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3      <entry date="2017-11-26">
4        LinuxSampler 2.0.0 had been released after two years of development.
5        Check the
6        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Release_Notes/LinuxSampler_2_1_0/">release notes</link>
7        for a detailed review of what's new with LinuxSampler and friends.
8      </entry>
9      <entry date="2017-07-20">
10        You are working with <link ref="http://muse-sequencer.org">MusE</link>?
11        Then Andrew Coughlan's <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/lscp2idf">lscp2idf scripts</link>
12        might help you to automatically extract MIDI instruments from LSCP files to
13        the MusE sequencer's IDF format, which can be helpful for patch changes
14        in that sequencer.
15      </entry>
16      <entry date="2017-03-05">
17        Services are back online. After reviewing the recent server incident we
18        came to the conclusion that the attack was fortunately quite limited.
19        We rolled back the system, closed the exploited security
20        hole and brought all services back online. In case you downloaded or updated any source files
21        from our <link ref="http://svn.linuxsampler.org">svn server</link>
22        between March 2nd and March 3rd, we recommend you to
23        delete the entire source directory and make an entire fresh checkout from
24        svn to avoid any issues. The svn server is now back at a clean state.
25      </entry>
26      <entry date="2017-03-03">
27          <b>Important notice:</b>
28        Our server had been compromised. For that reason we were forced to take most
29        services offline for now to protect you from accessing any compromised material.
30        We are currently investigating this incident and will update you accordingly.
31      </entry>
32      <entry date="2016-07-06">
33        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">Web Forum</link> and
34        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracker</link>
35        are back online: As you might have noticed, our
36        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">Web Forum</link> as well as our
37        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracker</link> were partly
38        unavailable for quite a while. It was possible to read them, but especially
39        registration of new user accounts were disabled (i.e. due to numerous
40        spam bot attacks we suffered in the past). Those issues have been
41        resolved and so both sites are back available and should now work entirely
42        as expected.
43      </entry>
44      <entry date="2016-05-04">
45        There is some progress regarding Gigedit's integrated
46        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Instrument_Scripts/NKSP_Language/">NKSP</link>
47        real-time instrument script editor. Check out the
48        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/News/Instrument_Script_Editor_2016-05-04/">News Article ...</link>
49      </entry>
50      <entry date="2015-07-18">
51        LinuxSampler 2.0.0 had been released after six years of development!
52        Check the
53        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Release_Notes/LinuxSampler_2_0_0/">release notes</link>
54        for a detailed review of what's new with LinuxSampler and friends.
55      </entry>
56      <entry date="2015-06-11">
57        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/apple.png"></link>
58        The Mac installer was broken on latest OS X 10.10 Yosemite. This had been
59        fixed today. Get the latest
60        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">snapshot for Mac</link>
61        with Yosemite support now.
62      </entry>
63      <entry date="2015-04-29">
64        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org" img="gfx/new_article.png"></link>
65        A new documentation site has been launched:
66        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org">http://doc.linuxsampler.org</link> -
67        This separate page dedicated to manuals, tutorials and other kind of
68        articles for the LinuxSampler project, is using a new solution to write
69        and maintain such articles with a minimum of effort. Be invited to help us
70        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Writing_Docs/">writing documentation</link>
71        for LinuxSampler and friends! As one of the first topics, this site is now
72        hosting an introduction to the new
73        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Instrument_Scripts/NKSP_Language/">NKSP Real-Time Instrument Script Language</link>.
74        The long-term plan is to move all documentation of this project from our www
75        server to that new site.
76      </entry>
77      <entry date="2015-01-18">
78        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/pix/screenshots/mac_installer_1.jpg" img="http://download.linuxsampler.org/pix/screenshots/mac_installer_1_240x169.jpg"></link>
79        For the Mac users out there: We finally have a convenient installer for the
80        OS X version of LinuxSampler. This is already integrated in our automatic
81        build system. So from now on all
82        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">daily snapshot builds for Mac</link>
83        are automatically built with an installer. By default the installer will
84        install all components (LinuxSampler stand-alone application, VST and
85        Audio Unit plugin version of LinuxSampler, QSampler, Fantasia, GigEdit and
86        command line tools. At step "Installation Type" you can however also
87        override the default installation and select which components to install.
88      </entry>
89      <entry date="2014-06-19">
90        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/apple.png"></link>
91        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">gigedit finally included with OS X snapshots!</link>
92        Due to the variety of third party library dependencies it took a while, but
93        finally "gigedit", our graphical instrument editor for Gigasampler /
94        GigaStudio files, is now included with the automatic binary snapshots builds
95        for Mac OS X. The automatic snapshot installers are automatically compiled
96        by one of our servers each time a developer commits something new to our
97        Subversion (development) server. You can use gigedit on Mac OS X as
98        stand-alone instrument editor as well as in live-mode while running
99        LinuxSampler. In the latter case your changes with gigedit get immediately
100        audible while playing the instrument on the keyboard at the same time.
101      </entry>
102      <entry date="2011-08-25">
103        <link ref="sfz/" img="gfx/logos/sfz.png"></link>
104        <link ref="sfz/">Added SFZ implementation status page.</link>
105        We are currently in the works to implement support for the SFZ format,
106        which is a powerful and open sample library format, already adopted by
107        many commercial samplers. Check our new SFZ status page to see which
108        aspects of the format are already supported by LinuxSampler, and which
109        ones are yet to be implemented.
110      </entry>
111      <entry date="2011-07-18">
112        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/apple.png"></link>
113        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">Download the latest OS X snapshot of the sampler!</link>
114        Following our ongoing sympathy for automatic snapshots, we finally provide
115        automatic builds also for Apple OS X! As soon as some developer commits
116        something new to our Subversion server, a new binary snapshot for OS X will
117        automatically be available for download from our webserver within minutes.
118        The snapshot tbz2 archive file contains universal binaries
119        (PPC 32 bit, Intel 32 &amp; 64 bit) of the stand-alone version of the
120        sampler, VST and AU plugin version, and the graphical frontend applications
121        QSampler and Fantasia. Only our graphical instrument editor gigedit is not
122        yet part of the snapshots, it might follow at a later point. Please read
123        the README file in the tbz2 archive file for instructions how to install
124        everything on your Mac.
125      </entry>
126      <entry date="2011-06-05">
127        <link ref="http://svn.linuxsampler.org" img="gfx/logos/subversion.png"></link>
128        From now on, our source code is managed by a Subversion server. We
129        converted our existing CVS repository for the
130        <link ref="http://svn.linuxsampler.org">new Subversion server</link>, so
131        the complete history from the beginning of this project is also
132        available in this new Subversion repository. Our
133        <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">old CVS server, along with its web frontend</link>
134        is still available, however is now in read only mode, so no changes can be
135        commited to CVS anymore. On the downloads page you can find
136        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html#svn">instructions how
137        to download ("checkout") source code from our Subversion server.</link>
138      </entry>
139      <entry date="2011-06-05">
140        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org" img="gfx/sorryd.jpg"></link>
141        After a huge down time of almost one month, we decided to move to new, more
142        reliable servers. Thanks to the University of Heilbronn which kindly hosted
143        our servers for 8 years. We started to move the most important services to
144        a commercial server host, which will be financed by your donations. Sorry
145        for this long absence and thank you for your support!
146      </entry>
147      <entry date="2011-02-05">
148        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/win32/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/windows.png"></link>
149        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/win32/snapshots/">Download the latest Windows snapshot of the sampler!</link>
150        Since we have to confess that we are a bit lazy about putting out official
151        releases, and since the latest official release of the sampler for Windows
152        is quite old, we decided to establish automatic builts of the sampler and
153        all other software components for Windows. As soon as some developer
154        commits something new to the CVS server for any of the project's software
155        components, a new snapshot binary for Windows will automatically built and
156        be available for download within few minutes. Sorry for neglecting you
157        Windows users out there for so long!
158      </entry>
159      <entry date="2011-01-23">
160        <link ref="nkitool/" img="nkitool/native-instruments-kontakt.png"></link>
161        In case you are working a lot on Native Instruments Kontakt instrument
162        files, or if you are just interested in the .nki file format, you might have
163        a look at <link ref="nkitool/">nkitool</link>. It is a simple console
164        application which allows to export and import the human readable XML file
165        from and to Native Instruments Kontakt .nki instrument articulation files.
166        It can be very handy to speedup or even automate the process of creating
167        and editing .nki instrument files.
168      </entry>
169      <entry date="2010-10-01">
170        <link ref="misc/press/computer_music_special_44_2010/cms_44_2010_cover.jpg" img="misc/press/computer_music_special_44_2010/cms_44_2010_cover_s.jpg"></link>
171        LinuxSampler is featured in the october special issue of the "Computer Music"
172        magazine. It is available in English language in magazine stores around the
173        UK. This special issue focused on demonstrating the "best free software" for
174        music production on PC, Mac and mobile. LinuxSampler is covered along to four
175        other samplers, with an introduction howto on page 57. You can
176        <link ref="misc/press/computer_music_special_44_2010/cms_44_2010_article.jpg">read the full article here.</link>
177      </entry>
178      <entry date="2010-01-07">
179        The <link ref="reports/annual_report_2009.pdf">annual report of 2009</link>
180        with our financial situation is now online. Happy new year everybody!
181      </entry>
182      <entry date="2009-10-16">
183        Better a late than no announcement at all:
184        <list>
185          <li>linuxsampler 1.0.0</li>
186          <li>Fantasia 0.9</li>
187          <li>qsampler 0.2.2</li>
188          <li>gigedit 0.2.0</li>
189          <li>libgig 3.3.0</li>
190          <li>jlscp 0.8</li>
191          <li>liblscp 0.5.6</li>
192        </list>
193        This is the first release which allows the sampler to be used as audio
194        host plugin, namely supporting the standards VST, AU, DSSI and LV2. The
195        sampler's limits for max. voices &amp; disk streams can now be altered at
196        runtime by frontends, no need to recompile the sampler anymore. The Mac
197        version now also supports CoreAudio as audio driver. The Windows version
198        finally supports the sampler's instruments DB feature as well, however
199        expect it still to be unstable at this point. Along to the already
200        existing JACK audio driver, Jack MIDI support has been added in this
201        release. The sampler allows frontends now basic MIDI control, that is to
202        monitor incoming MIDI data on MIDI input devices and sampler channels and
203        to send note-on and note-off MIDI events to sampler channels, which
204        allows frontends to provide a virtual MIDI keyboard to the user. Besides
205        these major changes there were countless bugfixes and optimizations.
206      </entry>
207      <entry date="2009-05-12">
208        On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and
209        friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available
210        from our
211        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/win/">download server</link>.
212        This is the first Windows version which includes a VST plugin version
213        of the sampler. The installer includes both, native 64 bit binaries and
214        32 bit binaries. The installer detects the system type and installs the
215        appropriate binaries automatically.
216        Please follow the ongoing discussion and development on our
217        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=339">web forum</link>
218        and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
219        to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
220      </entry>
221      <entry date="2009-02-17">
222        Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin!
223        It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout
224        the experimental AU binary package of LinuxSampler, available from our
225        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/mac/">download server</link>.
226        As this is still an early development version, please follow the ongoing
227        discussion and development on our
228        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=295">web forum</link>
229        and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
230        to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
231      </entry>
232      <entry date="2008-02-15">
233        We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library
234        is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for
235        giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano
236        library with you. You find the download link along with the library's
237        license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our
238        <link ref="instruments.html">instruments</link> site.
239      </entry>
240      <entry date="2008-02-07">
241        Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
242        site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
243        specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
244        <link ref="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</link>
245        chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
246      </entry>
247      <entry date="2008-01-23">
248        Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
249        place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
250        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
251      </entry>
252      <entry date="2008-01-03">
253        Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
254        by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
255        available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
256        latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
257        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
258        Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
259        work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
260        Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
261        at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
262      </entry>
263      <entry date="2007-12-26">
264        You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
265        problems? Check out the
266        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
267        Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
268        doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
269        <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
270        Mailing List
271        </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
272        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
273      </entry>
274      <entry date="2007-12-07">
275        Another strike:
276        <list>
277          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
278          <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
279          <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
280          <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
281          <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
282          <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
283        </list>
284        What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
285        <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
286        world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
287        the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
288        "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
289        MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
290        plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
291        feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
292        <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
293        Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
294        fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
295        .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
296        option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
297        multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
298        to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
299        another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
300        and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
301        Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
302        of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
303        encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
304        of bug fixes.
305      </entry>
306      <entry date="2007-10-23">
307        As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
308        names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
309        out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
310        moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
311        again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
312      </entry>
313      <entry date="2007-10-16">
314        A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
315        <list>
316          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
317          <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
318          <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
319          <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
320          <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
321          <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
322          <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
323        </list>
324        With our new instrument editor
325        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
326        we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
327        instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
328        also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
329        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
330        "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
331        instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
332        audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
333        simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
334        clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
335        provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
336        only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
337        change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
338        the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
339        freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
340        each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
341        altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
342        some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
343        certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
344        not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
345        you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
346        order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
347        feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
348        Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
349        allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
350        hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
351        sampler channel at the same time.
352      </entry>
353      <entry date="2007-10-12">
354        libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
355        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
356        Please update your links and bookmarks!
357      </entry>
358      <entry date="2007-08-10">
359        <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
360        JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
361        The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
362        Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
363        available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
364      </entry>
365    <entry date="2007-05-24">    <entry date="2007-05-24">
366      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
367      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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430    </entry>    </entry>
431    <entry date="2005-11-24">    <entry date="2005-11-24">
432      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
433      of <link ref="http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~cschoene/projects/libgig/">      of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
434      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
435      (<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">
436      read announcement</link>). Please let      read announcement</link>). Please let

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