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1    Version 2.1.1 (27 Jul 2019)
2    
3      This is a maintenance release with various fixes. There are only two
4      minor new features in this release:
5    
6      The Giga format engine adds a format extension which allows sound
7      designers to define whether release trigger samples shall be played when
8      the sustain pedal is released. In the previous release this was actually
9      the default behaviour by the sampler, but meanwhile there was a consensus
10      on the mailing list that release samples being triggered by sustain pedal
11      is not the common, expected behaviour. So this is no longer the default
12      behaviour, but you can still opt in to this old behaviour by using this
13      new format extension option (i.e. by using latest release version of
14      libgig and gigedit and enabling the respective checkbox for your
15      gig instrument). If you don't enable this option then release samples are
16      now only triggered by note-off events.
17    
18      The sfz engine adds support for the commonly used built-in sample
19      '*silence' of the sfz format. It does what you think it does; it
20      instructs the sampler to play no sound at all. This is commonly used
21      in sfz files for instance for the lowest velocity switch to not play any
22      sample. With the previous release trying to load sfz files which used this
23      built-in sample caused a file loading error. There are various other
24      commonly used built-in samples in sfz files which you can denote by the
25      leading star character in the sample name, however the '*silence' one is
26      currently the only supported built-in sample by our sfz engine yet. Trying
27      to load sfz files which are using other built-in samples does not prevent
28      your instrument from being loaded by the sampler, however you will get a
29      warning message on the console that the built-in sample is not supported
30      yet and the sampler will simply play silence for that non supported
31      built-in sample.
32    
33    Version 2.1.0 (25 November 2017)
34    
35      This release adds a large amount of extensions and improvements for the
36      real-time instrument scripting support of LinuxSampler (NKSP).
37      For example 48 new built-in NKSP functions and 21 new built-in NKSP
38      variables have been added. Also the NKSP language itself was extended.
39      Most notably the script engine now has an execution scheduler which is
40      the basis for many of the timing relevant new NKSP features in this
41      release, like programmatically suspending and resuming scripts for an
42      exact amount of time or triggering or killing notes at very precise
43      times. Bitwise operators have been added to NKSP, as well as support for
44      read only built-in variables, "synchronized" code blocks
45      ("synchronized .. end synchronized"), user declared functions and user
46      declared const array variables have been added to the NKSP language,
47      and automatic suspension of RT threatening scripts by the RT script engine
48      has been implemented. Also syntax error messages with NKSP scripts have
49      been improved to output more clear and user friendly error messages, as
50      well as NKSP editor API has been improved which brings handy new features
51      to gigedit's NKSP script editor like automatically graying out code blocks
52      which are disabled by NKSP preprocessor statements.
53    
54      The SFZ engine now supports <global>, <master>, #define and set_ccN
55      statements. And finally the SFZ engine now supports NKSP real-time
56      instrument scripts as well by adding a new "script" opcode.
57    
58      Also the Instruments Database feature has received important maintenance
59      fixes. Before this release the instrument DB feature was barely usable
60      for quite some time. Fundamental instruments DB issues have been fixed in
61      this release to finally consider this feature stable again.
62    
63      And finally this release provides a huge amount of general bug fixes.
64    
65  Version 2.0.0 (15 July 2015)  Version 2.0.0 (15 July 2015)
66    
67    The sampler's code base has seen substantial changes in the last six years,    The sampler's code base has seen substantial changes in the last six years,

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