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1  qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface  Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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4  ChangeLog  ChangeLog
5    
6    SVN TRUNK
7    
8    * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
9      as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
10      Debian 6.
11    
12    * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
13      into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy. (EXPERIMENTAL)
14    
15    * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
16      other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
17      been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
18      instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
19    
20    * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
21    
22    * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
23      been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
24      wrong main widget hidden state.
25    
26    * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
27    
28    * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
29      traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
30      option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
31      targets (--enable-debug).
32    
33    * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
34    
35    * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
36      now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
37      (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
38    
39    * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
40      just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
41    
42    * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
43      a menu separator has been added.
44    
45    * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
46      and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
47    
48    * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
49      widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
50      lame green solid background :).
51    
52    * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
53      disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
54    
55    * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
56    
57    
58    0.2.2  2009-08-01  New release cycle.
59    
60    * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
61      brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
62      ever may follow ;)
63    
64    * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
65    
66    * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
67      (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
68      settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
69      automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
70      a sampler the next time.
71    
72    * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
73    
74    * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
75    
76    * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
77      font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
78      to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
79      (default none).
80    
81    * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
82      the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
83      (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
84    
85    * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
86      running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
87      iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
88      main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
89    
90    * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
91      with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
92    
93    * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
94      screwed.
95    
96    * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
97      e.g. by other frontends.
98    
99    * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
100      e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
101      (fixes segfault on device changes)
102    
103    * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
104      "View" main menu.
105    
106    * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
107    
108    * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
109    
110    * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
111      strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
112    
113    * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
114      decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
115    
116    
117    0.2.1  2007-12-06  Qt4 migration was complete.
118    
119    * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
120      names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
121      the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
122      default.
123    
124    * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
125      evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
126    
127    * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
128      the main menu and toobar are not visible.
129    
130    * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
131      creating a new sampler channel.
132    
133    * README requirements and configuration notes update.
134    
135    * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
136      form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
137      users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
138      first time).
139    
140    * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
141      which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
142    
143    * Added Windows file path support.
144    
145    * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
146      under win32.
147    
148    * Qt4 port of the application.
149    
150    
151    0.1.5  2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
152    
153    * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
154      mapping instrument files with special characters in their
155      filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
156      and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
157    
158    * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
159      does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
160      instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
161      tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
162    
163    * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
164      application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
165      spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
166    
167    * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
168    
169    
170    0.1.4  2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
171    
172    * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
173      cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
174      highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
175    
176    * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
177    
178    * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
179      the session state, only at code-level.
180    
181    * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
182      existing instrument file name.
183    
184    * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
185      hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
186      keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
187      improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
188      instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
189      corrected some tooltip text strings.
190    
191    * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
192      which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
193      window managers.
194    
195    * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
196      with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
197      MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
198      the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
199    
200    * GPL address update.
201    
202    
203    0.1.3   2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
204    
205    * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
206      on qsampler.spec (RPM).
207    
208    * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
209    
210    * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
211      installation paths have been added to configure command
212      arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
213    
214    * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
215      option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
216      number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
217      increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
218      (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
219    
220    * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
221      and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
222      are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
223      before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
224    
225    * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
226    
227    * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
228      the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
229    
230    * All widget captions changed to include proper application
231      title name prefix.
232    
233    * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
234      sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
235      generated at configure time.
236    
237    * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
238      registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
239      to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
240      argument have some effect on X11.
241    
242    * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
243    
244    * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
245      compiled with -no-stl.
246    
247    
248    0.1.2   2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
249    
250    * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
251      turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
252      one, while on qjackctl).
253    
254    * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
255      minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
256    
257    
258    0.1.1   2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
259    
260    * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
261      to Christian Schoenebeck design.
262    
263    * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
264      in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
265      info updates.
266    
267    * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
268      buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
269      device dialog.
270    
271    * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
272    
273    * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
274      Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
275      with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
276      Mayat, for pointing these out).
277    
278    
279    0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.
280    
281    * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
282    
283    * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
284      consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
285      sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
286    
287    * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
288      instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
289    
290    * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
291      an instrument.
292    
293    * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
294    
295    
296    0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.
297    
298    * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
299      which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
300      configurations to the default audio driver type (which
301      is ALSA) unexpectedly.
302    
303    * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
304      session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
305      loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
306    
307    * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
308      session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
309    
310    * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
311    
312    * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
313      only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
314      change information are now also posted to messages window.
315    
316    * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
317      instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
318      drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
319      files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
320    
321    * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
322      featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
323      sampler instrument file.
324    
325    * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
326      from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
327      avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
328      channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
329    
330    * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
331      available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
332      a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
333    
334    * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
335      count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
336      maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
337      otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
338    
339    
340    0.0.4   2004-11-19  Fourth alpha-release.
341    
342    * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
343      actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
344      the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
345    
346    * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
347      the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
348      following common user-interface guidelines.
349    
350    * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
351      control structures.
352    
353    * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
354    
355    * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
356      the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
357      channel (omni mode).
358    
359    * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
360      color to black (was green), being now an user option.
361    
362    * Minor configure fixes.
363    
364    
365    0.0.3   2004-07-06  Third alpha-release.
366    
367    * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
368    
369    * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
370      and on session file save.
371    
372    * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
373      on create time.
374    
375    * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
376    
377    
378    0.0.2   2004-06-15  Pre-revolutionary release.
379    
380    * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
381      over the empty workspace area.
382    
383    * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
384      so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
385      avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
386      correct salvage of settings and configuration.
387    
388    * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
389      provided to override the default (which is 100%).
390    
391    * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
392      increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
393    
394    * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
395      each sampler channel strip.
396    
397    * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
398      qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
399    
400    * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
401      a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
402    
403    * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
404      new sampler channel strip.
405    
406    * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
407      suggested in the following lines:
408    
409        SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
410        SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
411        SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
412        LOAD ENGINE ...
413        LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
414        SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
415    
416    
417  0.0.1   2004-06-05  Primordial alpha release.  0.0.1   2004-06-05  Primordial alpha release.
418    

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