--- web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/news.xml 2011/07/18 18:29:39 2213 +++ web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/news.xml 2015/04/29 13:49:01 2756 @@ -1,14 +1,62 @@ + + + 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! - Along to our angoing sympathy for automatic snapshots, we finally provide - automatic builts also for Apple OS X! As soon as some developer commits + 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 & 64 bit, Intel 32 & 64 bit) of the stand-alone version of the + (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