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3      * general changes:
4        - Fixed compiler error in Pool.h.
5        - Require C++14 compiler support.
6        - Autoconf: Added m4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4 macro which is used
7          for checking in configure for C++14 support (as mandatory
8          requirement) and automatically adds compiler argument if required
9          (e.g. -std=C++14).
10        - RTMath: Implemented floating point comparison methods
11          fEqual32(float,float) and fEqual64(double,double) which take the
12          expected floating point tolerances into account.
13        - Added public API C++ class "LFO", which is a cluster class encapsulating
14          all the sampler's LFO implementations to be used by 3rd party applications
15          (e.g. by Gigedit).
16        - Added int math square LFO implementation.
17        - Added int math saw LFO implementation.
18        - Added numeric complex nr sine LFO implementation.
19        - Marked class LFOTriangleDiHarmonic as deprecated
20          (will be removed in future).
21        - Added LFOAll.h which includes all LFO implementation's header files.
22        - Refactored LFO class names and their file names (PulseLFO -> LFOPulse,
23          LFOSawIntMath -> LFOSawIntMathNew, SawLFO -> LFOSawIntMathOld,
24          SineLFO -> LFOSineBuiltinFn, LFOSine -> LFOSineNumericComplexNr,
25          SquareLFO -> LFOSquarePulse and separated the latter to its own header
26          file).
27        - Renamed type LFOSigned -> LFOTriangleSigned.
28        - Renamed type LFOUnsigned -> LFOTriangleUnsigned.
29        - Using now cubic interpolation as resampling algorithm by default; and
30          linear interpolation is deprecated now.
31        - Event:Init(): memset() entire Event::Param union to zero instead of trying
32          to do that for its individual members; the latter became error prone due
33          to the union's growing complexity meanwhile.
34        - EngineChannel: Overhaul of RPN/NRPN related methods: Added new
35          *Rpn*Parameter*() methods as replacement for previous *Rpn*Controller*()
36          methods and marked the old ones as deprecated; and likewise added new
37          *Nrpn*Parameter*() methods as replacement for previous *Nrpn*Controller*()
38          methods and marked those old ones deprecated as well.
39        - Added support for MIDI CC #38 (data entry LSB): this allows higher value
40          resolution for certain (e.g. hard coded) RPN and NRPN parameters.
41        - Implemented support for compressed RPN/NRPN message sequences (that is to
42          allow processing MIDI data entry messages without always having to be
43          preceded strictly by RPN/NRPN parameter selection messages on each value
44          change).
45        - Added support for MIDI CC #96 (data increment) and MIDI CC #97 (data
46          decrement).
47        - Added support for 'null function RPN/NRPN' (which is RPN/NRPN parameter
48          MSB=127 and LSB=127) and which is disabling subsequent data
49          entry/increment/decrement CC messages.
50        - Fixed crash when editing key groups (a.k.a. exclusive groups) with an
51          instrument editor.
52        - Fixed playing noise at the end of a disk stream under certain conditions.
53        - Fixed potential crash with high pitch at end of RAM playback.
54        - Added configure checks whether C++ compiler supports so called
55          'designated initializers'.
56        - Added global backtraceAsString() function for debugging purposes
57          (POSIX systems only, no Windows implementation yet).
58        - Thread class: Added new methods pushCancelable(), popCancelable(), name(),
59          nameOfCaller() and setNameOfCaller().
60        - configure: Always check for availability of pthread_testcancel() and use
61          it if so (previously it was only used if explicitly enabled by configure
62          option).
63        - Thread class: raise compiler warning if pthread_testcancel() is not
64          available, because it can lead to deadlocks.
65        - Mutex class: Implemented optional bug detection and deadlock debugging
66          features.
67        - Ref<> class is now thread safe (as lock-free and wait-free
68          implementation).
69        - Fixed compilation error with Bison >= 3.6.0.
70        - Fixed rare crash when switching between instruments that had instrument
71          scripts loaded.
72    
73      * Real-time instrument scripts:
74        - Added method ScriptVM::setExitResultEnabled() which allows to
75          explicitly enable the built-in exit() function to optionally accept
76          one function argument; the value of the passed exit() function
77          argument will then become available by calling
78          VMExecContext::exitResult() after script execution.
79        - 64 bit support for NKSP integer scripts variables (declare $foo).
80        - Variable names, function names and preprocessor condition names must start
81          with a regular character (a-z or A-Z); starting them with a digit or
82          underscore is not allowed.
83        - NKSP parser fix: equal comparison operator "=" and not equal comparison
84          operator "#" must only accept integer operands.
85        - NKSP language: Implemented support for standard units like Hertz, seconds,
86          Bel including support for metric unit prefixes; so one can now e.g.
87          conveniently use numbers in scripts like "5us" meaning "5 microseconds",
88          or e.g. "12kHz" meaning "12 kilo Hertz", or e.g. "-14mdB" meaning
89          "minus 14 Millidecibel", or e.g. "28c" meaning "28 cents" (for tuning).
90        - NKSP language: Introduced "final" operator "!" which is specifically
91          intended for synthesis parameter values to denote that the synthesis
92          parameter value is intended to be the "final" value for that synthesis
93          parameter that should explicitly be used by the engine and thus causing
94          the sampler engine to ignore all other modulation sources for the same
95          synthesis parameter (like e.g. LFO, EG); by simply prefixing a value,
96          variable or formula with this new "!" operator the expression is marked as
97          being "final".
98        - NKSP script editor API: Added support for detecting standard unit tokens
99          and their potential metric prefix token.
100        - NKSP language: Added support for NKSP real number literals and
101          arithmetic operations on them (e.g. "(3.9 + 2.9) / 12.3 - 42.0").
102        - NKSP language: Added support for NKSP real number (floating point) script
103          variables (declare ~foo).
104        - NKSP language: Added support for NKSP real number (floating point) array
105          script variables (declare ?foo[]).
106        - Built-in script function "message()" accepts now real number argument as
107          well.
108        - Added built-in script function "real_to_int()" and its short hand form
109          "int()" for casting from real number to integer in NKSP scripts.
110        - Added built-in script function "int_to_real()" and its short hand form
111          "real()" for casting from integer to real number in NKSP scripts.
112        - Allow built-in exit() function to potentially accept real number type
113          argument as well.
114        - Built-in script functions may have a different return type depending on
115          the arguments passed to the function.
116        - Built-in script function "abs()" optionally accepts and returns real
117          number.
118        - Built-in script functions "min()" and "max()" optionally accept real
119          number arguments and return real number as result in that case.
120        - NKSP VM API: Allow units and 'final'ness to be returned as result from
121          built-in functions (added methods VMFunction::returnUnitType() and
122          VMFunction::returnsFinal() for that purpose which must be implemented by
123          built-in function implementations).
124        - NKSP language: Allow metric unit prefixes of numeric scalar and array
125          variables to be changed freely at runtime (unlike unit types like Hz etc.
126          which are still sticky, parse-time features of variables which cannot be
127          changed at runtime for the intentional sake of determinism).
128        - NKSP language: 'final' values are prohibited for array variables for now
129          (attempt causes a parsers error).
130        - NKSP language: expressions with unit types (e.g. Hz) are prohibited for
131          conditions of runtime control structures like if(), while(), select()
132          (attempt causes a parser error).
133        - NKSP VM API: Allow built-in functions to perform their own, individual
134          parse time checks of arguments going to be passed to the function at
135          runtime (added method VMFunction::checkArgs() for that purpose).
136        - NKSP language: raise parser warning if only one operand of binary
137          operators (like logical 'or' comparison) contain a 'final' value (because
138          it would always yield in a 'final' result in such cases).
139        - NKSP language: Allow comparison (=, #, <, >, <=, >=) of values with
140          different metric unit prefixes, which will behave as expected (e.g.
141          result of expression '1000us < 2ms' is true).
142        - NKSP language: Allow adding values with different metric unit prefixes
143          (e.g. result of expression '100Hz + 5kHz' is '5100Hz').
144        - NKSP language: Allow subtracting values with different metric unit
145          prefixes (e.g. result of expression '1ms - 20us' is '980us').
146        - NKSP language: Allow multiplying with any metric unit prefixes
147          (e.g. result of expression '2k * 3ms' is '6s'), however multiplications
148          with unit types on both sides (e.g. '2s * 2s') is still prohibited since
149          we don't have any considerable practical use for a term like '4s^2'
150          (hence any attempt multiplying two unit types still causes parser error).
151        - NKSP language: Allow dividing by any metric unit prefixes and allow
152          division of same unit type on both sides (e.g. expression '8kHz / 1000Hz'
153          yields in unit free result '8'). So this is now a way to cast units away
154          e.g. for passing the result to other expressions, certain function calls
155          or variables which are not accepting any units (or that specific unit).
156        - NKSP language: integer arrays and real number arrays can now be converted
157          to strings (e.g. for dumping their content with message() calls for
158          script debugging purposes).
159        - NKSP language: expressions and variables with units are now correctly
160          casted to strings (e.g. with message() calls).
161        - NKSP language: comparing real numbers for equalness (e.g. '~foo = 3.1') or
162          unequalness (e.g. '~foo # 3.1') is now less strict and takes the expected
163          floating point tolerances into account.
164        - NKSP VM API: Added methods VMScalarNumberExpr::evalCastInt() and
165          VMScalarNumberExpr::evalCastReal().
166        - NKSP VM API: Added base class 'VMNumberArrayExpr' for classes
167          'VMIntArrayExpr' and 'VMRealArrayExpr'.
168        - NKSP VM API: replaced all unitPrefix() (parse time) methods by
169          unitFactor() (runtime) methods.
170        - Built-in function "exit()" supports now returning units and 'final'ness
171          for test cases.
172        - The following built-in functions support now units as well: "abs()",
173          "random()", "inc()", "dec()", "in_range()", "min()", "max()",
174          "real_to_int()", "int()", "int_to_real()" and "real()".
175        - Built-in functions "array_equal()", "search()" and "sort()" support now
176          real number arrays (correctly) as well.
177        - Added individual parse time checks of arguments to be passed to built-in
178          functions "random()", "inc()", "dec()", "in_range()", "min()", "max()",
179          "array_equal()" and "search()" specific for their individual purposes.
180        - NKSP VM refactoring: Renamed all methods, functions and classes matching
181          pattern *ScalarNumber* to simply *Number* (that is i.e. classes
182          VMScalarNumberExpr -> VMNumberExpr, ScalarNumberExpr -> NumberExpr,
183          ScalarNumberVariable -> NumberVariable, ScalarNumberBinaryOp ->
184          NumberBinaryOp, VMScalarNumberResultFunction -> VMNumberResultFunction,
185          method VMExpr::asScalarNumberExpr() -> VMExpr::asNumber(), function
186          isScalarNumber() -> isNumber()).
187        - NKSP VM API: Added 4 overridden methods to class VMNumberExpr:
188          evalCastInt(MetricPrefix_t), evalCastInt(MetricPrefix_t,MetricPrefix_t),
189          evalCastReal(MetricPrefix_t), evalCastReal(MetricPrefix_t,MetricPrefix_t)
190          as convenient methods for automatically converting values to expected
191          metric value basis.
192        - Built-in function "wait()" accepts now both integers and real numbers as
193          argument.
194        - NKSP VM API cleanup: Get rid of legacy method
195          VMFunction::argType(vmint iArg) which was already superseded by its new
196          replacement VMFunction::acceptsArgType(vmint iArg, ExprType_t type).
197        - NKSP parser: if wrong argument type was passed to a built-in function and
198          that built-in function accepts more than one data type for the argument,
199          then show all supported data types as parser error message.
200        - Built-in function "play_note()" accepts now real numbers and seconds as
201          unit type as well for its 3rd and 4th function arguments.
202        - The following built-in functions accept now real numbers as well for their
203          2nd function argument: "change_vol()", "change_tune()", "change_cutoff()",
204          "change_attack()", "change_decay()", "change_release()",
205          "change_sustain()", "change_cutoff_attack()", "change_cutoff_decay()",
206          "change_cutoff_sustain()", "change_cutoff_release()",
207          "change_amp_lfo_freq()", "change_cutoff_lfo_freq()",
208          "change_pitch_lfo_freq()", "change_vol_time()", "change_tune_time()",
209          "change_pan_time()", "fade_in()", "fade_out()", "change_play_pos()".
210        - Fixed built-in function "change_play_pos()" not having accepted metric
211          prefixes at all.
212        - Fixed the following built-in functions having misinterpreted values given
213          with unit type (for their 2nd argument) as if they were relative values
214          (that is as if they were passed without a unit type): "change_attack()",
215          "change_decay()", "change_release()", "change_cutoff_attack()",
216          "change_cutoff_decay()", "change_cutoff_release()".
217        - Fixed the following built-in functions having applied completely wrong
218          'final' values: "change_sustain()", "change_cutoff_sustain()" (since the
219          respective EGs being their modulation sink assume uint data type with
220          value range 0..1000 instead of 0.0..1.0.
221        - Added individual parse-time checks of function arguments for the following
222          built-in functions: "play_note()", "note_off()", "set_event_mark()",
223          "delete_event_mark()", "by_marks()", "change_cutoff()", "change_attack()",
224          "change_decay()", "change_release()", "change_cutoff_attack()",
225          "change_cutoff_decay()", "change_cutoff_release()",
226          "change_amp_lfo_freq()", "change_cutoff_lfo_freq()",
227          "change_pitch_lfo_freq()", "change_vol_time()", "change_tune_time()" and
228          "change_pan_time()".
229        - Don't abort function call if unit type was used and at the same time
230          'final' operator was omitted for the primary value argument of the
231          following built-in functions: "change_cutoff()", "change_attack()",
232          "change_decay()", "change_release()", "change_cutoff_attack()",
233          "change_cutoff_decay()", "change_cutoff_release()",
234          "change_amp_lfo_freq()", "change_cutoff_lfo_freq()",
235          "change_pitch_lfo_freq()", "change_vol_time()", "change_tune_time()",
236          "change_pan_time()", instead imply 'final'ness at runtime and raise an
237          appropriate parser warning at parse time.
238        - Added built-in real number functions "round()", "ceil()", "floor()",
239          "sqrt()", "log()", "log2()", "log10()", "exp()", "pow()", "sin()",
240          "cos()", "tan()", "asin()", "acos()", "atan()".
241        - Added built-in script real number constant "~NI_MATH_PI".
242        - Added built-in script real number constant "~NI_MATH_E".
243        - NKSP language: Allow unary '+' operator.
244        - Added built-in script functions "msb()" and "lsb()".
245        - NKSP language: Added support for RPN event handler
246          ("on rpn ... end on" in instrument scripts).
247        - NKSP language: Added support for NRPN event handler
248          ("on nrpn ... end on" in instrument scripts).
249        - Added built-in read-only variables "$RPN_ADDRESS" and "$RPN_VALUE" which
250          may be read from the new RPN/NRPN script handlers to get the (N)RPN
251          parameter that had been changed and its new value.
252        - Added built-in const variables "$NI_CB_TYPE_RPN" and "$NI_CB_TYPE_NRPN"
253          which are identifying the new (N)RPN handlers as such at script runtime.
254        - Implemented built-in script function "set_rpn()".
255        - Implemented built-in script function "set_nrpn()".
256        - Fix: built-in functions returning an array type were broken and caused a
257          crash when the built-in function's (supposed to be array) result value was
258          used by the script VM.
259        - Removed upper value constraint for 2nd argument of built-in functions
260          "change_amp_lfo_freq()", "change_cutoff_lfo_freq()",
261          "change_pitch_lfo_freq()","change_reso()", "change_cutoff()",
262          "change_amp_lfo_depth()", "change_cutoff_lfo_depth()" and
263          "change_pitch_lfo_depth()", to allow e.g. passing value 2000000 to double
264          the LFO frequency / resonance / cutoff frequency.
265        - Reduced code involved for parsing NKSP variable declarations by using 2
266          generalized grammar rules with optional components (i.e. optional value
267          assignment and optional variable qualifiers) instead of previous linear
268          combinations of grammar rules, which also fixes some edge case.
269        - NKSP language parser: track code block locations also by a) raw byte
270          position in NKSP source code string and b) length of that code block in
271          bytes (along to the already existing code block tracking by line/column);
272          and added appropriate new members to public C++ API classes like
273          'firstByte' and 'lengthBytes' to class VMSourceToken and struct CodeBlock.
274        - NKSP language: Added support for 'patch' variable qualifier (capture their
275          locations and allow replacement of their assignment expression via VM C++
276          API).
277        - Fixed incorrect EG times if standard measuring unit was passed to built-in
278          functions "change_attack()", "change_decay()" or "change_release()".
279        - Fixed intermediate function result values never having reflected any
280          standard measuring unit type.
281        - Fixed re-entrant issue with function calls which caused wrong result
282          values if the same function was called multiple times in a term
283          (specifically if metric prefixes were used).
284        - NKSP language: Just throw a warning, not an error if an array variable of
285          size zero was declared.
286        - NKSP language: Allow omitting explicit array size on array variable
287          declaration if combined with immediate value assignment
288          (e.g. declare %foo[] := ( 1, 2, 3 ) ).
289        - NKSP language: emit warning if an array variable was declared with bigger
290          array size than amount of initial values been assigned, and initialize the
291          missing array elements with zero in this case.
292        - Fixed built-in NKSP exit() function to behave as return statement.
293        - NKSP parser: Fixed crash if unary '-' operator was used on a non-number
294          data type.
295        - NKSP VM: Fixed the "release" handler being executed too often under
296          certain situations if polyphonic data was passed from "note" handler to
297          "release" handler.
298    
299      * test cases:
300        - Fixed compiler errors in test cases.
301        - Updated README for how to compile & run test cases.
302        - Updated test case
303          MutexTest::testDoubleLockStillBlocksConcurrentThread() to latest
304          expected behaviour of the Mutex class implementation (recursive
305          mutex type).
306        - Added test cases for NKSP core language aspects and core built-in
307          functions.
308        - Fixed thread tests segfaulting on Linux.
309        - NKSP: Added real number test cases for built-in functions exit(),
310          int_to_real(), real(), real_to_int() and int(), as well as for the
311          plus, minus and negate language operators.
312        - Added massive amount of NKSP test cases for standard measuring units and
313          'final' operator usage cases.
314        - Added NKSP test cases for (floating point tolerance aware) real number
315          equalness / unequalness comparison.
316        - Added NKSP int array and real array tests for value assignment and
317          initialization of arrays.
318        - Added NKSP test cases for built-in functions "round()", "ceil()",
319          "floor()", "sqrt()", "log()", "log2()", "log10()", "exp()", "pow()",
320          "sin()", "cos()", "tan()", "asin()", "acos()", "atan()".
321        - Added NKSP test cases for unary '+' operator.
322        - Added NKSP test cases for core built-in variables.
323        - Added thorough NKSP test cases for variable declarations.
324    
325      * GigaStudio/Gigasampler format engine:
326        - LFOTriangleIntMath and LFOTriangleIntAbsMath: Fixed FlipPhase=true
327          behaviour for start_level_mid.
328        - Changed LFO start levels: LFO1 and LFO2 both to mid, LFO3 to max. start
329          level (see discussion "GigaStudio LFO compatibility" on mailing list
330          from 2019-09-26 for details).
331        - Changed default wave form for all 3 LFOs to sine (instead of triangle;
332          see discussion "GigaStudio LFO compatibility" on mailing list from
333          2019-09-26 for details).
334        - Format extension: Added support for different LFO wave forms (currently
335          either sine [default], triangle, saw or square).
336        - Format extension: Added support for LFO phase displacement (0°..360°).
337        - Format extension: Added support for flipping LFO polarity on LFO 3
338          (in the original gig format this was only available for LFO 1 and LFO 2).
339        - Format extension: Support for additional filter types:
340          lowpass 1/2/4/6-pole, highpass 1/2/4/6-pole, bandpass 2-pole,
341          bandreject 2-pole.
342        - Fixd potential crash with polynomial interpolator and max. pitch.
343        - If minimum cutoff is defined, remap cutoff controller CC values to really
344          span the entire possible cutoff range (and avoiding a dead controller
345          zone).
346        - Implemented support for loading instrument scripts with 'patch' variables
347          (by patching these script variables with potentially overridden ones by
348          gig Instrument).
349    
350      * SFZ format engine:
351        - Fixed support for regions with loccN/hiccN conditions on more than one
352          MIDI controller.
353    
354      * Benchmarks:
355        - Fixed benchmarks/triang.cpp falsely having favoured "int math abs"
356          algorithm (since result of 2nd run was not accumulated).
357        - Added benchmark for saw wave (benchmarks/saw.cpp).
358        - Added benchmark for sine wave (benchmarks/sine.cpp).
359        - Added benchmark for square wave (benchmarks/square.cpp).
360        - Increased amount of benchmarks runs by factor 6 to achieve benchmark times
361          which are large enough on modern systems.
362    
363    Version 2.1.1 (27 Jul 2019)
364    
365      * Real-time instrument scripts:
366        - Fixed behavior of built-in NKSP functions change_sustain(),
367          change_cutoff_attack(), change_cutoff_decay(), change_cutoff_sustain()
368          and change_cutoff_release().
369    
370      * general changes:
371        - Only play release trigger samples on sustain pedal up if this behaviour
372          was explicitly requested by the instrument (otherwise only on note-off).
373        - Fixed compiler warnings.
374        - Fixed compilation error when cross-compiling to Mac.
375        - FX Sends: Provide more useful error messages on routing problems
376          (see bug #169).
377        - LSCP doc: Be more clear describing the two distinct approaches
378          of using external vs. internal effects (see bug #169).
379        - "optional" class: Fixed comparison operators.
380    
381      * Gigasampler/GigaStudio format engine:
382        - Format extension: If requested by instrument then don't play release
383          trigger sample on note-off events.
384    
385      * SFZ format engine:
386        - Fixed memory leak when releasing samples
387          (fixes bug #307, patch by Jacek Roszkowski)
388        - Fixed potential crash when a sample is shared by more than one region
389          (fixes bug #308, patch by Jacek Roszkowski).
390        - Opcode 'sample': Added support for built-in sample '*silence'
391          (fixes bug #310, patch by Jacek Roszkowski).
392    
393    Version 2.1.0 (25 Nov 2017)
394    
395      * SFZ format engine:
396        - added support for <global>, <master> and #define (patch by Alby M)
397        - Removed code duplication in SFZ file loading code.
398        - Added support for sfz extension opcode 'script' which may be used to
399          load real-time instrument script file (NKSP script language).
400        - Implemented opcode set_ccN (initial patch by Giovanni Senatore).
401        - Fixed unintended volume fade-in of voices under certain conditions.
402        - sfz parser: allow missing space between header and opcode
403    
404      * Gigasampler/GigaStudio format engine:
405        - Fixed clicks and pumping noise with Lowpass Turbo filter on very low
406          cutoff settings.
407        - Got rid of resembling an ancient GSt misbehavior which did not pitch at
408          all if an up-pitch of more than 40 semi tones was requested (I don't
409          think there is any stock gig sound that requires this behavior to
410          resemble its original sound).
411        - Added support for controlling whether the individual EGADSR stages may
412          be aborted (as LinuxSampler extension to the original GigaStudio 4
413          format).
414    
415      * general changes:
416        - fixed printf type errors (mostly in debug messages)
417        - use unique_ptr instead of auto_ptr when building with C++11
418        - Added RTAVLTree class which is a real-time safe ordered multi-map, thus
419          allowing to sort data efficiently in real-time safe manner.
420        - RTList class: added methods for moving/inserting elements to arbitrary
421          position within a list.
422        - RTList class: added method fromPtr() for creating an Iterator object from
423          a raw element pointer.
424        - Attempt to partly fix resetting engine channels vs. resetting engine, an
425          overall cleanup of the Reset*(), ConnectAudioDevice(),
426          DisconnectAudioDevice() API methods would still be desirable though,
427          because the current situation is still inconsistent and error prone.
428        - Active voices are now internally grouped to "Note" objects, instead of
429          being directly assigned to a keyboard key. This allows more fine graded
430          processing of voices, which is i.e. required for certain instrument
431          script features.
432        - Fix: Release trigger voices were not spawned on sustain pedal up
433          (CC #64) events.
434        - Fix: Release trigger voices can now also distinguish correctly between
435          note-off and sustain pedal up events.
436        - All engines: Increased ramp speed of volume smoother and pan smoother
437          (while slow rate of crossfade smoother is preserved) to allow quick
438          volume and pan changes by instrument scripts for instance.
439        - gig/sf2/sfz: Fixed aftertouch channel pressure events being processed
440          properly and thus were ignored for certain uses.
441        - Added new C++ API method
442          VirtualMidiDevice::SendChannelPressureToSampler().
443        - windows, 32-bit: fixed potential crashes by making sure the stack in
444          sub threads is 16-byte aligned
445        - fixed numerous compiler warnings
446        - Fixed invalid (note-on) event ID being assigned to new Note objects.
447        - Revised fundamental C++ classes "Thread", "Mutex" and "Condition" which
448          fixes potential undefined behavior.
449        - Fixed Note object leak when triggering notes on keys which did not
450          have a valid sample mapped (fixes bug #252).
451        - Fixed compilation errors when compiling with CONFIG_DEVMODE enabled.
452        - linuxsampler binary fix: option --create-instruments-db ignored
453          subsequent optional argument due to glibc's implementation oddity
454          which expects a "=" sign, but no space between them.
455    
456      * packaging changes:
457        - removed unnecessary dependency to libuuid
458          (originated by libgig's usage of it)
459        - Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
460          auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
461        - Debian: Fixed packaging error about invalid "Source-Version"
462          substitution variable.
463        - Debian: Raised Debian compatibility level to Debian 9 "Stretch".
464        - Debian: Added build dependency to libsqlite3-dev for building
465          linuxsampler with instruments DB support.
466    
467      * Real-time instrument scripts:
468        - Implemented scheduler for delayed MIDI events and for suspended scripts.
469        - Built-in script function "wait()": implemented support for function's
470          "duration-us" argument, thus scripts using this function are now
471          correctly resumed after the requested amount of microseconds.
472        - Built-in script function "play_note()": implemented support for
473          function's "duration-us" argument, thus notes triggered with this
474          argument are now correctly released after the requested amount of
475          microseconds.
476        - Fix: script events were not cleared when engine channel was reset,
477          potentially causing undefined behavior.
478        - Fixed crash which happened when trying to reference an undeclared
479          variable.
480        - Built-in script function "play_note()": Added support for passing
481          special value -1 for "duration-us" argument, which will cause the
482          triggered note to be released once the original note was released.
483        - Instrument script classes now exported with the liblinuxsampler C++ API.
484        - Added new API method ScriptVM::syntaxHighlighting() which provides
485          a convenient syntax highlighting backend for external instrument
486          script editor applications.
487        - Added new C++ API class "ScriptVMFactory".
488        - Extended parser issues to provide not only first line and first
489          column, but also last line and last column of issue (thus marking
490          the precise span of the issue within the source code).
491        - Reload script automatically after being modified by an instrument
492          editor.
493        - NKSP language grammar correction: allow empty event handler bodies
494          like "on note end on".
495        - Implemented built-in script function "change_vol()".
496        - Implemented built-in script function "change_tune()".
497        - Implemented built-in script function "change_pan()".
498        - Implemented built-in script function "change_cutoff()".
499        - Implemented built-in script function "change_reso()".
500        - Implemented built-in script function "event_status()".
501        - Added built-in script constants "$EVENT_STATUS_INACTIVE" and
502          "$EVENT_STATUS_NOTE_QUEUE" both for being used as flags for
503          "event_status()" function.
504        - NKSP language: Added support for bitwise operators ".or.", ".and."
505          and ".not.".
506        - NKSP language scanner: Fixed IDs matching to require at least one
507          character (i.e. when matching function names or variable names).
508        - NKSP language scanner: disabled unusued rules.
509        - Fixed behavior of play_note() and note_off() functions which must
510          be distinguished engine internally from "real" MIDI note on/off
511          events in order to avoid misbehaviors like hanging notes.
512        - Implemented built-in script variable "$KSP_TIMER".
513        - Implemented built-in script variable "$NKSP_REAL_TIMER".
514        - Implemented built-in script variable "$NKSP_PERF_TIMER".
515        - Implemented built-in script variable "$ENGINE_UPTIME".
516        - Implemented built-in script function "inc()".
517        - Implemented built-in script function "dec()".
518        - NKSP language fix: division expressions were evaluated too often.
519        - NKSP language fix: string concatenation operator was right
520          associative instead of left (to right).
521        - NKSP language correction: allow empty statements in entire language
522          (i.e. "if end if").
523        - Implemented built-in script function "stop_wait()".
524        - Implemented built-in script variable "$NI_CALLBACK_ID".
525        - Implemented built-in script variable "$NI_CALLBACK_TYPE".
526        - Implemented built-in script variable "$NKSP_IGNORE_WAIT".
527        - Added support for read-only built-in variables (respectively
528          handled by the script parser).
529        - Added built-in script constant "$NI_CB_TYPE_INIT".
530        - Added built-in script constant "$NI_CB_TYPE_NOTE".
531        - Added built-in script constant "$NI_CB_TYPE_RELEASE".
532        - Added built-in script constant "$NI_CB_TYPE_CONTROLLER".
533        - NKSP Language: Added support for user defined script functions.
534        - Implemented built-in script function "change_attack()".
535        - Implemented built-in script function "change_decay()".
536        - Implemented built-in script function "change_release()".
537        - Fixed all change_*() built-in script functions to apply their
538          synthesis parameter changes immediately in case the respective note
539          was triggered at the same time, instead of scheduling the parameter
540          change, especially because it would cause some parameter types's
541          changes either to be ramped (i.e. change_vol()) or other types even
542          to have not effect at all (i.e. change_attack()).
543        - Implemented built-in script function "sh_left()".
544        - Implemented built-in script function "sh_right()".
545        - Implemented built-in script function "min()".
546        - Implemented built-in script function "max()".
547        - NKSP Fix: "init" event handler was not always executed when a script
548          was loaded.
549        - NKSP built-in wait() script function: abort script execution if
550          a negative or zero wait time was passed as argument (since this is
551          a common indication of a bug either of the script or even of the
552          engine, which could lead to RT instability or even worse).
553        - ScriptVM: Implemented automatic suspension of RT safety
554          threatening scripts.
555        - Provide more user friendly error messages on syntax errors.
556        - Fixed NKSP parser warning "Not a statement" when assigning an
557          initializer list to an array variable.
558        - Implemented built-in script array variable "%ALL_EVENTS".
559        - Implemented built-in script function "in_range()".
560        - Implemented built-in script function "change_amp_lfo_depth()".
561        - Implemented built-in script function "change_amp_lfo_freq()".
562        - Implemented built-in script function "change_pitch_lfo_depth()".
563        - Implemented built-in script function "change_pitch_lfo_freq()".
564        - Implemented built-in script function "change_vol_time()".
565        - Implemented built-in script function "change_tune_time()".
566        - Implemented built-in script function "fade_in()".
567        - Implemented built-in script function "fade_out()".
568        - Fixed acceptance of wrong data type of parameters passed to built-in
569          script functions "change_vol()", "change_tune()", "change_pan()",
570          "change_cutoff()", "change_reso()", "change_attack()", "change_decay()",
571          "change_release()", "change_amp_lfo_depth()", "change_amp_lfo_freq()",
572          "change_pitch_lfo_depth()" and "change_pitch_lfo_freq()".
573        - Added built-in script function "get_event_par()" and implemented some
574          of its possible parameter selections.
575        - Added built-in script function "set_event_par()" and implemented some
576          of its possible parameter selections.
577        - Fixed a bunch of scheduler time related bugs.
578        - Fixed polyphonic variables not being reset to zero after usage.
579        - Built-in "ignore_event()" function: argument is now optional, like with
580          built-in function "ignore_controller()".
581        - Implemented built-in script function "change_velo()".
582        - Implemented built-in script function "change_note()".
583        - Adjusted behavior of "change_vol()" and "change_tune()" to a more
584          intuitive behavior if used in combination with "change_vol_time()" or
585          "change_tune_time()" respectively: now tuning/volume changes are only
586          assigned (without delay) immediately to a new note if the respective
587          timing function has not been called before, otherwise the volume/tuning
588          changes are automatically faded (before, only the event's time stamp was
589          relevant).
590         - Implemented built-in script function "array_equal()".
591         - Implemented built-in script function "search()".
592         - Implemented built-in script function "sort()".
593         - NKSP Fix: Never suspend "init" event handlers.
594         - Implemented built-in script function "same_region()" (currently only
595           available for gig format engine).
596         - Added built-in script constant "$NKSP_LINEAR".
597         - Added built-in script constant "$NKSP_EASE_IN_EASE_OUT".
598         - Implemented built-in script function "change_vol_curve()".
599         - Implemented built-in script function "change_tune_curve()".
600         - built-in "play_note()" function now supports a sample playback start
601           offset with argument 3, where special value -1 means to use the regular
602           sample offset as defined by the instrument file.
603         - Built-in array variable %KEY_DOWN[] is now a read-only variable.
604         - Built-in variable $EVENT_NOTE is now a read-only variable.
605         - Built-in variable $EVENT_VELOCITY is now a read-only variable.
606         - built-in "play_note()" function now accepts -2 for its fourth argument
607           (note duration) which means the life time of the note shall be sticked
608           to the requested note number of argument 1.
609         - Fix: built-in "play_note()" function now returns 0 as result value if
610           -1 was passed for its fourth argument (note duration) and the respective
611           parent note is already gone.
612        - Implemented built-in script function "change_play_pos()".
613        - NKSP language: Added support for user declared const array variables.
614        - NKSP language: Raise parser warning if array variable is accessed with
615          an index that exceeds the array's size.
616        - NKSP language fix: Unknown characters were not handled correctly.
617        - NKSP language: Added support for "synchronized .. end synchronized"
618          code blocks.
619        - Implemented built-in script function "abort()" which allows to abort
620          another script handler by passing its callback ID.
621        - Fixed potential memory access bug and potential undefined behavior of
622          "init" event handlers.
623        - Print a time stamp along to each call of built-in function "message()".
624        - ScriptVM API: Added VMParserContext::preprocessorComments() which allows
625          to retrieve all code blocks filtered out by the preprocessor.
626        - Added built-in script function "fork()".
627        - Added built-in array variable %NKSP_CALLBACK_CHILD_ID[].
628        - Added built-in variable $NKSP_CALLBACK_PARENT_ID.
629        - Fixed potential crash when accessing dynamic built-in array variables.
630        - Added built-in script function "callback_status()".
631        - Added built-in constant $CALLBACK_STATUS_TERMINATED.
632        - Added built-in constant $CALLBACK_STATUS_QUEUE.
633        - Added built-in constant $CALLBACK_STATUS_RUNNING.
634        - Removed max. value limitation of built-in functions "change_attack()",
635          "change_decay()" and "change_release()" to i.e. allow passing 2000000
636          for doubling the respective time.
637        - NKSP script editor syntax highlighting API: Fixed app termination due
638          to a lexer start condition stack underrun.
639        - NKSP preprocessor: Fixed wrong behavior on nested USE_CODE_IF() and
640          USE_CODE_IF_NOT() preprocessor statements.
641        - NKSP: Added built-in preprocessor condition NKSP_NO_MESSAGE, which
642          can be set to disable all subsequent built-in "message()" function calls
643          on preprocessor level.
644        - Implemented built-in script function "change_sustain()".
645        - NKSP script editor syntax highlighting API: catch all fatal lexer errors,
646          to avoid the editor app to crash on ill-formed text input.
647        - Added built-in script function "change_pan_time()".
648        - Added built-in script function "change_pan_curve()".
649        - Added built-in script function "change_cutoff_attack()".
650        - Added built-in script function "change_cutoff_decay()".
651        - Added built-in script function "change_cutoff_sustain()".
652        - Added built-in script function "change_cutoff_release()".
653        - Added built-in script function "change_cutoff_lfo_depth()".
654        - Added built-in script function "change_cutoff_lfo_freq()".
655    
656      * Instruments DB:
657        - Fixed memory access bug of general DB access code which lead to
658          undefined behavior.
659        - Cleanup of instruments DB file creation and opening code.
660        - The instrument DB path of linuxsampler's --create-instruments-db argument
661          is now optional, if it is missing, then a default location is used.
662        - Added support for scanning SFZ (.sfz) files.
663        - Added support for scanning Sound Font (.sf2) files.
664        - Fixed undefined DB transaction behavior.
665    
666    Version 2.0.0 (15 July 2015)
667    
668      * packaging changes:
669        - fixed building with newer MinGW-w64
670        - Mac OS X: support the new dir for Core Audio SDK
671        - Mac OS X: fixed building outside source directory
672        - made sure all source files for hostplugins are included when
673          doing "make dist"
674        - removed empty directories left from the cvs to svn migration
675        - fixed compilation with gcc 4.6.1
676        - another "make dist" fix, for the LV2 plugin
677        - made --enable-pthread-testcancel default on Mac OS X
678        - minor Makefile fix for building lscpparser when build and source
679          directories are separate
680        - Mac OS X: made it possible to specify plugin installation dir to
681          configure
682        - Mac OS X: Makefile fix for the install-strip target
683        - fixed compilation with gcc 4.7
684        - fixed configure script error with old autoconf versions
685        - lsatomic.h: use gcc provided atomic functions if building with
686          gcc 4.7 and C++11
687        - modernized configure script
688        - fixed linkage error when building with
689          LDFLAGS="-Wl,--no-undefined" (#190)
690        - fixed compilation with Clang 3.2
691        - removed usage of deprecated Automake variable INCLUDES
692        - fixed building with C++11
693        - build fix: ChangeFlagRelaxed.h was missing in makefile
694        - build fix: libsndfile compiler flags were missing in some
695          makefiles
696        - fix for building with bison 3.0 (#202)
697        - Mac OS X: added temporary hack allowing to spawn gigedit as callback
698          on the process's main thread
699        - fixed build error on newer MinGW
700        - support building with older jack versions
701        - support building with spaces in vst sdk path
702        - enabled automake 'subdir-objects' option and moved external
703          source references (vst, au, asio) from makefiles to cpp files,
704          in order to get rid of warnings from automake 1.14
705    
706      * general changes:
707        - Refactoring: moved the independent code from
708          the Gigasampler format engine to base classes
709        - command line option '--profile' is currently disabled, since the
710          respective profiling code is currently broken
711        - Introduced support for optional environment variable
712          "LINUXSAMPLER_PLUGIN_DIR" which allows to override the directory
713          where the sampler shall look for instrument editor plugins
714          (patch by Luis Garrido, slightly modified).
715        - implemented Roland GS NRPN 1ArrH which allows to set volume per note
716        - implemented Roland GS NRPN 1CrrH which allows to set pan per note
717        - implemented Roland GS NRPN 1DrrH which allows to set reverb send per
718          note (in this implementation of the sampler its simply hard routed to
719          the 1st effect send of the sampler channel, no matter what the actual
720          effect type is)
721        - implemented Roland GS NRPN 1ErrH which allows to set chorus send per
722          note (in this implementation of the sampler its simply hard routed to
723          the 2nd effect send of the sampler channel, no matter what the actual
724          effect type is)
725        - implemented support for internal LADSPA effects
726        - raised limit of program change queue from 100 to 512
727          (as suggested by Alex Stone)
728        - implemented sine LFO, pulse LFO and saw LFO
729        - experimental support for per voice equalization
730        - added command line option --exec-after-init
731        - Introduced new C++ API method:
732          EngineChannel::InstrumentFileName(int index)
733          allowing to retrieve the whole list of files used for the loaded
734          instrument on an engine channel (a.k.a. part). Some GigaStudio
735          instruments for example are splitted over several files like
736          "Foo.gig", "Foo.gx01", "Foo.gx02", ...
737        - Added new C++ API method Sampler::GetGlobalMaxVoices().
738        - Added new C++ API method Sampler::GetGlobalMaxStreams().
739        - Added new C++ API method Sampler::SetGlobalMaxVoices().
740        - Added new C++ API method Sampler::SetGlobalMaxStreams().
741        - Various "const" and "restrict" optimizations.
742        - all engines: add pan CC value to instrument pan parameter before
743          applying panning, instead of using two separate pan functions in
744          series (#182)
745        - added a lock guard class for exception safe mutex handling and
746          used it everywhere appropriate
747        - Immediately apply scale tuning changes to active voices.
748        - Exposed scale tuning to C++ API (along to the already existing standard
749          SysEx way).
750        - lsatomic.h fixes: seq_cst load and store were suboptimal for x86
751          and broken for ppc64. (Seq_cst loads and stores are actually not
752          used in LS, so the bug wasn't noticable.)
753        - lsatomic.h: added ARMv7 support
754        - Added support for multiple MIDI input ports per sampler channel (and
755          added various new C++ methods for this new feature / design change, old
756          C++ API methods for managing SamplerChannel's MIDI inputs are now marked
757          as deprecated but are still there and should provide full behavior
758          backward compatibility).
759        - AbstractEngine::GSChecksum(): don't allocate memory on the stack (was
760          unsafe and caused compilation error with clang 2.x).
761        - Bugfix: only process the latest MIDI program change event.
762        - Introducing the LSCP shell, which provides convenient control of the
763          sampler from the command line by providing LSCP aware features.
764        - VirtualMidiDevice: Added support for program change.
765        - VirtualMidiDevice: Added support for bank select (MSB & LSB).
766        - VirtualMidiDevice: Added support for pitch bend.
767        - Aftertouch: extended API to explicitly handle channel pressure and
768          polyphonic key pressure events (so far polyphonic pressure was not
769          supported at all, and channel pressure was rerouted as CC128 but not
770          used so far).
771        - Added initial support for real-time instrument scripts. The script VM
772          code is shared by all sampler engine implemementations, however only the
773          gig file format currently provides support for storing instrument scripts
774          (as LinuxSampler extension to the original GigaStudio 4 format).
775    
776      * Gigasampler format engine:
777        - implemented the "round robin keyboard" dimension
778        - fixed round robin and random dimensions for cases when number of
779          dimension zones is not a power of two
780        - made round robin use a counter for each region instead of each
781          key
782        - bugfix: pitch LFO controller "internal+aftertouch" was broken
783        - bugfix: filter keyboard tracking was broken
784        - filter performance fix (an unnecessary copy was made of the
785          filter parameters in each sub fragment)
786        - handle special case when pan parameter in gig file has max or
787          min value
788        - Exclusive Groups: don't ever stop voices of the same note,
789          doesn't sound naturally with a drumkit
790        - fixed EG1 modulation when attack or release is zero
791        - Fixed support for 'aftertouch' attenuation controller.
792        - Fixed crash that happened with velocity split sounds under certain
793          conditions (see also previous commit on libgig).
794        - fixed behaviour of filter LFO
795    
796      * SFZ format engine:
797        - Initial implementation (not usable yet)
798        - added support for v2 multiple stage envelope generators
799        - added a fine-tuned v1 envelope generator instead of using the
800          one from the gig engine
801        - fixed memory leak and memory handling errors
802        - added support for trigger=first, trigger=legato and sw_previous
803        - allow non-numerical key values ("C#4" for example)
804        - "key" opcode now sets pitch_keycenter too
805        - fixed error when unloading instrument with same sample used by
806          multiple regions
807        - added some opcode aliases, like loopmode for loop_mode, to be
808          more compatible
809        - added support for trigger=release and rt_decay
810        - added support for off_mode=normal
811        - added support for random, seq_position, seq_length and volume
812        - added v1 LFO opcodes to parser (no support in engine yet)
813        - added support for amp_veltrack and amp_velcurve_N
814        - fine-tuned the default velocity curve
815        - added support for transpose
816        - fixed crash when using sw_down/up
817        - improved logic for sw_lokey/hikey/up/down/last
818        - added more v1 aliases to parser
819        - reduced memory usage for sfz data
820        - RT-safeness: avoid malloc in audio thread
821        - fixed a bug that could cause voice stealing to fail
822        - optimized sample lookup
823        - improved support for exclusive groups (group, off_by and
824          off_mode)
825        - added support for controller triggered regions (on_locc/on_hicc)
826        - added support for loop_mode=one_shot
827        - fixed playback of 16 bit wav files on big endian CPUs
828        - added support for Ogg Vorbis sample files
829        - use loop markers from sample file if loop_start and loop_end are
830          not set in sfz file
831        - implemeted filters. Filter types: lowpass, bandpass, bandreject
832          and highpass. 1, 2, 4 and 6 pole filters. Opcodes: fil_type,
833          cutoff, resonance, fil_veltrack, fil_keytrack, fil_keycenter,
834          cutoff_cc, cutoff_chanaft.
835        - bugfix: zero ampeg_sustain didn't work
836        - added support for velocity effect on amplifier envelope time
837          (ampeg_vel2attack, ampeg_vel2decay, ampeg_vel2sustain and
838          ampeg_vel2release)
839        - added support for EG hold (ampeg_hold)
840        - added support for sample offset (offset)
841        - use the newly introduced signal units model
842        - implemented opcodes lfoN_delay,
843          lfoN_freq, lfoN_pan, lfoN_cutoff, lfoN_resonance
844        - implemented opcodes ampeg_delay, ampeg_vel2delay
845          pitcheg_delay, pitcheg_start, pitcheg_attack, pitcheg_hold,
846          pitcheg_decay, pitcheg_sustain, pitcheg_release, pitcheg_vel2delay,
847          pitcheg_vel2attack, pitcheg_vel2hold, pitcheg_vel2decay,
848          pitcheg_vel2sustain, pitcheg_vel2release, pitcheg_depth
849        - implemented opcodes pitchlfo_delay, pitchlfo_freq,
850          pitchlfo_depth, fillfo_delay, fillfo_freq, fillfo_depth,
851          amplfo_delay, amplfo_freq, amplfo_depth
852        - implemented opcodes fileg_delay, fileg_start, fileg_attack,
853          fileg_hold, fileg_decay, fileg_sustain, fileg_release, fileg_vel2delay,
854          fileg_vel2attack, fileg_vel2hold, fileg_vel2decay, fileg_vel2sustain,
855          fileg_vel2release
856        - implemented opcode lfoN_wave
857        - implemented opcode pitchlfo_depthccN
858        - implemented opcodes lfoN_phase, lfoN_phase_onccX,
859          lfoN_pitch, lfoN_pitch_onccX
860        - implemented opcodes pitchlfo_fade,
861          fillfo_fade, amplfo_fade, lfoN_fade, lfoN_fade_onccX
862        - implemented opcodes fillfo_freqccN,
863          pitchlfo_freqccN, amplfo_freqccN, lfoN_freq_onccX
864        - implemented opcodes ampeg_delayccN, ampeg_startccN,
865          ampeg_attackccN, ampeg_holdccN, ampeg_decayccN, ampeg_sustainccN,
866          ampeg_releaseccN, egN_timeX_onccY, egN_levelX_onccY
867        - lfoN_* and egN_* opcodes defined in group sections
868          are now taken into account
869        - implemented curves
870        - implemented opcodes volume_onccN, volume_curveccN
871        - implemented opcode volume_smoothccN
872        - implemented opcodes fillfo_depthccN, amplfo_depthccN,
873          lfoN_volume, lfoN_volume_onccX, lfoN_volume_smoothccX,
874          lfoN_freq_smoothccX, lfoN_pitch_smoothccX, lfoN_pan_onccX,
875          lfoN_pan_smoothccX, lfoN_cutoff_onccX, lfoN_cutoff_smoothccX,
876          lfoN_resonance_onccX, lfoN_resonance_smoothccX, lfoN_delay_onccX
877        - implemented opcode end
878        - implemented opcodes egN_amplitude_onccX,
879          egN_volume, egN_volume_onccX, egN_cutoff, egN_cutoff_onccX,
880          egN_pitch, egN_pitch_onccX, egN_resonance, egN_resonance_onccX
881        - implemented opcodes xfin_lokey, xfin_hikey,
882          xfout_lokey, xfout_hikey, xf_keycurve, xfin_lovel, xfin_hivel,
883          xfout_lovel, xfout_hivel, xf_velcurve, xfin_loccN, xfin_hiccN,
884          xfout_loccN, xfout_hiccN, xf_cccurve
885        - implemented opcodes pan_onccN, pan_smoothccN,
886          pan_curveccN, egN_pan, egN_pan_curve, egN_pan_onccX,
887          egN_pan_curveccX, pitch_veltrack
888        - when failed to parse a sfz file
889          print the line number on which the error occurs
890        - use common pool of CC objects to minimize RAM usage
891        - implemented opcodes amplfo_delay_onccN,
892          amplfo_fade_onccN, fillfo_delay_onccN, fillfo_fade_onccN,
893          pitchlfo_delay_onccN, pitchlfo_fade_onccN
894        - implemented opcodes fileg_delay_onccN,
895          fileg_start_onccN, fileg_attack_onccN, fileg_hold_onccN,
896          fileg_decay_onccN, fileg_sustain_onccN, fileg_release_onccN,
897          fileg_depth_onccN, pitcheg_delay_onccN, pitcheg_start_onccN,
898          pitcheg_attack_onccN, pitcheg_hold_onccN, pitcheg_decay_onccN,
899          pitcheg_sustain_onccN, pitcheg_release_onccN, pitcheg_depth_onccN
900        - implemented automatic aliasing *ccN <-> *_onccN
901        - *lfo_freqccN wasn't working when the respective *lfo_freq
902          was not set or was set to zero
903        - lfoN_freq_onccX wasn't working when lfoN_freq
904          was not set or was set to zero
905        - implemented opcodes resonance_onccN, resonance_smoothccN,
906          resonance_curveccN, cutoff_smoothccN, cutoff_curveccN
907        - implemented opcodes fillfo_depthchanaft,
908          fillfo_freqchanaft, amplfo_depthchanaft, amplfo_freqchanaft,
909          pitchlfo_depthchanaft, pitchlfo_freqchanaft
910        - implemented opcodes pitch_onccN,
911          pitch_curveccN, pitch_smoothccN, pitch_stepccN
912        - implemented opcodes volume_stepccN, pan_stepccN,
913          cutoff_stepccN, resonance_stepccN, lfoN_freq_stepccX,
914          lfoN_volume_stepccX, lfoN_pitch_stepccX, lfoN_pan_stepccX,
915          lfoN_cutoff_stepccX, lfoN_resonance_stepccX
916        - implemented opcodes eq1_freq, eq2_freq, eq3_freq,
917          eq1_freqccN, eq2_freqccN, eq3_freqccN, eq1_bw, eq2_bw, eq3_bw,
918          eq1_bwccN, eq2_bwccN, eq3_bwccN, eq1_gain, eq2_gain, eq3_gain,
919          eq1_gainccN, eq2_gainccN, eq3_gainccN
920        - implemented opcodes delay, delay_onccN, delay_random,
921          delay_samples, delay_samples_onccN
922        - implemented opcodes egN_eq1gain, egN_eq2gain, egN_eq3gain,
923          egN_eq1gain_onccX, egN_eq2gain_onccX, egN_eq3gain_onccX, egN_eq1freq,
924          egN_eq2freq, egN_eq3freq, egN_eq1freq_onccX, egN_eq2freq_onccX,
925          egN_eq3freq_onccX, egN_eq1bw, egN_eq2bw, egN_eq3bw, egN_eq1bw_onccX,
926          egN_eq2bw_onccX, egN_eq3bw_onccX, lfoN_eq1gain, lfoN_eq2gain,
927          lfoN_eq3gain, lfoN_eq1gain_onccX, lfoN_eq2gain_onccX, lfoN_eq3gain_onccX,
928          lfoN_eq1gain_smoothccX, lfoN_eq2gain_smoothccX, lfoN_eq3gain_smoothccX,
929          lfoN_eq1gain_stepccX, lfoN_eq2gain_stepccX, lfoN_eq3gain_stepccX,
930          lfoN_eq1freq, lfoN_eq2freq, lfoN_eq3freq, lfoN_eq1freq_onccX,
931          lfoN_eq2freq_onccX, lfoN_eq3freq_onccX, lfoN_eq1freq_smoothccX,
932          lfoN_eq2freq_smoothccX, lfoN_eq3freq_smoothccX, lfoN_eq1freq_stepccX,
933          lfoN_eq2freq_stepccX, lfoN_eq3freq_stepccX, lfoN_eq1bw, lfoN_eq2bw,
934          lfoN_eq3bw, lfoN_eq1bw_onccX, lfoN_eq2bw_onccX, lfoN_eq3bw_onccX,
935          lfoN_eq1bw_smoothccX, lfoN_eq2bw_smoothccX, lfoN_eq3bw_smoothccX,
936          lfoN_eq1bw_stepccX, lfoN_eq2bw_stepccX, lfoN_eq3bw_stepccX
937        - implemented opcodes eq1_vel2freq, eq2_vel2freq,
938          eq3_vel2freq, eq1_vel2gain, eq2_vel2gain, eq3_vel2gain
939        - sfz parser: allow double spaces in sample filenames
940        - sfz parser: allow absolute paths for sample filenames
941        - use linear decay and release for filter and pitch EG
942        - bugfix: only the first amp_veltrack definition in a file was
943          used
944        - bugfix: looping was disabled if loop_start was set to 0
945        - allow regions with end=-1 to turn off other regions using the
946          group and off_by opcodes (#168)
947        - made end=0 play the whole sample
948        - fixed support for lochan and hichan opcodes (#155)
949        - fixed crash when using lochan/hichan opcodes (#187)
950        - sfz parser: allow -200 to 200 for pan_oncc opcode (#182)
951        - added FLAC support (#191)
952        - sfz parser bugfix: lines starting with whitespace were ignored
953        - added amplitude opcode
954        - added support for "#include" instruction
955          (modified patch which was originally posted by Sergey on LS mailing list)
956        - bugfix: generation of velocity curves etc should not be done
957          after each "#include", only after the main file is parsed
958        - bugfix: line numbers in error messages were wrong after "#include"
959        - added support for float and 32 bit sample files
960    
961      * SoundFont format engine:
962        - Initial implementation (not usable yet)
963        - RT-safeness: avoid malloc in audio thread
964        - fixed a bug that could cause voice stealing to fail
965        - fine-tuned amplitude EG (by switching from gig to sfz EG)
966        - initial implementation of Vibrato LFO and Modulation LFO
967        - initial implementation of cutoff filter
968        - use linear decay and release for filter and pitch EG
969    
970      * Host plugins (VST, AU, LV2, DSSI):
971        - AU bugfix: failed to destroy its audio/MIDI devices
972        - Listen to all interfaces on Mac OS X (INADDR_ANY)
973        - VST bugfix: If the host called resume() before and after
974          changing sample rate or block size, the number of channels was
975          incorrectly set to two. This caused silence in Cubase 5.
976        - save engine type (gig, sfz or sf2) in plugin state
977        - VST: when opening Fantasia, look for both 32 and 64 bit Java on
978          64 bit Windows
979        - AU: changed number of output channels from one stereo to 16
980          stereo
981        - VST: made it possible to build the VST plugin for Mac
982        - AU: link AU plugin dynamically if --disable-shared isn't
983          specified
984        - LV2 "state" extension support (patch by David Robillard)
985        - VST bugfix: instrument loading hang and crashed the host when
986          the plugin was loaded a second time (#174)
987        - plugin bugfix: instrument loading hang when the plugin was
988          loaded a second time (this time it's for Linux and Mac, previous
989          similar fix was for Windows)
990        - thread safety fixes for the instrument loading thread
991        - LV2: use the new lv2 package if present
992        - VST: try to open Fantasia automatically on Linux and Mac too (on
993          Linux, the Fantasia jar should be placed in <prefix>/share/java)
994        - VST: fixed crashes on Linux Ardour and EnergyXT
995        - DSSI bugfix: it wasn't possible to change engine type. The MIDI
996          port and audio channel routing for DSSI plugins are now visible.
997        - LV2: use urid and atom extensions instead of deprecated uri-map
998          and event
999        - LV2: lv2 package 1.0 is now required to build the LV2 plugin
1000        - LV2: changed number of output channels to 16 stereo, just like
1001          the VST and AU plugins
1002        - LV2: fixed save/restore of SFZ state (patch by David Robillard)
1003        - LV2: made LV2 plugin buildable on Windows and Mac
1004        - VST: implemented retrieval and switching of programs using the
1005          sampler's internal MIDI instrument mapping system
1006    
1007      * Instrument editor interface:
1008        - Changed instrument editor plugin interface, providing additional
1009          informations like the EngineChannel for which the instrument editor was
1010          spawned for. This allows the instrument editors to interact more actively
1011          with the sampler.
1012    
1013      * MIDI driver:
1014        - ALSA MIDI driver supports now "NAME" device parameter, for overriding
1015          the ALSA sequencer client name
1016        - removed limit of maximum amount of MIDI ports per MIDI device, since
1017          there is no reason for this limit
1018        - MME: fixed memory handling bug found with cppcheck
1019        - MME: removed compiler warning
1020        - CoreMIDI: implemented driver specific port parameter "CORE_MIDI_BINDINGS",
1021          which allows to retrieve the list of CoreMIDI clients / ports and to connect
1022          to them a la JACK, via the usual sampler APIs
1023        - CoreMIDI: added driver specific port parameter "AUTO_BIND", if enabled
1024          the driver will automatically connect to other CoreMIDI clients' ports
1025          (e.g. external MIDI devices being attached to the Mac)
1026        - added support for MIDI note on velocity filter
1027        - CoreMIDI: fixed memory deallocation error
1028        - Fixed variable underflow in VirtualMidiDevice, which caused graphical
1029          virtual keyboards in frontends / instrument editors being stuck.
1030        - Bugfix in VirtualMidiDevice: process note on with velocity 0 as note off.
1031        - Implemented missing handling of MIDI "running status".
1032        - CoreMIDI fix: a MIDIPacket can contain more than one event per packet.
1033        - MME bugfix: driver wasn't closed properly
1034        - CoreMIDI: automatically connect to all input sources by default (driver
1035          parameter "AUTO_BIND").
1036        - CoreMIDI: fixed auto bind feature to CoreMIDI ports that go online
1037        - CoreMIDI: fixed minor memory leak
1038    
1039      * audio driver:
1040        - ASIO driver fixes for newer gcc versions (fix from PortAudio)
1041        - JACK audio: react on sample rate changes.
1042        - JACK audio: react on buffer size changes.
1043        - JACK audio: jack_port_get_buffer() was cached and called outside
1044          RT context.
1045        - ASIO driver: removed compiler warnings
1046        - CoreAudio: fixed minor error handling bug
1047        - ASIO driver: be more verbose when no ASIO card could be found (fixes #203)
1048        - JACK audio: return the JACK server's current sample rate as default value
1049          for audio device parameter "SAMPLERATE" (fixes #166).
1050    
1051      * LSCP server:
1052        - added support for sending MIDI CC messages via LSCP command
1053          "SEND CHANNEL MIDI_DATA CC <sampler-chan> <ctrl> <val>"
1054        - added LSCP command "GET AVAILABLE_EFFECTS"
1055        - added LSCP command "LIST AVAILABLE_EFFECTS"
1056        - added LSCP command "GET EFFECT INFO <effect-index>"
1057        - added LSCP command "CREATE EFFECT_INSTANCE <effect-index>"
1058        - added LSCP command
1059          "CREATE EFFECT_INSTANCE <effect-system> <module> <effect-name>"
1060        - added LSCP command "DESTROY EFFECT_INSTANCE <effect-instance>"
1061        - added LSCP command "GET EFFECT_INSTANCES"
1062        - added LSCP command "LIST EFFECT_INSTANCES"
1063        - added LSCP command "GET EFFECT_INSTANCE INFO <effect-instance>"
1064        - added LSCP command
1065          "GET EFFECT_INSTANCE_INPUT_CONTROL INFO <effect-instance> <input-control>"
1066        - added LSCP command "SET EFFECT_INSTANCE_INPUT_CONTROL VALUE
1067          <effect-instance> <input-control> <value>"
1068        - added LSCP command "GET SEND_EFFECT_CHAINS <audio-device>"
1069        - added LSCP command "LIST SEND_EFFECT_CHAINS <audio-device>"
1070        - added LSCP command "ADD SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN <audio-device>"
1071        - added LSCP command
1072          "REMOVE SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN <audio-device> <effect-chain>"
1073        - added LSCP command
1074          "GET SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN INFO <audio-device> <effect-chain>"
1075        - added LSCP command "APPEND SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN EFFECT <audio-device>
1076          <effect-chain> <effect-instance>"
1077        - added LSCP command "INSERT SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN EFFECT <audio-device>
1078          <effect-chain> <effect-chain-pos> <effect-instance>"
1079        - added LSCP command "REMOVE SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN EFFECT <audio-device>
1080          <effect-chain> <chain-pos>"
1081        - added LSCP command "SET FX_SEND EFFECT <sampler_channel>
1082          <fx_send_id> <effect_chain> <chain_pos>"
1083        - added LSCP command "REMOVE FX_SEND EFFECT <sampler_channel> <fx_send_id>"
1084        - added LSCP commands "SUBSCRIBE EFFECT_INSTANCE_COUNT",
1085          "SUBSCRIBE EFFECT_INSTANCE_INFO", "SUBSCRIBE SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN_COUNT",
1086          "SUBSCRIBE SEND_EFFECT_CHAIN_INFO"
1087        - provide comprehensive error messages on LSCP syntax errors
1088          (suggesting expected next non-terminal symbols)
1089        - Fixed client connection not being closed after network errors.
1090    
1091      * LSCP shell:
1092        - Added support for auto correction of obvious and trivial syntax mistakes.
1093        - Added support for auto completion by tab key.
1094        - Show currently available auto completion while typing.
1095        - Added support for browsing command history with up / down keys.
1096        - Show all possible next symbols immediately right to the current command
1097          line while typing (no double tab required for this feature, as it would
1098          be the case in other shells).
1099        - Added support for moving cursor left/right with arrow keys.
1100        - Added support for built-in LSCP reference documentation, which will
1101          automatically show the relevant LSCP reference section on screen as soon
1102          as one specific LSCP command was detected while typing on the command
1103          line.
1104    
1105      * Real-time instrument scripts:
1106        - Implemented built-in script array variable %CC.
1107        - Implemented built-in script int variable $CC_NUM.
1108        - Implemented built-in script int variable $EVENT_NOTE.
1109        - Implemented built-in script int variable $EVENT_VELOCITY.
1110        - Implemented built-in script constant variable $VCC_MONO_AT.
1111        - Implemented built-in script constant variable $VCC_PITCH_BEND.
1112        - Implemented execution of script event handler "init".
1113        - Implemented execution of script event handler "controller".
1114        - Implemented execution of script event handler "note".
1115        - Implemented execution of script event handler "release".
1116        - Implemented built-in script function "play_note()" (only two of the
1117          max. four function arguments are currently implemented yet though).
1118        - Implemented built-in script int variable $EVENT_ID.
1119        - Implemented built-in script function "ignore_event()"
1120        - Implemented built-in script function "ignore_controller()" (may have one
1121          or no argument).
1122        - Implemented built-in script function "set_controller()".
1123        - Added extended script VM for the Gigasampler/GigaStudio format sampler
1124          engine, which extends the general instrument script VM with Giga format
1125          specific variables and functions.
1126        - Giga format scripts: added built-in script int constant variables
1127          $GIG_DIM_CHANNEL, $GIG_DIM_LAYER, $GIG_DIM_VELOCITY, $GIG_DIM_AFTERTOUCH,
1128          $GIG_DIM_RELEASE, $GIG_DIM_KEYBOARD, $GIG_DIM_ROUNDROBIN, $GIG_DIM_RANDOM,
1129          $GIG_DIM_SMARTMIDI, $GIG_DIM_ROUNDROBINKEY, $GIG_DIM_MODWHEEL,
1130          $GIG_DIM_BREATH, $GIG_DIM_FOOT, $GIG_DIM_PORTAMENTOTIME, $GIG_DIM_EFFECT1,
1131          $GIG_DIM_EFFECT2, $GIG_DIM_GENPURPOSE1, $GIG_DIM_GENPURPOSE2,
1132          $GIG_DIM_GENPURPOSE3, $GIG_DIM_GENPURPOSE4, $GIG_DIM_SUSTAIN,
1133          $GIG_DIM_PORTAMENTO, $GIG_DIM_SOSTENUTO, $GIG_DIM_SOFT,
1134          $GIG_DIM_GENPURPOSE5, $GIG_DIM_GENPURPOSE6, $GIG_DIM_GENPURPOSE7,
1135          $GIG_DIM_GENPURPOSE8, $GIG_DIM_EFFECT1DEPTH, $GIG_DIM_EFFECT2DEPTH,
1136          $GIG_DIM_EFFECT3DEPTH, $GIG_DIM_EFFECT4DEPTH, $GIG_DIM_EFFECT5DEPTH.
1137        - Giga format scripts: Implemented built-in script function
1138          "gig_set_dim_zone(event_id, dimension, zone)".
1139        - Implemented built-in script int array variable %KEY_DOWN.
1140        - Implemented built-in script function "abs()".
1141        - Implemented built-in script function "random()".
1142        - Implemented built-in script function "num_elements()".
1143        - Implemented built-in script function "note_off()".
1144        - Implemented built-in script function "set_event_mark()".
1145        - Implemented built-in script function "delete_event_mark()".
1146        - Implemented built-in script function "by_marks()".
1147        - Added built-in script int const variables $MARK_1 to $MARK_28.
1148        - Built-in script functions "ignore_event()", "note_off()" and
1149          "gig_set_dim_zone()" now also accept an array of event IDs as argument
1150          (i.e. return value of new script function "by_marks()").
1151        - Pass/preserve polyphonic variable data from respective "note" event
1152          handler to "release" event handler.
1153        - Fixed crash when using built-in script function "by_marks()".
1154    
1155      * Bug fixes:
1156        - Fixed crash which may occur when MIDI key + transpose is out of range
1157        - minor valgrind fixes
1158        - fixed crash which occurred when changing an already deployed sampler
1159          channel to a different engine type
1160        - fixed crash when deleting a sampler channel or changing engine
1161          type while an instrument load was in progress
1162        - bugfix: playing a note while changing the instrument could cause
1163          a crash, or give "Handing back unknown region" error messages
1164        - bugfix: calling SET VOICES (which Fantasia does on start and
1165          refresh) could cause instruments to be unloaded
1166        - Mac OS X: fixed name collision of enum in EffectControl and
1167          wrong name of destructor in AudioOutputDeviceCoreAudio.cpp
1168        - Mac OS X: fixed hanging threads
1169        - Windows: disabled the previous thread fix on non-Mac systems, as
1170          it caused hanging threads on Windows
1171        - Fixed possible crashes due to corrupted MIDI/audio device list
1172          after MIDI/audio device creation failure
1173        - When creating MIDI instrument map entries with "PERSISTENT" type, the
1174          instruments were uselessly precached with zero samples, however it still
1175          took the full preloading time and on 1st program change the respective
1176          instrument was completely reloaded again.
1177        - fixed handling of rapid bank select and program change messages
1178          sent to the same sampler channel (patch from the Open Octave
1179          project, slightly adjusted)
1180        - fixed crash when trying to create an effect instance with controls
1181          which min and/or max values depend on the sample rate
1182        - fixed bug #162
1183        - bugfix: LADSPA_PATH was not evaluated correctly when containing
1184          multiple paths (#165)
1185        - thread safety fixes for the instrument loading thread
1186        - bugfix: instrument loading crashed for sfz and sf2 in Ardour
1187          (#176)
1188        - more thread safety fixes for the instrument loading thread
1189        - sfz/sf2 engine: fixed crash when using small audio fragment size
1190        - Mac OS X: fixed crash when unloading plugin on 10.7 and later
1191        - Mac OS X: fixed process hang when unloading 32-bit plugin (bug
1192          introduced in previous fix)
1193        - fixed crash when a channel received a program change while
1194          playing a note in a key group
1195        - fixed erroneous error message piping in VoiceBase.h
1196          (labelled "Disk stream not available in time")
1197        - Update effects on sample rate & period size changes (to avoid
1198          crashes and noise on such transitions).
1199        - ignore missing LADSPA paths without ignoring valid LADSPA paths
1200          (fixes #208)
1201        - Fixed bug in LSCP grammar definition which caused a statement like
1202          "GET SERVER INFOasdf\n" to be accepted as valid statement (was so far
1203          practically irrelevant, however it caused problems with the new LSCP
1204          shell's auto completion feature).
1205        - Fixed MIDI program change messages being ignored if quickly executed
1206          after each other (fixes #231).
1207    
1208    Version 1.0.0 (31 July 2009)
1209    
1210    * packaging changes:    * packaging changes:
1211        - autoconf bugfix: the PKG_CONFIG variable wasn't initialized properly,
1212          causing e.g. the libgig test to fail when
1213          "./configure --disable-jack-driver" was used
1214          (patch by Alexis Ballier)
1215        - fixed compilation with gcc 4.3
1216        - fixes for building on OS X (thanks to Ebrahim Mayat for testing)
1217        - fixed configure so it detects x86_64 (#107)
1218        - fixes for building with newer MinGW versions
1219        - fix for building with bison 2.4 (#111)
1220        - fixed building with libgig installed in a non-standard directory
1221        - minor fix in configure for mmsystem.h detection on MinGW
1222        - Windows: look for editor plugins and Fantasia using base
1223          directory of liblinuxsampler dll (look in the same directory and one
1224          directory above)
1225        - configure script fix: removed unconditional use of SSE
1226        - fixed building with sqlite installed in a non-standard directory
1227        - when cross-compiling, don't try to create instruments.db
1228        - fix for new mingw-w64 version, which has usleep
1229    
1230      * general changes:
1231        - bugfix: on some POSIX systems instrument editor plugins refused to
1232          load as we used a non-portable Linux specific struct field
1233          (fixes bug #70, patch by Ronald Baljeu)
1234        - fixed endless loop which occured when loading an instrument editor
1235          plugin DLL on Windows systems failed
1236        - fixed memory leaks that occurred when liblinuxsampler was unloaded
1237        - optimized the SynchronizedConfig class so it doesn't wait
1238          unnecessarily long after an update
1239        - added support for notifying instrument editors on note-on / note-off
1240          events (e.g. to highlight the pressed keys on the virtual keyboard
1241          of gigedit)
1242        - added support for triggering notes by instrument editors (see above)
1243        - be verbose on DLL load errors (on Linux)
1244        - fixed di-harmonic triangle LFO implementation (this LFO implementation
1245          is only used by very few systems, most pick the int math
1246          implementation, which is usually faster)
1247        - fixes for audio drivers with varying buffer sizes
1248        - experimental support for running LinuxSampler as a DSSI, LV2 and
1249          VST plugin
1250        - notification events for stream/voice count statistics are now sent
1251          only when there are actual changes
1252        - added memory ordering constraints to improve stability on
1253          multi-core and multi-cpu systems
1254        - maximum voices and disk streams can now be altered at runtime
1255        - fixed CPU feature detection on x86_64 (maybe fixes #108)
1256        - automatic stacktrace mechanism is now turned off by default and can
1257          be switched on by command line option "--stacktrace" (the automatic
1258          stacktrace mechanism seems to be broken on most systems at the moment)
1259        - C++ API method InstrumentManager::LaunchInstrumentEditor() now returns
1260          a pointer to the launched InstrumentEditor object
1261        - added optional 3rd party user data parameter for following
1262          liblinuxsampler C++ API methods: InstrumentEditor::Main(),
1263          InstrumentEditor::Launch(),
1264          InstrumentManager::LaunchInstrumentEditor()
1265        - theoretical fix: made SynchronizedConfig follow C++0x memory
1266          model more strictly
1267        - fixes for using large audio device buffers
1268        - Windows: add the installation directory to the DLL search path
1269          when loading an editor plugin (solves problems with VST and
1270          gigedit on systems with other GTK versions installed)
1271        - updated linuxsampler man page
1272    
1273      * audio driver:
1274        - removed the nonsense audio channel constraint (which was hard coded to
1275          max. 100 audio channels) for most audio drivers
1276        - JACK audio driver did not offer a device parameter "SAMPLERATE" as
1277          opposed to the LSCP specs
1278        - bugfix: the SAMPLERATE parameter of some drivers (e.g. JACK)
1279          reflected the wrong value
1280        - fixed a memory management bug in ASIO driver
1281        - Makefile fix: JACK_CFLAGS wasn't used
1282        - JACK: use jack_client_open instead of the deprecated
1283          jack_client_new
1284        - added (experimental) CoreAudio driver
1285        - applied old fixes to the ASIO driver that were included in the
1286          previous binary release but accidentally never committed to CVS
1287          (fixes #117)
1288        - fixes for ASIO on mingw-w64 (iasio wrapper is not needed on
1289          win64)
1290        - VST: added support for sample rate and buffer size changes
1291        - VST: close editor (Fantasia) when the VST is removed
1292        - VST: avoid opening Fantasia more than once for each VST instance
1293        - VST: export main function as "main" on Linux too (fix for
1294          energyXT)
1295        - VST: changed number of output channels from one stereo to 16
1296          stereo
1297        - added channel routing, fxsends and midi maps to the settings
1298          stored in the plugin state
1299        - performance optimization of AudioChannel::MixTo() and
1300          AudioChannel::CopyTo() methods using GCC vector exensions
1301          (if available)
1302        - ASIO fixes: avoid initializing the device twice, avoid throwing
1303          exception when getting parameters from a disconnected device
1304    
1305      * MIDI driver:
1306        - added JACK MIDI driver
1307        - dispatch bank select as ordinary CC as well, the user might seriously
1308          want to (mis)use it for some purpose ("fixed" in all current MIDI
1309          input drivers: ALSA, CoreMIDI, JACK, MidiShare, MME)
1310        - bugfix: pitch bend wasn't working with JackMidi, VST, LV2, MME,
1311          CoreMidi or AU
1312        - fixed mingw-w64 compilation error in MME driver
1313        - made program change handling in MIDI thread real-time safe by
1314          moving the logic to a non-RT thread
1315        - fixed minor memory leak in ALSA driver
1316    
1317      * instruments database:
1318        - avoid time consuming samples scanning when adding instruments
1319          to the instruments database
1320        - added support for handling lost files in the instruments database
1321        - Implemented option for adding instruments in separate directories
1322          in the instruments database
1323          (patch by Chris Cherrett & Andrew Williams, a bit adjusted)
1324        - work-around for missing fnmatch function on Windows to make
1325          instrument database compilable
1326        - added instrument database support on Windows
1327          works with both standalone mode and VST plugin.
1328          the instruments DB file is located in
1329          %USERPROFILE%\.linuxsampler\instruments.db which allows different
1330          databases for each windows user
1331          if no DB is present it automatically creates the .linuxsampler subdir
1332          and then creates an empty DB
1333        - fixed recursive import, which was broken on Windows
1334    
1335      * Gigasampler format engine:
1336        - fixed a memory leak that could happen when a channel was deleted
1337          while notes were playing
1338        - made it possible to load an instrument even if the audio thread
1339          isn't running
1340        - added partial support for the "Controller Triggered" MIDI rule,
1341          enough for piano gigs with pedal noise samples
1342        - minor fix: only mark FX sends as being modified if really the
1343          respective FX send MIDI controller was used
1344        - added support for GM global device volume SysEx message
1345          (can be selected at compile time to either apply globally to the
1346          whole sampler [default] or only to the sampler channels that are
1347          connected to the respective MIDI input port the SysEx message arrived
1348          on)
1349        - bugfix: notes triggered at position 0 in the audio buffer were
1350          sometimes wrongly killed in the same buffer, causing no sound to
1351          be played
1352        - added support for chromatic / drumkit mode Roland GS Sysex message
1353          which is usally used to switch a part between chromatic sounds and
1354          drumkit sounds (as opposed to their common default setting of MIDI
1355          part 10 being a drumkit part and all other ones chromatic parts), in
1356          LS however one can switch between the first 16 MIDI instrument maps
1357          defined for the sampler
1358        - made it possible to create multiple sample channels even if the
1359          audio thread isn't running
1360        - fixed crash when removing channel with active voices (#116)
1361        - bugfix: on sample reference changes (instrument editor), only
1362          un-cache the respective sample if it's really not used by any
1363          sampler engine anymore
1364        - re-cache samples in case they were changed by an instrument editor,
1365          e.g. when a sample was added while playing (#82)
1366        - fixed hanging notes which occured when note-off event had the exact
1367          same time stamp as the voice's note-on event and occured both in the
1368          same audio fragment cycle (fixes bug #112)
1369        - added support for the "fine tune" and "pitch bend range"
1370          instrument-level gig parameters
1371        - fixed minor artifacts in pitch bend handling
1372        - added support for GS Reset SysEx message
1373        - allow gig files to use unlimited downward pitch shifting
1374        - added a limit check for upward pitch shifting
1375        - bugfix: sometimes, when playing a note twice fast, the second
1376          note was silent
1377        - fixed crash happening when a pitch bend event arrived at the
1378          same time a new instrument was loading
1379    
1380      * LSCP server:
1381        - added new LSCP event "CHANNEL_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
1382          react on MIDI data arriving on certain sampler channels (so far only
1383          Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
1384        - added new LSCP event "DEVICE_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
1385          react on MIDI data arriving on certain MIDI input devices (so far only
1386          Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
1387        - added new LSCP commands: FIND LOST DB_INSTRUMENT_FILES and
1388          SET DB_INSTRUMENT FILE_PATH
1389        - added new LSCP command: SEND CHANNEL MIDI_DATA which can be used by
1390          frontends to send MIDI messages to specific sampler channel
1391        - added two additional fields to GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO command -
1392          KEY_BINDINGS and KEYSWITCH_BINDINGS
1393        - bugfix: the bank number provided by MIDI_INSTRUMENT_INFO notifications
1394          was incorrect
1395        - Optimized the retrieval of the MIDI instrument mappings
1396        - added new LSCP command "SET VOICES" to globally alter the maximum
1397          amount of voices, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:VOICES" which will
1398          be triggered respectively
1399        - added new LSCP command "SET STREAMS" to globally alter the maximum
1400          amount of disk streams, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:STREAMS"
1401          which will be triggered respectively
1402        - bugfix: retry if "select" returns EINTR (this fixes a crash when
1403          a gigedit file dialog is opened)
1404        - close all connections when LSCPServer is deleted
1405        - hard close of all sockets on exit
1406        - bugfix: SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE didn't work with the MME
1407          driver
1408    
1409      * Bug fixes:
1410        - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel waiting
1411          to start instrument loading after another channel
1412        - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel with
1413          instrument loading in progress (bug #113)
1414        - fixed termination caused by uncaught exception when adding MIDI
1415          instrument with PERSISTENT load mode
1416        - fixed possible iterator invalidations when resetting the sampler
1417        - fixed memory leaks when issuing the following LSCP commands:
1418          GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO
1419          GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO
1420          GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO
1421          GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO
1422        - fixed possible compilation error when sqlite is not present
1423        - fixed orphaned pointers when setting maximum voices limit (bug #118)
1424        - fixed crash when changing the audio output device of a sampler
1425          channel with loaded instrument and start playing notes
1426        - fixed endless loop in Engine::SuspendAll() (bug #120)
1427        - fixed a low-level atomic load function that was broken on 64-bit
1428          PowerPC, which probably could cause crashes on that platform
1429        - fixed a memory management error which could cause a crash when a
1430          plugin was unloaded
1431        - bugfix: two private structs had the same name, which could cause
1432          problems if the linker chose the wrong constructor
1433        - fixed low-level ConditionServer usage bug that caused lockups on
1434          Windows
1435    
1436    
1437    Version 0.5.1 (6 December 2007)
1438    
1439      * packaging changes:
1440        - added autoconf checks for pthread library
1441        - added autoconf check for pthread bug found on certain NPTL-enabled
1442          glibc versions (see Gentoo bug report #194076)
1443        - added autoconf checks for MS Windows
1444    
1445      * general changes:
1446        - bugfix: the thread used by an editor plugin didn't die when the
1447          editor closed
1448        - bugfix: Ringbuffer.h: fill_write_space_with_null() did not zero
1449          out all the space. operator--() did not apply size_mask after
1450          decrementing the read_ptr. DEFAULT_WRAP_ELEMENTS set to 0 in
1451          order to avoid problems with the _NonVolatileReader functions.
1452        - bugfix: Stream.h: added a missing divide by BytesPerSample in
1453          GetWriteSpace(). Since this function is currently only used in
1454          the stream's qsort() compare function, it didn't trigger any
1455          bugs.
1456        - Resampler.h, Synthesizer.h: cubic interpolation now works in
1457          24bit mode too. Faster method to read 24bit words on little
1458          endian machines (x86): replaced 3 byte reads + shifts with a 1
1459          unaligned 32bit read and shift
1460        - experimental support for MS Windows (MIDI input via MME, AUDIO
1461          output via ASIO)
1462        - made handling of SIGINT signal (Ctrl-C) a bit more robust
1463        - support for monitoring the total number of active disk streams
1464          (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT,
1465          SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT)
1466    
1467      * AUDIO driver:
1468        - added Windows ASIO low latency audio driver
1469    
1470      * MIDI driver:
1471        - added MME Windows MIDI driver
1472    
1473      * LSCP server:
1474        - added support for Windows style path / filenames, however with
1475          forward slash path separators instead of backslash
1476          (i.e. "C:/foo/bar.gig")
1477        - allow naughty liblscp to send non-string device parameters within
1478          apostrophes as well
1479        - added new LSCP commands: "GET FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>",
1480          "LIST FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>" and
1481          "GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO <file> <index>" for retrieving informations
1482          about an arbitrary instrument file on the system where the sampler is
1483          running on
1484    
1485    Version 0.5.0 (15 October 2007)
1486    
1487      * packaging changes:
1488        - config.h is not going to be installed along with liblinuxsampler's
1489          API header files anymore
1490        - only the API relevant header (and source) files will be exported to
1491          the Doxygen API documentation (explicitly listed in Doxyfile.in)
1492        - added completely new XCode project files for Mac OSX which is now
1493          capable to execute our autoconf environment, thus no need anymore
1494          to maintain the compile time configuration file (osx/version.h) for
1495          OSX manually (patch by Toshi Nagata)
1496        - fixed buggy boolean --enable-foo / --disable-foo configure script
1497          parameters
1498        - global.h now only covers global definitions that are needed for the
1499          C++ API header files, all implementation internal global definitions
1500          are now in global_private.h
1501        - atomic.h is not exposed to the C++ API anymore
1502        - no need to include config.h anymore for using LS's API header files
1503        - fixed warnings in API doc generation
1504    
1505      * general changes:
1506        - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a
1507          flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary
1508          (MIDI bank, MIDI program) pairs with arbitrary
1509          (engine type, instrument file, file index) triplets which will be
1510          loaded on the respective channel when such MIDI program change
1511          messages arrive, beside that, each entry allows to define a life-time
1512          strategy for the instrument, so the user can define whether the
1513          instrument should i.e. be permanently loaded (to be able to switch
1514          quickly among sounds) or i.e. loaded just on demand when the
1515          respective program change arrives (to safe RAM space), as well as a
1516          global volume factor for each entry, so the user can adjust the volume
1517          dynamic of his mapped instrument collection without having to modify
1518          the instrument files, also one can manage arbitrary amount of such
1519          MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually
1520          a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and
1521          drumkits is possible
1522        - new notification events for tracking changes to audio/MIDI devices,
1523          MIDI instrument maps, MIDI instruments, FX sends, global volume.
1524        - sampler was limited to load max. 200 instruments in the background
1525          due to a constant size RingBuffer FIFO which is now replaced by a
1526          dynamic (unlimited) size std::list FIFO
1527        - added FX sends, these allow to route audio signals to arbitrary audio
1528          output channels for being processed by external effect processors
1529          (i.e. jack-rack), the send levels are controllable via arbitrary MIDI
1530          controllers
1531        - global (sampler wide) volume can now be controlled at runtime
1532        - Implemented new, improved notification system
1533        - fixed compilation errors regarding OSX
1534          (patch by Toshi Nagata)
1535        - implemented instruments database
1536        - added support for escape sequences to the instruments database
1537        - added highly experimental support for on-the-fly instrument editing
1538          within the sampler's process (by using instrument editor plugins),
1539          you'll notice the new "Registered instrument editors:" message on
1540          startup, added a new LSCP command:
1541          "EDIT CHANNEL INSTRUMENT <sampler-channel>"
1542          to spawn a matching instrument editor for the instrument on the
1543          given sampler channel, the plugin path can be overridden at compile
1544          time with ./configure --enable-plugin-dir=/some/dir
1545        - added experimental code for synchronizing instrument editors hosted
1546          in the sampler's process to safely edit instruments while playing
1547          without a crash (hopefully) by either suspending single regions
1548          wherever possible or if unavoidable whole engine(s)
1549        - fixed several issues in fundamental "Thread" class: set scheduling
1550          policy and priority on thread level, set a minimum stack size for
1551          thread (TODO: a reasonable value yet to be tested), bugfix: non-RT
1552          threads simply inherited properties of starting thread instead of
1553          setting their own policy and priority
1554        - minor fix in our automatic stack trace mechanism on crashes, the
1555          main process did not wait for the stack trace process to finish
1556          its output
1557        - fixed some minor memory leaks
1558        - reenabled assembly features support, at the moment only for
1559          enabling a fast denormal FPU mode (x86 platforms supporting SSE2)
1560        - minor assembly fix in x86 features detection (don't use the PIC
1561          register, to avoid relocations in the text segment at runtime)
1562        - POSIX callback functions of Thread.h are hidden
1563    
1564      * MIDI driver:
1565        - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages
1566    
1567      * audio driver:
1568        - the ALSA audio output driver parameters now reflect the correct
1569          parameter value ranges for the respective selected sound card
1570          (patch by Till Wimmer, a bit fixed and extended)
1571    
1572      * Gigasampler format engine:
1573        - if a filter is used and EG2 finishes before EG1, let the voice
1574          die when EG2 has finished (this fixes a problem with clicks and
1575          voice starvation for some gigs)
1576        - playback is no longer disabled during instrument loading
1577        - all notes playing on a channel that changes its instrument keep
1578          playing with the old instrument until they get a note off
1579          command
1580        - EG fix: a release value of zero could cause noises or crash
1581        - handle MIDI coarse tuning messages (MIDI RPN #0 MSB #2 LSB)
1582        - EG fine tuning: when attack is zero the EG starts at a level
1583          above max sustain level, which means that there is a decay phase
1584          even if sustain is 100%
1585        - more EG fixes: the level could sometimes go below zero and cause
1586          noises or crashes
1587        - minor fix of EGDecay (patch by Toshi Nagata)
1588        - fixed compiler error when --enable-override-filter-type was
1589          supplied to the configure script (fixes #46)
1590        - disk thread: queue sizes are now proportional to CONFIG_MAX_STREAMS
1591          instead of a fix value
1592        - behavior fix: on MIDI CC# 65 (portamento on / off), 126 (mono mode),
1593          127 (solo mode) only kill voices if the respective mode really
1594          changed
1595    
1596      * LSCP server:
1597        - fixed compile time error for old Bison versions
1598          (i.e. v1.28 found on MacOS 10.4, patch by Toshi Nagata)
1599        - parser now supports extended ASCII character set
1600          (up to ASCII code 255, i.e. includes now umlauts and accents)
1601        - filename arguments in LSCP commands now allow to use escape
1602          sequences, that is directly literal as one of: \', \", \\, \n, \r,
1603          \f, \t, \v, or as octal ASCII code value like \132, or as hex ASCII
1604          code value like \xf2) (fixes bug #24)
1605        - the following LSCP commands now also support escape sequences for at
1606          least one of their text-based parameters (i.e. name, description):
1607          "ADD MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP", "MAP MIDI_INSTRUMENT",
1608          "SET MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP NAME", "SET FX_SEND NAME", "CREATE FX_SEND",
1609          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY NAME",
1610          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY DESCRIPTION", "SET DB_INSTRUMENT NAME",
1611          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION", "FIND DB_INSTRUMENTS",
1612          "FIND DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORIES"
1613        - returns verbose syntax errors (line and column where syntax error
1614          occured, the unexpected character and the actually expected, possible
1615          character(s), the latter only if less than 5 possibilities)
1616        - made sure that LSCP syntax is not affected by gigedit locale
1617          settings
1618        - bugfix regarding strings parameter lists: all comma separated lists
1619          of strings were treated as being one string containing commas
1620          (fixes #57)
1621    
1622      * Bug fixes:
1623        - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)
1624        - another thread safety fix for lscp "load engine" and "set
1625          channel audio output device"
1626        - fixed a crash which occurs when reassigning the same engine
1627          on a sampler channel with connected MIDI device
1628        - fixed a crash which occurs when changing the number of ports of a MIDI
1629          device connected to a sampler channel to number less then or equal
1630          to the index of the port to which the sampler channel is connected.
1631        - The previous bindings were not been disconnected when altering
1632          the ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS parameter. Introduced a NONE keyword for
1633          unsubscribing from all bindings (e.g. ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS=NONE).
1634        - The active stream/voice count statistic was incorrect.
1635        - notification events were not been sent for some sampler
1636          channel changes
1637        - added default min and max values to restrict the number of allowed
1638          audio output channels and MIDI input ports
1639        - the connection to the PCM interface is now closed when destroying
1640          an audio output device
1641        - files with slash in their path or filename could not be loaded
1642    
1643      * test cases:
1644        - updated and fixed (haven't been touched in a while)
1645    
1646    Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)
1647    
1648      * packaging changes:
1649        - changed deprecated copyright attribute to license; added ldconfig
1650          to post-(un)install steps; added devel package for liblinuxsampler;
1651          to linuxsampler.spec (RPM)
1652      - install necessary development header files for allowing 3rd party      - install necessary development header files for allowing 3rd party
1653        applications to link against liblinuxsampler        applications to link against liblinuxsampler
1654      - liblinuxsampler's API documentation can be generated with 'make docs'      - liblinuxsampler's API documentation can be generated with 'make docs'
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1660        configure script argument though (mandatory for cross-compilation)        configure script argument though (mandatory for cross-compilation)
1661      - do not automatically pick optimized gcc flags if the user already      - do not automatically pick optimized gcc flags if the user already
1662        provided some on his own (as CXXFLAGS)        provided some on his own (as CXXFLAGS)
1663        - added compile time option to disable processing of All-Notes-Off MIDI
1664          messages
1665        - added compile time options to allow disabling the various audio and
1666          MIDI drivers
1667        - fixed automatic GCC CPU switch detection on PPC
1668          (patch by Ebrahim Mayat)
1669    
1670    * Gigasampler format engine:    * Gigasampler format engine:
1671      - extensive synthesis optimization      - extensive synthesis optimization
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1681        controller is defined), Control invert, Minimum cutoff, Velocity        controller is defined), Control invert, Minimum cutoff, Velocity
1682        curve and Velocity range. The keyboard tracking now scales        curve and Velocity range. The keyboard tracking now scales
1683        cutoff frequency instead of resonance.        cutoff frequency instead of resonance.
1684      - filter fine tuning: calculation of cutoff frequency and      - added support for gig parameter Resonance.
       bandwidth improved. Removed use of "BasicBPFilter". Changed  
       bandpass filter from constant peak to constant skirt. Added  
       support for gig parameter Resonance.  
1685      - fixed bug in sysex handling (patch by Juan Linietsky)      - fixed bug in sysex handling (patch by Juan Linietsky)
1686      - added global volume attenuation of -9 dB (0.35f) to prevent clipping      - added global volume attenuation of -9 dB (0.35f) to prevent clipping
1687        which can be overridden with --enable-global-attenuation        which can be overridden with --enable-global-attenuation
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1701        parameter        parameter
1702      - added smoothing of volume changes caused by control change      - added smoothing of volume changes caused by control change
1703        messages        messages
1704        - sample loop parameters are now taken from the DimensionRegion
1705          instead of the wave chunk
1706        - fixed keyswitching for v3 gigs with a number of keyswitch splits
1707          not equal to a power of two
1708        - reimplementation of the filter algorithm. The new filter is more
1709          accurate and supports all gig filter types, including bandreject
1710          and lowpass turbo.
1711        - real support for 24 bit samples - samples are not truncated to
1712          16 bits anymore
1713        - support for aftertouch (channel pressure, not polyphonic
1714          aftertouch)
1715        - LFO1 behaviour fixed (dampening from max volume instead of
1716          amplifying from 0)
1717    
1718    * LSCP server:    * LSCP server:
1719      - fixed application exit on broken pipe error (fixes bug #20)      - fixed application exit on broken pipe error (fixes bug #20)
# Line 58  Version CVS HEAD (?) Line 1722  Version CVS HEAD (?)
1722      - fixed parser bug which occured on space(s) within device parameters      - fixed parser bug which occured on space(s) within device parameters
1723        (e.g. "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 SOMEPARAM='foo bar'")        (e.g. "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 SOMEPARAM='foo bar'")
1724    
1725      * audio driver:
1726        - added aRts audio output driver (by no means RT safe)
1727    
1728    * MIDI driver:    * MIDI driver:
1729      - fixed legacy sysex code which caused dispatching of MIDI SysEx      - fixed legacy sysex code which caused dispatching of MIDI SysEx
1730        messages several times instead of once        messages several times instead of once
1731        - API extension for MIDI drivers which already supply exact time stamps
1732          for events (i.e. for offline rendering based MIDI drivers)
1733        - added checks for bad MIDI data
1734    
1735      * linuxsampler application:
1736        - show available sampler engine types on startup
1737    
1738    * general changes:    * general changes:
1739      - support for muting sampler channels and solo mode of the same, two new      - support for muting sampler channels and solo mode of the same, two new
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1748        (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT_MAX,        (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT_MAX,
1749        SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT)        SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT)
1750      - fixed some memory management errors      - fixed some memory management errors
1751        - fixed some concurrency problems that could lead to crashes when
1752          LSCP commands were executed
1753        - fixed crash when instrument loading failed previously on the same
1754          sampler channel (fixes bug #36)
1755    
1756  Version 0.3.3 (15 July 2005)  Version 0.3.3 (15 July 2005)
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