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2  <news>  <news>
3      <entry date="2007-12-07">
4        Another strike:
5        <list>
6          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
7          <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
8          <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
9          <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
10          <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
11          <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
12        </list>
13        What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
14        <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows world
15        </link>. This is the first official release of our applications for the
16        Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
17        "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
18        MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
19        plenty of issues on Windows. Also note, that the instruments DB feature
20        is not ported yet. Have a look at the
21        <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
22        Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
23        fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
24        .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better turn that
25        option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you now can edit
26        multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
27        to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
28        another machine, beside minor cosmetics like total stream count display
29        and volume display in DB and couple bug fixes. QSampler gave Qt3 an
30        official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot of the
31        QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might encounter
32        bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple of bug
33        fixes.
34      </entry>
35      <entry date="2007-10-23">
36        As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
37        names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
38        out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
39        moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
40        again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
41      </entry>
42      <entry date="2007-10-16">
43        A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
44        <list>
45          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
46          <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
47          <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
48          <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
49          <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
50          <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
51          <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
52        </list>
53        With our new instrument editor
54        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
55        we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
56        instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
57        also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
58        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
59        "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
60        instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
61        audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
62        simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
63        clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
64        provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
65        only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
66        change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
67        the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
68        freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
69        each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
70        altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
71        some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
72        certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
73        not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
74        you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
75        order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
76        feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
77        Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
78        allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
79        hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
80        sampler channel at the same time.
81      </entry>
82      <entry date="2007-10-12">
83        libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
84        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
85        Please update your links and bookmarks!
86      </entry>
87      <entry date="2007-08-10">
88        <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
89        JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
90        The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
91        Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
92        available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
93      </entry>
94    <entry date="2007-05-24">    <entry date="2007-05-24">
95      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
96      JSampler 0.5a</link> has been released, now with instruments database      JSampler 0.5a</link> has been released, now with instruments database
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159    </entry>    </entry>
160    <entry date="2005-11-24">    <entry date="2005-11-24">
161      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
162      of <link ref="http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~cschoene/projects/libgig/">      of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
163      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
164      (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">      (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">
165      read announcement</link>). Please let      read announcement</link>). Please let

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