--- web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/news.xml 2009/03/06 13:07:07 1856 +++ web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/news.xml 2015/06/11 12:28:41 2771 @@ -1,5 +1,170 @@ + + + The Mac installer was broken on latest OS X 10.10 Yosemite. This had been + fixed today. Get the latest + snapshot for Mac + with Yosemite support now. + + + + A new documentation site has been launched: + http://doc.linuxsampler.org - + This separate page dedicated to manuals, tutorials and other kind of + articles for the LinuxSampler project, is using a new solution to write + and maintain such articles with a minimum of effort. Be invited to help us + writing documentation + for LinuxSampler and friends! As one of the first topics, this site is now + hosting an introduction to the new + NKSP Real-Time Instrument Script Language. + The long-term plan is to move all documentation of this project from our www + server to that new site. + + + + For the Mac users out there: We finally have a convenient installer for the + OS X version of LinuxSampler. This is already integrated in our automatic + build system. So from now on all + daily snapshot builds for Mac + are automatically built with an installer. By default the installer will + install all components (LinuxSampler stand-alone application, VST and + Audio Unit plugin version of LinuxSampler, QSampler, Fantasia, GigEdit and + command line tools. At step "Installation Type" you can however also + override the default installation and select which components to install. + + + + gigedit finally included with OS X snapshots! + Due to the variety of third party library dependencies it took a while, but + finally "gigedit", our graphical instrument editor for Gigasampler / + GigaStudio files, is now included with the automatic binary snapshots builds + for Mac OS X. The automatic snapshot installers are automatically compiled + by one of our servers each time a developer commits something new to our + Subversion (development) server. You can use gigedit on Mac OS X as + stand-alone instrument editor as well as in live-mode while running + LinuxSampler. In the latter case your changes with gigedit get immediately + audible while playing the instrument on the keyboard at the same time. + + + + Added SFZ implementation status page. + We are currently in the works to implement support for the SFZ format, + which is a powerful and open sample library format, already adopted by + many commercial samplers. Check our new SFZ status page to see which + aspects of the format are already supported by LinuxSampler, and which + ones are yet to be implemented. + + + + Download the latest OS X snapshot of the sampler! + Following our ongoing sympathy for automatic snapshots, we finally provide + automatic builds also for Apple OS X! As soon as some developer commits + something new to our Subversion server, a new binary snapshot for OS X will + automatically be available for download from our webserver within minutes. + The snapshot tbz2 archive file contains universal binaries + (PPC 32 bit, Intel 32 & 64 bit) of the stand-alone version of the + sampler, VST and AU plugin version, and the graphical frontend applications + QSampler and Fantasia. Only our graphical instrument editor gigedit is not + yet part of the snapshots, it might follow at a later point. Please read + the README file in the tbz2 archive file for instructions how to install + everything on your Mac. + + + + From now on, our source code is managed by a Subversion server. We + converted our existing CVS repository for the + new Subversion server, so + the complete history from the beginning of this project is also + available in this new Subversion repository. Our + old CVS server, along with its web frontend + is still available, however is now in read only mode, so no changes can be + commited to CVS anymore. On the downloads page you can find + instructions how + to download ("checkout") source code from our Subversion server. + + + + After a huge down time of almost one month, we decided to move to new, more + reliable servers. Thanks to the University of Heilbronn which kindly hosted + our servers for 8 years. We started to move the most important services to + a commercial server host, which will be financed by your donations. Sorry + for this long absence and thank you for your support! + + + + Download the latest Windows snapshot of the sampler! + Since we have to confess that we are a bit lazy about putting out official + releases, and since the latest official release of the sampler for Windows + is quite old, we decided to establish automatic builts of the sampler and + all other software components for Windows. As soon as some developer + commits something new to the CVS server for any of the project's software + components, a new snapshot binary for Windows will automatically built and + be available for download within few minutes. Sorry for neglecting you + Windows users out there for so long! + + + + In case you are working a lot on Native Instruments Kontakt instrument + files, or if you are just interested in the .nki file format, you might have + a look at nkitool. It is a simple console + application which allows to export and import the human readable XML file + from and to Native Instruments Kontakt .nki instrument articulation files. + It can be very handy to speedup or even automate the process of creating + and editing .nki instrument files. + + + + LinuxSampler is featured in the october special issue of the "Computer Music" + magazine. It is available in English language in magazine stores around the + UK. This special issue focused on demonstrating the "best free software" for + music production on PC, Mac and mobile. LinuxSampler is covered along to four + other samplers, with an introduction howto on page 57. You can + read the full article here. + + + The annual report of 2009 + with our financial situation is now online. Happy new year everybody! + + + Better a late than no announcement at all: + +
  • linuxsampler 1.0.0
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  • Fantasia 0.9
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  • qsampler 0.2.2
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  • gigedit 0.2.0
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  • libgig 3.3.0
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  • jlscp 0.8
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  • liblscp 0.5.6
    • +     + This is the first release which allows the sampler to be used as audio + host plugin, namely supporting the standards VST, AU, DSSI and LV2. The + sampler's limits for max. voices & disk streams can now be altered at + runtime by frontends, no need to recompile the sampler anymore. The Mac + version now also supports CoreAudio as audio driver. The Windows version + finally supports the sampler's instruments DB feature as well, however + expect it still to be unstable at this point. Along to the already + existing JACK audio driver, Jack MIDI support has been added in this + release. The sampler allows frontends now basic MIDI control, that is to + monitor incoming MIDI data on MIDI input devices and sampler channels and + to send note-on and note-off MIDI events to sampler channels, which + allows frontends to provide a virtual MIDI keyboard to the user. Besides + these major changes there were countless bugfixes and optimizations. +     + + On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and + friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available + from our + download server. + This is the first Windows version which includes a VST plugin version + of the sampler. The installer includes both, native 64 bit binaries and + 32 bit binaries. The installer detects the system type and installs the + appropriate binaries automatically. + Please follow the ongoing discussion and development on our + web forum + and developers' mailing list + to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated! + Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin! It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout