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revision 686 by schoenebeck, Mon Jul 11 19:12:54 2005 UTC revision 981 by iliev, Sun Dec 17 22:35:01 2006 UTC
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3      * general changes:
4        - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a
5          flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary
6          (MIDI bank, MIDI program) pairs with arbitrary
7          (engine type, instrument file, file index) triplets which will be
8          loaded on the respective channel when such MIDI program change
9          messages arrive, beside that, each entry allows to define a life-time
10          strategy for the instrument, so the user can define whether the
11          instrument should i.e. be permanently loaded (to be able to switch
12          quickly among sounds) or i.e. loaded just on demand when the
13          respective program change arrives (to safe RAM space), as well as a
14          global volume factor for each entry, so the user can adjust the volume
15          dynamic of his mapped instrument collection without having to modify
16          the instrument files, also one can manage arbitrary amount of such
17          MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually
18          a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and
19          drumkits is possible
20        - new notification events for tracking audio/MIDI device changes,
21          MIDI instrument map changes and MIDI instrument changes
22    
23      * MIDI driver:
24        - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages
25    
26      * Gigasampler format engine:
27        - if a filter is used and EG2 finishes before EG1, let the voice
28          die when EG2 has finished (this fixes a problem with clicks and
29          voice starvation for some gigs)
30    
31      * Bug fixes:
32        - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)
33    
34    Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)
35    
36      * packaging changes:
37        - changed deprecated copyright attribute to license; added ldconfig
38          to post-(un)install steps; added devel package for liblinuxsampler;
39          to linuxsampler.spec (RPM)
40        - install necessary development header files for allowing 3rd party
41          applications to link against liblinuxsampler
42        - liblinuxsampler's API documentation can be generated with 'make docs'
43          (Doxygen required)
44        - added benchmark to automatically detect the best triangle LFO
45          implementation (currently either an integer math solution or a
46          di-harmonic approximation), automatic detection can be overriden
47          with --enable-signed-triang-algo=x and --enable-unsigned-triang-algo=x
48          configure script argument though (mandatory for cross-compilation)
49        - do not automatically pick optimized gcc flags if the user already
50          provided some on his own (as CXXFLAGS)
51        - added compile time option to disable processing of All-Notes-Off MIDI
52          messages
53        - added compile time options to allow disabling the various audio and
54          MIDI drivers
55        - fixed automatic GCC CPU switch detection on PPC
56          (patch by Ebrahim Mayat)
57    
58      * Gigasampler format engine:
59        - extensive synthesis optimization
60          (reimplementation of EGs and LFO(s), removed synthesis parameter
61          prerendering and the synthesis parameter matrix in general, splitting
62          each audio fragment into subfragments now where each subfragment uses
63          constant pitch and filter coefficients. The volume coefficient is
64          linearly interpolated inside a subfragment, unless
65          --disable-interpolate-volume is set.)
66        - fine tuning of the EG modulation parameters
67        - improved filter cutoff calculation by adding support for the
68          following gig parameters: Cutoff freq (used when no cutoff
69          controller is defined), Control invert, Minimum cutoff, Velocity
70          curve and Velocity range. The keyboard tracking now scales
71          cutoff frequency instead of resonance.
72        - added support for gig parameter Resonance.
73        - fixed bug in sysex handling (patch by Juan Linietsky)
74        - added global volume attenuation of -9 dB (0.35f) to prevent clipping
75          which can be overridden with --enable-global-attenuation
76        - EG fixes: made the length of "attack hold" stage more
77          accurate. Release stage can now start before attack stage
78          ends. Cancel release didn't work when sustain was zero. Attack
79          time now has a minimal value to prevent clicks.
80        - fixed pitch changes larger than one octave
81        - fixed EG3 (pitch envelope) synthesis which was neutral all the time
82        - implemented portamento mode and solo mode (a.k.a 'mono mode'):
83          all modes can be altered via standard GM messages, that is CC5 for
84          altering portamento time, CC65 for enabling / disabling portamento
85          mode, CC126 for enabling solo mode and CC127 for disabling solo mode
86        - fine tuning of the curves for volume (CC7), pan (CC10 and gig
87          parameter) and crossfade
88        - added support for the "attenuation controller threshold" gig
89          parameter
90        - added smoothing of volume changes caused by control change
91          messages
92        - sample loop parameters are now taken from the DimensionRegion
93          instead of the wave chunk
94        - fixed keyswitching for v3 gigs with a number of keyswitch splits
95          not equal to a power of two
96        - reimplementation of the filter algorithm. The new filter is more
97          accurate and supports all gig filter types, including bandreject
98          and lowpass turbo.
99        - real support for 24 bit samples - samples are not truncated to
100          16 bits anymore
101        - support for aftertouch (channel pressure, not polyphonic
102          aftertouch)
103        - LFO1 behaviour fixed (dampening from max volume instead of
104          amplifying from 0)
105    
106      * LSCP server:
107        - fixed application exit on broken pipe error (fixes bug #20)
108        - fixed the notification messages delay due to lack of
109          network activity (fixes bug #26)
110        - fixed parser bug which occured on space(s) within device parameters
111          (e.g. "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 SOMEPARAM='foo bar'")
112    
113      * audio driver:
114        - added aRts audio output driver (by no means RT safe)
115    
116      * MIDI driver:
117        - fixed legacy sysex code which caused dispatching of MIDI SysEx
118          messages several times instead of once
119        - API extension for MIDI drivers which already supply exact time stamps
120          for events (i.e. for offline rendering based MIDI drivers)
121        - added checks for bad MIDI data
122    
123      * linuxsampler application:
124        - show available sampler engine types on startup
125    
126      * general changes:
127        - support for muting sampler channels and solo mode of the same, two new
128          LSCP commands ("SET CHANNEL MUTE" and "SET CHANNEL SOLO") and two new
129          fields ("MUTE" and "SOLO") for command "GET CHANNEL INFO" were
130          introduced for this, the behavior is the same like on a mixer console
131          (patch by Grigor Iliev, a bit adjusted). Also added configure option
132          --enable-process-muted-channels which can be used to enable the
133          processing of muted channels.
134        - support for sostenuto pedal
135        - support for monitoring the total number of active voices
136          (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT_MAX,
137          SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT)
138        - fixed some memory management errors
139        - fixed some concurrency problems that could lead to crashes when
140          LSCP commands were executed
141        - fixed crash when instrument loading failed previously on the same
142          sampler channel (fixes bug #36)
143    
144    Version 0.3.3 (15 July 2005)
145    
146    * packaging changes:    * packaging changes:
147      - fixed compilation with gcc 4.0      - fixed compilation with gcc 4.0
148    
149      * Gigasampler format engine:
150        - LFO preprocessing was performed even though the respective LFO was
151          disabled by the instrument patch (minor efficiency fix)
152        - if period time of chosen audio device is too small (< MIN_RELEASE_TIME)
153          for volume ramp downs in the same fragment (needed for current voice
154          stealing implementation) then simply inform the user with a warning
155          about possible click sounds and reduce the volume ramp down
156          appropriately instead of cancelling the audio device connection
157    
158  Version 0.3.2 (24 June 2005)  Version 0.3.2 (24 June 2005)
159    
160    * packaging changes:    * packaging changes:

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