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- Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
  other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
  been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
  instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).

1 Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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3
4 ChangeLog
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6 SVN TRUNK
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8 * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
9 other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
10 been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
11 instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
12
13 * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
14
15 * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
16 been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
17 wrong main widget hidden state.
18
19 * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
20
21 * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
22 traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
23 option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
24 targets (--enable-debug).
25
26 * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
27
28 * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
29 now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
30 (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
31
32 * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
33 just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
34
35 * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
36 a menu separator has been added.
37
38 * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
39 and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
40
41 * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
42 widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
43 lame green solid background :).
44
45 * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
46 disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
47
48 * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
49
50
51 0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle.
52
53 * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
54 brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
55 ever may follow ;)
56
57 * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
58
59 * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
60 (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
61 settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
62 automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
63 a sampler the next time.
64
65 * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
66
67 * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
68
69 * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
70 font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
71 to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
72 (default none).
73
74 * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
75 the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
76 (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
77
78 * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
79 running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
80 iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
81 main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
82
83 * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
84 with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
85
86 * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
87 screwed.
88
89 * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
90 e.g. by other frontends.
91
92 * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
93 e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
94 (fixes segfault on device changes)
95
96 * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
97 "View" main menu.
98
99 * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
100
101 * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
102
103 * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
104 strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
105
106 * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
107 decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
108
109
110 0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete.
111
112 * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
113 names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
114 the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
115 default.
116
117 * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
118 evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
119
120 * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
121 the main menu and toobar are not visible.
122
123 * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
124 creating a new sampler channel.
125
126 * README requirements and configuration notes update.
127
128 * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
129 form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
130 users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
131 first time).
132
133 * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
134 which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
135
136 * Added Windows file path support.
137
138 * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
139 under win32.
140
141 * Qt4 port of the application.
142
143
144 0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
145
146 * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
147 mapping instrument files with special characters in their
148 filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
149 and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
150
151 * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
152 does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
153 instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
154 tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
155
156 * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
157 application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
158 spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
159
160 * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
161
162
163 0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
164
165 * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
166 cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
167 highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
168
169 * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
170
171 * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
172 the session state, only at code-level.
173
174 * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
175 existing instrument file name.
176
177 * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
178 hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
179 keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
180 improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
181 instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
182 corrected some tooltip text strings.
183
184 * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
185 which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
186 window managers.
187
188 * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
189 with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
190 MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
191 the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
192
193 * GPL address update.
194
195
196 0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
197
198 * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
199 on qsampler.spec (RPM).
200
201 * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
202
203 * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
204 installation paths have been added to configure command
205 arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
206
207 * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
208 option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
209 number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
210 increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
211 (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
212
213 * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
214 and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
215 are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
216 before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
217
218 * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
219
220 * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
221 the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
222
223 * All widget captions changed to include proper application
224 title name prefix.
225
226 * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
227 sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
228 generated at configure time.
229
230 * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
231 registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
232 to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
233 argument have some effect on X11.
234
235 * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
236
237 * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
238 compiled with -no-stl.
239
240
241 0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
242
243 * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
244 turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
245 one, while on qjackctl).
246
247 * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
248 minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
249
250
251 0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
252
253 * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
254 to Christian Schoenebeck design.
255
256 * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
257 in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
258 info updates.
259
260 * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
261 buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
262 device dialog.
263
264 * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
265
266 * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
267 Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
268 with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
269 Mayat, for pointing these out).
270
271
272 0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough.
273
274 * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
275
276 * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
277 consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
278 sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
279
280 * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
281 instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
282
283 * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
284 an instrument.
285
286 * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
287
288
289 0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release.
290
291 * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
292 which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
293 configurations to the default audio driver type (which
294 is ALSA) unexpectedly.
295
296 * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
297 session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
298 loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
299
300 * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
301 session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
302
303 * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
304
305 * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
306 only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
307 change information are now also posted to messages window.
308
309 * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
310 instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
311 drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
312 files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
313
314 * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
315 featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
316 sampler instrument file.
317
318 * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
319 from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
320 avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
321 channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
322
323 * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
324 available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
325 a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
326
327 * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
328 count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
329 maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
330 otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
331
332
333 0.0.4 2004-11-19 Fourth alpha-release.
334
335 * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
336 actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
337 the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
338
339 * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
340 the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
341 following common user-interface guidelines.
342
343 * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
344 control structures.
345
346 * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
347
348 * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
349 the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
350 channel (omni mode).
351
352 * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
353 color to black (was green), being now an user option.
354
355 * Minor configure fixes.
356
357
358 0.0.3 2004-07-06 Third alpha-release.
359
360 * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
361
362 * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
363 and on session file save.
364
365 * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
366 on create time.
367
368 * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
369
370
371 0.0.2 2004-06-15 Pre-revolutionary release.
372
373 * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
374 over the empty workspace area.
375
376 * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
377 so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
378 avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
379 correct salvage of settings and configuration.
380
381 * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
382 provided to override the default (which is 100%).
383
384 * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
385 increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
386
387 * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
388 each sampler channel strip.
389
390 * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
391 qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
392
393 * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
394 a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
395
396 * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
397 new sampler channel strip.
398
399 * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
400 suggested in the following lines:
401
402 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
403 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
404 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
405 LOAD ENGINE ...
406 LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
407 SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
408
409
410 0.0.1 2004-06-05 Primordial alpha release.
411

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