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

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