--- web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/news.xml 2007/10/16 12:17:07 1449 +++ web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/news.xml 2011/04/09 10:41:10 2173 @@ -1,5 +1,171 @@ + + + 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 + the experimental AU binary package of LinuxSampler, available from our + download server. + As this is still an early development version, please follow the ongoing + discussion and development on our + web forum + and developers' mailing list + to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated! + + + We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library + is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for + giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano + library with you. You find the download link along with the library's + license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our + instruments site. + + + Added Debian Howto to the documentation + site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your + specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The + "Benchmark" + chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well) + + + Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The + place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is + bb.linuxsampler.org + + + Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year + by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially + available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the + latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our + downloads site. + Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some + work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required + Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look + at the OS X HOWTO for an easy start. + + + You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered + problems? Check out the + Trouble + Shooting Section of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still + doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our + + Mailing List + . If you found bugs, please report them to our + Bug Tracking System. + + + Another strike: + +
  • linuxsampler 0.5.1
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  • jsampler 0.8a
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  • qsampler 0.2.1
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  • gigedit 0.1.1
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  • libgig 3.2.1
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  • jlscp 0.7a
    • +     + What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it + conquers the Windows + world. This is the first official release of our applications for + the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged + "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for + MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be + plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database + feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the + Windows HOWTO for a smooth start. + Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e. + fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from + .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that + option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit + multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able + to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from + another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count + and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave + Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot + of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might + encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple + of bug fixes. +     + + As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS + names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server + out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely + moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening + again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused! + A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived: @@ -120,7 +286,7 @@ Latest CVS version - of + of libgig now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files ( read announcement). Please let