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2  <news>  <news>
3      <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      <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        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=295">web forum</link>
25        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      <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      <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        <link ref="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</link>
41        chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
42      </entry>
43      <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        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
47      </entry>
48      <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      <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        <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
66        Mailing List
67        </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
68        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
69      </entry>
70      <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        <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        "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        plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
87        feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
88        <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        .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        multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
94        to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
95        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      </entry>
102      <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      <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        feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
144        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      <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      <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    <entry date="2007-05-24">    <entry date="2007-05-24">
162      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
163      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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226    </entry>    </entry>
227    <entry date="2005-11-24">    <entry date="2005-11-24">
228      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
229      of <link ref="http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~cschoene/projects/libgig/">      of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
230      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files      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">      (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">
232      read announcement</link>). Please let      read announcement</link>). Please let

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