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Fri Aug 10 15:06:11 2007 UTC (16 years, 7 months ago) by iliev
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* fixed a crash which occurs when reassigning the same engine
  on a sampler channel with connected MIDI device

1 Version CVS HEAD (?)
2
3 * packaging changes:
4 - config.h is not going to be installed along with liblinuxsampler's
5 API header files anymore
6 - only the API relevant header (and source) files will be exported to
7 the Doxygen API documentation (explicitly listed in Doxyfile.in)
8 - added completely new XCode project files for Mac OSX which is now
9 capable to execute our autoconf environment, thus no need anymore
10 to maintain the compile time configuration file (osx/version.h) for
11 OSX manually (patch by Toshi Nagata)
12
13 * general changes:
14 - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a
15 flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary
16 (MIDI bank, MIDI program) pairs with arbitrary
17 (engine type, instrument file, file index) triplets which will be
18 loaded on the respective channel when such MIDI program change
19 messages arrive, beside that, each entry allows to define a life-time
20 strategy for the instrument, so the user can define whether the
21 instrument should i.e. be permanently loaded (to be able to switch
22 quickly among sounds) or i.e. loaded just on demand when the
23 respective program change arrives (to safe RAM space), as well as a
24 global volume factor for each entry, so the user can adjust the volume
25 dynamic of his mapped instrument collection without having to modify
26 the instrument files, also one can manage arbitrary amount of such
27 MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually
28 a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and
29 drumkits is possible
30 - new notification events for tracking changes to audio/MIDI devices,
31 MIDI instrument maps, MIDI instruments, FX sends, global volume.
32 - sampler was limited to load max. 200 instruments in the background
33 due to a constant size RingBuffer FIFO which is now replaced by a
34 dynamic (unlimited) size std::list FIFO
35 - added FX sends, these allow to route audio signals to arbitrary audio
36 output channels for being processed by external effect processors
37 (i.e. jack-rack), the send levels are controllable via arbitrary MIDI
38 controllers
39 - global (sampler wide) volume can now be controlled at runtime
40 - Implemented new, improved notification system
41 - fixed compilation errors regarding OSX
42 (patch by Toshi Nagata)
43 - implemented instruments database
44 - added highly experimental support for on-the-fly instrument editing
45 within the sampler's process (by using instrument editor plugins),
46 you'll notice the new "Registered instrument editors:" message on
47 startup, added a new LSCP command "EDIT INSTRUMENT <sampler-channel>"
48 to spawn a matching instrument editor for the instrument on the
49 given sampler channel, the plugin path can be overridden at compile
50 time with ./configure --enable-plugin-dir=/some/dir
51 - fixed several issues in fundamental "Thread" class: set scheduling
52 policy and priority on thread level, set a minimum stack size for
53 thread (TODO: a reasonable value yet to be tested), bugfix: non-RT
54 threads simply inherited properties of starting thread instead of
55 setting their own policy and priority
56 - minor fix in our automatic stack trace mechanism on crashes, the
57 main process did not wait for the stack trace process to finish
58 its output
59 - fixed some minor memory leaks
60 - reenabled assembly features support, at the moment only for
61 enabling a fast denormal FPU mode (x86 platforms supporting SSE2)
62
63 * MIDI driver:
64 - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages
65
66 * audio driver:
67 - the ALSA audio output driver parameters now reflect the correct
68 parameter value ranges for the respective selected sound card
69 (patch by Till Wimmer, a bit fixed and extended)
70
71 * Gigasampler format engine:
72 - if a filter is used and EG2 finishes before EG1, let the voice
73 die when EG2 has finished (this fixes a problem with clicks and
74 voice starvation for some gigs)
75 - playback is no longer disabled during instrument loading
76 - all notes playing on a channel that changes its instrument keep
77 playing with the old instrument until they get a note off
78 command
79 - EG fix: a release value of zero could cause noises or crash
80 - handle MIDI coarse tuning messages (MIDI RPN #0 MSB #2 LSB)
81 - EG fine tuning: when attack is zero the EG starts at a level
82 above max sustain level, which means that there is a decay phase
83 even if sustain is 100%
84 - more EG fixes: the level could sometimes go below zero and cause
85 noises or crashes
86 - minor fix of EGDecay (patch by Toshi Nagata)
87 - fixed compiler error when --enable-override-filter-type was
88 supplied to the configure script (fixes #46)
89
90 * LSCP server:
91 - fixed compile time error for old Bison versions
92 (i.e. v1.28 found on MacOS 10.4, patch by Toshi Nagata)
93 - parser now supports extended ASCII character set
94 (up to ASCII code 255, i.e. includes now umlauts and accents)
95 - filename arguments in LSCP commands now allow to use escape
96 sequences, that is directly literal as one of: \', \", \\, \n, \r,
97 \f, \t, \v, or as octal ASCII code value like \132, or as hex ASCII
98 code value like \xf2) (fixes bug #24)
99 - returns verbose syntax errors (line and column where syntax error
100 occured, the unexpected character and the actually expected, possible
101 character(s), the latter only if less than 5 possibilities)
102
103 * Bug fixes:
104 - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)
105 - another thread safety fix for lscp "load engine" and "set
106 channel audio output device"
107 - fixed a crash which occurs when reassigning the same engine
108 on a sampler channel with connected MIDI device
109
110 * test cases:
111 - updated and fixed (haven't been touched in a while)
112
113 Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)
114
115 * packaging changes:
116 - changed deprecated copyright attribute to license; added ldconfig
117 to post-(un)install steps; added devel package for liblinuxsampler;
118 to linuxsampler.spec (RPM)
119 - install necessary development header files for allowing 3rd party
120 applications to link against liblinuxsampler
121 - liblinuxsampler's API documentation can be generated with 'make docs'
122 (Doxygen required)
123 - added benchmark to automatically detect the best triangle LFO
124 implementation (currently either an integer math solution or a
125 di-harmonic approximation), automatic detection can be overriden
126 with --enable-signed-triang-algo=x and --enable-unsigned-triang-algo=x
127 configure script argument though (mandatory for cross-compilation)
128 - do not automatically pick optimized gcc flags if the user already
129 provided some on his own (as CXXFLAGS)
130 - added compile time option to disable processing of All-Notes-Off MIDI
131 messages
132 - added compile time options to allow disabling the various audio and
133 MIDI drivers
134 - fixed automatic GCC CPU switch detection on PPC
135 (patch by Ebrahim Mayat)
136
137 * Gigasampler format engine:
138 - extensive synthesis optimization
139 (reimplementation of EGs and LFO(s), removed synthesis parameter
140 prerendering and the synthesis parameter matrix in general, splitting
141 each audio fragment into subfragments now where each subfragment uses
142 constant pitch and filter coefficients. The volume coefficient is
143 linearly interpolated inside a subfragment, unless
144 --disable-interpolate-volume is set.)
145 - fine tuning of the EG modulation parameters
146 - improved filter cutoff calculation by adding support for the
147 following gig parameters: Cutoff freq (used when no cutoff
148 controller is defined), Control invert, Minimum cutoff, Velocity
149 curve and Velocity range. The keyboard tracking now scales
150 cutoff frequency instead of resonance.
151 - added support for gig parameter Resonance.
152 - fixed bug in sysex handling (patch by Juan Linietsky)
153 - added global volume attenuation of -9 dB (0.35f) to prevent clipping
154 which can be overridden with --enable-global-attenuation
155 - EG fixes: made the length of "attack hold" stage more
156 accurate. Release stage can now start before attack stage
157 ends. Cancel release didn't work when sustain was zero. Attack
158 time now has a minimal value to prevent clicks.
159 - fixed pitch changes larger than one octave
160 - fixed EG3 (pitch envelope) synthesis which was neutral all the time
161 - implemented portamento mode and solo mode (a.k.a 'mono mode'):
162 all modes can be altered via standard GM messages, that is CC5 for
163 altering portamento time, CC65 for enabling / disabling portamento
164 mode, CC126 for enabling solo mode and CC127 for disabling solo mode
165 - fine tuning of the curves for volume (CC7), pan (CC10 and gig
166 parameter) and crossfade
167 - added support for the "attenuation controller threshold" gig
168 parameter
169 - added smoothing of volume changes caused by control change
170 messages
171 - sample loop parameters are now taken from the DimensionRegion
172 instead of the wave chunk
173 - fixed keyswitching for v3 gigs with a number of keyswitch splits
174 not equal to a power of two
175 - reimplementation of the filter algorithm. The new filter is more
176 accurate and supports all gig filter types, including bandreject
177 and lowpass turbo.
178 - real support for 24 bit samples - samples are not truncated to
179 16 bits anymore
180 - support for aftertouch (channel pressure, not polyphonic
181 aftertouch)
182 - LFO1 behaviour fixed (dampening from max volume instead of
183 amplifying from 0)
184
185 * LSCP server:
186 - fixed application exit on broken pipe error (fixes bug #20)
187 - fixed the notification messages delay due to lack of
188 network activity (fixes bug #26)
189 - fixed parser bug which occured on space(s) within device parameters
190 (e.g. "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 SOMEPARAM='foo bar'")
191
192 * audio driver:
193 - added aRts audio output driver (by no means RT safe)
194
195 * MIDI driver:
196 - fixed legacy sysex code which caused dispatching of MIDI SysEx
197 messages several times instead of once
198 - API extension for MIDI drivers which already supply exact time stamps
199 for events (i.e. for offline rendering based MIDI drivers)
200 - added checks for bad MIDI data
201
202 * linuxsampler application:
203 - show available sampler engine types on startup
204
205 * general changes:
206 - support for muting sampler channels and solo mode of the same, two new
207 LSCP commands ("SET CHANNEL MUTE" and "SET CHANNEL SOLO") and two new
208 fields ("MUTE" and "SOLO") for command "GET CHANNEL INFO" were
209 introduced for this, the behavior is the same like on a mixer console
210 (patch by Grigor Iliev, a bit adjusted). Also added configure option
211 --enable-process-muted-channels which can be used to enable the
212 processing of muted channels.
213 - support for sostenuto pedal
214 - support for monitoring the total number of active voices
215 (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT_MAX,
216 SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT)
217 - fixed some memory management errors
218 - fixed some concurrency problems that could lead to crashes when
219 LSCP commands were executed
220 - fixed crash when instrument loading failed previously on the same
221 sampler channel (fixes bug #36)
222
223 Version 0.3.3 (15 July 2005)
224
225 * packaging changes:
226 - fixed compilation with gcc 4.0
227
228 * Gigasampler format engine:
229 - LFO preprocessing was performed even though the respective LFO was
230 disabled by the instrument patch (minor efficiency fix)
231 - if period time of chosen audio device is too small (< MIN_RELEASE_TIME)
232 for volume ramp downs in the same fragment (needed for current voice
233 stealing implementation) then simply inform the user with a warning
234 about possible click sounds and reduce the volume ramp down
235 appropriately instead of cancelling the audio device connection
236
237 Version 0.3.2 (24 June 2005)
238
239 * packaging changes:
240 - updated autotools build files to compile on OS X
241 (conditional compilation of CoreMIDI and MidiShare drivers)
242 - hand-crafted assembly optimization code can be disabled with
243 './configure --disable-asm' (definitely not recommended)
244 - fixed 'make dist' rule to include all necessary files
245 - require automake (>= 1.5) for 'make -f Makefile.cvs'
246 (due to 'dist-bzip2' automake option)
247
248 * Gigasampler format engine:
249 - support for the gig parameters for "release velocity response" curves
250 - fine tuning of the EGADSR envelope
251 - volume of release triggered samples now depends on note-on velocity,
252 note length and gig parameter "release trigger decay" instead of
253 note-off velocity.
254 - revised voice stealing
255 (fixes crash and endless loop caused by voice stealing)
256 - don't reset scale tuning on instrument or audio output device change
257 - handle key group conflicts right at the beginning of each fragment
258 instead of when the respective voice is actually launched
259 (fixes undefined behavior if stolen voices belonged to a key group -
260 this case was followed by a "killed voice survived" error message)
261 - fixed minor issue with null/silence samples
262 (those stole voices even though they don't need a voice at all which
263 resulted in "voice stealing didn't work out" messages)
264 - don't reset volume, pan, pitch and MIDI controller values on
265 instrument or audio output device change
266
267 * LSCP server:
268 - fixed some crashes (patch by Grigor Iliev, fixes #19)
269 - fixed LSCP event "CHANNEL_INFO" notification
270 (e.g. did not notify on volume changes or MIDI program change events)
271
272 * linuxsampler application:
273 - added command line parameters --lscp-addr and --lscp-port to override
274 default IP address and port of LSCP server
275
276 Version 0.3.1 (24 May 2005)
277
278 * initial release

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