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1 Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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4 ChangeLog
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6 SVN TRUNK
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8 * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
9 as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available. (EXPERIMENTAL)
10
11 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new includedir.
12
13 * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
14 debian, thanks).
15
16 * Translations install directory change. (EXPERIMENTAL)
17
18 * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
19 (EXPERIMENTAL)
20
21 * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
22 the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
23 instruments of the same file.
24
25 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new libdir
26 (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
27
28
29 0.2.3 2013-12-31 A fifth of a Jubilee.
30
31 * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
32
33 * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
34
35 * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
36 session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
37
38 * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
39
40 * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
41
42 * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
43
44 * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
45 configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
46
47 * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
48
49 * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
50
51 * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
52
53 * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
54
55 * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
56 and make.
57
58 * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
59 as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
60 Debian 6.
61
62 * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
63 into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
64
65 * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
66 other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
67 been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
68 instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
69
70 * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
71
72 * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
73 been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
74 wrong main widget hidden state.
75
76 * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
77
78 * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
79 traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
80 option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
81 targets (--enable-debug).
82
83 * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
84
85 * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
86 now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
87 (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
88
89 * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
90 just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
91
92 * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
93 a menu separator has been added.
94
95 * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
96 and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
97
98 * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
99 widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
100 lame green solid background :).
101
102 * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
103 disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
104
105 * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
106
107
108 0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle.
109
110 * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
111 brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
112 ever may follow ;)
113
114 * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
115
116 * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
117 (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
118 settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
119 automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
120 a sampler the next time.
121
122 * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
123
124 * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
125
126 * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
127 font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
128 to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
129 (default none).
130
131 * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
132 the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
133 (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
134
135 * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
136 running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
137 iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
138 main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
139
140 * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
141 with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
142
143 * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
144 screwed.
145
146 * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
147 e.g. by other frontends.
148
149 * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
150 e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
151 (fixes segfault on device changes)
152
153 * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
154 "View" main menu.
155
156 * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
157
158 * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
159
160 * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
161 strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
162
163 * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
164 decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
165
166
167 0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete.
168
169 * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
170 names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
171 the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
172 default.
173
174 * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
175 evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
176
177 * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
178 the main menu and toobar are not visible.
179
180 * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
181 creating a new sampler channel.
182
183 * README requirements and configuration notes update.
184
185 * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
186 form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
187 users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
188 first time).
189
190 * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
191 which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
192
193 * Added Windows file path support.
194
195 * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
196 under win32.
197
198 * Qt4 port of the application.
199
200
201 0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
202
203 * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
204 mapping instrument files with special characters in their
205 filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
206 and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
207
208 * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
209 does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
210 instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
211 tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
212
213 * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
214 application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
215 spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
216
217 * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
218
219
220 0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
221
222 * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
223 cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
224 highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
225
226 * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
227
228 * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
229 the session state, only at code-level.
230
231 * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
232 existing instrument file name.
233
234 * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
235 hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
236 keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
237 improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
238 instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
239 corrected some tooltip text strings.
240
241 * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
242 which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
243 window managers.
244
245 * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
246 with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
247 MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
248 the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
249
250 * GPL address update.
251
252
253 0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
254
255 * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
256 on qsampler.spec (RPM).
257
258 * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
259
260 * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
261 installation paths have been added to configure command
262 arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
263
264 * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
265 option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
266 number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
267 increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
268 (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
269
270 * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
271 and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
272 are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
273 before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
274
275 * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
276
277 * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
278 the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
279
280 * All widget captions changed to include proper application
281 title name prefix.
282
283 * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
284 sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
285 generated at configure time.
286
287 * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
288 registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
289 to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
290 argument have some effect on X11.
291
292 * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
293
294 * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
295 compiled with -no-stl.
296
297
298 0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
299
300 * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
301 turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
302 one, while on qjackctl).
303
304 * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
305 minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
306
307
308 0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
309
310 * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
311 to Christian Schoenebeck design.
312
313 * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
314 in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
315 info updates.
316
317 * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
318 buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
319 device dialog.
320
321 * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
322
323 * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
324 Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
325 with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
326 Mayat, for pointing these out).
327
328
329 0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough.
330
331 * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
332
333 * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
334 consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
335 sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
336
337 * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
338 instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
339
340 * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
341 an instrument.
342
343 * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
344
345
346 0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release.
347
348 * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
349 which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
350 configurations to the default audio driver type (which
351 is ALSA) unexpectedly.
352
353 * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
354 session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
355 loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
356
357 * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
358 session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
359
360 * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
361
362 * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
363 only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
364 change information are now also posted to messages window.
365
366 * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
367 instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
368 drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
369 files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
370
371 * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
372 featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
373 sampler instrument file.
374
375 * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
376 from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
377 avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
378 channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
379
380 * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
381 available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
382 a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
383
384 * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
385 count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
386 maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
387 otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
388
389
390 0.0.4 2004-11-19 Fourth alpha-release.
391
392 * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
393 actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
394 the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
395
396 * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
397 the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
398 following common user-interface guidelines.
399
400 * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
401 control structures.
402
403 * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
404
405 * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
406 the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
407 channel (omni mode).
408
409 * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
410 color to black (was green), being now an user option.
411
412 * Minor configure fixes.
413
414
415 0.0.3 2004-07-06 Third alpha-release.
416
417 * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
418
419 * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
420 and on session file save.
421
422 * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
423 on create time.
424
425 * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
426
427
428 0.0.2 2004-06-15 Pre-revolutionary release.
429
430 * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
431 over the empty workspace area.
432
433 * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
434 so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
435 avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
436 correct salvage of settings and configuration.
437
438 * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
439 provided to override the default (which is 100%).
440
441 * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
442 increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
443
444 * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
445 each sampler channel strip.
446
447 * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
448 qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
449
450 * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
451 a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
452
453 * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
454 new sampler channel strip.
455
456 * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
457 suggested in the following lines:
458
459 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
460 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
461 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
462 LOAD ENGINE ...
463 LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
464 SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
465
466
467 0.0.1 2004-06-05 Primordial alpha release.
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