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2     <news>
3 schoenebeck 1674 <entry date="2008-02-07">
4     Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
5     site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
6     specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
7     <a href="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</a>
8     chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
9     </entry>
10 schoenebeck 1647 <entry date="2008-01-23">
11     Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
12     place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
13     <link ref="https://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
14     </entry>
15 schoenebeck 1619 <entry date="2008-01-03">
16     Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
17     by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
18     available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
19     latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
20     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
21     Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
22     work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
23     Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
24     at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
25     </entry>
26 schoenebeck 1597 <entry date="2007-12-26">
27     You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
28     problems? Check out the
29     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
30     Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
31     doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
32 schoenebeck 1598 <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
33     Mailing List
34 schoenebeck 1597 </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
35     <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
36     </entry>
37 schoenebeck 1576 <entry date="2007-12-07">
38     Another strike:
39     <list>
40     <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
41     <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
42     <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
43     <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
44     <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
45     <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
46     </list>
47     What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
48 schoenebeck 1578 <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
49     world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
50     the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
51 schoenebeck 1576 "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
52     MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
53 schoenebeck 1578 plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
54     feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
55 schoenebeck 1576 <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
56     Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
57     fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
58 schoenebeck 1578 .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
59     option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
60 schoenebeck 1576 multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
61     to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
62 schoenebeck 1578 another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
63     and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
64     Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
65     of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
66     encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
67     of bug fixes.
68 schoenebeck 1576 </entry>
69 schoenebeck 1457 <entry date="2007-10-23">
70     As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
71     names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
72     out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
73     moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
74     again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
75     </entry>
76 schoenebeck 1448 <entry date="2007-10-16">
77     A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
78     <list>
79     <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
80     <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
81     <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
82     <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
83     <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
84     <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
85     <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
86     </list>
87     With our new instrument editor
88     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
89     we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
90     instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
91     also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
92     <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
93     "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
94     instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
95     audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
96     simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
97     clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
98     provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
99     only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
100     change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
101     the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
102     freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
103     each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
104     altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
105     some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
106     certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
107     not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
108     you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
109     order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
110 iliev 1449 feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
111 schoenebeck 1448 Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
112     allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
113     hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
114     sampler channel at the same time.
115     </entry>
116 schoenebeck 1408 <entry date="2007-10-12">
117     libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
118     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
119     Please update your links and bookmarks!
120     </entry>
121 iliev 1289 <entry date="2007-08-10">
122     <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
123     JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
124     The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
125     Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
126     available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
127     </entry>
128 schoenebeck 1268 <entry date="2007-05-24">
129     <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
130     JSampler 0.5a</link> has been released, now with instruments database
131     support.
132     </entry>
133     <entry date="2007-05-04">
134     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.4 has been
135     released. Almost another year has gone by.
136     </entry>
137     <entry date="2007-04-02">
138     JSampler 0.4a has been released. Read the
139     <link ref="jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html">manual</link> for
140     installation instructions.
141     </entry>
142     <entry date="2007-03-24">
143     gigedit 0.0.3 has been released, a graphical instrument editor allowing
144     to edit existing Gigasampler format files as well as creating new ones
145     completely from scratch. Along comes a new release of libgig (3.1.1).
146     </entry>
147     <entry date="2006-11-24">
148     After a long, long development cycle LinuxSampler 0.4.0 has finally been
149     released.
150     </entry>
151     <entry date="2006-11-24">
152     libgig 3.1.0 has been released.
153     </entry>
154     <entry date="2006-08-07">
155     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.3a.tar.bz2?download">
156     JSampler 0.3a</link> has been released.
157     <list>
158     <li>
159     Partially implemented a new view - Fantasia (graphic desing: Olivier
160     Boyer). Only channel manipulation for now.
161     </li>
162     <li>
163     More new features in JS Classic - Implemented an LS Console with
164     command autocompletion (using the Tab key), command history (using Up,
165     Down keys), command history search (Ctrl + R), command list search
166     (Ctrl + F), and more.
167     </li>
168     <li>
169     Implemented Orchestras (something like Bookmarks/Favorites for
170     instruments). Drag &amp; Drop support for instrument loading, adding an
171     instrument to orchestra and autocompleting an instrument loading
172     command in the LS Console.
173     </li>
174     </list>
175     </entry>
176     <entry date="2006-06-02">
177     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.3 is now
178     available. It's been a long time isn't it?
179     </entry>
180     <entry date="2006-04-28">
181     libgig 3.0.0 has been released.
182     </entry>
183     <entry date="2006-03-16">
184     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JS_Classic-0.2a.jar?download">
185     JS Classic 0.2a</link> has been released.
186     </entry>
187     <entry date="2005-12-22">
188     Major services (CVS, downloads, Bug Tracking System) were down in the last
189     days due to a hardware defect on one of our servers. CVS is finally up
190     again and we are working on restoring all other services in the next days
191     as well. We are also establishing further backup facilities to prevent this
192     happening again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
193     </entry>
194     <entry date="2005-11-24">
195     Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
196 schoenebeck 1453 of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
197 schoenebeck 1268 libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
198     (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">
199     read announcement</link>). Please let
200     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</link>
201     know if you are interested in writing an instrument patch editor.
202     </entry>
203     <entry date="2005-10-10">
204     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/js-classic.jar?download">
205     JS Classic 0.1a</link> has been released (the first distribution of the
206     <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler/">JSampler</link>
207     project).
208     </entry>
209     <entry date="2005-08-16">
210     Due to ongoing synthesis optimizations, CVS version of LS might be broken
211     for a while. Please use the tarball release in the meantime.
212     </entry>
213     <entry date="2005-07-15">
214     LinuxSampler 0.3.3 has been released. Once again a bug fix release.
215     </entry>
216     <entry date="2005-06-24">
217     LinuxSampler 0.3.2 has been released. This is more or less just a bug fix
218     release. Just by coincidence, <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
219     QSampler</link> 0.1.2 has also been thrown out.
220     </entry>
221     <entry date="2005-06-12">
222     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.1 has been
223     released, after a few bugfixes and a new logo icon.
224     </entry>
225     <entry date="2005-05-25">
226     LinuxSampler 0.3.1, the first official release is finally out!
227     </entry>
228     <entry date="2005-05-23">
229     After some time laying around in the backyard,
230     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.0 has
231     been released, now with the promised Audio and MIDI device configuration
232     interface. Enjoy!
233     </entry>
234     <entry date="2005-03-15">
235     Our bug tracking system is now online and available on
236     <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bugs.linuxsampler.org</link>.
237     </entry>
238     <entry date="2005-03-04">
239     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link>,
240     the Qt GUI front-end in the works for the LinuxSampler engine, was bumped
241     to its now fifth primordial release (0.0.5). Still alpha code. Time to move
242     on... to a better and complete Audio/MIDI device configuration interface,
243     as predicted by LSCP and wrapped by liblscp.
244     </entry>
245     <entry date="2005-02-26">
246     Due to a design change, current LinuxSampler CVS version is quite unstable.
247     You might want to use the previous, stable version of LS in the meantime,
248     which can be downloaded as
249     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">source tarball
250     </link>. Alternatively you can also checkout the old version from CVS which
251     was tagged as "v0_2_0".
252     </entry>
253     <entry date="2004-11-19">
254     The Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine has been updated: the 4th
255     alpha-release of
256     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> has been
257     released.
258     </entry>
259     <entry date="2004-11-13">
260     On monday (November, 15th) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
261     cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> may be temporarily down due to maintenance work
262     around 13:00 UTC.
263     </entry>
264     <entry date="2004-07-06">
265     The third alpha-release of <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
266     QSampler</link>, the Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine, is now
267     publicly available.
268     </entry>
269     <entry date="2004-06-05">
270     Added a screenshot to the Screenshots page, instructions how to compile the
271     GUI are on the linked qsampler site.
272     </entry>
273     <entry date="2004-05-31">
274     On wednesday (June, 2nd) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
275     cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> will be temporarily not available from 6:00 UTC
276     until 16:00 UTC due to construction works.
277     </entry>
278     <entry date="2004-05-24">
279     The CVS repository is now <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
280     browseable</link>.
281     </entry>
282     <entry date="2004-05-03">
283     We are currently in a transition stage due to the recent changes (multi
284     channel / multi engine / multi audio output device and multi MIDI input
285     device support) this also leads to multi problems we have to solve ;-) so
286     meanwhile you can use the old single channel version. We created the two
287     CVS alias tags 'singlechannel' and 'v0_1_0' which you can use to checkout
288     the old single channel version of LinuxSampler. The CVS command line is the
289     same except that you have to add '-r singlechannel'.
290     </entry>
291     <entry date="2004-03-26">
292     CVS root path has changed! See <link ref="downloads.html">downloads</link>
293     section for instructions how to checkout the latest version of LinuxSampler
294     from CVS.
295     </entry>
296     <entry date="2004-03-23">
297     Updated <link ref="features.html">features</link> section on this site,
298     hopefully we will keep the features list in sync with the latest
299     developments from now on.
300     </entry>
301     <entry date="2004-01-07">
302     The document for the network protocol definition is now available in the
303     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
304     section. Have a look at it if you can imagine to write a frontend for
305     LinuxSampler!
306     </entry>
307     <entry date="2003-11-08">
308     Added CVS log to this site, showing the latest commits to the LinuxSampler
309     CVS repository.
310     </entry>
311     <entry date="2003-11-02">
312     Lots of news for the Linuxsampler community. We've got a new site, new
313     domain and new code available in CVS. Check the
314     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
315     section for instructions. If you want to check it out, please keep in mind
316     that it might contain bugs, it might crash and that it's still lacking tons
317     of features. CVS is directed towards developers who would like to test
318     things and add code. Users should wait for a tarball release.
319     </entry>
320     </news>

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