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2  <news>  <news>
3      <entry date="2011-02-05">
4        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/win32/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/windows.png"></link>
5        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/win32/snapshots/">Download the latest Windows snapshot of the sampler!</link>
6        Since we have to confess that we are a bit lazy about putting out official
7        releases, and since the latest official release of the sampler for Windows
8        is quite old, we decided to establish automatic builts of the sampler and
9        all other software components for Windows. As soon as some developer
10        commits something new to the CVS server for any of the project's software
11        components, a new snapshot binary for Windows will automatically built and
12        be available for download within few minutes. Sorry for neglecting you
13        Windows users out there for so long!
14      </entry>
15      <entry date="2011-01-23">
16        <link ref="nkitool/" img="nkitool/native-instruments-kontakt.png"></link>
17        In case you are working a lot on Native Instruments Kontakt instrument
18        files, or if you are just interested in the .nki file format, you might have
19        a look at <link ref="nkitool/">nkitool</link>. It is a simple console
20        application which allows to export and import the human readable XML file
21        from and to Native Instruments Kontakt .nki instrument articulation files.
22        It can be very handy to speedup or even automate the process of creating
23        and editing .nki instrument files.
24      </entry>
25      <entry date="2010-10-01">
26        <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>
27        LinuxSampler is featured in the october special issue of the "Computer Music"
28        magazine. It is available in English language in magazine stores around the
29        UK. This special issue focused on demonstrating the "best free software" for
30        music production on PC, Mac and mobile. LinuxSampler is covered along to four
31        other samplers, with an introduction howto on page 57. You can
32        <link ref="misc/press/computer_music_special_44_2010/cms_44_2010_article.jpg">read the full article here.</link>
33      </entry>
34      <entry date="2010-01-07">
35        The <link ref="reports/annual_report_2009.pdf">annual report of 2009</link>
36        with our financial situation is now online. Happy new year everybody!
37      </entry>
38      <entry date="2009-10-16">
39        Better a late than no announcement at all:
40        <list>
41          <li>linuxsampler 1.0.0</li>
42          <li>Fantasia 0.9</li>
43          <li>qsampler 0.2.2</li>
44          <li>gigedit 0.2.0</li>
45          <li>libgig 3.3.0</li>
46          <li>jlscp 0.8</li>
47          <li>liblscp 0.5.6</li>
48        </list>
49        This is the first release which allows the sampler to be used as audio
50        host plugin, namely supporting the standards VST, AU, DSSI and LV2. The
51        sampler's limits for max. voices &amp; disk streams can now be altered at
52        runtime by frontends, no need to recompile the sampler anymore. The Mac
53        version now also supports CoreAudio as audio driver. The Windows version
54        finally supports the sampler's instruments DB feature as well, however
55        expect it still to be unstable at this point. Along to the already
56        existing JACK audio driver, Jack MIDI support has been added in this
57        release. The sampler allows frontends now basic MIDI control, that is to
58        monitor incoming MIDI data on MIDI input devices and sampler channels and
59        to send note-on and note-off MIDI events to sampler channels, which
60        allows frontends to provide a virtual MIDI keyboard to the user. Besides
61        these major changes there were countless bugfixes and optimizations.
62      </entry>
63      <entry date="2009-05-12">
64        On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and
65        friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available
66        from our
67        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/win/">download server</link>.
68        This is the first Windows version which includes a VST plugin version
69        of the sampler. The installer includes both, native 64 bit binaries and
70        32 bit binaries. The installer detects the system type and installs the
71        appropriate binaries automatically.
72        Please follow the ongoing discussion and development on our
73        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=339">web forum</link>
74        and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
75        to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
76      </entry>
77      <entry date="2009-02-17">
78        Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin!
79        It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout
80        the experimental AU binary package of LinuxSampler, available from our
81        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/mac/">download server</link>.
82        As this is still an early development version, please follow the ongoing
83        discussion and development on our
84        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=295">web forum</link>
85        and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
86        to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
87      </entry>
88      <entry date="2008-02-15">
89        We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library
90        is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for
91        giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano
92        library with you. You find the download link along with the library's
93        license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our
94        <link ref="instruments.html">instruments</link> site.
95      </entry>
96      <entry date="2008-02-07">
97        Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
98        site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
99        specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
100        <link ref="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</link>
101        chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
102      </entry>
103      <entry date="2008-01-23">
104        Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
105        place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
106        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
107      </entry>
108      <entry date="2008-01-03">
109        Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
110        by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
111        available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
112        latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
113        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
114        Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
115        work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
116        Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
117        at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
118      </entry>
119      <entry date="2007-12-26">
120        You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
121        problems? Check out the
122        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
123        Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
124        doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
125        <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
126        Mailing List
127        </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
128        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
129      </entry>
130      <entry date="2007-12-07">
131        Another strike:
132        <list>
133          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
134          <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
135          <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
136          <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
137          <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
138          <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
139        </list>
140        What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
141        <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
142        world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
143        the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
144        "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
145        MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
146        plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
147        feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
148        <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
149        Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
150        fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
151        .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
152        option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
153        multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
154        to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
155        another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
156        and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
157        Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
158        of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
159        encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
160        of bug fixes.
161      </entry>
162      <entry date="2007-10-23">
163        As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
164        names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
165        out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
166        moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
167        again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
168      </entry>
169    <entry date="2007-10-16">    <entry date="2007-10-16">
170      A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:      A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
171      <list>      <list>
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286    </entry>    </entry>
287    <entry date="2005-11-24">    <entry date="2005-11-24">
288      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>      Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
289      of <link ref="http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~cschoene/projects/libgig/">      of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
290      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files      libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
291      (<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">
292      read announcement</link>). Please let      read announcement</link>). Please let

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