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2  <news>  <news>
3      <entry date="2008-02-15">
4        We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library
5        is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for
6        giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano
7        library with you. You find the download link along with the library's
8        license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our
9        <link ref="instruments.html">instruments</link> site.
10      </entry>
11      <entry date="2008-02-07">
12        Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
13        site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
14        specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
15        <link ref="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</link>
16        chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
17      </entry>
18      <entry date="2008-01-23">
19        Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
20        place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
21        <link ref="https://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
22      </entry>
23      <entry date="2008-01-03">
24        Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
25        by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
26        available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
27        latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
28        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
29        Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
30        work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
31        Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
32        at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
33      </entry>
34      <entry date="2007-12-26">
35        You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
36        problems? Check out the
37        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
38        Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
39        doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
40        <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
41        Mailing List
42        </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
43        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
44      </entry>
45      <entry date="2007-12-07">
46        Another strike:
47        <list>
48          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
49          <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
50          <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
51          <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
52          <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
53          <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
54        </list>
55        What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
56        <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
57        world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
58        the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
59        "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
60        MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
61        plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
62        feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
63        <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
64        Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
65        fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
66        .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
67        option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
68        multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
69        to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
70        another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
71        and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
72        Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
73        of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
74        encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
75        of bug fixes.
76      </entry>
77      <entry date="2007-10-23">
78        As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
79        names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
80        out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
81        moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
82        again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
83      </entry>
84      <entry date="2007-10-16">
85        A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
86        <list>
87          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
88          <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
89          <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
90          <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
91          <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
92          <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
93          <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
94        </list>
95        With our new instrument editor
96        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
97        we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
98        instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
99        also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
100        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
101        "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
102        instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
103        audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
104        simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
105        clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
106        provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
107        only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
108        change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
109        the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
110        freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
111        each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
112        altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
113        some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
114        certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
115        not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
116        you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
117        order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
118        feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
119        Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
120        allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
121        hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
122        sampler channel at the same time.
123      </entry>
124      <entry date="2007-10-12">
125        libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
126        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
127        Please update your links and bookmarks!
128      </entry>
129      <entry date="2007-08-10">
130        <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
131        JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
132        The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
133        Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
134        available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
135      </entry>
136    <entry date="2007-05-24">    <entry date="2007-05-24">
137      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
138      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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201    </entry>    </entry>
202    <entry date="2005-11-24">    <entry date="2005-11-24">
203      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
204      of <link ref="http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~cschoene/projects/libgig/">      of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
205      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
206      (<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">
207      read announcement</link>). Please let      read announcement</link>). Please let

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