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1  Version CVS HEAD (?)  Version CVS HEAD (?)
2    
3    * packaging changes:    * packaging changes:
4        - autoconf bugfix: the PKG_CONFIG variable wasn't initialized properly,
5          causing e.g. the libgig test to fail when
6          "./configure --disable-jack-driver" was used
7          (patch by Alexis Ballier)
8        - fixed compilation with gcc 4.3
9        - fixes for building on OS X (thanks to Ebrahim Mayat for testing)
10        - fixed configure so it detects x86_64 (#107)
11        - fixes for building with newer MinGW versions
12        - fix for building with bison 2.4 (#111)
13        - fixed building with libgig installed in a non-standard directory
14    
15      * general changes:
16        - bugfix: on some POSIX systems instrument editor plugins refused to
17          load as we used a non-portable Linux specific struct field
18          (fixes bug #70, patch by Ronald Baljeu)
19        - fixed endless loop which occured when loading an instrument editor
20          plugin DLL on Windows systems failed
21        - fixed memory leaks that occurred when liblinuxsampler was unloaded
22        - optimized the SynchronizedConfig class so it doesn't wait
23          unnecessarily long after an update
24        - added support for notifying instrument editors on note-on / note-off
25          events (e.g. to highlight the pressed keys on the virtual keyboard
26          of gigedit)
27        - added support for triggering notes by instrument editors (see above)
28        - be verbose on DLL load errors (on Linux)
29        - fixed di-harmonic triangle LFO implementation (this LFO implementation
30          is only used by very few systems, most pick the int math
31          implementation, which is usually faster)
32        - fixes for audio drivers with varying buffer sizes
33        - experimental support for running LinuxSampler as a DSSI, LV2 and
34          VST plugin
35        - notification events for stream/voice count statistics are now sent
36          only when there are actual changes
37        - added memory ordering constraints to improve stability on
38          multi-core and multi-cpu systems
39        - maximum voices and disk streams can now be altered at runtime
40        - fixed CPU feature detection on x86_64 (maybe fixes #108)
41        - automatic stacktrace mechanism is now turned off by default and can
42          be switched on by command line option "--stacktrace" (the automatic
43          stacktrace mechanism seems to be broken on most systems at the moment)
44    
45      * audio driver:
46        - removed the nonsense audio channel constraint (which was hard coded to
47          max. 100 audio channels) for most audio drivers
48        - JACK audio driver did not offer a device parameter "SAMPLERATE" as
49          opposed to the LSCP specs
50        - bugfix: the SAMPLERATE parameter of some drivers (e.g. JACK)
51          reflected the wrong value
52        - fixed a memory management bug in ASIO driver
53        - Makefile fix: JACK_CFLAGS wasn't used
54        - JACK: use jack_client_open instead of the deprecated
55          jack_client_new
56        - added (experimental) CoreAudio driver
57    
58      * MIDI driver:
59        - added JACK MIDI driver
60        - dispatch bank select as ordinary CC as well, the user might seriously
61          want to (mis)use it for some purpose ("fixed" in all current MIDI
62          input drivers: ALSA, CoreMIDI, JACK, MidiShare, MME)
63    
64      * instruments database:
65        - avoid time consuming samples scanning when adding instruments
66          to the instruments database
67        - added support for handling lost files in the instruments database
68        - Implemented option for adding instruments in separate directories
69          in the instruments database
70          (patch by Chris Cherrett & Andrew Williams, a bit adjusted)
71    
72      * Gigasampler format engine:
73        - fixed a memory leak that could happen when a channel was deleted
74          while notes were playing
75        - made it possible to load an instrument even if the audio thread
76          isn't running
77        - added partial support for the "Controller Triggered" MIDI rule,
78          enough for piano gigs with pedal noise samples
79        - minor fix: only mark FX sends as being modified if really the
80          respective FX send MIDI controller was used
81        - added support for GM global device volume SysEx message
82          (can be selected at compile time to either apply globally to the
83          whole sampler [default] or only to the sampler channels that are
84          connected to the respective MIDI input port the SysEx message arrived
85          on)
86        - bugfix: notes triggered at position 0 in the audio buffer were
87          sometimes wrongly killed in the same buffer, causing no sound to
88          be played
89        - added support for chromatic / drumkit mode Roland GS Sysex message
90          which is usally used to switch a part between chromatic sounds and
91          drumkit sounds (as opposed to their common default setting of MIDI
92          part 10 being a drumkit part and all other ones chromatic parts), in
93          LS however one can switch between the first 16 MIDI instrument maps
94          defined for the sampler
95        - made it possible to create multiple sample channels even if the
96          audio thread isn't running
97        - fixed crash when removing channel with active voices (#116)
98        - bugfix: on sample reference changes (instrument editor), only
99          un-cache the respective sample if it's really not used by any
100          sampler engine anymore
101        - re-cache samples in case they were changed by an instrument editor,
102          e.g. when a sample was added while playing (#82)
103    
104      * LSCP server:
105        - added new LSCP event "CHANNEL_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
106          react on MIDI data arriving on certain sampler channels (so far only
107          Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
108        - added new LSCP event "DEVICE_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
109          react on MIDI data arriving on certain MIDI input devices (so far only
110          Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
111        - added new LSCP commands: FIND LOST DB_INSTRUMENT_FILES and
112          SET DB_INSTRUMENT FILE_PATH
113        - added new LSCP command: SEND CHANNEL MIDI_DATA which can be used by
114          frontends to send MIDI messages to specific sampler channel
115        - added two additional fields to GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO command -
116          KEY_BINDINGS and KEYSWITCH_BINDINGS
117        - bugfix: the bank number provided by MIDI_INSTRUMENT_INFO notifications
118          was incorrect
119        - Optimized the retrieval of the MIDI instrument mappings
120        - added new LSCP command "SET VOICES" to globally alter the maximum
121          amount of voices, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:VOICES" which will
122          be triggered respectively
123        - added new LSCP command "SET STREAMS" to globally alter the maximum
124          amount of disk streams, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:STREAMS"
125          which will be triggered respectively
126        - bugfix: retry if "select" returns EINTR (this fixes a crash when
127          a gigedit file dialog is opened)
128        - close all connections when LSCPServer is deleted
129    
130      * Bug fixes:
131        - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel waiting
132          to start instrument loading after another channel
133        - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel with
134          instrument loading in progress (bug #113)
135        - fixed termination caused by uncaught exception when adding MIDI
136          instrument with PERSISTENT load mode
137        - fixed possible iterator invalidations when resetting the sampler
138        - fixed memory leaks when issuing the following LSCP commands:
139          GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER INFO
140          GET AUDIO_OUTPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO
141          GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO
142          GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO
143        - fixed possible compilation error when sqlite is not present
144        - fixed orphaned pointers when setting maximum voices limit (bug #118)
145        - fixed crash when changing the audio output device of a sampler
146          channel with loaded instrument and start playing notes
147        - fixed endless loop in Engine::SuspendAll() (bug #120)
148    
149    
150    Version 0.5.1 (6 December 2007)
151    
152      * packaging changes:
153        - added autoconf checks for pthread library
154        - added autoconf check for pthread bug found on certain NPTL-enabled
155          glibc versions (see Gentoo bug report #194076)
156        - added autoconf checks for MS Windows
157    
158      * general changes:
159        - bugfix: the thread used by an editor plugin didn't die when the
160          editor closed
161        - bugfix: Ringbuffer.h: fill_write_space_with_null() did not zero
162          out all the space. operator--() did not apply size_mask after
163          decrementing the read_ptr. DEFAULT_WRAP_ELEMENTS set to 0 in
164          order to avoid problems with the _NonVolatileReader functions.
165        - bugfix: Stream.h: added a missing divide by BytesPerSample in
166          GetWriteSpace(). Since this function is currently only used in
167          the stream's qsort() compare function, it didn't trigger any
168          bugs.
169        - Resampler.h, Synthesizer.h: cubic interpolation now works in
170          24bit mode too. Faster method to read 24bit words on little
171          endian machines (x86): replaced 3 byte reads + shifts with a 1
172          unaligned 32bit read and shift
173        - experimental support for MS Windows (MIDI input via MME, AUDIO
174          output via ASIO)
175        - made handling of SIGINT signal (Ctrl-C) a bit more robust
176        - support for monitoring the total number of active disk streams
177          (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT,
178          SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT)
179    
180      * AUDIO driver:
181        - added Windows ASIO low latency audio driver
182    
183      * MIDI driver:
184        - added MME Windows MIDI driver
185    
186      * LSCP server:
187        - added support for Windows style path / filenames, however with
188          forward slash path separators instead of backslash
189          (i.e. "C:/foo/bar.gig")
190        - allow naughty liblscp to send non-string device parameters within
191          apostrophes as well
192        - added new LSCP commands: "GET FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>",
193          "LIST FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>" and
194          "GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO <file> <index>" for retrieving informations
195          about an arbitrary instrument file on the system where the sampler is
196          running on
197    
198    Version 0.5.0 (15 October 2007)
199    
200      * packaging changes:
201        - config.h is not going to be installed along with liblinuxsampler's
202          API header files anymore
203        - only the API relevant header (and source) files will be exported to
204          the Doxygen API documentation (explicitly listed in Doxyfile.in)
205        - added completely new XCode project files for Mac OSX which is now
206          capable to execute our autoconf environment, thus no need anymore
207          to maintain the compile time configuration file (osx/version.h) for
208          OSX manually (patch by Toshi Nagata)
209        - fixed buggy boolean --enable-foo / --disable-foo configure script
210          parameters
211        - global.h now only covers global definitions that are needed for the
212          C++ API header files, all implementation internal global definitions
213          are now in global_private.h
214        - atomic.h is not exposed to the C++ API anymore
215        - no need to include config.h anymore for using LS's API header files
216        - fixed warnings in API doc generation
217    
218      * general changes:
219        - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a
220          flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary
221          (MIDI bank, MIDI program) pairs with arbitrary
222          (engine type, instrument file, file index) triplets which will be
223          loaded on the respective channel when such MIDI program change
224          messages arrive, beside that, each entry allows to define a life-time
225          strategy for the instrument, so the user can define whether the
226          instrument should i.e. be permanently loaded (to be able to switch
227          quickly among sounds) or i.e. loaded just on demand when the
228          respective program change arrives (to safe RAM space), as well as a
229          global volume factor for each entry, so the user can adjust the volume
230          dynamic of his mapped instrument collection without having to modify
231          the instrument files, also one can manage arbitrary amount of such
232          MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually
233          a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and
234          drumkits is possible
235        - new notification events for tracking changes to audio/MIDI devices,
236          MIDI instrument maps, MIDI instruments, FX sends, global volume.
237        - sampler was limited to load max. 200 instruments in the background
238          due to a constant size RingBuffer FIFO which is now replaced by a
239          dynamic (unlimited) size std::list FIFO
240        - added FX sends, these allow to route audio signals to arbitrary audio
241          output channels for being processed by external effect processors
242          (i.e. jack-rack), the send levels are controllable via arbitrary MIDI
243          controllers
244        - global (sampler wide) volume can now be controlled at runtime
245        - Implemented new, improved notification system
246        - fixed compilation errors regarding OSX
247          (patch by Toshi Nagata)
248        - implemented instruments database
249        - added support for escape sequences to the instruments database
250        - added highly experimental support for on-the-fly instrument editing
251          within the sampler's process (by using instrument editor plugins),
252          you'll notice the new "Registered instrument editors:" message on
253          startup, added a new LSCP command:
254          "EDIT CHANNEL INSTRUMENT <sampler-channel>"
255          to spawn a matching instrument editor for the instrument on the
256          given sampler channel, the plugin path can be overridden at compile
257          time with ./configure --enable-plugin-dir=/some/dir
258        - added experimental code for synchronizing instrument editors hosted
259          in the sampler's process to safely edit instruments while playing
260          without a crash (hopefully) by either suspending single regions
261          wherever possible or if unavoidable whole engine(s)
262        - fixed several issues in fundamental "Thread" class: set scheduling
263          policy and priority on thread level, set a minimum stack size for
264          thread (TODO: a reasonable value yet to be tested), bugfix: non-RT
265          threads simply inherited properties of starting thread instead of
266          setting their own policy and priority
267        - minor fix in our automatic stack trace mechanism on crashes, the
268          main process did not wait for the stack trace process to finish
269          its output
270        - fixed some minor memory leaks
271        - reenabled assembly features support, at the moment only for
272          enabling a fast denormal FPU mode (x86 platforms supporting SSE2)
273        - minor assembly fix in x86 features detection (don't use the PIC
274          register, to avoid relocations in the text segment at runtime)
275        - POSIX callback functions of Thread.h are hidden
276    
277      * MIDI driver:
278        - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages
279    
280      * audio driver:
281        - the ALSA audio output driver parameters now reflect the correct
282          parameter value ranges for the respective selected sound card
283          (patch by Till Wimmer, a bit fixed and extended)
284    
285      * Gigasampler format engine:
286        - if a filter is used and EG2 finishes before EG1, let the voice
287          die when EG2 has finished (this fixes a problem with clicks and
288          voice starvation for some gigs)
289        - playback is no longer disabled during instrument loading
290        - all notes playing on a channel that changes its instrument keep
291          playing with the old instrument until they get a note off
292          command
293        - EG fix: a release value of zero could cause noises or crash
294        - handle MIDI coarse tuning messages (MIDI RPN #0 MSB #2 LSB)
295        - EG fine tuning: when attack is zero the EG starts at a level
296          above max sustain level, which means that there is a decay phase
297          even if sustain is 100%
298        - more EG fixes: the level could sometimes go below zero and cause
299          noises or crashes
300        - minor fix of EGDecay (patch by Toshi Nagata)
301        - fixed compiler error when --enable-override-filter-type was
302          supplied to the configure script (fixes #46)
303        - disk thread: queue sizes are now proportional to CONFIG_MAX_STREAMS
304          instead of a fix value
305        - behavior fix: on MIDI CC# 65 (portamento on / off), 126 (mono mode),
306          127 (solo mode) only kill voices if the respective mode really
307          changed
308    
309      * LSCP server:
310        - fixed compile time error for old Bison versions
311          (i.e. v1.28 found on MacOS 10.4, patch by Toshi Nagata)
312        - parser now supports extended ASCII character set
313          (up to ASCII code 255, i.e. includes now umlauts and accents)
314        - filename arguments in LSCP commands now allow to use escape
315          sequences, that is directly literal as one of: \', \", \\, \n, \r,
316          \f, \t, \v, or as octal ASCII code value like \132, or as hex ASCII
317          code value like \xf2) (fixes bug #24)
318        - the following LSCP commands now also support escape sequences for at
319          least one of their text-based parameters (i.e. name, description):
320          "ADD MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP", "MAP MIDI_INSTRUMENT",
321          "SET MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP NAME", "SET FX_SEND NAME", "CREATE FX_SEND",
322          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY NAME",
323          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY DESCRIPTION", "SET DB_INSTRUMENT NAME",
324          "SET DB_INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION", "FIND DB_INSTRUMENTS",
325          "FIND DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORIES"
326        - returns verbose syntax errors (line and column where syntax error
327          occured, the unexpected character and the actually expected, possible
328          character(s), the latter only if less than 5 possibilities)
329        - made sure that LSCP syntax is not affected by gigedit locale
330          settings
331        - bugfix regarding strings parameter lists: all comma separated lists
332          of strings were treated as being one string containing commas
333          (fixes #57)
334    
335      * Bug fixes:
336        - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)
337        - another thread safety fix for lscp "load engine" and "set
338          channel audio output device"
339        - fixed a crash which occurs when reassigning the same engine
340          on a sampler channel with connected MIDI device
341        - fixed a crash which occurs when changing the number of ports of a MIDI
342          device connected to a sampler channel to number less then or equal
343          to the index of the port to which the sampler channel is connected.
344        - The previous bindings were not been disconnected when altering
345          the ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS parameter. Introduced a NONE keyword for
346          unsubscribing from all bindings (e.g. ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS=NONE).
347        - The active stream/voice count statistic was incorrect.
348        - notification events were not been sent for some sampler
349          channel changes
350        - added default min and max values to restrict the number of allowed
351          audio output channels and MIDI input ports
352        - the connection to the PCM interface is now closed when destroying
353          an audio output device
354        - files with slash in their path or filename could not be loaded
355    
356      * test cases:
357        - updated and fixed (haven't been touched in a while)
358    
359    Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)
360    
361      * packaging changes:
362      - changed deprecated copyright attribute to license; added ldconfig      - changed deprecated copyright attribute to license; added ldconfig
363        to post-(un)install steps; added devel package for liblinuxsampler;        to post-(un)install steps; added devel package for liblinuxsampler;
364        to linuxsampler.spec (RPM)        to linuxsampler.spec (RPM)
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377        messages        messages
378      - added compile time options to allow disabling the various audio and      - added compile time options to allow disabling the various audio and
379        MIDI drivers        MIDI drivers
380        - fixed automatic GCC CPU switch detection on PPC
381          (patch by Ebrahim Mayat)
382    
383    * Gigasampler format engine:    * Gigasampler format engine:
384      - extensive synthesis optimization      - extensive synthesis optimization
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425        16 bits anymore        16 bits anymore
426      - support for aftertouch (channel pressure, not polyphonic      - support for aftertouch (channel pressure, not polyphonic
427        aftertouch)        aftertouch)
428        - LFO1 behaviour fixed (dampening from max volume instead of
429          amplifying from 0)
430    
431    * LSCP server:    * LSCP server:
432      - fixed application exit on broken pipe error (fixes bug #20)      - fixed application exit on broken pipe error (fixes bug #20)
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441    * MIDI driver:    * MIDI driver:
442      - fixed legacy sysex code which caused dispatching of MIDI SysEx      - fixed legacy sysex code which caused dispatching of MIDI SysEx
443        messages several times instead of once        messages several times instead of once
444        - API extension for MIDI drivers which already supply exact time stamps
445          for events (i.e. for offline rendering based MIDI drivers)
446        - added checks for bad MIDI data
447    
448    * linuxsampler application:    * linuxsampler application:
449      - show available sampler engine types on startup      - show available sampler engine types on startup
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463      - fixed some memory management errors      - fixed some memory management errors
464      - fixed some concurrency problems that could lead to crashes when      - fixed some concurrency problems that could lead to crashes when
465        LSCP commands were executed        LSCP commands were executed
466        - fixed crash when instrument loading failed previously on the same
467          sampler channel (fixes bug #36)
468    
469  Version 0.3.3 (15 July 2005)  Version 0.3.3 (15 July 2005)
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