduced support for optional environment variable
23          "LINUXSAMPLER_PLUGIN_DIR" which allows to override the directory
24          where the sampler shall look for instrument editor plugins
25          (patch by Luis Garrido, slightly modified).
26        - implemented Roland GS NRPN 1ArrH which allows to set volume per note
27        - implemented Roland GS NRPN 1CrrH which allows to set pan per note
28        - implemented Roland GS NRPN 1DrrH which allows to set reverb send per
29          note (in this implementation of the sampler its simply hard routed to
30          the 1st effect send of the sampler channel, no matter what the actual
31          effect type is)
32        - implemented Roland GS NRPN 1ErrH which allows to set chorus send per
33          note (in this implementation of the sampler its simply hard routed to
34          the 2nd effect send of the sampler channel, no matter what the actual
35          effect type is)
36        - implemented support for internal LADSPA effects
37        - raised limit of program change queue from 100 to 512
38          (as suggested by Alex Stone)
39    
40      * Gigasampler format engine:
41        - implemented the "round robin keyboard" dimension
42        - fixed round robin and random dimensions for cases when number of
43          dimension zones is not a power of two
44        - made round robin use a counter for each region instead of each
45          key
46    
47      * SFZ format engine:
48        - Initial implementation (not usable yet)
49        - added support for v2 multiple stage envelope generators
50        - added a fine-tuned v1 envelope generator instead of using the
51          one from the gig engine
52        - fixed memory leak and memory handling errors
53        - added support for trigger=first, trigger=legato and sw_previous
54        - allow non-numerical key values ("C#4" for example)
55        - "key" opcode now sets pitch_keycenter too
56        - fixed error when unloading instrument with same sample used by
57          multiple regions
58        - added some opcode aliases, like loopmode for loop_mode, to be
59          more compatible
60        - added support for trigger=release and rt_decay
61        - added support for off_mode=normal
62        - added support for random, seq_position, seq_length and volume
63        - added v1 LFO opcodes to parser (no support in engine yet)
64        - added support for amp_veltrack and amp_velcurve_N
65        - fine-tuned the default velocity curve
66        - added support for transpose
67        - fixed crash when using sw_down/up
68        - improved logic for sw_lokey/hikey/up/down/last
69        - added more v1 aliases to parser
70        - reduced memory usage for sfz data
71        - RT-safeness: avoid malloc in audio thread
72        - fixed a bug that could cause voice stealing to fail
73        - optimized sample lookup
74        - improved support for exclusive groups (group, off_by and
75          off_mode)
76        - added support for controller triggered regions (on_locc/on_hicc)
77        - added support for loop_mode=one_shot
78        - fixed playback of 16 bit wav files on big endian CPUs
79        - added support for Ogg Vorbis sample files
80        - use loop markers from sample file if loop_start and loop_end are
81          not set in sfz file
82        - implemeted filters. Filter types: lowpass, bandpass, bandreject
83          and highpass. 1, 2, 4 and 6 pole filters. Opcodes: fil_type,
84          cutoff, resonance, fil_veltrack, fil_keytrack, fil_keycenter,
85          cutoff_cc, cutoff_chanaft.
86        - bugfix: zero ampeg_sustain didn't work
87        - added support for velocity effect on amplifier envelope time
88          (ampeg_vel2attack, ampeg_vel2decay, ampeg_vel2sustain and
89          ampeg_vel2release)
90    
91      * SoundFont format engine:
92        - Initial implementation (not usable yet)
93        - RT-safeness: avoid malloc in audio thread
94        - fixed a bug that could cause voice stealing to fail
95    
96      * Gigasampler format engine:
97        - bugfix: pitch LFO controller "internal+aftertouch" was broken
98        - bugfix: filter keyboard tracking was broken
99        - filter performance fix (an unnecessary copy was made of the
100          filter parameters in each sub fragment)
101    
102      * Host plugins:
103        - AU bugfix: failed to destroy its audio/MIDI devices
104        - Listen to all interfaces on Mac OS X (INADDR_ANY)
105        - VST bugfix: If the host called resume() before and after
106          changing sample rate or block size, the number of channels was
107          incorrectly set to two. This caused silence in Cubase 5.
108        - save engine type (gig, sfz or sf2) in plugin state
109        - VST: when opening Fantasia, look for both 32 and 64 bit Java on
110          64 bit Windows
111    
112      * MIDI driver:
113        - ALSA MIDI driver supports now "NAME" device parameter, for overriding
114          the ALSA sequencer client name
115        - removed limit of maximum amount of MIDI ports per MIDI device, since
116          there is no reason for this limit
117    
118      * audio driver:
119        - ASIO driver fixes for newer gcc versions (fix from PortAudio)
120    
121      * LSCP server:
122        - added support for sending MIDI CC messages via LSCP command
123          "SEND CHANNEL MIDI_DATA CC <sampler-chan> <ctrl> <val>"
124        - added LSCP command "GET AVAILABLE_EFFECTS"
125        - added LSCP command "LIST AVAILABLE_EFFECTS"
126        - added LSCP command "GET EFFECT INFO <effect-index>"
127        - added LSCP command "CREATE EFFECT_INSTANCE <effect-index>"
128        - added LSCP command
129          "CREATE EFFECT_INSTANCE <effect-system> <module> <effect-name>"
130        - added LSCP command "DESTROY EFFECT_INSTANCE <effect-instance>"
131        - added LSCP command "GET EFFECT_INSTANCES"
132        - added LSCP command "LIST EFFECT_INSTANCES"
133        - added LSCP command "GET EFFECT_INSTANCE INFO <effect-instance>"
134        - added LSCP command
135          "GET EFFECT_INSTANCE_INPUT_CONTROL INFO <effect-instance> <input-control>"
136        - added LSCP command "SET EFFECT_INSTANCE_INPUT_CONTROL VALUE
137          <effect-instance> <input-control> <value>"
138        - added LSCP command "GET SEND_EFFECT_CHAINS <audio-device>"
139        - added LSCP command "LIST SEND_EFFECT_CHAINS <audio-device>"
140        - added LSCP command "ADD SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN <audio-device>"
141        - added LSCP command
142          "REMOVE SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN <audio-device> <effect-chain>"
143        - added LSCP command
144          "GET SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN INFO <audio-device> <effect-chain>"
145        - added LSCP command "APPEND SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN EFFECT <audio-device>
146          <effect-chain> <effect-instance>"
147        - added LSCP command "INSERT SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN EFFECT <audio-device>
148          <effect-chain> <effect-chain-pos> <effect-instance>"
149        - added LSCP command "REMOVE SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN EFFECT <audio-device>
150          <effect-chain> <chain-pos>"
151        - added LSCP command "SET FX_SEND EFFECT <sampler_channel>
152          <fx_send_id> <effect_chain> <chain_pos>"
153        - added LSCP command "REMOVE FX_SEND EFFECT <sampler_channel> <fx_send_id>"
154        - added LSCP commands "SUBSCRIBE EFFECT_INSTANCE_COUNT",
155          "SUBSCRIBE EFFECT_INSTANCE_INFO", "SUBSCRIBE SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN_COUNT",
156          "SUBSCRIBE SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN_INFO"
157    
158      * Bug fixes:
159        - Fixed crash which may occur when MIDI key + transpose is out of range
160        - minor valgrind fixes
161        - fixed crash which occured when changing an already deployed sampler
162          channel to a different engine type
163        - fixed crash when deleting a sampler channel or changing engine
164          type while an instrument load was in progress
165        - bugfix: playing a note while changing the instrument could cause
166          a crash, or give "Handing back unknown region" error messages
167        - bugfix: calling SET VOICES (which Fantasia does on start and
168          refresh) could cause instruments to be unloaded
169        - Mac OS X: fixed name collision of enum in EffectControl and
170          wrong name of destructor in AudioOutputDeviceCoreAudio.cpp
171        - Mac OS X: fixed hanging threads
172        - Windows: disabled the previous thread fix on non-Mac systems, as
173          it caused hanging threads on Windows
174    
175    Version 1.0.0 (31 July 2009)
176    
177      * packaging changes:
178        - autoconf bugfix: the PKG_CONFIG variable wasn't initialized properly,
179          causing e.g. the libgig test to fail when
180          "./configure --disable-jack-driver" was used
181          (patch by Alexis Ballier)
182        - fixed compilation with gcc 4.3
183        - fixes for building on OS X (thanks to Ebrahim Mayat for testing)
184        - fixed configure so it detects x86_64 (#107)
185        - fixes for building with newer MinGW versions
186        - fix for building with bison 2.4 (#111)
187        - fixed building with libgig installed in a non-standard directory
188        - minor fix in configure for mmsystem.h detection on MinGW
189        - Windows: look for editor plugins and Fantasia using base
190          directory of liblinuxsampler dll (look in the same directory and one
191          directory above)
192        - configure script fix: removed unconditional use of SSE
193        - fixed building with sqlite installed in a non-standard directory
194        - when cross-compiling, don't try to create instruments.db
195        - fix for new mingw-w64 version, which has usleep
196    
197      * general changes:
198        - bugfix: on some POSIX systems instrument editor plugins refused to
199          load as we used a non-portable Linux specific struct field
200          (fixes bug #70, patch by Ronald Baljeu)
201        - fixed endless loop which occured when loading an instrument editor
202          plugin DLL on Windows systems failed
203        - fixed memory leaks that occurred when liblinuxsampler was unloaded
204        - optimized the SynchronizedConfig class so it doesn't wait
205          unnecessarily long after an update
206        - added support for notifying instrument editors on note-on / note-off
207          events (e.g. to highlight the pressed keys on the virtual keyboard
208          of gigedit)
209        - added support for triggering notes by instrument editors (see above)
210        - be verbose on DLL load errors (on Linux)
211        - fixed di-harmonic triangle LFO implementation (this LFO implementation
212          is only used by very few systems, most pick the int math
213          implementation, which is usually faster)
214        - fixes for audio drivers with varying buffer sizes
215        - experimental support for running LinuxSampler as a DSSI, LV2 and
216          VST plugin
217        - notification events for stream/voice count statistics are now sent
218          only when there are actual changes
219        - added memory ordering constraints to improve stability on
220          multi-core and multi-cpu systems
221        - maximum voices and disk streams can now be altered at runtime
222        - fixed CPU feature detection on x86_64 (maybe fixes #108)
223        - automatic stacktrace mechanism is now turned off by default and can
224          be switched on by command line option "--stacktrace" (the automatic
225          stacktrace mechanism seems to be broken on most systems at the moment)
226        - C++ API method InstrumentManager::LaunchInstrumentEditor() now returns
227          a pointer to the launched InstrumentEditor object
228        - added optional 3rd party user data parameter for following
229          liblinuxsampler C++ API methods: InstrumentEditor::Main(),
230          InstrumentEditor::Launch(),
231          InstrumentManager::LaunchInstrumentEditor()
232        - theoretical fix: made SynchronizedConfig follow C++0x memory
233          model more strictly
234        - fixes for using large audio device buffers
235        - Windows: add the installation directory to the DLL search path
236          when loading an editor plugin (solves problems with VST and
237          gigedit on systems with other GTK versions installed)
238    
239      * audio driver:
240        - removed the nonsense audio channel constraint (which was hard coded to
241          max. 100 audio channels) for most audio drivers
242        - JACK audio driver did not offer a device parameter "SAMPLERATE" as
243          opposed to the LSCP specs
244        - bugfix: the SAMPLERATE parameter of some drivers (e.g. JACK)
245          reflected the wrong value
246        - fixed a memory management bug in ASIO driver
247        - Makefile fix: JACK_CFLAGS wasn't used
248        - JACK: use jack_client_open instead of the deprecated
249          jack_client_new
250        - added (experimental) CoreAudio driver
251        - applied old fixes to the ASIO driver that were included in the
252          previous binary release but accidentally never committed to CVS
253          (fixes #117)
254        - fixes for ASIO on mingw-w64 (iasio wrapper is not needed on
255          win64)
256        - VST: added support for sample rate and buffer size changes
257        - VST: close editor (Fantasia) when the VST is removed
258        - VST: avoid opening Fantasia more than once for each VST instance
259        - VST: export main function as "main" on Linux too (fix for
260          energyXT)
261        - VST: changed number of output channels from one stereo to 16
262          stereo
263        - added channel routing, fxsends and midi maps to the settings
264          stored in the plugin state
265        - performance optimization of AudioChannel::MixTo() and
266          AudioChannel::CopyTo() methods using GCC vector exensions
267          (if available)
268        - ASIO fixes: avoid initializing the device twice, avoid throwing
269          exception when getting parameters from a disconnected device
270    
271      * MIDI driver:
272        - added JACK MIDI driver
273        - dispatch bank select as ordinary CC as well, the user might seriously
274          want to (mis)use it for some purpose ("fixed" in all current MIDI
275          input drivers: ALSA, CoreMIDI, JACK, MidiShare, MME)
276        - bugfix: pitch bend wasn't working with JackMidi, VST, LV2, MME,
277          CoreMidi or AU
278        - fixed mingw-w64 compilation error in MME driver
279        - made program change handling in MIDI thread real-time safe by
280          moving the logic to a non-RT thread
281        - fixed minor memory leak in ALSA driver
282    
283      * instruments database:
284        - avoid time consuming samples scanning when adding instruments
285          to the instruments database
286        - added support for handling lost files in the instruments database
287        - Implemented option for adding instruments in separate directories
288          in the instruments database
289          (patch by Chris Cherrett & Andrew Williams, a bit adjusted)
290        - work-around for missing fnmatch function on Windows to make
291          instrument database compilable
292        - added instrument database support on Windows
293          works with both standalone mode and VST plugin.
294          the instruments DB file is located in
295          %USERPROFILE%\.linuxsampler\instruments.db which allows different
296          databases for each windows user
297          if no DB is present it automatically creates the .linuxsampler subdir
298          and then creates an empty DB
299        - fixed recursive import, which was broken on Windows
300    
301      * Gigasampler format engine:
302        - fixed a memory leak that could happen when a channel was deleted
303          while notes were playing
304        - made it possible to load an instrument even if the audio thread
305          isn't running
306        - added partial support for the "Controller Triggered" MIDI rule,
307          enough for piano gigs with pedal noise samples
308        - minor fix: only mark FX sends as being modified if really the
309          respective FX send MIDI controller was used
310        - added support for GM global device volume SysEx message
311          (can be selected at compile time to either apply globally to the
312          whole sampler [default] or only to the sampler channels that are
313          connected to the respective MIDI input port the SysEx message arrived
314          on)
315        - bugfix: notes triggered at position 0 in the audio buffer were
316          sometimes wrongly killed in the same buffer, causing no sound to
317          be played
318        - added support for chromatic / drumkit mode Roland GS Sysex message
319          which is usally used to switch a part between chromatic sounds and
320          drumkit sounds (as opposed to their common default setting of MIDI
321          part 10 being a drumkit part and all other ones chromatic parts), in
322          LS however one can switch between the first 16 MIDI instrument maps
323          defined for the sampler
324        - made it possible to create multiple sample channels even if the
325          audio thread isn't running
326        - fixed crash when removing channel with active voices (#116)
327        - bugfix: on sample reference changes (instrument editor), only
328          un-cache the respective sample if it's really not used by any
329          sampler engine anymore
330        - re-cache samples in case they were changed by an instrument editor,
331          e.g. when a sample was added while playing (#82)
332        - fixed hanging notes which occured when note-off event had the exact
333          same time stamp as the voice's note-on event and occured both in the
334          same audio fragment cycle (fixes bug #112)
335        - added support for the "fine tune" and "pitch bend range"
336          instrument-level gig parameters
337        - fixed minor artifacts in pitch bend handling
338        - added support for GS Reset SysEx message
339        - allow gig files to use unlimited downward pitch shifting
340        - added a limit check for upward pitch shifting
341        - bugfix: sometimes, when playing a note twice fast, the second
342          note was silent
343        - fixed crash happening when a pitch bend event arrived at the
344          same time a new instrument was loading
345    
346      * LSCP server:
347        - added new LSCP event "CHANNEL_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
348          react on MIDI data arriving on certain sampler channels (so far only
349          Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
350        - added new LSCP event "DEVICE_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
351          react on MIDI data arriving on certain MIDI input devices (so far only
352          Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
353        - added new LSCP commands: FIND LOST DB_INSTRUMENT_FILES and
354          SET DB_INSTRUMENT FILE_PATH
355        - added new LSCP command: SEND CHANNEL MIDI_DATA which can be used by
356          frontends to send MIDI messages to specific sampler channel
357        - added two additional fields to GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO command -
358          KEY_BINDINGS and KEYSWITCH_BINDINGS
359        - bugfix: the bank number provided by MIDI_INSTRUMENT_INFO notifications
360          was incorrect
361        - Optimized the retrieval of the MIDI instrument mappings
362        - added new LSCP command "SET VOICES" to globally alter the maximum
363          amount of voices, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:VOICES" which will
364          be triggered respectively
365        - added new LSCP command "SET STREAMS" to globally alter the maximum
366          amount of disk streams, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:STREAMS"
367          which will be triggered respectively
368        - bugfix: retry if "select" returns EINTR (this fixes a crash when
369          a gigedit file dialog is opened)
370        - close all connections when LSCPServer is deleted
371        - hard close of all sockets on exit
372        - bugfix: SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE didn't work with the MME
373          driver
374    
375      * Bug fixes:
376        - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel waiting
377          to start instrument loading after another channel
378        - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel with
379          instrument loading in progress (bug #113)
380        - fixed termination caused by uncaught exception when adding MIDI
381          instrument with PERSISTENT load mode
382        - fixed possible iterator invalidations when resetting the sampler
383        - fixed memory leaks when issuing the following LSCP commands:
384          GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO
385          GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO
386          GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO
387          GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO
388        - fixed possible compilation error when sqlite is not present
389        - fixed orphaned pointers when setting maximum voices limit (bug #118)
390        - fixed crash when changing the audio output device of a sampler
391          channel with loaded instrument and start playing notes
392        - fixed endless loop in Engine::SuspendAll() (bug #120)
393        - fixed a low-level atomic load function that was broken on 64-bit
394          PowerPC, which probably could cause crashes on that platform
395        - fixed a memory management error which could cause a crash when a
396          plugin was unloaded
397        - bugfix: two private structs had the same name, which could cause
398          problems if the linker chose the wrong constructor
399        - fixed low-level ConditionServer usage bug that caused lockups on
400          Windows
401    
402    
403    Version 0.5.1 (6 December 2007)
404    
405      * packaging changes:
406        - added autoconf checks for pthread library
407        - added autoconf check for pthread bug found on certain NPTL-enabled
408          glibc versions (see Gentoo bug report #194076)
409        - added autoconf checks for MS Windows
410    
411      * general changes:
412        - bugfix: the thread used by an editor plugin didn't die when the
413          editor closed
414        - bugfix: Ringbuffer.h: fill_write_space_with_null() did not zero
415          out all the space. operator--() did not apply size_mask after
416          decrementing the read_ptr. DEFAULT_WRAP_ELEMENTS set to 0 in
417          order to avoid problems with the _NonVolatileReader functions.
418        - bugfix: Stream.h: added a missing divide by BytesPerSample in
419          GetWriteSpace(). Since this function is currently only used in
420          the stream's qsort() compare function, it didn't trigger any
421          bugs.
422        - Resampler.h, Synthesizer.h: cubic interpolation now works in
423          24bit mode too. Faster method to read 24bit words on little
424          endian machines (x86): replaced 3 byte reads + shifts with a 1
425          unaligned 32bit read and shift
426        - experimental support for MS Windows (MIDI input via MME, AUDIO
427          output via ASIO)
428        - made handling of SIGINT signal (Ctrl-C) a bit more robust
429        - support for monitoring the total number of active disk streams
430          (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT,
431          SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT)
432    
433      * AUDIO driver:
434        - added Windows ASIO low latency audio driver
435    
436      * MIDI driver:
437        - added MME Windows MIDI driver
438    
439      * LSCP server:
440        - added support for Windows style path / filenames, however with
441          forward slash path separators instead of backslash
442          (i.e. "C:/foo/bar.gig")
443        - allow naughty liblscp to send non-string device parameters within
444          apostrophes as well
445        - added new LSCP commands: "GET FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>",
446          "LIST FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>" and
447          "GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO <file> <index>" for retrieving informations
448          about an arbitrary instrument file on the system where the sampler is
449          running on
450    
451    Version 0.5.0 (15 October 2007)
452    
453      * packaging changes:
454        - config.h is not going to be installed along with liblinuxsampler's
455          API header files anymore
456        - only the API relevant header (and source) files will be exported to
457          the Doxygen API documentation (explicitly listed in Doxyfile.in)
458        - added completely new XCode project files for Mac OSX which is now
459          capable to execute our autoconf environment, thus no need anymore
460          to maintain the compile time configuration file (osx/version.h) for
461          OSX manually (patch by Toshi Nagata)
462        - fixed buggy boolean --enable-foo / --disable-foo configure script
463          parameters
464        - global.h now only covers global definitions that are needed for the
465          C++ API header files, all implementation internal global definitions
466          are now in global_private.h
467        - atomic.h is not exposed to the C++ API anymore
468        - no need to include config.h anymore for using LS's API header files
469        - fixed warnings in API doc generation
470    
471      * general changes:
472        - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a
473          flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary
474          (MIDI bank, MIDI program) pairs with arbitrary
475          (engine type, instrument file, file index) triplets which will be
476          loaded on the respective channel when such MIDI program change
477          messages arrive, beside that, each entry allows to define a life-time
478          strategy for the instrument, so the user can define whether the
479          instrument should i.e. be permanently loaded (to be able to switch
480          quickly among sounds) or i.e. loaded just on demand when the
481          respective program change arrives (to safe RAM space), as well as a
482          global volume factor for each entry, so the user can adjust the volume
483          dynamic of his mapped instrument collection without having to modify
484          the instrument files, also one can manage arbitrary amount of such
485          MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually
486          a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and
487          drumkits is possible
488        - new notification events for tracking changes to audio/MIDI devices,
489          MIDI instrument maps, MIDI instruments, FX sends, global volume.
490        - sampler was limited to load max. 200 instruments in the background
491          due to a constant size RingBuffer FIFO which is now replaced by a
492          dynamic (unlimited) size std::list FIFO
493        - added FX sends, these allow to route audio signals to arbitrary audio
494          output channels for being processed by external effect processors
495          (i.e. jack-rack), the send levels are controllable via arbitrary MIDI
496          controllers
497        - global (sampler wide) volume can now be controlled at runtime
498        - Implemented new, improved notification system
499        - fixed compilation errors regarding OSX
500          (patch by Toshi Nagata)
501        - implemented instruments database
502        - added support for escape sequences to the instruments database
503        - added highly experimental support for on-the-fly instrument editing
504          within the sampler's process (by using instrument editor plugins),
505          you'll notice the new "Registered instrument editors:" message on
506          startup, added a new LSCP command:
507          "EDIT CHANNEL INSTRUMENT <sampler-channel>"
508          to spawn a matching instrument editor for the instrument on the
509          given sampler channel, the plugin path can be overridden at compile
510          time with ./configure --enable-plugin-dir=/some/dir
511        - added experimental code for synchronizing instrument editors hosted
512          in the sampler's process to safely edit instruments while playing
513          without a crash (hopefully) by either suspending single regions
514          wherever possible or if unavoidable whole engine(s)
515        - fixed several issues in fundamental "Thread" class: set scheduling
516          policy and priority on thread level, set a minimum stack size for
517          thread (TODO: a reasonable value yet to be tested), bugfix: non-RT
518          threads simply inherited properties of starting thread instead of
519          setting their own policy and priority
520        - minor fix in our automatic stack trace mechanism on crashes, the
521          main process did not wait for the stack trace process to finish
522          its output
523        - fixed some minor memory leaks
524        - reenabled assembly features support, at the moment only for
525          enabling a fast denormal FPU mode (x86 platforms supporting SSE2)
526        - minor assembly fix in x86 features detection (don't use the PIC
527          register, to avoid relocations in the text segment at runtime)
528        - POSIX callback functions of Thread.h are hidden
529    
530      * MIDI driver:
531        - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages
532    
533      * audio driver:
534        - the ALSA audio output driver parameters now reflect the correct
535          parameter value ranges for the respective selected sound card
536          (patch by Till Wimmer, a bit fixed and extended)
537    
538      * Gigasampler format engine:
539        - if a filter is used and EG2 finishes before EG1, let the voice
540          die when EG2 has finished (this fixes a problem with clicks and
541          voice starvation for some gigs)
542        - playback is no longer disabled during instrument loading
543        - all notes playing on a channel that changes its instrument keep
544          playing with the old instrument until they get a note off
545          command
546        - EG fix: a release value of zero could cause noises or crash
547        - handle MIDI coarse tuning messages (MIDI RPN #0 MSB #2 LSB)
548        - EG fine tuning: when attack is zero the EG starts at a level
549          above max sustain level, which means that there is a decay phase
550          even if sustain is 100%
551        - more EG fixes: the level could sometimes go below zero and cause
552          noises or crashes
553        - minor fix of EGDecay (patch by Toshi Nagata)
554        - fixed compiler error when --enable-override-filter-type was
555          supplied to the configure script (fixes #46)
556        - disk thread: queue sizes are now proportional to CONFIG_MAX_STREAMS
557          instead of a fix value
558        - behavior fix: on MIDI CC# 65 (portamento on / off), 126 (mono mode),
559          127 (solo mode) only kill voices if the respective mode really
560          changed
561    
562      * LSCP server:
563        - fixed compile time error for old Bison versions
564          (i.e. v1.28 found on MacOS 10.4, patch by Toshi Nagata)
565        - parser now supports extended ASCII character set
566          (up to ASCII code 255, i.e. includes now umlauts and accents)
567        - filename arguments in LSCP commands now allow to use escape
568          sequences, that is directly literal as one of: \', \", \\, \n, \r,
569          \f, \t, \v, or as octal ASCII code value like \132, or as hex ASCII
570          code value like \xf2) (fixes bug #24)
571        - the following LSCP commands now also support escape sequences for at
572          least one of their text-based parameters (i.e. name, description):
573          "ADD MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP", "MAP MIDI_INSTRUMENT",
574          "SET MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP NAME", "SET FX_SEND NAME", "CREATE FX_SEND",
575          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY NAME",
576          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY DESCRIPTION", "SET DB_INSTRUMENT NAME",
577          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION", "FIND DB_INSTRUMENTS",
578          "FIND DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORIES"
579        - returns verbose syntax errors (line and column where syntax error
580          occured, the unexpected character and the actually expected, possible
581          character(s), the latter only if less than 5 possibilities)
582        - made sure that LSCP syntax is not affected by gigedit locale
583          settings
584        - bugfix regarding strings parameter lists: all comma separated lists
585          of strings were treated as being one string containing commas
586          (fixes #57)
587    
588      * Bug fixes:
589        - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)
590        - another thread safety fix for lscp "load engine" and "set
591          channel audio output device"
592        - fixed a crash which occurs when reassigning the same engine
593          on a sampler channel with connected MIDI device
594        - fixed a crash which occurs when changing the number of ports of a MIDI
595          device connected to a sampler channel to number less then or equal
596          to the index of the port to which the sampler channel is connected.
597        - The previous bindings were not been disconnected when altering
598          the ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS parameter. Introduced a NONE keyword for
599          unsubscribing from all bindings (e.g. ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS=NONE).
600        - The active stream/voice count statistic was incorrect.
601        - notification events were not been sent for some sampler
602          channel changes
603        - added default min and max values to restrict the number of allowed
604          audio output channels and MIDI input ports
605        - the connection to the PCM interface is now closed when destroying
606          an audio output device
607        - files with slash in their path or filename could not be loaded
608    
609      * test cases:
610        - updated and fixed (haven't been touched in a while)
611    
612    Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)
613    
614      * packaging changes:
615        - changed deprecated copyright attribute to license; added ldconfig
616          to post-(un)install steps; added devel package for liblinuxsampler;
617          to linuxsampler.spec (RPM)
618        - install necessary development header files for allowing 3rd party
619          applications to link against liblinuxsampler
620        - liblinuxsampler's API documentation can be generated with 'make docs'
621          (Doxygen required)
622        - added benchmark to automatically detect the best triangle LFO
623          implementation (currently either an integer math solution or a
624          di-harmonic approximation), automatic detection can be overriden
625          with --enable-signed-triang-algo=x and --enable-unsigned-triang-algo=x
626          configure script argument though (mandatory for cross-compilation)
627        - do not automatically pick optimized gcc flags if the user already
628          provided some on his own (as CXXFLAGS)
629        - added compile time option to disable processing of All-Notes-Off MIDI
630          messages
631        - added compile time options to allow disabling the various audio and
632          MIDI drivers
633        - fixed automatic GCC CPU switch detection on PPC
634          (patch by Ebrahim Mayat)
635    
636      * Gigasampler format engine:
637        - extensive synthesis optimization
638          (reimplementation of EGs and LFO(s), removed synthesis parameter
639          prerendering and the synthesis parameter matrix in general, splitting
640          each audio fragment into subfragments now where each subfragment uses
641          constant pitch and filter coefficients. The volume coefficient is
642          linearly interpolated inside a subfragment, unless
643          --disable-interpolate-volume is set.)
644        - fine tuning of the EG modulation parameters
645        - improved filter cutoff calculation by adding support for the
646          following gig parameters: Cutoff freq (used when no cutoff
647          controller is defined), Control invert, Minimum cutoff, Velocity
648          curve and Velocity range. The keyboard tracking now scales
649          cutoff frequency instead of resonance.
650        - added support for gig parameter Resonance.
651        - fixed bug in sysex handling (patch by Juan Linietsky)
652        - added global volume attenuation of -9 dB (0.35f) to prevent clipping
653          which can be overridden with --enable-global-attenuation
654        - EG fixes: made the length of "attack hold" stage more
655          accurate. Release stage can now start before attack stage
656          ends. Cancel release didn't work when sustain was zero. Attack
657          time now has a minimal value to prevent clicks.
658        - fixed pitch changes larger than one octave
659        - fixed EG3 (pitch envelope) synthesis which was neutral all the time
660        - implemented portamento mode and solo mode (a.k.a 'mono mode'):
661          all modes can be altered via standard GM messages, that is CC5 for
662          altering portamento time, CC65 for enabling / disabling portamento
663          mode, CC126 for enabling solo mode and CC127 for disabling solo mode
664        - fine tuning of the curves for volume (CC7), pan (CC10 and gig
665          parameter) and crossfade
666        - added support for the "attenuation controller threshold" gig
667          parameter
668        - added smoothing of volume changes caused by control change
669          messages
670        - sample loop parameters are now taken from the DimensionRegion
671          instead of the wave chunk
672        - fixed keyswitching for v3 gigs with a number of keyswitch splits
673          not equal to a power of two
674        - reimplementation of the filter algorithm. The new filter is more
675          accurate and supports all gig filter types, including bandreject
676          and lowpass turbo.
677        - real support for 24 bit samples - samples are not truncated to
678          16 bits anymore
679        - support for aftertouch (channel pressure, not polyphonic
680          aftertouch)
681        - LFO1 behaviour fixed (dampening from max volume instead of
682          amplifying from 0)
683    
684      * LSCP server:
685        - fixed application exit on broken pipe error (fixes bug #20)
686        - fixed the notification messages delay due to lack of
687          network activity (fixes bug #26)
688        - fixed parser bug which occured on space(s) within device parameters
689          (e.g. "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 SOMEPARAM='foo bar'")
690    
691      * audio driver:
692        - added aRts audio output driver (by no means RT safe)
693    
694      * MIDI driver:
695        - fixed legacy sysex code which caused dispatching of MIDI SysEx
696          messages several times instead of once
697        - API extension for MIDI drivers which already supply exact time stamps
698          for events (i.e. for offline rendering based MIDI drivers)
699        - added checks for bad MIDI data
700    
701      * linuxsampler application:
702        - show available sampler engine types on startup
703    
704      * general changes:
705        - support for muting sampler channels and solo mode of the same, two new
706          LSCP commands ("SET CHANNEL MUTE" and "SET CHANNEL SOLO") and two new
707          fields ("MUTE" and "SOLO") for command "GET CHANNEL INFO" were
708          introduced for this, the behavior is the same like on a mixer console
709          (patch by Grigor Iliev, a bit adjusted). Also added configure option
710          --enable-process-muted-channels which can be used to enable the
711          processing of muted channels.
712        - support for sostenuto pedal
713        - support for monitoring the total number of active voices
714          (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT_MAX,
715          SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT)
716        - fixed some memory management errors
717        - fixed some concurrency problems that could lead to crashes when
718          LSCP commands were executed
719        - fixed crash when instrument loading failed previously on the same
720          sampler channel (fixes bug #36)
721    
722    Version 0.3.3 (15 July 2005)
723    
724      * packaging changes:
725        - fixed compilation with gcc 4.0
726    
727      * Gigasampler format engine:
728        - LFO preprocessing was performed even though the respective LFO was
729          disabled by the instrument patch (minor efficiency fix)
730        - if period time of chosen audio device is too small (< MIN_RELEASE_TIME)
731          for volume ramp downs in the same fragment (needed for current voice
732          stealing implementation) then simply inform the user with a warning
733          about possible click sounds and reduce the volume ramp down
734          appropriately instead of cancelling the audio device connection
735    
736    Version 0.3.2 (24 June 2005)
737    
738    * packaging changes:    * packaging changes:
739      - updated autotools build files to compile on OS X      - updated autotools build files to compile on OS X
740        (conditional compilation of CoreMIDI and MidiShare drivers)        (conditional compilation of CoreMIDI and MidiShare drivers)
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757        instead of when the respective voice is actually launched        instead of when the respective voice is actually launched
758        (fixes undefined behavior if stolen voices belonged to a key group -        (fixes undefined behavior if stolen voices belonged to a key group -
759        this case was followed by a "killed voice survived" error message)        this case was followed by a "killed voice survived" error message)
760        - fixed minor issue with null/silence samples
761          (those stole voices even though they don't need a voice at all which
762          resulted in "voice stealing didn't work out" messages)
763        - don't reset volume, pan, pitch and MIDI controller values on
764          instrument or audio output device change
765    
766    * LSCP server:    * LSCP server:
767      - fixed some crashes (patch by Grigor Iliev, fixes #19)      - fixed some crashes (patch by Grigor Iliev, fixes #19)
768      - fixed LSCP event "CHANNEL_INFO" notification      - fixed LSCP event "CHANNEL_INFO" notification
769        (e.g. did not notify on volume changes)        (e.g. did not notify on volume changes or MIDI program change events)
770    
771    * linuxsampler application:    * linuxsampler application:
772      - 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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