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* MIDI activity indicator on channel strips is now implemented as
  a flashing green LED, instead of a lame solid background :).

- New year's bumping.

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

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