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170    
171 schoenebeck 610 <h2>LS Development Roadmap</h2>
172     <p class="default">
173     The following list shows the planned work to be done until the next
174 schoenebeck 611 release of LinuxSampler. There will be no new release before all of them
175 schoenebeck 610 are completed.
176     </p>
177 senoner 542
178 schoenebeck 610 <ol class="default">
179 schoenebeck 939 <li class="false">nothing scheduled yet</li>
180 schoenebeck 610 </ol>
181    
182     <table class="default">
183     <tr>
184     <td class="default"><img src="gfx/okay_green.png" alt="Done" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Done </td>
185     <td class="default"><img src="gfx/yellow_light.png" alt="Partly implemented" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Partly implemented </td>
186     <td class="default"><img src="gfx/x.png" alt="Not started yet" width="13" height="13" border="1"> No work started yet </td>
187     </tr>
188     </table>
189    
190 schoenebeck 1769 <p class="default">
191     Note that we frequently cast a moderated poll on our
192 schoenebeck 1856 <a href="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/"">web forum</a> for
193 schoenebeck 1769 the next features to be implemented and problems / bugs to be
194     fixed soon. Don't hesitate to register to our forum and vote for
195     your feature!
196     </p>
197    
198 schoenebeck 610 <h2>Features</h2>
199 senoner 542 <p class="default">
200     The following list shows which features have already been implemented in
201     current CVS version of LinuxSampler and what is planned to be done in
202     (hopefully) near future. If you are missing something that is not already
203     listed below, you can write a proposol to the
204     <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
205     developers mailing list
206 schoenebeck 1576 </a>, open an "enhancement" request on our
207     <a href="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bug tracking system</a>
208     or even better send us your patch if you have done something. Even
209 senoner 542 if features are listed to be planned below, it can be that it takes a
210     while until somebody finds the time to implement it. So if you have the
211     time and will to finish one of them, let us know!
212     </p>
213    
214 schoenebeck 585 <ol class="default">
215 senoner 542 <li class="partly"> Operating Systems
216     <ol>
217     <li class="ok">Linux</li>
218 schoenebeck 1985 <li class="ok">Windows</a> (we provide a convenient Windows installer for all components of the project, including native 64 bit and native 32 bit binaries, standalone and VSTi plugin versions)</li>
219 iliev 2006 <li class="partly">Mac <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">OS X</a> (gigedit is not yet available for OS X and thus not included with the installer yet)</li>
220 senoner 542 </ol>
221     </li>
222 schoenebeck 1985 <li class="ok">Host plugin versions of the sampler
223     <ol>
224     <li class="ok"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Studio_Technology">VSTi</a> (Windows)</li>
225     <li class="ok"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Units">Audio Units</a> (Mac)</li>
226     <li class="ok"><a href="http://dssi.sourceforge.net/">DSSI</a> (Linux)</li>
227     <li class="ok"><a href="http://lv2plug.in/">LV2</a> (Linux)</li>
228     </ol>
229     </li>
230     <li class="partly">MIDI input drivers
231     <ol>
232     <li class="ok"><a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/">ALSA</a> (Linux)</li>
233     <li class="ok"><a href="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">JACK</a> (Linux, OSX, Windows, ...)</li>
234     <li class="ok"><a href="http://developer.apple.com/audio/pdf/coreaudio.pdf">CoreMIDI</a> (Mac <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">OS X</a>)</li>
235     <li class="ok"><a href="http://midishare.sourceforge.net/">MidiShare</a> (Linux, OS X, Windows)</li>
236     <li class="ok"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiMedia_Extensions">MME</a> (Windows)</li>
237     <li class="false">MIDI over ethernet (<a href="http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/p1639app.html">Distributed MIDI</a>)</li>
238     </ol>
239     </li>
240     <li class="partly">Audio output drivers
241     <ol>
242     <li class="ok"><a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/">ALSA</a> (Linux)</li>
243     <li class="ok"><a href="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">JACK</a> (Linux, OSX, Windows, ...)</li>
244     <li class="ok"><a href="http://www.arts-project.org/">aRts</a> (not RT safe!)</li>
245     <li class="ok"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_stream_input_output">ASIO</a> (Windows)</li>
246     <li class="ok"><a href="http://developer.apple.com/audio/pdf/coreaudio.pdf">CoreAudio</a> (Mac <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">OS X</a>)</li>
247     <li class="false">Audio over ethernet</li>
248     </ol>
249     </li>
250 senoner 542 <li class="partly"> Sampler Engines
251     <ol>
252     <li class="partly"> Gigasampler Engine
253     <ol>
254 schoenebeck 848 <li class="ok">Gig file loader
255     <ol>
256     <li class="ok">Gig v2 format</li>
257     <li class="partly">Gig v3 format
258     <ol>
259     <li class="partly">large file support (64 bit file offsets are currently truncated to 32 bit)</li>
260 schoenebeck 904 <li class="ok">24 bit samples (uncompressed as well as compressed)</li>
261 schoenebeck 848 <li class="ok">support for multi-file format (.gig, .gx01, .gx02, ...)</li>
262 schoenebeck 904 <li class="partly">support for articulation (.art) files</li>
263 schoenebeck 848 <li class="ok">support for Dimension Splits not equal to two</li>
264     <li class="ok">up to 8 Dimensions or 256 Dimension Regions</li>
265 schoenebeck 1669 <li class="partly">MIDI rules</li>
266     <li class="false">convolution</li>
267 schoenebeck 848 </ol>
268     </li>
269     </ol>
270     </li>
271 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">Generic playback (RAM playback & disk streaming)</li>
272 schoenebeck 848 <li class="ok">Dimension switching
273     <ol>
274     <li class="ok">Sample Channel</li>
275     <li class="ok">Layer</li>
276     <li class="ok">Velocity</li>
277     <li class="ok">Channel Aftertouch</li>
278     <li class="ok">Release Trigger</li>
279     <li class="ok">Keyboard Position</li>
280     <li class="ok">Round Robin</li>
281     <li class="ok">Random</li>
282     <li class="ok">Modulation Wheel</li>
283     <li class="ok">Breath Ctrl.</li>
284     <li class="ok">Foot Ctrl.</li>
285     <li class="ok">Portamento Time Ctrl.</li>
286     <li class="ok">Effect 1 &#038; 2 Ctrl.</li>
287     <li class="ok">Effect 1 - 5 Depth Ctrl.</li>
288     <li class="ok">General Purpose Ctrl. 1 - 8</li>
289     <li class="ok">Sustain Pedal</li>
290     <li class="ok">Portamento</li>
291     <li class="ok">Sostenuto Pedal</li>
292     <li class="ok">Soft Pedal</li>
293     </ol>
294     </li>
295     <li class="ok">Sustain pedal interpretation</li>
296     <li class="ok">Sostenuto pedal interpretation</li>
297 senoner 542 <li class="ok">Key velocity &#060;-&#062; volume mapping</li>
298 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">Looping
299     <ol>
300     <li class="ok">endless loop</li>
301     <li class="ok">limited amount of loops</li>
302     <li class="ok">fractional looping</li>
303     </ol>
304     </li>
305 senoner 542 <li class="ok">Pitchbend wheel support</li>
306 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">Bidirectional voice state transition, allowing
307     to cancel the relase stage of voices forth and back arbitrary
308     times if needed</li>
309 schoenebeck 878 <li class="ok">Filter (VCF)
310 senoner 542 <ol>
311     <li class="ok">Highpass</li>
312     <li class="ok">Bandpass</li>
313 schoenebeck 878 <li class="ok">Bandreject</li>
314 senoner 542 <li class="ok">Lowpass</li>
315 schoenebeck 878 <li class="ok">Turbo lowpass</li>
316 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">all filter types provide extremely
317     accurate characteristics compared to the original
318     Gigasampler format filters</li>
319 senoner 542 <li class="ok">Cutoff frequency controllable by MIDI controller</li>
320     <li class="ok">Resonance controllable by MIDI controller</li>
321     </ol>
322     </li>
323     <li class="ok">VCA Envelope Generator (Volume)</li>
324     <li class="ok">VCF Envelope Generator (Filter)</li>
325     <li class="ok">VCO Envelope Generator (Pitch)</li>
326     <li class="ok">VCA Low Frequency Oscillator (Volume)</li>
327     <li class="ok">VCF Low Frequency Oscillator (Filter Cutoff)</li>
328     <li class="ok">VCO Low Frequency Oscillator (Pitch)</li>
329     <li class="ok">Layers</li>
330     <li class="ok">Crossfades</li>
331 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">Key Groups (a.k.a Exclusive Groups),
332     for mutually switching off sounds i.e. for drumkits</li>
333     <li class="ok">Release Triggered Voices, specific samples
334     that are played back when voices are released</li>
335     <li class="ok">Key Switching, which allows to map a certain
336     range on thy keyboard as additional performance controller,
337     i.e. for switching articulations of orchestral sounds in realtime</li>
338 senoner 542 <li class="ok">Voice Stealing</li>
339 schoenebeck 848 <li class="ok">Portamento Mode and Solo Mode (a.k.a 'Mono Mode',
340     can be altered via standard GM messages, that is CC5 for
341     altering portamento time, CC65 for enabling / disabling
342     portamento mode, CC126 for enabling solo mode and CC127 for
343     disabling solo mode)</li>
344 schoenebeck 901 <li class="ok">Scale Tuning (via standard MIDI GS SysEx message)</li>
345 senoner 542 </ol>
346     </li>
347     <li style="partly"><a href="http://www.midi.org/about-midi/dls/abtdls.shtml">DLS</a> Engine
348     <ol>
349     <li class="ok">DLS file loader (DLS version <a href="http://www.midi.org/about-midi/dls/dls1v11b.pdf">1</a> &#038; <a href="http://www.midi.org/about-midi/dls/dls2spec.shtml">2</a>)</li>
350     <li class="false">Generic playback</li>
351     </ol>
352     </li>
353     <li class="partly">Akai Engine</li>
354     <ol>
355 iliev 2006 <li class="ok"><a href="libakai/">Akai file loader</a> (<a href="http://www.vintagesynth.com/akai/s1000.shtml">S1000</a>, <a href="http://www.vintagesynth.com/akai/s3000.shtml">S3000</a> series)</li>
356 senoner 542 <li class="false">Generic playback</li>
357     </ol>
358     <li class="false">Custom, modular Engine</li>
359     </ol>
360     </li>
361     <li class="partly">Control interfaces
362     <ol>
363 schoenebeck 893 <li class="ok">Native C++ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface">API</a></li>
364 schoenebeck 553 <li class="ok">Custom network interface for frontends (<a name="LSCP" href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html">LSCP</a>)
365 senoner 542 </li>
366 schoenebeck 553 <li class="false"><a name="OSC" href="http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/">OSC</a>
367     </li>
368 senoner 542 </ol>
369     </li>
370     <li class="ok">Time stamp event system &#038; jitter correction</li>
371     <li class="ok">Multi channel &#038; multi engine support</li>
372     <li class="partly">Pitch shifter / Interpolation
373     <ol>
374     <li class="ok">Linear interpolation</li>
375     <li class="ok">Cubic interpolation</li>
376     <li class="false">Formant frequency correction / formant manipulation</li>
377     </ol>
378     </li>
379     <li class="false">Dynamic engine recompilation</li>
380     <li class="false">Extensive SMP (multi processor) support</li>
381     <li class="false">Network cluster support</li>
382 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">MIDI instrument mapper, allows to create very flexible MIDI progam change setups in a very easy way.
383     <ol>
384     <li class="ok">MIDI program change</li>
385     <li class="ok">MIDI bank select (automatic detection of MSB only, LSB only or full MSB+LSB)</li>
386     <li class="ok">Load Strategy for each Item individually
387     <ol>
388     <li class="ok">On-Demand: loads the instrument only when needed, frees it immediately once not used by any sampler channel anymore</li>
389     <li class="ok">On-Demand-Hold: loads the instrument when needed and keeps it in memory, that is even if not used by a sampler channel</li>
390     <li class="ok">Persistent: loads the instrument immediately in the background (i.e. at sampler startup), allowing immediate program changes in realtime even of largest instruments, without wait time</li>
391     <li class="ok">Default: let the sampler decide</li>
392     </ol>
393     </li>
394     <li class="ok">Volume Factor for each Item, allowing to compensate the volume difference of sample library collections i.e. for live performances, without having to edit the instrument files</li>
395     <li class="ok">Mapping of arbitrary Instrument Files, already independent of the underlying format in respect for future sampler engines</li>
396     <li class="ok">arbitrary amount of independent MIDI instrumet maps, (i.e. for chromatic instruments, drumkits, ...), each sampler channel can be assigned to a specific MIDI map</li>
397     </ol>
398     </li>
399     <li class="ok">Effect Sends
400     <ol>
401     <li class="ok">Arbitrary Amount of FX Sends on Sampler Channels</li>
402     <li class="ok">Realtime MIDI Control of Send Level</li>
403     <li class="ok">Arbitrary MIDI Controller assignable</li>
404     <li class="ok">Flexible Routing i.e. to a dedicated effect audio output</li>
405     </ol>
406     </li>
407 schoenebeck 1576 <a name="instruments_db"></a>
408 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">Instrument Database System, allowing to keep track of even the largest sample library collections
409     <ol>
410     <li class="ok">Ordering in Categories</li>
411     <li class="ok">Search by various Criteria</li>
412     <li class="ok">Transparently maintained on backend side</li>
413     </ol>
414     </li>
415 schoenebeck 1985 <li class="ok">(Graphical) frontends
416 senoner 542 <ol>
417 schoenebeck 1985 <li class="ok"><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler">JSampler a.k.a "Fantasia"</a> (Java based frontend)
418     <ol>
419     <li class="ok">Supports all currently available features of LinuxSampler</li>
420     </ol>
421     </li>
422 schoenebeck 1532 <li class="partly"><a href="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</a> (C++ based frontend using Qt)
423     <ol>
424     <li class="ok">Supports all features of LinuxSampler except the following ...</li>
425     <li class="partly"><a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html#MIDI Instrument Mapping">MIDI Instrument Maps</a>
426     (qsampler does currently not yet support to create more than two MIDI instrument maps [one intended for chromatic instruments and one for drumkits])
427     </li>
428     <li class="false"><a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html#Managing Instruments Database">Instruments DB support</a> (to ease handling of huge sample library collections)</li>
429     <li class="partly">Audio and MIDI device management (only minor thing that qsampler lacks support yet are <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html#GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO">"multiplicity"</a> type device parameters, that is parameters which don't just accept one value, but also a list of values, i.e. for the "ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS" parameter of the ALSA MIDI driver)</li>
430     </ol>
431     </li>
432 senoner 542 </ol>
433     </li>
434 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">Playing while Loading, i.e. allowing to play and hold notes on the keyboard
435     while loading a new instrument on the same sampler channel at the same time</li>
436 schoenebeck 1985 <li class="ok">Limits for max. voices and max. disk streams can be altered at runtime</li>
437 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">Instrument Editor Plugin System for 3rd Party Instrument Editors</li>
438     <li class="ok">Instrument Editors
439     <ol>
440 schoenebeck 1532 <li class="ok"><a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html">gigedit</a> (C++ based using gtkmm/Gtk+)
441 schoenebeck 1498 <ol>
442     <li class="ok">allows to modify all aspects of Gigsampler v2 and v3 format files</li>
443     <li class="ok">allows to modify existing as well as creating completely new .gig files from scratch</li>
444     <li class="ok">stand-alone mode (independent of LinuxSampler)</li>
445     <li class="ok">live-mode (attached with LinuxSampler), which makes all modifications audible in the sampler in realtime without having to reload</li>
446     <li class="ok">created / modified files are accepted by LinuxSampler as well as by Gigastudio 3</li>
447 schoenebeck 1669 <li class="ok">virtual MIDI keyboard (for triggering notes by mouse click and highlighting the virtual keys on external note events)</li>
448 schoenebeck 1498 </ol>
449     </li>
450     </ol>
451     </li>
452 senoner 542 </ol>
453    
454     <hr>
455    
456     <p>
457     <TABLE class="formatmatrix">
458     <TR>
459     <TD><IMG src="gfx/okay_green.png" alt="Done" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Done</TD>
460     <TD><IMG src="gfx/yellow_light.png" alt="Partly implemented" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Partly implemented</TD>
461     <TD><IMG src="gfx/x.png" alt="Planned" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Planned</TD>
462     </TR>
463     </TABLE>
464     </p>
465    
466     <p>
467 iliev 2006 (Last page update on <b>$Date: 2009-10-16 18:05:11 $</b> by $Author: iliev $,
468 schoenebeck 610 also see <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org">CVS Log</a> for recent changes)
469 senoner 542 </p>
470    
471     </div>
472     </td></tr></table>
473    
474     </div>
475    
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