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2  <news>  <news>
3      <entry date="2017-07-20">
4        You are working with <link ref="http://muse-sequencer.org">MusE</link>?
5        Then Andrew Coughlan's <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/lscp2idf">lscp2idf scripts</link>
6        might help you to automatically extract MIDI instruments from LSCP files to
7        the MusE sequencer's IDF format, which can be helpful for patches changes
8        in that sequencer.
9      </entry>
10      <entry date="2017-03-05">
11        Services are back online. After reviewing the recent server incident we
12        came to the conclusion that the attack was fortunately quite limited.
13        We rolled back the system, closed the exploited security
14        hole and brought all services back online. In case you downloaded or updated any source files
15        from our <link ref="http://svn.linuxsampler.org">svn server</link>
16        between March 2nd and March 3rd, we recommend you to
17        delete the entire source directory and make an entire fresh checkout from
18        svn to avoid any issues. The svn server is now back at a clean state.
19      </entry>
20      <entry date="2017-03-03">
21          <b>Important notice:</b>
22        Our server had been compromised. For that reason we were forced to take most
23        services offline for now to protect you from accessing any compromised material.
24        We are currently investigating this incident and will update you accordingly.
25      </entry>
26      <entry date="2016-07-06">
27        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">Web Forum</link> and
28        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracker</link>
29        are back online: As you might have noticed, our
30        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">Web Forum</link> as well as our
31        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracker</link> were partly
32        unavailable for quite a while. It was possible to read them, but especially
33        registration of new user accounts were disabled (i.e. due to numerous
34        spam bot attacks we suffered in the past). Those issues have been
35        resolved and so both sites are back available and should now work entirely
36        as expected.
37      </entry>
38      <entry date="2016-05-04">
39        There is some progress regarding Gigedit's integrated
40        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Instrument_Scripts/NKSP_Language/">NKSP</link>
41        real-time instrument script editor. Check out the
42        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/News/Instrument_Script_Editor_2016-05-04/">News Article ...</link>
43      </entry>
44      <entry date="2015-07-18">
45        LinuxSampler 2.0.0 had been released after six years of development!
46        Check the
47        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Release_Notes/LinuxSampler_2_0_0/">release notes</link>
48        for a detailed review of what's new with LinuxSampler and friends.
49      </entry>
50      <entry date="2015-06-11">
51        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/apple.png"></link>
52        The Mac installer was broken on latest OS X 10.10 Yosemite. This had been
53        fixed today. Get the latest
54        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">snapshot for Mac</link>
55        with Yosemite support now.
56      </entry>
57      <entry date="2015-04-29">
58        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org" img="gfx/new_article.png"></link>
59        A new documentation site has been launched:
60        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org">http://doc.linuxsampler.org</link> -
61        This separate page dedicated to manuals, tutorials and other kind of
62        articles for the LinuxSampler project, is using a new solution to write
63        and maintain such articles with a minimum of effort. Be invited to help us
64        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Writing_Docs/">writing documentation</link>
65        for LinuxSampler and friends! As one of the first topics, this site is now
66        hosting an introduction to the new
67        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Instrument_Scripts/NKSP_Language/">NKSP Real-Time Instrument Script Language</link>.
68        The long-term plan is to move all documentation of this project from our www
69        server to that new site.
70      </entry>
71      <entry date="2015-01-18">
72        <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>
73        For the Mac users out there: We finally have a convenient installer for the
74        OS X version of LinuxSampler. This is already integrated in our automatic
75        build system. So from now on all
76        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">daily snapshot builds for Mac</link>
77        are automatically built with an installer. By default the installer will
78        install all components (LinuxSampler stand-alone application, VST and
79        Audio Unit plugin version of LinuxSampler, QSampler, Fantasia, GigEdit and
80        command line tools. At step "Installation Type" you can however also
81        override the default installation and select which components to install.
82      </entry>
83      <entry date="2014-06-19">
84        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/apple.png"></link>
85        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">gigedit finally included with OS X snapshots!</link>
86        Due to the variety of third party library dependencies it took a while, but
87        finally "gigedit", our graphical instrument editor for Gigasampler /
88        GigaStudio files, is now included with the automatic binary snapshots builds
89        for Mac OS X. The automatic snapshot installers are automatically compiled
90        by one of our servers each time a developer commits something new to our
91        Subversion (development) server. You can use gigedit on Mac OS X as
92        stand-alone instrument editor as well as in live-mode while running
93        LinuxSampler. In the latter case your changes with gigedit get immediately
94        audible while playing the instrument on the keyboard at the same time.
95      </entry>
96      <entry date="2011-08-25">
97        <link ref="sfz/" img="gfx/logos/sfz.png"></link>
98        <link ref="sfz/">Added SFZ implementation status page.</link>
99        We are currently in the works to implement support for the SFZ format,
100        which is a powerful and open sample library format, already adopted by
101        many commercial samplers. Check our new SFZ status page to see which
102        aspects of the format are already supported by LinuxSampler, and which
103        ones are yet to be implemented.
104      </entry>
105      <entry date="2011-07-18">
106        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/apple.png"></link>
107        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">Download the latest OS X snapshot of the sampler!</link>
108        Following our ongoing sympathy for automatic snapshots, we finally provide
109        automatic builds also for Apple OS X! As soon as some developer commits
110        something new to our Subversion server, a new binary snapshot for OS X will
111        automatically be available for download from our webserver within minutes.
112        The snapshot tbz2 archive file contains universal binaries
113        (PPC 32 bit, Intel 32 &amp; 64 bit) of the stand-alone version of the
114        sampler, VST and AU plugin version, and the graphical frontend applications
115        QSampler and Fantasia. Only our graphical instrument editor gigedit is not
116        yet part of the snapshots, it might follow at a later point. Please read
117        the README file in the tbz2 archive file for instructions how to install
118        everything on your Mac.
119      </entry>
120      <entry date="2011-06-05">
121        <link ref="http://svn.linuxsampler.org" img="gfx/logos/subversion.png"></link>
122        From now on, our source code is managed by a Subversion server. We
123        converted our existing CVS repository for the
124        <link ref="http://svn.linuxsampler.org">new Subversion server</link>, so
125        the complete history from the beginning of this project is also
126        available in this new Subversion repository. Our
127        <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">old CVS server, along with its web frontend</link>
128        is still available, however is now in read only mode, so no changes can be
129        commited to CVS anymore. On the downloads page you can find
130        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html#svn">instructions how
131        to download ("checkout") source code from our Subversion server.</link>
132      </entry>
133      <entry date="2011-06-05">
134        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org" img="gfx/sorryd.jpg"></link>
135        After a huge down time of almost one month, we decided to move to new, more
136        reliable servers. Thanks to the University of Heilbronn which kindly hosted
137        our servers for 8 years. We started to move the most important services to
138        a commercial server host, which will be financed by your donations. Sorry
139        for this long absence and thank you for your support!
140      </entry>
141      <entry date="2011-02-05">
142        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/win32/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/windows.png"></link>
143        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/win32/snapshots/">Download the latest Windows snapshot of the sampler!</link>
144        Since we have to confess that we are a bit lazy about putting out official
145        releases, and since the latest official release of the sampler for Windows
146        is quite old, we decided to establish automatic builts of the sampler and
147        all other software components for Windows. As soon as some developer
148        commits something new to the CVS server for any of the project's software
149        components, a new snapshot binary for Windows will automatically built and
150        be available for download within few minutes. Sorry for neglecting you
151        Windows users out there for so long!
152      </entry>
153      <entry date="2011-01-23">
154        <link ref="nkitool/" img="nkitool/native-instruments-kontakt.png"></link>
155        In case you are working a lot on Native Instruments Kontakt instrument
156        files, or if you are just interested in the .nki file format, you might have
157        a look at <link ref="nkitool/">nkitool</link>. It is a simple console
158        application which allows to export and import the human readable XML file
159        from and to Native Instruments Kontakt .nki instrument articulation files.
160        It can be very handy to speedup or even automate the process of creating
161        and editing .nki instrument files.
162      </entry>
163      <entry date="2010-10-01">
164        <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>
165        LinuxSampler is featured in the october special issue of the "Computer Music"
166        magazine. It is available in English language in magazine stores around the
167        UK. This special issue focused on demonstrating the "best free software" for
168        music production on PC, Mac and mobile. LinuxSampler is covered along to four
169        other samplers, with an introduction howto on page 57. You can
170        <link ref="misc/press/computer_music_special_44_2010/cms_44_2010_article.jpg">read the full article here.</link>
171      </entry>
172      <entry date="2010-01-07">
173        The <link ref="reports/annual_report_2009.pdf">annual report of 2009</link>
174        with our financial situation is now online. Happy new year everybody!
175      </entry>
176      <entry date="2009-10-16">
177        Better a late than no announcement at all:
178        <list>
179          <li>linuxsampler 1.0.0</li>
180          <li>Fantasia 0.9</li>
181          <li>qsampler 0.2.2</li>
182          <li>gigedit 0.2.0</li>
183          <li>libgig 3.3.0</li>
184          <li>jlscp 0.8</li>
185          <li>liblscp 0.5.6</li>
186        </list>
187        This is the first release which allows the sampler to be used as audio
188        host plugin, namely supporting the standards VST, AU, DSSI and LV2. The
189        sampler's limits for max. voices &amp; disk streams can now be altered at
190        runtime by frontends, no need to recompile the sampler anymore. The Mac
191        version now also supports CoreAudio as audio driver. The Windows version
192        finally supports the sampler's instruments DB feature as well, however
193        expect it still to be unstable at this point. Along to the already
194        existing JACK audio driver, Jack MIDI support has been added in this
195        release. The sampler allows frontends now basic MIDI control, that is to
196        monitor incoming MIDI data on MIDI input devices and sampler channels and
197        to send note-on and note-off MIDI events to sampler channels, which
198        allows frontends to provide a virtual MIDI keyboard to the user. Besides
199        these major changes there were countless bugfixes and optimizations.
200      </entry>
201      <entry date="2009-05-12">
202        On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and
203        friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available
204        from our
205        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/win/">download server</link>.
206        This is the first Windows version which includes a VST plugin version
207        of the sampler. The installer includes both, native 64 bit binaries and
208        32 bit binaries. The installer detects the system type and installs the
209        appropriate binaries automatically.
210        Please follow the ongoing discussion and development on our
211        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=339">web forum</link>
212        and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
213        to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
214      </entry>
215    <entry date="2009-02-17">    <entry date="2009-02-17">
216      Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin!      Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin!
217      It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout      It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout

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