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2     <news>
3 schoenebeck 1597 <entry date="2007-12-26">
4     You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
5     problems? Check out the
6     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
7     Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
8     doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
9     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Mailing List
10     </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
11     <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
12     </entry>
13 schoenebeck 1576 <entry date="2007-12-07">
14     Another strike:
15     <list>
16     <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
17     <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
18     <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
19     <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
20     <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
21     <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
22     </list>
23     What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
24 schoenebeck 1578 <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
25     world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
26     the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
27 schoenebeck 1576 "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
28     MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
29 schoenebeck 1578 plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
30     feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
31 schoenebeck 1576 <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
32     Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
33     fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
34 schoenebeck 1578 .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
35     option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
36 schoenebeck 1576 multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
37     to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
38 schoenebeck 1578 another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
39     and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
40     Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
41     of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
42     encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
43     of bug fixes.
44 schoenebeck 1576 </entry>
45 schoenebeck 1457 <entry date="2007-10-23">
46     As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
47     names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
48     out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
49     moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
50     again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
51     </entry>
52 schoenebeck 1448 <entry date="2007-10-16">
53     A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
54     <list>
55     <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
56     <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
57     <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
58     <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
59     <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
60     <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
61     <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
62     </list>
63     With our new instrument editor
64     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
65     we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
66     instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
67     also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
68     <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
69     "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
70     instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
71     audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
72     simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
73     clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
74     provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
75     only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
76     change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
77     the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
78     freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
79     each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
80     altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
81     some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
82     certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
83     not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
84     you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
85     order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
86 iliev 1449 feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
87 schoenebeck 1448 Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
88     allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
89     hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
90     sampler channel at the same time.
91     </entry>
92 schoenebeck 1408 <entry date="2007-10-12">
93     libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
94     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
95     Please update your links and bookmarks!
96     </entry>
97 iliev 1289 <entry date="2007-08-10">
98     <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
99     JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
100     The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
101     Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
102     available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
103     </entry>
104 schoenebeck 1268 <entry date="2007-05-24">
105     <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
106     JSampler 0.5a</link> has been released, now with instruments database
107     support.
108     </entry>
109     <entry date="2007-05-04">
110     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.4 has been
111     released. Almost another year has gone by.
112     </entry>
113     <entry date="2007-04-02">
114     JSampler 0.4a has been released. Read the
115     <link ref="jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html">manual</link> for
116     installation instructions.
117     </entry>
118     <entry date="2007-03-24">
119     gigedit 0.0.3 has been released, a graphical instrument editor allowing
120     to edit existing Gigasampler format files as well as creating new ones
121     completely from scratch. Along comes a new release of libgig (3.1.1).
122     </entry>
123     <entry date="2006-11-24">
124     After a long, long development cycle LinuxSampler 0.4.0 has finally been
125     released.
126     </entry>
127     <entry date="2006-11-24">
128     libgig 3.1.0 has been released.
129     </entry>
130     <entry date="2006-08-07">
131     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.3a.tar.bz2?download">
132     JSampler 0.3a</link> has been released.
133     <list>
134     <li>
135     Partially implemented a new view - Fantasia (graphic desing: Olivier
136     Boyer). Only channel manipulation for now.
137     </li>
138     <li>
139     More new features in JS Classic - Implemented an LS Console with
140     command autocompletion (using the Tab key), command history (using Up,
141     Down keys), command history search (Ctrl + R), command list search
142     (Ctrl + F), and more.
143     </li>
144     <li>
145     Implemented Orchestras (something like Bookmarks/Favorites for
146     instruments). Drag &amp; Drop support for instrument loading, adding an
147     instrument to orchestra and autocompleting an instrument loading
148     command in the LS Console.
149     </li>
150     </list>
151     </entry>
152     <entry date="2006-06-02">
153     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.3 is now
154     available. It's been a long time isn't it?
155     </entry>
156     <entry date="2006-04-28">
157     libgig 3.0.0 has been released.
158     </entry>
159     <entry date="2006-03-16">
160     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JS_Classic-0.2a.jar?download">
161     JS Classic 0.2a</link> has been released.
162     </entry>
163     <entry date="2005-12-22">
164     Major services (CVS, downloads, Bug Tracking System) were down in the last
165     days due to a hardware defect on one of our servers. CVS is finally up
166     again and we are working on restoring all other services in the next days
167     as well. We are also establishing further backup facilities to prevent this
168     happening again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
169     </entry>
170     <entry date="2005-11-24">
171     Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
172 schoenebeck 1453 of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
173 schoenebeck 1268 libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
174     (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">
175     read announcement</link>). Please let
176     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</link>
177     know if you are interested in writing an instrument patch editor.
178     </entry>
179     <entry date="2005-10-10">
180     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/js-classic.jar?download">
181     JS Classic 0.1a</link> has been released (the first distribution of the
182     <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler/">JSampler</link>
183     project).
184     </entry>
185     <entry date="2005-08-16">
186     Due to ongoing synthesis optimizations, CVS version of LS might be broken
187     for a while. Please use the tarball release in the meantime.
188     </entry>
189     <entry date="2005-07-15">
190     LinuxSampler 0.3.3 has been released. Once again a bug fix release.
191     </entry>
192     <entry date="2005-06-24">
193     LinuxSampler 0.3.2 has been released. This is more or less just a bug fix
194     release. Just by coincidence, <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
195     QSampler</link> 0.1.2 has also been thrown out.
196     </entry>
197     <entry date="2005-06-12">
198     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.1 has been
199     released, after a few bugfixes and a new logo icon.
200     </entry>
201     <entry date="2005-05-25">
202     LinuxSampler 0.3.1, the first official release is finally out!
203     </entry>
204     <entry date="2005-05-23">
205     After some time laying around in the backyard,
206     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.0 has
207     been released, now with the promised Audio and MIDI device configuration
208     interface. Enjoy!
209     </entry>
210     <entry date="2005-03-15">
211     Our bug tracking system is now online and available on
212     <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bugs.linuxsampler.org</link>.
213     </entry>
214     <entry date="2005-03-04">
215     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link>,
216     the Qt GUI front-end in the works for the LinuxSampler engine, was bumped
217     to its now fifth primordial release (0.0.5). Still alpha code. Time to move
218     on... to a better and complete Audio/MIDI device configuration interface,
219     as predicted by LSCP and wrapped by liblscp.
220     </entry>
221     <entry date="2005-02-26">
222     Due to a design change, current LinuxSampler CVS version is quite unstable.
223     You might want to use the previous, stable version of LS in the meantime,
224     which can be downloaded as
225     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">source tarball
226     </link>. Alternatively you can also checkout the old version from CVS which
227     was tagged as "v0_2_0".
228     </entry>
229     <entry date="2004-11-19">
230     The Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine has been updated: the 4th
231     alpha-release of
232     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> has been
233     released.
234     </entry>
235     <entry date="2004-11-13">
236     On monday (November, 15th) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
237     cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> may be temporarily down due to maintenance work
238     around 13:00 UTC.
239     </entry>
240     <entry date="2004-07-06">
241     The third alpha-release of <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
242     QSampler</link>, the Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine, is now
243     publicly available.
244     </entry>
245     <entry date="2004-06-05">
246     Added a screenshot to the Screenshots page, instructions how to compile the
247     GUI are on the linked qsampler site.
248     </entry>
249     <entry date="2004-05-31">
250     On wednesday (June, 2nd) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
251     cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> will be temporarily not available from 6:00 UTC
252     until 16:00 UTC due to construction works.
253     </entry>
254     <entry date="2004-05-24">
255     The CVS repository is now <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
256     browseable</link>.
257     </entry>
258     <entry date="2004-05-03">
259     We are currently in a transition stage due to the recent changes (multi
260     channel / multi engine / multi audio output device and multi MIDI input
261     device support) this also leads to multi problems we have to solve ;-) so
262     meanwhile you can use the old single channel version. We created the two
263     CVS alias tags 'singlechannel' and 'v0_1_0' which you can use to checkout
264     the old single channel version of LinuxSampler. The CVS command line is the
265     same except that you have to add '-r singlechannel'.
266     </entry>
267     <entry date="2004-03-26">
268     CVS root path has changed! See <link ref="downloads.html">downloads</link>
269     section for instructions how to checkout the latest version of LinuxSampler
270     from CVS.
271     </entry>
272     <entry date="2004-03-23">
273     Updated <link ref="features.html">features</link> section on this site,
274     hopefully we will keep the features list in sync with the latest
275     developments from now on.
276     </entry>
277     <entry date="2004-01-07">
278     The document for the network protocol definition is now available in the
279     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
280     section. Have a look at it if you can imagine to write a frontend for
281     LinuxSampler!
282     </entry>
283     <entry date="2003-11-08">
284     Added CVS log to this site, showing the latest commits to the LinuxSampler
285     CVS repository.
286     </entry>
287     <entry date="2003-11-02">
288     Lots of news for the Linuxsampler community. We've got a new site, new
289     domain and new code available in CVS. Check the
290     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
291     section for instructions. If you want to check it out, please keep in mind
292     that it might contain bugs, it might crash and that it's still lacking tons
293     of features. CVS is directed towards developers who would like to test
294     things and add code. Users should wait for a tarball release.
295     </entry>
296     </news>

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