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1  <?xml version='1.0' ?>  <?xml version='1.0' ?>
2  <news>  <news>
3      <entry date="2007-12-26">
4        You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
5        problems? Check out the
6        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
7        Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
8        doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
9        <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
10        Mailing List
11        </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
12        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
13      </entry>
14      <entry date="2007-12-07">
15        Another strike:
16        <list>
17          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
18          <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
19          <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
20          <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
21          <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
22          <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
23        </list>
24        What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
25        <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
26        world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
27        the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
28        "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
29        MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
30        plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
31        feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
32        <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
33        Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
34        fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
35        .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
36        option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
37        multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
38        to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
39        another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
40        and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
41        Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
42        of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
43        encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
44        of bug fixes.
45      </entry>
46      <entry date="2007-10-23">
47        As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
48        names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
49        out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
50        moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
51        again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
52      </entry>
53      <entry date="2007-10-16">
54        A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
55        <list>
56          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
57          <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
58          <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
59          <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
60          <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
61          <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
62          <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
63        </list>
64        With our new instrument editor
65        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
66        we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
67        instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
68        also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
69        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
70        "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
71        instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
72        audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
73        simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
74        clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
75        provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
76        only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
77        change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
78        the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
79        freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
80        each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
81        altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
82        some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
83        certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
84        not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
85        you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
86        order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
87        feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
88        Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
89        allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
90        hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
91        sampler channel at the same time.
92      </entry>
93      <entry date="2007-10-12">
94        libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
95        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
96        Please update your links and bookmarks!
97      </entry>
98      <entry date="2007-08-10">
99        <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
100        JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
101        The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
102        Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
103        available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
104      </entry>
105    <entry date="2007-05-24">    <entry date="2007-05-24">
106      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
107      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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170    </entry>    </entry>
171    <entry date="2005-11-24">    <entry date="2005-11-24">
172      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
173      of <link ref="http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~cschoene/projects/libgig/">      of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
174      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
175      (<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">
176      read announcement</link>). Please let      read announcement</link>). Please let

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