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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 2034 <li class="ok">Abstraction of common code from existing Gigasampler engine to base classes for further sampler engines.</li>
180     <li class="partly">
181     Implementation of
182     <a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVrDa5LNWylnZGZ6ejk4eHRfNDVjbmsyd3Zmag">SFZ(2) format</a> sampler engine.
183     </li>
184     <li class="partly">
185     Implementation of
186     <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundFont">SF2 format</a> sampler engine.
187     </li>
188     <li class="false">
189     Implementation of
190     <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libakai/">Akai format</a> sampler engine.
191     </li>
192 schoenebeck 610 </ol>
193    
194     <table class="default">
195     <tr>
196     <td class="default"><img src="gfx/okay_green.png" alt="Done" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Done </td>
197     <td class="default"><img src="gfx/yellow_light.png" alt="Partly implemented" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Partly implemented </td>
198     <td class="default"><img src="gfx/x.png" alt="Not started yet" width="13" height="13" border="1"> No work started yet </td>
199     </tr>
200     </table>
201    
202 schoenebeck 1769 <p class="default">
203     Note that we frequently cast a moderated poll on our
204 persson 2178 <a href="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/">web forum</a> for
205 schoenebeck 1769 the next features to be implemented and problems / bugs to be
206     fixed soon. Don't hesitate to register to our forum and vote for
207     your feature!
208     </p>
209    
210 schoenebeck 610 <h2>Features</h2>
211 senoner 542 <p class="default">
212     The following list shows which features have already been implemented in
213 persson 2178 current Subversion version of LinuxSampler and what is planned to be done
214     in (hopefully) near future. If you are missing something that is not
215     already listed below, you can write a proposal to the
216 senoner 542 <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
217     developers mailing list
218 schoenebeck 1576 </a>, open an "enhancement" request on our
219     <a href="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bug tracking system</a>
220     or even better send us your patch if you have done something. Even
221 senoner 542 if features are listed to be planned below, it can be that it takes a
222     while until somebody finds the time to implement it. So if you have the
223     time and will to finish one of them, let us know!
224     </p>
225    
226 schoenebeck 585 <ol class="default">
227 senoner 542 <li class="partly"> Operating Systems
228     <ol>
229     <li class="ok">Linux</li>
230 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>
231 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>
232 senoner 542 </ol>
233     </li>
234 schoenebeck 1985 <li class="ok">Host plugin versions of the sampler
235     <ol>
236     <li class="ok"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Studio_Technology">VSTi</a> (Windows)</li>
237     <li class="ok"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Units">Audio Units</a> (Mac)</li>
238     <li class="ok"><a href="http://dssi.sourceforge.net/">DSSI</a> (Linux)</li>
239     <li class="ok"><a href="http://lv2plug.in/">LV2</a> (Linux)</li>
240     </ol>
241     </li>
242     <li class="partly">MIDI input drivers
243     <ol>
244     <li class="ok"><a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/">ALSA</a> (Linux)</li>
245     <li class="ok"><a href="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">JACK</a> (Linux, OSX, Windows, ...)</li>
246     <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>
247     <li class="ok"><a href="http://midishare.sourceforge.net/">MidiShare</a> (Linux, OS X, Windows)</li>
248     <li class="ok"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiMedia_Extensions">MME</a> (Windows)</li>
249     <li class="false">MIDI over ethernet (<a href="http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/p1639app.html">Distributed MIDI</a>)</li>
250     </ol>
251     </li>
252     <li class="partly">Audio output drivers
253     <ol>
254     <li class="ok"><a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/">ALSA</a> (Linux)</li>
255     <li class="ok"><a href="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">JACK</a> (Linux, OSX, Windows, ...)</li>
256     <li class="ok"><a href="http://www.arts-project.org/">aRts</a> (not RT safe!)</li>
257     <li class="ok"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_stream_input_output">ASIO</a> (Windows)</li>
258     <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>
259     <li class="false">Audio over ethernet</li>
260     </ol>
261     </li>
262 senoner 542 <li class="partly"> Sampler Engines
263     <ol>
264     <li class="partly"> Gigasampler Engine
265     <ol>
266 schoenebeck 848 <li class="ok">Gig file loader
267     <ol>
268     <li class="ok">Gig v2 format</li>
269     <li class="partly">Gig v3 format
270     <ol>
271     <li class="partly">large file support (64 bit file offsets are currently truncated to 32 bit)</li>
272 schoenebeck 904 <li class="ok">24 bit samples (uncompressed as well as compressed)</li>
273 schoenebeck 848 <li class="ok">support for multi-file format (.gig, .gx01, .gx02, ...)</li>
274 schoenebeck 904 <li class="partly">support for articulation (.art) files</li>
275 schoenebeck 848 <li class="ok">support for Dimension Splits not equal to two</li>
276     <li class="ok">up to 8 Dimensions or 256 Dimension Regions</li>
277 schoenebeck 1669 <li class="partly">MIDI rules</li>
278     <li class="false">convolution</li>
279 schoenebeck 848 </ol>
280     </li>
281     </ol>
282     </li>
283 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">Generic playback (RAM playback & disk streaming)</li>
284 schoenebeck 848 <li class="ok">Dimension switching
285     <ol>
286     <li class="ok">Sample Channel</li>
287     <li class="ok">Layer</li>
288     <li class="ok">Velocity</li>
289     <li class="ok">Channel Aftertouch</li>
290     <li class="ok">Release Trigger</li>
291     <li class="ok">Keyboard Position</li>
292     <li class="ok">Round Robin</li>
293     <li class="ok">Random</li>
294     <li class="ok">Modulation Wheel</li>
295     <li class="ok">Breath Ctrl.</li>
296     <li class="ok">Foot Ctrl.</li>
297     <li class="ok">Portamento Time Ctrl.</li>
298     <li class="ok">Effect 1 &#038; 2 Ctrl.</li>
299     <li class="ok">Effect 1 - 5 Depth Ctrl.</li>
300     <li class="ok">General Purpose Ctrl. 1 - 8</li>
301     <li class="ok">Sustain Pedal</li>
302     <li class="ok">Portamento</li>
303     <li class="ok">Sostenuto Pedal</li>
304     <li class="ok">Soft Pedal</li>
305     </ol>
306     </li>
307     <li class="ok">Sustain pedal interpretation</li>
308     <li class="ok">Sostenuto pedal interpretation</li>
309 senoner 542 <li class="ok">Key velocity &#060;-&#062; volume mapping</li>
310 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">Looping
311     <ol>
312     <li class="ok">endless loop</li>
313     <li class="ok">limited amount of loops</li>
314     <li class="ok">fractional looping</li>
315     </ol>
316     </li>
317 senoner 542 <li class="ok">Pitchbend wheel support</li>
318 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">Bidirectional voice state transition, allowing
319     to cancel the relase stage of voices forth and back arbitrary
320     times if needed</li>
321 schoenebeck 878 <li class="ok">Filter (VCF)
322 senoner 542 <ol>
323     <li class="ok">Highpass</li>
324     <li class="ok">Bandpass</li>
325 schoenebeck 878 <li class="ok">Bandreject</li>
326 senoner 542 <li class="ok">Lowpass</li>
327 schoenebeck 878 <li class="ok">Turbo lowpass</li>
328 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">all filter types provide extremely
329     accurate characteristics compared to the original
330     Gigasampler format filters</li>
331 senoner 542 <li class="ok">Cutoff frequency controllable by MIDI controller</li>
332     <li class="ok">Resonance controllable by MIDI controller</li>
333     </ol>
334     </li>
335     <li class="ok">VCA Envelope Generator (Volume)</li>
336     <li class="ok">VCF Envelope Generator (Filter)</li>
337     <li class="ok">VCO Envelope Generator (Pitch)</li>
338     <li class="ok">VCA Low Frequency Oscillator (Volume)</li>
339     <li class="ok">VCF Low Frequency Oscillator (Filter Cutoff)</li>
340     <li class="ok">VCO Low Frequency Oscillator (Pitch)</li>
341     <li class="ok">Layers</li>
342     <li class="ok">Crossfades</li>
343 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">Key Groups (a.k.a Exclusive Groups),
344     for mutually switching off sounds i.e. for drumkits</li>
345     <li class="ok">Release Triggered Voices, specific samples
346     that are played back when voices are released</li>
347     <li class="ok">Key Switching, which allows to map a certain
348     range on thy keyboard as additional performance controller,
349     i.e. for switching articulations of orchestral sounds in realtime</li>
350 senoner 542 <li class="ok">Voice Stealing</li>
351 schoenebeck 848 <li class="ok">Portamento Mode and Solo Mode (a.k.a 'Mono Mode',
352     can be altered via standard GM messages, that is CC5 for
353     altering portamento time, CC65 for enabling / disabling
354     portamento mode, CC126 for enabling solo mode and CC127 for
355     disabling solo mode)</li>
356 schoenebeck 901 <li class="ok">Scale Tuning (via standard MIDI GS SysEx message)</li>
357 senoner 542 </ol>
358     </li>
359     <li style="partly"><a href="http://www.midi.org/about-midi/dls/abtdls.shtml">DLS</a> Engine
360     <ol>
361     <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>
362     <li class="false">Generic playback</li>
363     </ol>
364     </li>
365     <li class="partly">Akai Engine</li>
366     <ol>
367 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>
368 senoner 542 <li class="false">Generic playback</li>
369     </ol>
370     <li class="false">Custom, modular Engine</li>
371     </ol>
372     </li>
373     <li class="partly">Control interfaces
374     <ol>
375 schoenebeck 893 <li class="ok">Native C++ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface">API</a></li>
376 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>)
377 senoner 542 </li>
378 schoenebeck 553 <li class="false"><a name="OSC" href="http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/">OSC</a>
379     </li>
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381     </li>
382     <li class="ok">Time stamp event system &#038; jitter correction</li>
383     <li class="ok">Multi channel &#038; multi engine support</li>
384     <li class="partly">Pitch shifter / Interpolation
385     <ol>
386     <li class="ok">Linear interpolation</li>
387     <li class="ok">Cubic interpolation</li>
388     <li class="false">Formant frequency correction / formant manipulation</li>
389     </ol>
390     </li>
391     <li class="false">Dynamic engine recompilation</li>
392     <li class="false">Extensive SMP (multi processor) support</li>
393     <li class="false">Network cluster support</li>
394 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">MIDI instrument mapper, allows to create very flexible MIDI progam change setups in a very easy way.
395     <ol>
396     <li class="ok">MIDI program change</li>
397     <li class="ok">MIDI bank select (automatic detection of MSB only, LSB only or full MSB+LSB)</li>
398     <li class="ok">Load Strategy for each Item individually
399     <ol>
400     <li class="ok">On-Demand: loads the instrument only when needed, frees it immediately once not used by any sampler channel anymore</li>
401     <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>
402     <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>
403     <li class="ok">Default: let the sampler decide</li>
404     </ol>
405     </li>
406     <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>
407     <li class="ok">Mapping of arbitrary Instrument Files, already independent of the underlying format in respect for future sampler engines</li>
408     <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>
409     </ol>
410     </li>
411     <li class="ok">Effect Sends
412     <ol>
413     <li class="ok">Arbitrary Amount of FX Sends on Sampler Channels</li>
414     <li class="ok">Realtime MIDI Control of Send Level</li>
415     <li class="ok">Arbitrary MIDI Controller assignable</li>
416     <li class="ok">Flexible Routing i.e. to a dedicated effect audio output</li>
417     </ol>
418     </li>
419 schoenebeck 1576 <a name="instruments_db"></a>
420 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">Instrument Database System, allowing to keep track of even the largest sample library collections
421     <ol>
422     <li class="ok">Ordering in Categories</li>
423     <li class="ok">Search by various Criteria</li>
424     <li class="ok">Transparently maintained on backend side</li>
425     </ol>
426     </li>
427 schoenebeck 1985 <li class="ok">(Graphical) frontends
428 senoner 542 <ol>
429 schoenebeck 1985 <li class="ok"><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler">JSampler a.k.a "Fantasia"</a> (Java based frontend)
430     <ol>
431     <li class="ok">Supports all currently available features of LinuxSampler</li>
432     </ol>
433     </li>
434 schoenebeck 1532 <li class="partly"><a href="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</a> (C++ based frontend using Qt)
435     <ol>
436     <li class="ok">Supports all features of LinuxSampler except the following ...</li>
437     <li class="partly"><a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html#MIDI Instrument Mapping">MIDI Instrument Maps</a>
438     (qsampler does currently not yet support to create more than two MIDI instrument maps [one intended for chromatic instruments and one for drumkits])
439     </li>
440     <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>
441     <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>
442     </ol>
443     </li>
444 senoner 542 </ol>
445     </li>
446 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">Playing while Loading, i.e. allowing to play and hold notes on the keyboard
447     while loading a new instrument on the same sampler channel at the same time</li>
448 schoenebeck 1985 <li class="ok">Limits for max. voices and max. disk streams can be altered at runtime</li>
449 schoenebeck 1498 <li class="ok">Instrument Editor Plugin System for 3rd Party Instrument Editors</li>
450     <li class="ok">Instrument Editors
451     <ol>
452 schoenebeck 1532 <li class="ok"><a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html">gigedit</a> (C++ based using gtkmm/Gtk+)
453 schoenebeck 1498 <ol>
454     <li class="ok">allows to modify all aspects of Gigsampler v2 and v3 format files</li>
455     <li class="ok">allows to modify existing as well as creating completely new .gig files from scratch</li>
456     <li class="ok">stand-alone mode (independent of LinuxSampler)</li>
457     <li class="ok">live-mode (attached with LinuxSampler), which makes all modifications audible in the sampler in realtime without having to reload</li>
458     <li class="ok">created / modified files are accepted by LinuxSampler as well as by Gigastudio 3</li>
459 schoenebeck 1669 <li class="ok">virtual MIDI keyboard (for triggering notes by mouse click and highlighting the virtual keys on external note events)</li>
460 schoenebeck 1498 </ol>
461     </li>
462     </ol>
463     </li>
464 senoner 542 </ol>
465    
466     <hr>
467    
468     <p>
469     <TABLE class="formatmatrix">
470     <TR>
471     <TD><IMG src="gfx/okay_green.png" alt="Done" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Done</TD>
472     <TD><IMG src="gfx/yellow_light.png" alt="Partly implemented" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Partly implemented</TD>
473     <TD><IMG src="gfx/x.png" alt="Planned" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Planned</TD>
474     </TR>
475     </TABLE>
476     </p>
477    
478     <p>
479 schoenebeck 2034 (Last page update on <b>$Date: 2009-11-24 18:33:54 $</b> by $Author: schoenebeck $,
480 persson 2178 also see <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org">Subversion Log</a> for recent changes)
481 senoner 542 </p>
482    
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484     </td></tr></table>
485    
486     </div>
487    
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