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2  <news>  <news>
3      <entry date="2008-02-07">
4        Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
5        site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
6        specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
7        <a href="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</a>
8        chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
9      </entry>
10      <entry date="2008-01-23">
11        Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
12        place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
13        <link ref="https://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
14      </entry>
15      <entry date="2008-01-03">
16        Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
17        by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
18        available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
19        latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
20        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
21        Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
22        work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
23        Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
24        at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
25      </entry>
26      <entry date="2007-12-26">
27        You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
28        problems? Check out the
29        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
30        Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
31        doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
32        <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
33        Mailing List
34        </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
35        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
36      </entry>
37      <entry date="2007-12-07">
38        Another strike:
39        <list>
40          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
41          <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
42          <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
43          <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
44          <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
45          <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
46        </list>
47        What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
48        <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
49        world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
50        the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
51        "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
52        MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
53        plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
54        feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
55        <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
56        Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
57        fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
58        .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
59        option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
60        multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
61        to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
62        another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
63        and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
64        Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
65        of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
66        encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
67        of bug fixes.
68      </entry>
69      <entry date="2007-10-23">
70        As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
71        names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
72        out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
73        moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
74        again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
75      </entry>
76      <entry date="2007-10-16">
77        A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
78        <list>
79          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
80          <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
81          <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
82          <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
83          <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
84          <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
85          <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
86        </list>
87        With our new instrument editor
88        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
89        we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
90        instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
91        also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
92        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
93        "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
94        instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
95        audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
96        simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
97        clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
98        provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
99        only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
100        change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
101        the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
102        freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
103        each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
104        altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
105        some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
106        certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
107        not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
108        you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
109        order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
110        feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
111        Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
112        allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
113        hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
114        sampler channel at the same time.
115      </entry>
116      <entry date="2007-10-12">
117        libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
118        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
119        Please update your links and bookmarks!
120      </entry>
121    <entry date="2007-08-10">    <entry date="2007-08-10">
122      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">      <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
123      JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.      JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
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193    </entry>    </entry>
194    <entry date="2005-11-24">    <entry date="2005-11-24">
195      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
196      of <link ref="http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~cschoene/projects/libgig/">      of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
197      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
198      (<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">
199      read announcement</link>). Please let      read announcement</link>). Please let

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