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2    
3      * audio driver:
4        - removed the nonsense audio channel constraint (which was hard coded to
5          max. 100 audio channels) for most audio drivers
6    
7    Version 0.5.1 (6 December 2007)
8    
9      * packaging changes:
10        - added autoconf checks for pthread library
11        - added autoconf check for pthread bug found on certain NPTL-enabled
12          glibc versions (see Gentoo bug report #194076)
13        - added autoconf checks for MS Windows
14    
15      * general changes:
16        - bugfix: the thread used by an editor plugin didn't die when the
17          editor closed
18        - bugfix: Ringbuffer.h: fill_write_space_with_null() did not zero
19          out all the space. operator--() did not apply size_mask after
20          decrementing the read_ptr. DEFAULT_WRAP_ELEMENTS set to 0 in
21          order to avoid problems with the _NonVolatileReader functions.
22        - bugfix: Stream.h: added a missing divide by BytesPerSample in
23          GetWriteSpace(). Since this function is currently only used in
24          the stream's qsort() compare function, it didn't trigger any
25          bugs.
26        - Resampler.h, Synthesizer.h: cubic interpolation now works in
27          24bit mode too. Faster method to read 24bit words on little
28          endian machines (x86): replaced 3 byte reads + shifts with a 1
29          unaligned 32bit read and shift
30        - experimental support for MS Windows (MIDI input via MME, AUDIO
31          output via ASIO)
32        - made handling of SIGINT signal (Ctrl-C) a bit more robust
33        - support for monitoring the total number of active disk streams
34          (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT,
35          SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT)
36    
37      * AUDIO driver:
38        - added Windows ASIO low latency audio driver
39    
40      * MIDI driver:
41        - added MME Windows MIDI driver
42    
43      * LSCP server:
44        - added support for Windows style path / filenames, however with
45          forward slash path separators instead of backslash
46          (i.e. "C:/foo/bar.gig")
47        - allow naughty liblscp to send non-string device parameters within
48          apostrophes as well
49        - added new LSCP commands: "GET FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>",
50          "LIST FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>" and
51          "GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO <file> <index>" for retrieving informations
52          about an arbitrary instrument file on the system where the sampler is
53          running on
54    
55    Version 0.5.0 (15 October 2007)
56    
57      * packaging changes:
58        - config.h is not going to be installed along with liblinuxsampler's
59          API header files anymore
60        - only the API relevant header (and source) files will be exported to
61          the Doxygen API documentation (explicitly listed in Doxyfile.in)
62        - added completely new XCode project files for Mac OSX which is now
63          capable to execute our autoconf environment, thus no need anymore
64          to maintain the compile time configuration file (osx/version.h) for
65          OSX manually (patch by Toshi Nagata)
66        - fixed buggy boolean --enable-foo / --disable-foo configure script
67          parameters
68        - global.h now only covers global definitions that are needed for the
69          C++ API header files, all implementation internal global definitions
70          are now in global_private.h
71        - atomic.h is not exposed to the C++ API anymore
72        - no need to include config.h anymore for using LS's API header files
73        - fixed warnings in API doc generation
74    
75      * general changes:
76        - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a
77          flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary
78          (MIDI bank, MIDI program) pairs with arbitrary
79          (engine type, instrument file, file index) triplets which will be
80          loaded on the respective channel when such MIDI program change
81          messages arrive, beside that, each entry allows to define a life-time
82          strategy for the instrument, so the user can define whether the
83          instrument should i.e. be permanently loaded (to be able to switch
84          quickly among sounds) or i.e. loaded just on demand when the
85          respective program change arrives (to safe RAM space), as well as a
86          global volume factor for each entry, so the user can adjust the volume
87          dynamic of his mapped instrument collection without having to modify
88          the instrument files, also one can manage arbitrary amount of such
89          MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually
90          a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and
91          drumkits is possible
92        - new notification events for tracking changes to audio/MIDI devices,
93          MIDI instrument maps, MIDI instruments, FX sends, global volume.
94        - sampler was limited to load max. 200 instruments in the background
95          due to a constant size RingBuffer FIFO which is now replaced by a
96          dynamic (unlimited) size std::list FIFO
97        - added FX sends, these allow to route audio signals to arbitrary audio
98          output channels for being processed by external effect processors
99          (i.e. jack-rack), the send levels are controllable via arbitrary MIDI
100          controllers
101        - global (sampler wide) volume can now be controlled at runtime
102        - Implemented new, improved notification system
103        - fixed compilation errors regarding OSX
104          (patch by Toshi Nagata)
105        - implemented instruments database
106        - added support for escape sequences to the instruments database
107        - added highly experimental support for on-the-fly instrument editing
108          within the sampler's process (by using instrument editor plugins),
109          you'll notice the new "Registered instrument editors:" message on
110          startup, added a new LSCP command:
111          "EDIT CHANNEL INSTRUMENT <sampler-channel>"
112          to spawn a matching instrument editor for the instrument on the
113          given sampler channel, the plugin path can be overridden at compile
114          time with ./configure --enable-plugin-dir=/some/dir
115        - added experimental code for synchronizing instrument editors hosted
116          in the sampler's process to safely edit instruments while playing
117          without a crash (hopefully) by either suspending single regions
118          wherever possible or if unavoidable whole engine(s)
119        - fixed several issues in fundamental "Thread" class: set scheduling
120          policy and priority on thread level, set a minimum stack size for
121          thread (TODO: a reasonable value yet to be tested), bugfix: non-RT
122          threads simply inherited properties of starting thread instead of
123          setting their own policy and priority
124        - minor fix in our automatic stack trace mechanism on crashes, the
125          main process did not wait for the stack trace process to finish
126          its output
127        - fixed some minor memory leaks
128        - reenabled assembly features support, at the moment only for
129          enabling a fast denormal FPU mode (x86 platforms supporting SSE2)
130        - minor assembly fix in x86 features detection (don't use the PIC
131          register, to avoid relocations in the text segment at runtime)
132        - POSIX callback functions of Thread.h are hidden
133    
134      * MIDI driver:
135        - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages
136    
137      * audio driver:
138        - the ALSA audio output driver parameters now reflect the correct
139          parameter value ranges for the respective selected sound card
140          (patch by Till Wimmer, a bit fixed and extended)
141    
142      * Gigasampler format engine:
143        - if a filter is used and EG2 finishes before EG1, let the voice
144          die when EG2 has finished (this fixes a problem with clicks and
145          voice starvation for some gigs)
146        - playback is no longer disabled during instrument loading
147        - all notes playing on a channel that changes its instrument keep
148          playing with the old instrument until they get a note off
149          command
150        - EG fix: a release value of zero could cause noises or crash
151        - handle MIDI coarse tuning messages (MIDI RPN #0 MSB #2 LSB)
152        - EG fine tuning: when attack is zero the EG starts at a level
153          above max sustain level, which means that there is a decay phase
154          even if sustain is 100%
155        - more EG fixes: the level could sometimes go below zero and cause
156          noises or crashes
157        - minor fix of EGDecay (patch by Toshi Nagata)
158        - fixed compiler error when --enable-override-filter-type was
159          supplied to the configure script (fixes #46)
160        - disk thread: queue sizes are now proportional to CONFIG_MAX_STREAMS
161          instead of a fix value
162        - behavior fix: on MIDI CC# 65 (portamento on / off), 126 (mono mode),
163          127 (solo mode) only kill voices if the respective mode really
164          changed
165    
166      * LSCP server:
167        - fixed compile time error for old Bison versions
168          (i.e. v1.28 found on MacOS 10.4, patch by Toshi Nagata)
169        - parser now supports extended ASCII character set
170          (up to ASCII code 255, i.e. includes now umlauts and accents)
171        - filename arguments in LSCP commands now allow to use escape
172          sequences, that is directly literal as one of: \', \", \\, \n, \r,
173          \f, \t, \v, or as octal ASCII code value like \132, or as hex ASCII
174          code value like \xf2) (fixes bug #24)
175        - the following LSCP commands now also support escape sequences for at
176          least one of their text-based parameters (i.e. name, description):
177          "ADD MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP", "MAP MIDI_INSTRUMENT",
178          "SET MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP NAME", "SET FX_SEND NAME", "CREATE FX_SEND",
179          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY NAME",
180          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY DESCRIPTION", "SET DB_INSTRUMENT NAME",
181          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION", "FIND DB_INSTRUMENTS",
182          "FIND DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORIES"
183        - returns verbose syntax errors (line and column where syntax error
184          occured, the unexpected character and the actually expected, possible
185          character(s), the latter only if less than 5 possibilities)
186        - made sure that LSCP syntax is not affected by gigedit locale
187          settings
188        - bugfix regarding strings parameter lists: all comma separated lists
189          of strings were treated as being one string containing commas
190          (fixes #57)
191    
192      * Bug fixes:
193        - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)
194        - another thread safety fix for lscp "load engine" and "set
195          channel audio output device"
196        - fixed a crash which occurs when reassigning the same engine
197          on a sampler channel with connected MIDI device
198        - fixed a crash which occurs when changing the number of ports of a MIDI
199          device connected to a sampler channel to number less then or equal
200          to the index of the port to which the sampler channel is connected.
201        - The previous bindings were not been disconnected when altering
202          the ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS parameter. Introduced a NONE keyword for
203          unsubscribing from all bindings (e.g. ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS=NONE).
204        - The active stream/voice count statistic was incorrect.
205        - notification events were not been sent for some sampler
206          channel changes
207        - added default min and max values to restrict the number of allowed
208          audio output channels and MIDI input ports
209        - the connection to the PCM interface is now closed when destroying
210          an audio output device
211        - files with slash in their path or filename could not be loaded
212    
213      * test cases:
214        - updated and fixed (haven't been touched in a while)
215    
216    Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)
217    
218      * packaging changes:
219        - changed deprecated copyright attribute to license; added ldconfig
220          to post-(un)install steps; added devel package for liblinuxsampler;
221          to linuxsampler.spec (RPM)
222        - install necessary development header files for allowing 3rd party
223          applications to link against liblinuxsampler
224        - liblinuxsampler's API documentation can be generated with 'make docs'
225          (Doxygen required)
226        - added benchmark to automatically detect the best triangle LFO
227          implementation (currently either an integer math solution or a
228          di-harmonic approximation), automatic detection can be overriden
229          with --enable-signed-triang-algo=x and --enable-unsigned-triang-algo=x
230          configure script argument though (mandatory for cross-compilation)
231        - do not automatically pick optimized gcc flags if the user already
232          provided some on his own (as CXXFLAGS)
233        - added compile time option to disable processing of All-Notes-Off MIDI
234          messages
235        - added compile time options to allow disabling the various audio and
236          MIDI drivers
237        - fixed automatic GCC CPU switch detection on PPC
238          (patch by Ebrahim Mayat)
239    
240      * Gigasampler format engine:
241        - extensive synthesis optimization
242          (reimplementation of EGs and LFO(s), removed synthesis parameter
243          prerendering and the synthesis parameter matrix in general, splitting
244          each audio fragment into subfragments now where each subfragment uses
245          constant pitch and filter coefficients. The volume coefficient is
246          linearly interpolated inside a subfragment, unless
247          --disable-interpolate-volume is set.)
248        - fine tuning of the EG modulation parameters
249        - improved filter cutoff calculation by adding support for the
250          following gig parameters: Cutoff freq (used when no cutoff
251          controller is defined), Control invert, Minimum cutoff, Velocity
252          curve and Velocity range. The keyboard tracking now scales
253          cutoff frequency instead of resonance.
254        - added support for gig parameter Resonance.
255        - fixed bug in sysex handling (patch by Juan Linietsky)
256        - added global volume attenuation of -9 dB (0.35f) to prevent clipping
257          which can be overridden with --enable-global-attenuation
258        - EG fixes: made the length of "attack hold" stage more
259          accurate. Release stage can now start before attack stage
260          ends. Cancel release didn't work when sustain was zero. Attack
261          time now has a minimal value to prevent clicks.
262        - fixed pitch changes larger than one octave
263        - fixed EG3 (pitch envelope) synthesis which was neutral all the time
264        - implemented portamento mode and solo mode (a.k.a 'mono mode'):
265          all modes can be altered via standard GM messages, that is CC5 for
266          altering portamento time, CC65 for enabling / disabling portamento
267          mode, CC126 for enabling solo mode and CC127 for disabling solo mode
268        - fine tuning of the curves for volume (CC7), pan (CC10 and gig
269          parameter) and crossfade
270        - added support for the "attenuation controller threshold" gig
271          parameter
272        - added smoothing of volume changes caused by control change
273          messages
274        - sample loop parameters are now taken from the DimensionRegion
275          instead of the wave chunk
276        - fixed keyswitching for v3 gigs with a number of keyswitch splits
277          not equal to a power of two
278        - reimplementation of the filter algorithm. The new filter is more
279          accurate and supports all gig filter types, including bandreject
280          and lowpass turbo.
281        - real support for 24 bit samples - samples are not truncated to
282          16 bits anymore
283        - support for aftertouch (channel pressure, not polyphonic
284          aftertouch)
285        - LFO1 behaviour fixed (dampening from max volume instead of
286          amplifying from 0)
287    
288      * LSCP server:
289        - fixed application exit on broken pipe error (fixes bug #20)
290        - fixed the notification messages delay due to lack of
291          network activity (fixes bug #26)
292        - fixed parser bug which occured on space(s) within device parameters
293          (e.g. "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 SOMEPARAM='foo bar'")
294    
295      * audio driver:
296        - added aRts audio output driver (by no means RT safe)
297    
298      * MIDI driver:
299        - fixed legacy sysex code which caused dispatching of MIDI SysEx
300          messages several times instead of once
301        - API extension for MIDI drivers which already supply exact time stamps
302          for events (i.e. for offline rendering based MIDI drivers)
303        - added checks for bad MIDI data
304    
305      * linuxsampler application:
306        - show available sampler engine types on startup
307    
308      * general changes:
309        - support for muting sampler channels and solo mode of the same, two new
310          LSCP commands ("SET CHANNEL MUTE" and "SET CHANNEL SOLO") and two new
311          fields ("MUTE" and "SOLO") for command "GET CHANNEL INFO" were
312          introduced for this, the behavior is the same like on a mixer console
313          (patch by Grigor Iliev, a bit adjusted). Also added configure option
314          --enable-process-muted-channels which can be used to enable the
315          processing of muted channels.
316        - support for sostenuto pedal
317        - support for monitoring the total number of active voices
318          (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT_MAX,
319          SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT)
320        - fixed some memory management errors
321        - fixed some concurrency problems that could lead to crashes when
322          LSCP commands were executed
323        - fixed crash when instrument loading failed previously on the same
324          sampler channel (fixes bug #36)
325    
326    Version 0.3.3 (15 July 2005)
327    
328    * packaging changes:    * packaging changes:
329      - fixed compilation with gcc 4.0      - fixed compilation with gcc 4.0
330    

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