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2     <news>
3 schoenebeck 1838 <entry date="2009-02-17">
4     Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin!
5     It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout
6     the experimental AU binary package of LinuxSampler, available from our
7     <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/mac/">download server</link>.
8     As this is still an early development version, please follow the ongoing
9     discussion and development on our
10     <link ref="https://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=295">web forum</link>
11     and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
12     to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
13     </entry>
14 schoenebeck 1694 <entry date="2008-02-15">
15     We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library
16     is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for
17     giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano
18     library with you. You find the download link along with the library's
19     license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our
20     <link ref="instruments.html">instruments</link> site.
21     </entry>
22 schoenebeck 1674 <entry date="2008-02-07">
23     Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
24     site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
25     specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
26 schoenebeck 1694 <link ref="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</link>
27 schoenebeck 1674 chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
28     </entry>
29 schoenebeck 1647 <entry date="2008-01-23">
30     Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
31     place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
32     <link ref="https://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
33     </entry>
34 schoenebeck 1619 <entry date="2008-01-03">
35     Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
36     by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
37     available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
38     latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
39     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
40     Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
41     work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
42     Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
43     at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
44     </entry>
45 schoenebeck 1597 <entry date="2007-12-26">
46     You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
47     problems? Check out the
48     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
49     Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
50     doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
51 schoenebeck 1598 <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
52     Mailing List
53 schoenebeck 1597 </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
54     <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
55     </entry>
56 schoenebeck 1576 <entry date="2007-12-07">
57     Another strike:
58     <list>
59     <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
60     <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
61     <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
62     <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
63     <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
64     <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
65     </list>
66     What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
67 schoenebeck 1578 <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
68     world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
69     the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
70 schoenebeck 1576 "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
71     MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
72 schoenebeck 1578 plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
73     feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
74 schoenebeck 1576 <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
75     Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
76     fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
77 schoenebeck 1578 .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
78     option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
79 schoenebeck 1576 multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
80     to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
81 schoenebeck 1578 another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
82     and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
83     Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
84     of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
85     encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
86     of bug fixes.
87 schoenebeck 1576 </entry>
88 schoenebeck 1457 <entry date="2007-10-23">
89     As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
90     names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
91     out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
92     moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
93     again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
94     </entry>
95 schoenebeck 1448 <entry date="2007-10-16">
96     A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
97     <list>
98     <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
99     <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
100     <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
101     <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
102     <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
103     <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
104     <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
105     </list>
106     With our new instrument editor
107     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
108     we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
109     instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
110     also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
111     <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
112     "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
113     instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
114     audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
115     simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
116     clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
117     provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
118     only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
119     change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
120     the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
121     freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
122     each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
123     altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
124     some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
125     certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
126     not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
127     you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
128     order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
129 iliev 1449 feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
130 schoenebeck 1448 Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
131     allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
132     hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
133     sampler channel at the same time.
134     </entry>
135 schoenebeck 1408 <entry date="2007-10-12">
136     libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
137     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
138     Please update your links and bookmarks!
139     </entry>
140 iliev 1289 <entry date="2007-08-10">
141     <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
142     JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
143     The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
144     Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
145     available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
146     </entry>
147 schoenebeck 1268 <entry date="2007-05-24">
148     <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
149     JSampler 0.5a</link> has been released, now with instruments database
150     support.
151     </entry>
152     <entry date="2007-05-04">
153     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.4 has been
154     released. Almost another year has gone by.
155     </entry>
156     <entry date="2007-04-02">
157     JSampler 0.4a has been released. Read the
158     <link ref="jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html">manual</link> for
159     installation instructions.
160     </entry>
161     <entry date="2007-03-24">
162     gigedit 0.0.3 has been released, a graphical instrument editor allowing
163     to edit existing Gigasampler format files as well as creating new ones
164     completely from scratch. Along comes a new release of libgig (3.1.1).
165     </entry>
166     <entry date="2006-11-24">
167     After a long, long development cycle LinuxSampler 0.4.0 has finally been
168     released.
169     </entry>
170     <entry date="2006-11-24">
171     libgig 3.1.0 has been released.
172     </entry>
173     <entry date="2006-08-07">
174     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.3a.tar.bz2?download">
175     JSampler 0.3a</link> has been released.
176     <list>
177     <li>
178     Partially implemented a new view - Fantasia (graphic desing: Olivier
179     Boyer). Only channel manipulation for now.
180     </li>
181     <li>
182     More new features in JS Classic - Implemented an LS Console with
183     command autocompletion (using the Tab key), command history (using Up,
184     Down keys), command history search (Ctrl + R), command list search
185     (Ctrl + F), and more.
186     </li>
187     <li>
188     Implemented Orchestras (something like Bookmarks/Favorites for
189     instruments). Drag &amp; Drop support for instrument loading, adding an
190     instrument to orchestra and autocompleting an instrument loading
191     command in the LS Console.
192     </li>
193     </list>
194     </entry>
195     <entry date="2006-06-02">
196     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.3 is now
197     available. It's been a long time isn't it?
198     </entry>
199     <entry date="2006-04-28">
200     libgig 3.0.0 has been released.
201     </entry>
202     <entry date="2006-03-16">
203     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JS_Classic-0.2a.jar?download">
204     JS Classic 0.2a</link> has been released.
205     </entry>
206     <entry date="2005-12-22">
207     Major services (CVS, downloads, Bug Tracking System) were down in the last
208     days due to a hardware defect on one of our servers. CVS is finally up
209     again and we are working on restoring all other services in the next days
210     as well. We are also establishing further backup facilities to prevent this
211     happening again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
212     </entry>
213     <entry date="2005-11-24">
214     Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
215 schoenebeck 1453 of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
216 schoenebeck 1268 libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
217     (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">
218     read announcement</link>). Please let
219     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</link>
220     know if you are interested in writing an instrument patch editor.
221     </entry>
222     <entry date="2005-10-10">
223     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/js-classic.jar?download">
224     JS Classic 0.1a</link> has been released (the first distribution of the
225     <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler/">JSampler</link>
226     project).
227     </entry>
228     <entry date="2005-08-16">
229     Due to ongoing synthesis optimizations, CVS version of LS might be broken
230     for a while. Please use the tarball release in the meantime.
231     </entry>
232     <entry date="2005-07-15">
233     LinuxSampler 0.3.3 has been released. Once again a bug fix release.
234     </entry>
235     <entry date="2005-06-24">
236     LinuxSampler 0.3.2 has been released. This is more or less just a bug fix
237     release. Just by coincidence, <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
238     QSampler</link> 0.1.2 has also been thrown out.
239     </entry>
240     <entry date="2005-06-12">
241     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.1 has been
242     released, after a few bugfixes and a new logo icon.
243     </entry>
244     <entry date="2005-05-25">
245     LinuxSampler 0.3.1, the first official release is finally out!
246     </entry>
247     <entry date="2005-05-23">
248     After some time laying around in the backyard,
249     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.0 has
250     been released, now with the promised Audio and MIDI device configuration
251     interface. Enjoy!
252     </entry>
253     <entry date="2005-03-15">
254     Our bug tracking system is now online and available on
255     <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bugs.linuxsampler.org</link>.
256     </entry>
257     <entry date="2005-03-04">
258     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link>,
259     the Qt GUI front-end in the works for the LinuxSampler engine, was bumped
260     to its now fifth primordial release (0.0.5). Still alpha code. Time to move
261     on... to a better and complete Audio/MIDI device configuration interface,
262     as predicted by LSCP and wrapped by liblscp.
263     </entry>
264     <entry date="2005-02-26">
265     Due to a design change, current LinuxSampler CVS version is quite unstable.
266     You might want to use the previous, stable version of LS in the meantime,
267     which can be downloaded as
268     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">source tarball
269     </link>. Alternatively you can also checkout the old version from CVS which
270     was tagged as "v0_2_0".
271     </entry>
272     <entry date="2004-11-19">
273     The Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine has been updated: the 4th
274     alpha-release of
275     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> has been
276     released.
277     </entry>
278     <entry date="2004-11-13">
279     On monday (November, 15th) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
280     cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> may be temporarily down due to maintenance work
281     around 13:00 UTC.
282     </entry>
283     <entry date="2004-07-06">
284     The third alpha-release of <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
285     QSampler</link>, the Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine, is now
286     publicly available.
287     </entry>
288     <entry date="2004-06-05">
289     Added a screenshot to the Screenshots page, instructions how to compile the
290     GUI are on the linked qsampler site.
291     </entry>
292     <entry date="2004-05-31">
293     On wednesday (June, 2nd) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
294     cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> will be temporarily not available from 6:00 UTC
295     until 16:00 UTC due to construction works.
296     </entry>
297     <entry date="2004-05-24">
298     The CVS repository is now <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
299     browseable</link>.
300     </entry>
301     <entry date="2004-05-03">
302     We are currently in a transition stage due to the recent changes (multi
303     channel / multi engine / multi audio output device and multi MIDI input
304     device support) this also leads to multi problems we have to solve ;-) so
305     meanwhile you can use the old single channel version. We created the two
306     CVS alias tags 'singlechannel' and 'v0_1_0' which you can use to checkout
307     the old single channel version of LinuxSampler. The CVS command line is the
308     same except that you have to add '-r singlechannel'.
309     </entry>
310     <entry date="2004-03-26">
311     CVS root path has changed! See <link ref="downloads.html">downloads</link>
312     section for instructions how to checkout the latest version of LinuxSampler
313     from CVS.
314     </entry>
315     <entry date="2004-03-23">
316     Updated <link ref="features.html">features</link> section on this site,
317     hopefully we will keep the features list in sync with the latest
318     developments from now on.
319     </entry>
320     <entry date="2004-01-07">
321     The document for the network protocol definition is now available in the
322     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
323     section. Have a look at it if you can imagine to write a frontend for
324     LinuxSampler!
325     </entry>
326     <entry date="2003-11-08">
327     Added CVS log to this site, showing the latest commits to the LinuxSampler
328     CVS repository.
329     </entry>
330     <entry date="2003-11-02">
331     Lots of news for the Linuxsampler community. We've got a new site, new
332     domain and new code available in CVS. Check the
333     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
334     section for instructions. If you want to check it out, please keep in mind
335     that it might contain bugs, it might crash and that it's still lacking tons
336     of features. CVS is directed towards developers who would like to test
337     things and add code. Users should wait for a tarball release.
338     </entry>
339     </news>

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