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- Preparations for v0.3.0 pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
1 Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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4 ChangeLog
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6
7 0.3.0 2015-03-25 Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
8
9 * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
10
11 * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
12 of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
13
14 * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
15
16 * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
17 stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
18
19 * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
20 main toolbar orientation.
21
22 * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
23 as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
24
25 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
26
27 * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
28 debian, thanks).
29
30 * Translations install directory change.
31
32 * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
33
34 * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
35 the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
36 instruments of the same file.
37
38 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
39 (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
40
41
42 0.2.3 2013-12-31 A fifth of a Jubilee.
43
44 * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
45
46 * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
47
48 * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
49 session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
50
51 * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
52
53 * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
54
55 * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
56
57 * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
58 configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
59
60 * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
61
62 * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
63
64 * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
65
66 * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
67
68 * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
69 and make.
70
71 * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
72 as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
73 Debian 6.
74
75 * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
76 into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
77
78 * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
79 other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
80 been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
81 instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
82
83 * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
84
85 * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
86 been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
87 wrong main widget hidden state.
88
89 * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
90
91 * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
92 traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
93 option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
94 targets (--enable-debug).
95
96 * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
97
98 * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
99 now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
100 (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
101
102 * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
103 just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
104
105 * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
106 a menu separator has been added.
107
108 * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
109 and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
110
111 * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
112 widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
113 lame green solid background :).
114
115 * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
116 disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
117
118 * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
119
120
121 0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle.
122
123 * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
124 brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
125 ever may follow ;)
126
127 * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
128
129 * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
130 (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
131 settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
132 automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
133 a sampler the next time.
134
135 * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
136
137 * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
138
139 * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
140 font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
141 to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
142 (default none).
143
144 * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
145 the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
146 (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
147
148 * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
149 running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
150 iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
151 main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
152
153 * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
154 with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
155
156 * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
157 screwed.
158
159 * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
160 e.g. by other frontends.
161
162 * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
163 e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
164 (fixes segfault on device changes)
165
166 * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
167 "View" main menu.
168
169 * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
170
171 * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
172
173 * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
174 strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
175
176 * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
177 decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
178
179
180 0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete.
181
182 * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
183 names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
184 the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
185 default.
186
187 * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
188 evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
189
190 * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
191 the main menu and toobar are not visible.
192
193 * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
194 creating a new sampler channel.
195
196 * README requirements and configuration notes update.
197
198 * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
199 form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
200 users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
201 first time).
202
203 * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
204 which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
205
206 * Added Windows file path support.
207
208 * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
209 under win32.
210
211 * Qt4 port of the application.
212
213
214 0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
215
216 * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
217 mapping instrument files with special characters in their
218 filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
219 and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
220
221 * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
222 does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
223 instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
224 tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
225
226 * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
227 application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
228 spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
229
230 * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
231
232
233 0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
234
235 * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
236 cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
237 highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
238
239 * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
240
241 * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
242 the session state, only at code-level.
243
244 * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
245 existing instrument file name.
246
247 * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
248 hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
249 keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
250 improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
251 instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
252 corrected some tooltip text strings.
253
254 * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
255 which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
256 window managers.
257
258 * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
259 with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
260 MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
261 the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
262
263 * GPL address update.
264
265
266 0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
267
268 * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
269 on qsampler.spec (RPM).
270
271 * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
272
273 * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
274 installation paths have been added to configure command
275 arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
276
277 * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
278 option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
279 number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
280 increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
281 (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
282
283 * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
284 and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
285 are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
286 before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
287
288 * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
289
290 * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
291 the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
292
293 * All widget captions changed to include proper application
294 title name prefix.
295
296 * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
297 sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
298 generated at configure time.
299
300 * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
301 registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
302 to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
303 argument have some effect on X11.
304
305 * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
306
307 * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
308 compiled with -no-stl.
309
310
311 0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
312
313 * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
314 turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
315 one, while on qjackctl).
316
317 * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
318 minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
319
320
321 0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
322
323 * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
324 to Christian Schoenebeck design.
325
326 * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
327 in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
328 info updates.
329
330 * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
331 buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
332 device dialog.
333
334 * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
335
336 * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
337 Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
338 with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
339 Mayat, for pointing these out).
340
341
342 0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough.
343
344 * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
345
346 * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
347 consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
348 sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
349
350 * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
351 instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
352
353 * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
354 an instrument.
355
356 * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
357
358
359 0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release.
360
361 * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
362 which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
363 configurations to the default audio driver type (which
364 is ALSA) unexpectedly.
365
366 * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
367 session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
368 loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
369
370 * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
371 session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
372
373 * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
374
375 * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
376 only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
377 change information are now also posted to messages window.
378
379 * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
380 instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
381 drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
382 files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
383
384 * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
385 featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
386 sampler instrument file.
387
388 * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
389 from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
390 avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
391 channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
392
393 * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
394 available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
395 a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
396
397 * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
398 count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
399 maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
400 otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
401
402
403 0.0.4 2004-11-19 Fourth alpha-release.
404
405 * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
406 actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
407 the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
408
409 * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
410 the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
411 following common user-interface guidelines.
412
413 * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
414 control structures.
415
416 * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
417
418 * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
419 the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
420 channel (omni mode).
421
422 * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
423 color to black (was green), being now an user option.
424
425 * Minor configure fixes.
426
427
428 0.0.3 2004-07-06 Third alpha-release.
429
430 * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
431
432 * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
433 and on session file save.
434
435 * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
436 on create time.
437
438 * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
439
440
441 0.0.2 2004-06-15 Pre-revolutionary release.
442
443 * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
444 over the empty workspace area.
445
446 * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
447 so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
448 avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
449 correct salvage of settings and configuration.
450
451 * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
452 provided to override the default (which is 100%).
453
454 * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
455 increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
456
457 * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
458 each sampler channel strip.
459
460 * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
461 qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
462
463 * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
464 a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
465
466 * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
467 new sampler channel strip.
468
469 * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
470 suggested in the following lines:
471
472 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
473 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
474 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
475 LOAD ENGINE ...
476 LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
477 SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
478
479
480 0.0.1 2004-06-05 Primordial alpha release.
481

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