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2  <news>  <news>
3      <entry date="2009-10-16">
4        Better a late than no announcement at all:
5        <list>
6          <li>linuxsampler 1.0.0</li>
7          <li>Fantasia 0.9</li>
8          <li>qsampler 0.2.2</li>
9          <li>gigedit 0.2.0</li>
10          <li>libgig 3.3.0</li>
11          <li>jlscp 0.8</li>
12          <li>liblscp 0.5.6</li>
13        </list>
14        This is the first release which allows the sampler to be used as audio
15        host plugin, namely supporting the standards VST, AU, DSSI and LV2. The
16        sampler's limits for max. voices &amp; disk streams can now be altered at
17        runtime by frontends, no need to recompile the sampler anymore. The Mac
18        version now also supports CoreAudio as audio driver. The Windows version
19        finally supports the sampler's instruments DB feature as well, however
20        expect it still to be unstable at this point. Along to the already
21        existing JACK audio driver, Jack MIDI support has been added in this
22        release. The sampler allows frontends now basic MIDI control, that is to
23        monitor incoming MIDI data on MIDI input devices and sampler channels and
24        to send note-on and note-off MIDI events to sampler channels, which
25        allows frontends to provide a virtual MIDI keyboard to the user. Besides
26        these major changes there were countless bugfixes and optimizations.
27      </entry>
28      <entry date="2009-05-12">
29        On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and
30        friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available
31        from our
32        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/win/">download server</link>.
33        This is the first Windows version which includes a VST plugin version
34        of the sampler. The installer includes both, native 64 bit binaries and
35        32 bit binaries. The installer detects the system type and installs the
36        appropriate binaries automatically.
37        Please follow the ongoing discussion and development on our
38        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=339">web forum</link>
39        and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
40        to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
41      </entry>
42      <entry date="2009-02-17">
43        Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin!
44        It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout
45        the experimental AU binary package of LinuxSampler, available from our
46        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/mac/">download server</link>.
47        As this is still an early development version, please follow the ongoing
48        discussion and development on our
49        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=295">web forum</link>
50        and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
51        to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
52      </entry>
53      <entry date="2008-02-15">
54        We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library
55        is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for
56        giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano
57        library with you. You find the download link along with the library's
58        license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our
59        <link ref="instruments.html">instruments</link> site.
60      </entry>
61      <entry date="2008-02-07">
62        Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
63        site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
64        specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
65        <link ref="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</link>
66        chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
67      </entry>
68      <entry date="2008-01-23">
69        Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
70        place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
71        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
72      </entry>
73      <entry date="2008-01-03">
74        Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
75        by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
76        available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
77        latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
78        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
79        Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
80        work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
81        Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
82        at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
83      </entry>
84      <entry date="2007-12-26">
85        You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
86        problems? Check out the
87        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
88        Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
89        doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
90        <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
91        Mailing List
92        </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
93        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
94      </entry>
95      <entry date="2007-12-07">
96        Another strike:
97        <list>
98          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
99          <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
100          <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
101          <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
102          <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
103          <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
104        </list>
105        What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
106        <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
107        world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
108        the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
109        "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
110        MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
111        plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
112        feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
113        <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
114        Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
115        fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
116        .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
117        option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
118        multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
119        to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
120        another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
121        and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
122        Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
123        of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
124        encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
125        of bug fixes.
126      </entry>
127      <entry date="2007-10-23">
128        As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
129        names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
130        out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
131        moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
132        again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
133      </entry>
134      <entry date="2007-10-16">
135        A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
136        <list>
137          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
138          <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
139          <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
140          <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
141          <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
142          <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
143          <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
144        </list>
145        With our new instrument editor
146        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
147        we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
148        instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
149        also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
150        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
151        "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
152        instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
153        audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
154        simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
155        clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
156        provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
157        only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
158        change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
159        the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
160        freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
161        each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
162        altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
163        some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
164        certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
165        not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
166        you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
167        order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
168        feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
169        Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
170        allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
171        hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
172        sampler channel at the same time.
173      </entry>
174      <entry date="2007-10-12">
175        libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
176        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
177        Please update your links and bookmarks!
178      </entry>
179      <entry date="2007-08-10">
180        <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
181        JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
182        The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
183        Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
184        available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
185      </entry>
186    <entry date="2007-05-24">    <entry date="2007-05-24">
187      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
188      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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251    </entry>    </entry>
252    <entry date="2005-11-24">    <entry date="2005-11-24">
253      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
254      of <link ref="http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~cschoene/projects/libgig/">      of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
255      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
256      (<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">
257      read announcement</link>). Please let      read announcement</link>). Please let

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