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2     <news>
3 schoenebeck 1905 <entry date="2009-05-12">
4     On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and
5     friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available
6     from our
7     <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/win/">download server</link>.
8     This is the first Windows version which includes a VST plugin version
9     of the sampler. The installer includes both, native 64 bit binaries and
10     32 bit binaries. The installer detects the system type and installs the
11     appropriate binaries automatically.
12     Please follow the ongoing discussion and development on our
13     <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=339">web forum</link>
14     and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
15     to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
16     </entry>
17 schoenebeck 1838 <entry date="2009-02-17">
18     Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin!
19     It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout
20     the experimental AU binary package of LinuxSampler, available from our
21     <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/mac/">download server</link>.
22     As this is still an early development version, please follow the ongoing
23     discussion and development on our
24 schoenebeck 1856 <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=295">web forum</link>
25 schoenebeck 1838 and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
26     to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
27     </entry>
28 schoenebeck 1694 <entry date="2008-02-15">
29     We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library
30     is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for
31     giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano
32     library with you. You find the download link along with the library's
33     license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our
34     <link ref="instruments.html">instruments</link> site.
35     </entry>
36 schoenebeck 1674 <entry date="2008-02-07">
37     Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
38     site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
39     specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
40 schoenebeck 1694 <link ref="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</link>
41 schoenebeck 1674 chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
42     </entry>
43 schoenebeck 1647 <entry date="2008-01-23">
44     Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
45     place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
46 schoenebeck 1856 <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
47 schoenebeck 1647 </entry>
48 schoenebeck 1619 <entry date="2008-01-03">
49     Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
50     by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
51     available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
52     latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
53     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
54     Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
55     work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
56     Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
57     at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
58     </entry>
59 schoenebeck 1597 <entry date="2007-12-26">
60     You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
61     problems? Check out the
62     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
63     Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
64     doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
65 schoenebeck 1598 <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
66     Mailing List
67 schoenebeck 1597 </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
68     <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
69     </entry>
70 schoenebeck 1576 <entry date="2007-12-07">
71     Another strike:
72     <list>
73     <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
74     <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
75     <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
76     <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
77     <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
78     <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
79     </list>
80     What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
81 schoenebeck 1578 <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
82     world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
83     the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
84 schoenebeck 1576 "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
85     MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
86 schoenebeck 1578 plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
87     feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
88 schoenebeck 1576 <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
89     Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
90     fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
91 schoenebeck 1578 .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
92     option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
93 schoenebeck 1576 multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
94     to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
95 schoenebeck 1578 another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
96     and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
97     Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
98     of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
99     encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
100     of bug fixes.
101 schoenebeck 1576 </entry>
102 schoenebeck 1457 <entry date="2007-10-23">
103     As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
104     names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
105     out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
106     moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
107     again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
108     </entry>
109 schoenebeck 1448 <entry date="2007-10-16">
110     A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
111     <list>
112     <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
113     <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
114     <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
115     <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
116     <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
117     <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
118     <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
119     </list>
120     With our new instrument editor
121     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
122     we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
123     instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
124     also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
125     <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
126     "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
127     instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
128     audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
129     simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
130     clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
131     provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
132     only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
133     change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
134     the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
135     freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
136     each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
137     altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
138     some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
139     certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
140     not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
141     you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
142     order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
143 iliev 1449 feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
144 schoenebeck 1448 Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
145     allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
146     hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
147     sampler channel at the same time.
148     </entry>
149 schoenebeck 1408 <entry date="2007-10-12">
150     libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
151     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
152     Please update your links and bookmarks!
153     </entry>
154 iliev 1289 <entry date="2007-08-10">
155     <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
156     JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
157     The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
158     Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
159     available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
160     </entry>
161 schoenebeck 1268 <entry date="2007-05-24">
162     <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
163     JSampler 0.5a</link> has been released, now with instruments database
164     support.
165     </entry>
166     <entry date="2007-05-04">
167     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.4 has been
168     released. Almost another year has gone by.
169     </entry>
170     <entry date="2007-04-02">
171     JSampler 0.4a has been released. Read the
172     <link ref="jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html">manual</link> for
173     installation instructions.
174     </entry>
175     <entry date="2007-03-24">
176     gigedit 0.0.3 has been released, a graphical instrument editor allowing
177     to edit existing Gigasampler format files as well as creating new ones
178     completely from scratch. Along comes a new release of libgig (3.1.1).
179     </entry>
180     <entry date="2006-11-24">
181     After a long, long development cycle LinuxSampler 0.4.0 has finally been
182     released.
183     </entry>
184     <entry date="2006-11-24">
185     libgig 3.1.0 has been released.
186     </entry>
187     <entry date="2006-08-07">
188     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.3a.tar.bz2?download">
189     JSampler 0.3a</link> has been released.
190     <list>
191     <li>
192     Partially implemented a new view - Fantasia (graphic desing: Olivier
193     Boyer). Only channel manipulation for now.
194     </li>
195     <li>
196     More new features in JS Classic - Implemented an LS Console with
197     command autocompletion (using the Tab key), command history (using Up,
198     Down keys), command history search (Ctrl + R), command list search
199     (Ctrl + F), and more.
200     </li>
201     <li>
202     Implemented Orchestras (something like Bookmarks/Favorites for
203     instruments). Drag &amp; Drop support for instrument loading, adding an
204     instrument to orchestra and autocompleting an instrument loading
205     command in the LS Console.
206     </li>
207     </list>
208     </entry>
209     <entry date="2006-06-02">
210     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.3 is now
211     available. It's been a long time isn't it?
212     </entry>
213     <entry date="2006-04-28">
214     libgig 3.0.0 has been released.
215     </entry>
216     <entry date="2006-03-16">
217     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JS_Classic-0.2a.jar?download">
218     JS Classic 0.2a</link> has been released.
219     </entry>
220     <entry date="2005-12-22">
221     Major services (CVS, downloads, Bug Tracking System) were down in the last
222     days due to a hardware defect on one of our servers. CVS is finally up
223     again and we are working on restoring all other services in the next days
224     as well. We are also establishing further backup facilities to prevent this
225     happening again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
226     </entry>
227     <entry date="2005-11-24">
228     Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
229 schoenebeck 1453 of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
230 schoenebeck 1268 libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
231     (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">
232     read announcement</link>). Please let
233     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</link>
234     know if you are interested in writing an instrument patch editor.
235     </entry>
236     <entry date="2005-10-10">
237     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/js-classic.jar?download">
238     JS Classic 0.1a</link> has been released (the first distribution of the
239     <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler/">JSampler</link>
240     project).
241     </entry>
242     <entry date="2005-08-16">
243     Due to ongoing synthesis optimizations, CVS version of LS might be broken
244     for a while. Please use the tarball release in the meantime.
245     </entry>
246     <entry date="2005-07-15">
247     LinuxSampler 0.3.3 has been released. Once again a bug fix release.
248     </entry>
249     <entry date="2005-06-24">
250     LinuxSampler 0.3.2 has been released. This is more or less just a bug fix
251     release. Just by coincidence, <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
252     QSampler</link> 0.1.2 has also been thrown out.
253     </entry>
254     <entry date="2005-06-12">
255     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.1 has been
256     released, after a few bugfixes and a new logo icon.
257     </entry>
258     <entry date="2005-05-25">
259     LinuxSampler 0.3.1, the first official release is finally out!
260     </entry>
261     <entry date="2005-05-23">
262     After some time laying around in the backyard,
263     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.0 has
264     been released, now with the promised Audio and MIDI device configuration
265     interface. Enjoy!
266     </entry>
267     <entry date="2005-03-15">
268     Our bug tracking system is now online and available on
269     <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bugs.linuxsampler.org</link>.
270     </entry>
271     <entry date="2005-03-04">
272     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link>,
273     the Qt GUI front-end in the works for the LinuxSampler engine, was bumped
274     to its now fifth primordial release (0.0.5). Still alpha code. Time to move
275     on... to a better and complete Audio/MIDI device configuration interface,
276     as predicted by LSCP and wrapped by liblscp.
277     </entry>
278     <entry date="2005-02-26">
279     Due to a design change, current LinuxSampler CVS version is quite unstable.
280     You might want to use the previous, stable version of LS in the meantime,
281     which can be downloaded as
282     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">source tarball
283     </link>. Alternatively you can also checkout the old version from CVS which
284     was tagged as "v0_2_0".
285     </entry>
286     <entry date="2004-11-19">
287     The Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine has been updated: the 4th
288     alpha-release of
289     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> has been
290     released.
291     </entry>
292     <entry date="2004-11-13">
293     On monday (November, 15th) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
294     cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> may be temporarily down due to maintenance work
295     around 13:00 UTC.
296     </entry>
297     <entry date="2004-07-06">
298     The third alpha-release of <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
299     QSampler</link>, the Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine, is now
300     publicly available.
301     </entry>
302     <entry date="2004-06-05">
303     Added a screenshot to the Screenshots page, instructions how to compile the
304     GUI are on the linked qsampler site.
305     </entry>
306     <entry date="2004-05-31">
307     On wednesday (June, 2nd) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
308     cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> will be temporarily not available from 6:00 UTC
309     until 16:00 UTC due to construction works.
310     </entry>
311     <entry date="2004-05-24">
312     The CVS repository is now <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
313     browseable</link>.
314     </entry>
315     <entry date="2004-05-03">
316     We are currently in a transition stage due to the recent changes (multi
317     channel / multi engine / multi audio output device and multi MIDI input
318     device support) this also leads to multi problems we have to solve ;-) so
319     meanwhile you can use the old single channel version. We created the two
320     CVS alias tags 'singlechannel' and 'v0_1_0' which you can use to checkout
321     the old single channel version of LinuxSampler. The CVS command line is the
322     same except that you have to add '-r singlechannel'.
323     </entry>
324     <entry date="2004-03-26">
325     CVS root path has changed! See <link ref="downloads.html">downloads</link>
326     section for instructions how to checkout the latest version of LinuxSampler
327     from CVS.
328     </entry>
329     <entry date="2004-03-23">
330     Updated <link ref="features.html">features</link> section on this site,
331     hopefully we will keep the features list in sync with the latest
332     developments from now on.
333     </entry>
334     <entry date="2004-01-07">
335     The document for the network protocol definition is now available in the
336     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
337     section. Have a look at it if you can imagine to write a frontend for
338     LinuxSampler!
339     </entry>
340     <entry date="2003-11-08">
341     Added CVS log to this site, showing the latest commits to the LinuxSampler
342     CVS repository.
343     </entry>
344     <entry date="2003-11-02">
345     Lots of news for the Linuxsampler community. We've got a new site, new
346     domain and new code available in CVS. Check the
347     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
348     section for instructions. If you want to check it out, please keep in mind
349     that it might contain bugs, it might crash and that it's still lacking tons
350     of features. CVS is directed towards developers who would like to test
351     things and add code. Users should wait for a tarball release.
352     </entry>
353     </news>

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