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2     <news>
3 schoenebeck 2159 <entry date="2011-01-23">
4     <link ref="nkitool/" img="nkitool/native-instruments-kontakt.png"></link>
5     In case you are working a lot on Native Instruments Kontakt instrument
6     files, or if you are just interested in the .nki file format, you might have
7     a look at <link ref="nkitool/">nkitool</link>. It is a simple console
8     application which allows to export and import the human readable XML file
9     from and to Native Instruments Kontakt .nki instrument articulation files.
10     It can be very handy to speedup or even automate the process of creating
11     and editing .nki instrument files.
12     </entry>
13 schoenebeck 2157 <entry date="2010-10-01">
14     <link ref="misc/press/computer_music_special_44_2010/cms_44_2010_cover.jpg" img="misc/press/computer_music_special_44_2010/cms_44_2010_cover_s.jpg"></link>
15     LinuxSampler is featured in the october special issue of the "Computer Music"
16     magazine. It is available in English language in magazine stores around the
17     UK. This special issue focused on demonstrating the "best free software" for
18     music production on PC, Mac and mobile. LinuxSampler is covered along to four
19     other samplers, with an introduction howto on page 57. You can
20     <link ref="misc/press/computer_music_special_44_2010/cms_44_2010_article.jpg">read the full article here.</link>
21     </entry>
22 schoenebeck 2040 <entry date="2010-01-07">
23     The <link ref="reports/annual_report_2009.pdf">annual report of 2009</link>
24     with our financial situation is now online. Happy new year everybody!
25     </entry>
26 schoenebeck 2005 <entry date="2009-10-16">
27     Better a late than no announcement at all:
28     <list>
29     <li>linuxsampler 1.0.0</li>
30     <li>Fantasia 0.9</li>
31     <li>qsampler 0.2.2</li>
32     <li>gigedit 0.2.0</li>
33     <li>libgig 3.3.0</li>
34     <li>jlscp 0.8</li>
35     <li>liblscp 0.5.6</li>
36     </list>
37     This is the first release which allows the sampler to be used as audio
38     host plugin, namely supporting the standards VST, AU, DSSI and LV2. The
39     sampler's limits for max. voices &amp; disk streams can now be altered at
40     runtime by frontends, no need to recompile the sampler anymore. The Mac
41     version now also supports CoreAudio as audio driver. The Windows version
42     finally supports the sampler's instruments DB feature as well, however
43     expect it still to be unstable at this point. Along to the already
44     existing JACK audio driver, Jack MIDI support has been added in this
45     release. The sampler allows frontends now basic MIDI control, that is to
46     monitor incoming MIDI data on MIDI input devices and sampler channels and
47     to send note-on and note-off MIDI events to sampler channels, which
48     allows frontends to provide a virtual MIDI keyboard to the user. Besides
49     these major changes there were countless bugfixes and optimizations.
50     </entry>
51 schoenebeck 1905 <entry date="2009-05-12">
52     On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and
53     friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available
54     from our
55     <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/win/">download server</link>.
56     This is the first Windows version which includes a VST plugin version
57     of the sampler. The installer includes both, native 64 bit binaries and
58     32 bit binaries. The installer detects the system type and installs the
59     appropriate binaries automatically.
60     Please follow the ongoing discussion and development on our
61     <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=339">web forum</link>
62     and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
63     to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
64     </entry>
65 schoenebeck 1838 <entry date="2009-02-17">
66     Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin!
67     It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout
68     the experimental AU binary package of LinuxSampler, available from our
69     <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/mac/">download server</link>.
70     As this is still an early development version, please follow the ongoing
71     discussion and development on our
72 schoenebeck 1856 <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=295">web forum</link>
73 schoenebeck 1838 and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
74     to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
75     </entry>
76 schoenebeck 1694 <entry date="2008-02-15">
77     We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library
78     is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for
79     giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano
80     library with you. You find the download link along with the library's
81     license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our
82     <link ref="instruments.html">instruments</link> site.
83     </entry>
84 schoenebeck 1674 <entry date="2008-02-07">
85     Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
86     site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
87     specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
88 schoenebeck 1694 <link ref="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</link>
89 schoenebeck 1674 chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
90     </entry>
91 schoenebeck 1647 <entry date="2008-01-23">
92     Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
93     place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
94 schoenebeck 1856 <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
95 schoenebeck 1647 </entry>
96 schoenebeck 1619 <entry date="2008-01-03">
97     Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
98     by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
99     available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
100     latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
101     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
102     Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
103     work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
104     Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
105     at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
106     </entry>
107 schoenebeck 1597 <entry date="2007-12-26">
108     You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
109     problems? Check out the
110     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
111     Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
112     doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
113 schoenebeck 1598 <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
114     Mailing List
115 schoenebeck 1597 </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
116     <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
117     </entry>
118 schoenebeck 1576 <entry date="2007-12-07">
119     Another strike:
120     <list>
121     <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
122     <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
123     <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
124     <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
125     <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
126     <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
127     </list>
128     What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
129 schoenebeck 1578 <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
130     world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
131     the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
132 schoenebeck 1576 "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
133     MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
134 schoenebeck 1578 plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
135     feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
136 schoenebeck 1576 <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
137     Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
138     fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
139 schoenebeck 1578 .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
140     option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
141 schoenebeck 1576 multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
142     to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
143 schoenebeck 1578 another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
144     and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
145     Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
146     of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
147     encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
148     of bug fixes.
149 schoenebeck 1576 </entry>
150 schoenebeck 1457 <entry date="2007-10-23">
151     As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
152     names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
153     out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
154     moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
155     again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
156     </entry>
157 schoenebeck 1448 <entry date="2007-10-16">
158     A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
159     <list>
160     <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
161     <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
162     <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
163     <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
164     <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
165     <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
166     <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
167     </list>
168     With our new instrument editor
169     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
170     we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
171     instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
172     also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
173     <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
174     "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
175     instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
176     audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
177     simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
178     clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
179     provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
180     only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
181     change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
182     the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
183     freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
184     each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
185     altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
186     some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
187     certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
188     not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
189     you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
190     order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
191 iliev 1449 feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
192 schoenebeck 1448 Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
193     allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
194     hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
195     sampler channel at the same time.
196     </entry>
197 schoenebeck 1408 <entry date="2007-10-12">
198     libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
199     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
200     Please update your links and bookmarks!
201     </entry>
202 iliev 1289 <entry date="2007-08-10">
203     <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
204     JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
205     The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
206     Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
207     available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
208     </entry>
209 schoenebeck 1268 <entry date="2007-05-24">
210     <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
211     JSampler 0.5a</link> has been released, now with instruments database
212     support.
213     </entry>
214     <entry date="2007-05-04">
215     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.4 has been
216     released. Almost another year has gone by.
217     </entry>
218     <entry date="2007-04-02">
219     JSampler 0.4a has been released. Read the
220     <link ref="jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html">manual</link> for
221     installation instructions.
222     </entry>
223     <entry date="2007-03-24">
224     gigedit 0.0.3 has been released, a graphical instrument editor allowing
225     to edit existing Gigasampler format files as well as creating new ones
226     completely from scratch. Along comes a new release of libgig (3.1.1).
227     </entry>
228     <entry date="2006-11-24">
229     After a long, long development cycle LinuxSampler 0.4.0 has finally been
230     released.
231     </entry>
232     <entry date="2006-11-24">
233     libgig 3.1.0 has been released.
234     </entry>
235     <entry date="2006-08-07">
236     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.3a.tar.bz2?download">
237     JSampler 0.3a</link> has been released.
238     <list>
239     <li>
240     Partially implemented a new view - Fantasia (graphic desing: Olivier
241     Boyer). Only channel manipulation for now.
242     </li>
243     <li>
244     More new features in JS Classic - Implemented an LS Console with
245     command autocompletion (using the Tab key), command history (using Up,
246     Down keys), command history search (Ctrl + R), command list search
247     (Ctrl + F), and more.
248     </li>
249     <li>
250     Implemented Orchestras (something like Bookmarks/Favorites for
251     instruments). Drag &amp; Drop support for instrument loading, adding an
252     instrument to orchestra and autocompleting an instrument loading
253     command in the LS Console.
254     </li>
255     </list>
256     </entry>
257     <entry date="2006-06-02">
258     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.3 is now
259     available. It's been a long time isn't it?
260     </entry>
261     <entry date="2006-04-28">
262     libgig 3.0.0 has been released.
263     </entry>
264     <entry date="2006-03-16">
265     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JS_Classic-0.2a.jar?download">
266     JS Classic 0.2a</link> has been released.
267     </entry>
268     <entry date="2005-12-22">
269     Major services (CVS, downloads, Bug Tracking System) were down in the last
270     days due to a hardware defect on one of our servers. CVS is finally up
271     again and we are working on restoring all other services in the next days
272     as well. We are also establishing further backup facilities to prevent this
273     happening again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
274     </entry>
275     <entry date="2005-11-24">
276     Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
277 schoenebeck 1453 of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
278 schoenebeck 1268 libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
279     (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">
280     read announcement</link>). Please let
281     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</link>
282     know if you are interested in writing an instrument patch editor.
283     </entry>
284     <entry date="2005-10-10">
285     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/js-classic.jar?download">
286     JS Classic 0.1a</link> has been released (the first distribution of the
287     <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler/">JSampler</link>
288     project).
289     </entry>
290     <entry date="2005-08-16">
291     Due to ongoing synthesis optimizations, CVS version of LS might be broken
292     for a while. Please use the tarball release in the meantime.
293     </entry>
294     <entry date="2005-07-15">
295     LinuxSampler 0.3.3 has been released. Once again a bug fix release.
296     </entry>
297     <entry date="2005-06-24">
298     LinuxSampler 0.3.2 has been released. This is more or less just a bug fix
299     release. Just by coincidence, <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
300     QSampler</link> 0.1.2 has also been thrown out.
301     </entry>
302     <entry date="2005-06-12">
303     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.1 has been
304     released, after a few bugfixes and a new logo icon.
305     </entry>
306     <entry date="2005-05-25">
307     LinuxSampler 0.3.1, the first official release is finally out!
308     </entry>
309     <entry date="2005-05-23">
310     After some time laying around in the backyard,
311     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.0 has
312     been released, now with the promised Audio and MIDI device configuration
313     interface. Enjoy!
314     </entry>
315     <entry date="2005-03-15">
316     Our bug tracking system is now online and available on
317     <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bugs.linuxsampler.org</link>.
318     </entry>
319     <entry date="2005-03-04">
320     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link>,
321     the Qt GUI front-end in the works for the LinuxSampler engine, was bumped
322     to its now fifth primordial release (0.0.5). Still alpha code. Time to move
323     on... to a better and complete Audio/MIDI device configuration interface,
324     as predicted by LSCP and wrapped by liblscp.
325     </entry>
326     <entry date="2005-02-26">
327     Due to a design change, current LinuxSampler CVS version is quite unstable.
328     You might want to use the previous, stable version of LS in the meantime,
329     which can be downloaded as
330     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">source tarball
331     </link>. Alternatively you can also checkout the old version from CVS which
332     was tagged as "v0_2_0".
333     </entry>
334     <entry date="2004-11-19">
335     The Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine has been updated: the 4th
336     alpha-release of
337     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> has been
338     released.
339     </entry>
340     <entry date="2004-11-13">
341     On monday (November, 15th) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
342     cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> may be temporarily down due to maintenance work
343     around 13:00 UTC.
344     </entry>
345     <entry date="2004-07-06">
346     The third alpha-release of <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
347     QSampler</link>, the Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine, is now
348     publicly available.
349     </entry>
350     <entry date="2004-06-05">
351     Added a screenshot to the Screenshots page, instructions how to compile the
352     GUI are on the linked qsampler site.
353     </entry>
354     <entry date="2004-05-31">
355     On wednesday (June, 2nd) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
356     cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> will be temporarily not available from 6:00 UTC
357     until 16:00 UTC due to construction works.
358     </entry>
359     <entry date="2004-05-24">
360     The CVS repository is now <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
361     browseable</link>.
362     </entry>
363     <entry date="2004-05-03">
364     We are currently in a transition stage due to the recent changes (multi
365     channel / multi engine / multi audio output device and multi MIDI input
366     device support) this also leads to multi problems we have to solve ;-) so
367     meanwhile you can use the old single channel version. We created the two
368     CVS alias tags 'singlechannel' and 'v0_1_0' which you can use to checkout
369     the old single channel version of LinuxSampler. The CVS command line is the
370     same except that you have to add '-r singlechannel'.
371     </entry>
372     <entry date="2004-03-26">
373     CVS root path has changed! See <link ref="downloads.html">downloads</link>
374     section for instructions how to checkout the latest version of LinuxSampler
375     from CVS.
376     </entry>
377     <entry date="2004-03-23">
378     Updated <link ref="features.html">features</link> section on this site,
379     hopefully we will keep the features list in sync with the latest
380     developments from now on.
381     </entry>
382     <entry date="2004-01-07">
383     The document for the network protocol definition is now available in the
384     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
385     section. Have a look at it if you can imagine to write a frontend for
386     LinuxSampler!
387     </entry>
388     <entry date="2003-11-08">
389     Added CVS log to this site, showing the latest commits to the LinuxSampler
390     CVS repository.
391     </entry>
392     <entry date="2003-11-02">
393     Lots of news for the Linuxsampler community. We've got a new site, new
394     domain and new code available in CVS. Check the
395     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
396     section for instructions. If you want to check it out, please keep in mind
397     that it might contain bugs, it might crash and that it's still lacking tons
398     of features. CVS is directed towards developers who would like to test
399     things and add code. Users should wait for a tarball release.
400     </entry>
401     </news>

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