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2  <news>  <news>
3      <entry date="2008-01-03">
4        Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
5        by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
6        available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
7        latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
8        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
9        Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
10        work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
11        Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
12        at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
13      </entry>
14      <entry date="2007-12-26">
15        You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
16        problems? Check out the
17        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
18        Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
19        doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
20        <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
21        Mailing List
22        </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
23        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
24      </entry>
25      <entry date="2007-12-07">
26        Another strike:
27        <list>
28          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
29          <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
30          <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
31          <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
32          <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
33          <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
34        </list>
35        What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
36        <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
37        world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
38        the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
39        "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
40        MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
41        plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
42        feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
43        <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
44        Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
45        fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
46        .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
47        option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
48        multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
49        to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
50        another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
51        and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
52        Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
53        of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
54        encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
55        of bug fixes.
56      </entry>
57      <entry date="2007-10-23">
58        As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
59        names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
60        out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
61        moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
62        again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
63      </entry>
64      <entry date="2007-10-16">
65        A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
66        <list>
67          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
68          <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
69          <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
70          <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
71          <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
72          <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
73          <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
74        </list>
75        With our new instrument editor
76        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
77        we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
78        instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
79        also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
80        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
81        "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
82        instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
83        audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
84        simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
85        clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
86        provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
87        only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
88        change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
89        the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
90        freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
91        each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
92        altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
93        some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
94        certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
95        not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
96        you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
97        order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
98        feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
99        Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
100        allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
101        hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
102        sampler channel at the same time.
103      </entry>
104      <entry date="2007-10-12">
105        libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
106        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
107        Please update your links and bookmarks!
108      </entry>
109    <entry date="2007-08-10">    <entry date="2007-08-10">
110      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
111      JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.      JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
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181    </entry>    </entry>
182    <entry date="2005-11-24">    <entry date="2005-11-24">
183      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
184      of <link ref="http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~cschoene/projects/libgig/">      of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
185      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
186      (<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">
187      read announcement</link>). Please let      read announcement</link>). Please let

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