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* Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
  other than GIG instrument files (*gig *.dls) has been added,
  now also allowing for SFZ instrument files (*.sfz) loading.

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

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