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* fixed termination caused by uncaught exception when adding MIDI
  instrument with PERSISTENT load mode

1 Version CVS HEAD (?)
2
3 * 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
14 * general changes:
15 - bugfix: on some POSIX systems instrument editor plugins refused to
16 load as we used a non-portable Linux specific struct field
17 (fixes bug #70, patch by Ronald Baljeu)
18 - fixed endless loop which occured when loading an instrument editor
19 plugin DLL on Windows systems failed
20 - fixed memory leaks that occurred when liblinuxsampler was unloaded
21 - optimized the SynchronizedConfig class so it doesn't wait
22 unnecessarily long after an update
23 - added support for notifying instrument editors on note-on / note-off
24 events (e.g. to highlight the pressed keys on the virtual keyboard
25 of gigedit)
26 - added support for triggering notes by instrument editors (see above)
27 - be verbose on DLL load errors (on Linux)
28 - fixed di-harmonic triangle LFO implementation (this LFO implementation
29 is only used by very few systems, most pick the int math
30 implementation, which is usually faster)
31 - fixes for audio drivers with varying buffer sizes
32 - experimental support for running LinuxSampler as a DSSI, LV2 and
33 VST plugin
34 - notification events for stream/voice count statistics are now sent
35 only when there are actual changes
36 - added memory ordering constraints to improve stability on
37 multi-core and multi-cpu systems
38 - maximum voices and disk streams can now be altered at runtime
39 - fixed CPU feature detection on x86_64 (maybe fixes #108)
40
41 * audio driver:
42 - removed the nonsense audio channel constraint (which was hard coded to
43 max. 100 audio channels) for most audio drivers
44 - JACK audio driver did not offer a device parameter "SAMPLERATE" as
45 opposed to the LSCP specs
46 - bugfix: the SAMPLERATE parameter of some drivers (e.g. JACK)
47 reflected the wrong value
48 - fixed a memory management bug in ASIO driver
49 - Makefile fix: JACK_CFLAGS wasn't used
50 - JACK: use jack_client_open instead of the deprecated
51 jack_client_new
52
53 * MIDI driver:
54 - added JACK MIDI driver
55 - dispatch bank select as ordinary CC as well, the user might seriously
56 want to (mis)use it for some purpose ("fixed" in all current MIDI
57 input drivers: ALSA, CoreMIDI, JACK, MidiShare, MME)
58
59 * instruments database:
60 - avoid time consuming samples scanning when adding instruments
61 to the instruments database
62 - added support for handling lost files in the instruments database
63 - Implemented option for adding instruments in separate directories
64 in the instruments database
65 (patch by Chris Cherrett & Andrew Williams, a bit adjusted)
66
67 * Gigasampler format engine:
68 - fixed a memory leak that could happen when a channel was deleted
69 while notes were playing
70 - made it possible to load an instrument even if the audio thread
71 isn't running
72 - added partial support for the "Controller Triggered" MIDI rule,
73 enough for piano gigs with pedal noise samples
74 - minor fix: only mark FX sends as being modified if really the
75 respective FX send MIDI controller was used
76 - added support for GM global device volume SysEx message
77 (can be selected at compile time to either apply globally to the
78 whole sampler [default] or only to the sampler channels that are
79 connected to the respective MIDI input port the SysEx message arrived
80 on)
81 - bugfix: notes triggered at position 0 in the audio buffer were
82 sometimes wrongly killed in the same buffer, causing no sound to
83 be played
84 - added support for chromatic / drumkit mode Roland GS Sysex message
85 which is usally used to switch a part between chromatic sounds and
86 drumkit sounds (as opposed to their common default setting of MIDI
87 part 10 being a drumkit part and all other ones chromatic parts), in
88 LS however one can switch between the first 16 MIDI instrument maps
89 defined for the sampler
90 - made it possible to create multiple sample channels even if the
91 audio thread isn't running
92
93 * LSCP server:
94 - added new LSCP event "CHANNEL_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
95 react on MIDI data arriving on certain sampler channels (so far only
96 Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
97 - added new LSCP event "DEVICE_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
98 react on MIDI data arriving on certain MIDI input devices (so far only
99 Note-On and Note-Off events are sent via this LSCP event)
100 - added new LSCP commands: FIND LOST DB_INSTRUMENT_FILES and
101 SET DB_INSTRUMENT FILE_PATH
102 - added new LSCP command: SEND CHANNEL MIDI_DATA which can be used by
103 frontends to send MIDI messages to specific sampler channel
104 - added two additional fields to GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO command -
105 KEY_BINDINGS and KEYSWITCH_BINDINGS
106 - bugfix: the bank number provided by MIDI_INSTRUMENT_INFO notifications
107 was incorrect
108 - Optimized the retrieval of the MIDI instrument mappings
109 - added new LSCP command "SET VOICES" to globally alter the maximum
110 amount of voices, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:VOICES" which will
111 be triggered respectively
112 - added new LSCP command "SET STREAMS" to globally alter the maximum
113 amount of disk streams, added new LSCP event "GLOBAL_INFO:STREAMS"
114 which will be triggered respectively
115 - bugfix: retry if "select" returns EINTR (this fixes a crash when
116 a gigedit file dialog is opened)
117
118 * Bug fixes:
119 - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel waiting
120 to start instrument loading after another channel
121 - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel with
122 instrument loading in progress (bug #113)
123 - fixed termination caused by uncaught exception when adding MIDI
124 instrument with PERSISTENT load mode
125
126
127 Version 0.5.1 (6 December 2007)
128
129 * packaging changes:
130 - added autoconf checks for pthread library
131 - added autoconf check for pthread bug found on certain NPTL-enabled
132 glibc versions (see Gentoo bug report #194076)
133 - added autoconf checks for MS Windows
134
135 * general changes:
136 - bugfix: the thread used by an editor plugin didn't die when the
137 editor closed
138 - bugfix: Ringbuffer.h: fill_write_space_with_null() did not zero
139 out all the space. operator--() did not apply size_mask after
140 decrementing the read_ptr. DEFAULT_WRAP_ELEMENTS set to 0 in
141 order to avoid problems with the _NonVolatileReader functions.
142 - bugfix: Stream.h: added a missing divide by BytesPerSample in
143 GetWriteSpace(). Since this function is currently only used in
144 the stream's qsort() compare function, it didn't trigger any
145 bugs.
146 - Resampler.h, Synthesizer.h: cubic interpolation now works in
147 24bit mode too. Faster method to read 24bit words on little
148 endian machines (x86): replaced 3 byte reads + shifts with a 1
149 unaligned 32bit read and shift
150 - experimental support for MS Windows (MIDI input via MME, AUDIO
151 output via ASIO)
152 - made handling of SIGINT signal (Ctrl-C) a bit more robust
153 - support for monitoring the total number of active disk streams
154 (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT,
155 SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_STREAM_COUNT)
156
157 * AUDIO driver:
158 - added Windows ASIO low latency audio driver
159
160 * MIDI driver:
161 - added MME Windows MIDI driver
162
163 * LSCP server:
164 - added support for Windows style path / filenames, however with
165 forward slash path separators instead of backslash
166 (i.e. "C:/foo/bar.gig")
167 - allow naughty liblscp to send non-string device parameters within
168 apostrophes as well
169 - added new LSCP commands: "GET FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>",
170 "LIST FILE INSTRUMENTS <file>" and
171 "GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO <file> <index>" for retrieving informations
172 about an arbitrary instrument file on the system where the sampler is
173 running on
174
175 Version 0.5.0 (15 October 2007)
176
177 * packaging changes:
178 - config.h is not going to be installed along with liblinuxsampler's
179 API header files anymore
180 - only the API relevant header (and source) files will be exported to
181 the Doxygen API documentation (explicitly listed in Doxyfile.in)
182 - added completely new XCode project files for Mac OSX which is now
183 capable to execute our autoconf environment, thus no need anymore
184 to maintain the compile time configuration file (osx/version.h) for
185 OSX manually (patch by Toshi Nagata)
186 - fixed buggy boolean --enable-foo / --disable-foo configure script
187 parameters
188 - global.h now only covers global definitions that are needed for the
189 C++ API header files, all implementation internal global definitions
190 are now in global_private.h
191 - atomic.h is not exposed to the C++ API anymore
192 - no need to include config.h anymore for using LS's API header files
193 - fixed warnings in API doc generation
194
195 * general changes:
196 - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a
197 flexible MIDI instrument mapper which allows to map arbitrary
198 (MIDI bank, MIDI program) pairs with arbitrary
199 (engine type, instrument file, file index) triplets which will be
200 loaded on the respective channel when such MIDI program change
201 messages arrive, beside that, each entry allows to define a life-time
202 strategy for the instrument, so the user can define whether the
203 instrument should i.e. be permanently loaded (to be able to switch
204 quickly among sounds) or i.e. loaded just on demand when the
205 respective program change arrives (to safe RAM space), as well as a
206 global volume factor for each entry, so the user can adjust the volume
207 dynamic of his mapped instrument collection without having to modify
208 the instrument files, also one can manage arbitrary amount of such
209 MIDI instrument maps and assign each sampler channel individually
210 a certain map, so that i.e. separation of normal instruments and
211 drumkits is possible
212 - new notification events for tracking changes to audio/MIDI devices,
213 MIDI instrument maps, MIDI instruments, FX sends, global volume.
214 - sampler was limited to load max. 200 instruments in the background
215 due to a constant size RingBuffer FIFO which is now replaced by a
216 dynamic (unlimited) size std::list FIFO
217 - added FX sends, these allow to route audio signals to arbitrary audio
218 output channels for being processed by external effect processors
219 (i.e. jack-rack), the send levels are controllable via arbitrary MIDI
220 controllers
221 - global (sampler wide) volume can now be controlled at runtime
222 - Implemented new, improved notification system
223 - fixed compilation errors regarding OSX
224 (patch by Toshi Nagata)
225 - implemented instruments database
226 - added support for escape sequences to the instruments database
227 - added highly experimental support for on-the-fly instrument editing
228 within the sampler's process (by using instrument editor plugins),
229 you'll notice the new "Registered instrument editors:" message on
230 startup, added a new LSCP command:
231 "EDIT CHANNEL INSTRUMENT <sampler-channel>"
232 to spawn a matching instrument editor for the instrument on the
233 given sampler channel, the plugin path can be overridden at compile
234 time with ./configure --enable-plugin-dir=/some/dir
235 - added experimental code for synchronizing instrument editors hosted
236 in the sampler's process to safely edit instruments while playing
237 without a crash (hopefully) by either suspending single regions
238 wherever possible or if unavoidable whole engine(s)
239 - fixed several issues in fundamental "Thread" class: set scheduling
240 policy and priority on thread level, set a minimum stack size for
241 thread (TODO: a reasonable value yet to be tested), bugfix: non-RT
242 threads simply inherited properties of starting thread instead of
243 setting their own policy and priority
244 - minor fix in our automatic stack trace mechanism on crashes, the
245 main process did not wait for the stack trace process to finish
246 its output
247 - fixed some minor memory leaks
248 - reenabled assembly features support, at the moment only for
249 enabling a fast denormal FPU mode (x86 platforms supporting SSE2)
250 - minor assembly fix in x86 features detection (don't use the PIC
251 register, to avoid relocations in the text segment at runtime)
252 - POSIX callback functions of Thread.h are hidden
253
254 * MIDI driver:
255 - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages
256
257 * audio driver:
258 - the ALSA audio output driver parameters now reflect the correct
259 parameter value ranges for the respective selected sound card
260 (patch by Till Wimmer, a bit fixed and extended)
261
262 * Gigasampler format engine:
263 - if a filter is used and EG2 finishes before EG1, let the voice
264 die when EG2 has finished (this fixes a problem with clicks and
265 voice starvation for some gigs)
266 - playback is no longer disabled during instrument loading
267 - all notes playing on a channel that changes its instrument keep
268 playing with the old instrument until they get a note off
269 command
270 - EG fix: a release value of zero could cause noises or crash
271 - handle MIDI coarse tuning messages (MIDI RPN #0 MSB #2 LSB)
272 - EG fine tuning: when attack is zero the EG starts at a level
273 above max sustain level, which means that there is a decay phase
274 even if sustain is 100%
275 - more EG fixes: the level could sometimes go below zero and cause
276 noises or crashes
277 - minor fix of EGDecay (patch by Toshi Nagata)
278 - fixed compiler error when --enable-override-filter-type was
279 supplied to the configure script (fixes #46)
280 - disk thread: queue sizes are now proportional to CONFIG_MAX_STREAMS
281 instead of a fix value
282 - behavior fix: on MIDI CC# 65 (portamento on / off), 126 (mono mode),
283 127 (solo mode) only kill voices if the respective mode really
284 changed
285
286 * LSCP server:
287 - fixed compile time error for old Bison versions
288 (i.e. v1.28 found on MacOS 10.4, patch by Toshi Nagata)
289 - parser now supports extended ASCII character set
290 (up to ASCII code 255, i.e. includes now umlauts and accents)
291 - filename arguments in LSCP commands now allow to use escape
292 sequences, that is directly literal as one of: \', \", \\, \n, \r,
293 \f, \t, \v, or as octal ASCII code value like \132, or as hex ASCII
294 code value like \xf2) (fixes bug #24)
295 - the following LSCP commands now also support escape sequences for at
296 least one of their text-based parameters (i.e. name, description):
297 "ADD MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP", "MAP MIDI_INSTRUMENT",
298 "SET MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP NAME", "SET FX_SEND NAME", "CREATE FX_SEND",
299 "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY NAME",
300 "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY DESCRIPTION", "SET DB_INSTRUMENT NAME",
301 "SET DB_INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION", "FIND DB_INSTRUMENTS",
302 "FIND DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORIES"
303 - returns verbose syntax errors (line and column where syntax error
304 occured, the unexpected character and the actually expected, possible
305 character(s), the latter only if less than 5 possibilities)
306 - made sure that LSCP syntax is not affected by gigedit locale
307 settings
308 - bugfix regarding strings parameter lists: all comma separated lists
309 of strings were treated as being one string containing commas
310 (fixes #57)
311
312 * Bug fixes:
313 - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)
314 - another thread safety fix for lscp "load engine" and "set
315 channel audio output device"
316 - fixed a crash which occurs when reassigning the same engine
317 on a sampler channel with connected MIDI device
318 - fixed a crash which occurs when changing the number of ports of a MIDI
319 device connected to a sampler channel to number less then or equal
320 to the index of the port to which the sampler channel is connected.
321 - The previous bindings were not been disconnected when altering
322 the ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS parameter. Introduced a NONE keyword for
323 unsubscribing from all bindings (e.g. ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS=NONE).
324 - The active stream/voice count statistic was incorrect.
325 - notification events were not been sent for some sampler
326 channel changes
327 - added default min and max values to restrict the number of allowed
328 audio output channels and MIDI input ports
329 - the connection to the PCM interface is now closed when destroying
330 an audio output device
331 - files with slash in their path or filename could not be loaded
332
333 * test cases:
334 - updated and fixed (haven't been touched in a while)
335
336 Version 0.4.0 (24 November 2006)
337
338 * packaging changes:
339 - changed deprecated copyright attribute to license; added ldconfig
340 to post-(un)install steps; added devel package for liblinuxsampler;
341 to linuxsampler.spec (RPM)
342 - install necessary development header files for allowing 3rd party
343 applications to link against liblinuxsampler
344 - liblinuxsampler's API documentation can be generated with 'make docs'
345 (Doxygen required)
346 - added benchmark to automatically detect the best triangle LFO
347 implementation (currently either an integer math solution or a
348 di-harmonic approximation), automatic detection can be overriden
349 with --enable-signed-triang-algo=x and --enable-unsigned-triang-algo=x
350 configure script argument though (mandatory for cross-compilation)
351 - do not automatically pick optimized gcc flags if the user already
352 provided some on his own (as CXXFLAGS)
353 - added compile time option to disable processing of All-Notes-Off MIDI
354 messages
355 - added compile time options to allow disabling the various audio and
356 MIDI drivers
357 - fixed automatic GCC CPU switch detection on PPC
358 (patch by Ebrahim Mayat)
359
360 * Gigasampler format engine:
361 - extensive synthesis optimization
362 (reimplementation of EGs and LFO(s), removed synthesis parameter
363 prerendering and the synthesis parameter matrix in general, splitting
364 each audio fragment into subfragments now where each subfragment uses
365 constant pitch and filter coefficients. The volume coefficient is
366 linearly interpolated inside a subfragment, unless
367 --disable-interpolate-volume is set.)
368 - fine tuning of the EG modulation parameters
369 - improved filter cutoff calculation by adding support for the
370 following gig parameters: Cutoff freq (used when no cutoff
371 controller is defined), Control invert, Minimum cutoff, Velocity
372 curve and Velocity range. The keyboard tracking now scales
373 cutoff frequency instead of resonance.
374 - added support for gig parameter Resonance.
375 - fixed bug in sysex handling (patch by Juan Linietsky)
376 - added global volume attenuation of -9 dB (0.35f) to prevent clipping
377 which can be overridden with --enable-global-attenuation
378 - EG fixes: made the length of "attack hold" stage more
379 accurate. Release stage can now start before attack stage
380 ends. Cancel release didn't work when sustain was zero. Attack
381 time now has a minimal value to prevent clicks.
382 - fixed pitch changes larger than one octave
383 - fixed EG3 (pitch envelope) synthesis which was neutral all the time
384 - implemented portamento mode and solo mode (a.k.a 'mono mode'):
385 all modes can be altered via standard GM messages, that is CC5 for
386 altering portamento time, CC65 for enabling / disabling portamento
387 mode, CC126 for enabling solo mode and CC127 for disabling solo mode
388 - fine tuning of the curves for volume (CC7), pan (CC10 and gig
389 parameter) and crossfade
390 - added support for the "attenuation controller threshold" gig
391 parameter
392 - added smoothing of volume changes caused by control change
393 messages
394 - sample loop parameters are now taken from the DimensionRegion
395 instead of the wave chunk
396 - fixed keyswitching for v3 gigs with a number of keyswitch splits
397 not equal to a power of two
398 - reimplementation of the filter algorithm. The new filter is more
399 accurate and supports all gig filter types, including bandreject
400 and lowpass turbo.
401 - real support for 24 bit samples - samples are not truncated to
402 16 bits anymore
403 - support for aftertouch (channel pressure, not polyphonic
404 aftertouch)
405 - LFO1 behaviour fixed (dampening from max volume instead of
406 amplifying from 0)
407
408 * LSCP server:
409 - fixed application exit on broken pipe error (fixes bug #20)
410 - fixed the notification messages delay due to lack of
411 network activity (fixes bug #26)
412 - fixed parser bug which occured on space(s) within device parameters
413 (e.g. "SET AUDIO_OUTPUT_CHANNEL_PARAMETER 0 0 SOMEPARAM='foo bar'")
414
415 * audio driver:
416 - added aRts audio output driver (by no means RT safe)
417
418 * MIDI driver:
419 - fixed legacy sysex code which caused dispatching of MIDI SysEx
420 messages several times instead of once
421 - API extension for MIDI drivers which already supply exact time stamps
422 for events (i.e. for offline rendering based MIDI drivers)
423 - added checks for bad MIDI data
424
425 * linuxsampler application:
426 - show available sampler engine types on startup
427
428 * general changes:
429 - support for muting sampler channels and solo mode of the same, two new
430 LSCP commands ("SET CHANNEL MUTE" and "SET CHANNEL SOLO") and two new
431 fields ("MUTE" and "SOLO") for command "GET CHANNEL INFO" were
432 introduced for this, the behavior is the same like on a mixer console
433 (patch by Grigor Iliev, a bit adjusted). Also added configure option
434 --enable-process-muted-channels which can be used to enable the
435 processing of muted channels.
436 - support for sostenuto pedal
437 - support for monitoring the total number of active voices
438 (new LSCP commands: GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, GET TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT_MAX,
439 SUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT, UNSUBSCRIBE TOTAL_VOICE_COUNT)
440 - fixed some memory management errors
441 - fixed some concurrency problems that could lead to crashes when
442 LSCP commands were executed
443 - fixed crash when instrument loading failed previously on the same
444 sampler channel (fixes bug #36)
445
446 Version 0.3.3 (15 July 2005)
447
448 * packaging changes:
449 - fixed compilation with gcc 4.0
450
451 * Gigasampler format engine:
452 - LFO preprocessing was performed even though the respective LFO was
453 disabled by the instrument patch (minor efficiency fix)
454 - if period time of chosen audio device is too small (< MIN_RELEASE_TIME)
455 for volume ramp downs in the same fragment (needed for current voice
456 stealing implementation) then simply inform the user with a warning
457 about possible click sounds and reduce the volume ramp down
458 appropriately instead of cancelling the audio device connection
459
460 Version 0.3.2 (24 June 2005)
461
462 * packaging changes:
463 - updated autotools build files to compile on OS X
464 (conditional compilation of CoreMIDI and MidiShare drivers)
465 - hand-crafted assembly optimization code can be disabled with
466 './configure --disable-asm' (definitely not recommended)
467 - fixed 'make dist' rule to include all necessary files
468 - require automake (>= 1.5) for 'make -f Makefile.cvs'
469 (due to 'dist-bzip2' automake option)
470
471 * Gigasampler format engine:
472 - support for the gig parameters for "release velocity response" curves
473 - fine tuning of the EGADSR envelope
474 - volume of release triggered samples now depends on note-on velocity,
475 note length and gig parameter "release trigger decay" instead of
476 note-off velocity.
477 - revised voice stealing
478 (fixes crash and endless loop caused by voice stealing)
479 - don't reset scale tuning on instrument or audio output device change
480 - handle key group conflicts right at the beginning of each fragment
481 instead of when the respective voice is actually launched
482 (fixes undefined behavior if stolen voices belonged to a key group -
483 this case was followed by a "killed voice survived" error message)
484 - fixed minor issue with null/silence samples
485 (those stole voices even though they don't need a voice at all which
486 resulted in "voice stealing didn't work out" messages)
487 - don't reset volume, pan, pitch and MIDI controller values on
488 instrument or audio output device change
489
490 * LSCP server:
491 - fixed some crashes (patch by Grigor Iliev, fixes #19)
492 - fixed LSCP event "CHANNEL_INFO" notification
493 (e.g. did not notify on volume changes or MIDI program change events)
494
495 * linuxsampler application:
496 - added command line parameters --lscp-addr and --lscp-port to override
497 default IP address and port of LSCP server
498
499 Version 0.3.1 (24 May 2005)
500
501 * initial release

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