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2 <news>
3 <entry date="2007-12-26">
4 You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
5 problems? Check out the
6 <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
7 Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
8 doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
9 <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
10 Mailing List
11 </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
12 <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
13 </entry>
14 <entry date="2007-12-07">
15 Another strike:
16 <list>
17 <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
18 <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
19 <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
20 <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
21 <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
22 <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
23 </list>
24 What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
25 <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
26 world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
27 the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
28 "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
29 MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
30 plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
31 feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
32 <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
33 Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
34 fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
35 .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
36 option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
37 multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
38 to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
39 another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
40 and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
41 Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
42 of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
43 encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
44 of bug fixes.
45 </entry>
46 <entry date="2007-10-23">
47 As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
48 names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
49 out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
50 moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
51 again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
52 </entry>
53 <entry date="2007-10-16">
54 A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
55 <list>
56 <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
57 <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
58 <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
59 <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
60 <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
61 <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
62 <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
63 </list>
64 With our new instrument editor
65 <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
66 we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
67 instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
68 also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
69 <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
70 "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
71 instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
72 audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
73 simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
74 clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
75 provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
76 only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
77 change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
78 the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
79 freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
80 each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
81 altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
82 some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
83 certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
84 not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
85 you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
86 order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
87 feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
88 Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
89 allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
90 hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
91 sampler channel at the same time.
92 </entry>
93 <entry date="2007-10-12">
94 libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
95 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
96 Please update your links and bookmarks!
97 </entry>
98 <entry date="2007-08-10">
99 <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
100 JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
101 The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
102 Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
103 available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
104 </entry>
105 <entry date="2007-05-24">
106 <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
107 JSampler 0.5a</link> has been released, now with instruments database
108 support.
109 </entry>
110 <entry date="2007-05-04">
111 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.4 has been
112 released. Almost another year has gone by.
113 </entry>
114 <entry date="2007-04-02">
115 JSampler 0.4a has been released. Read the
116 <link ref="jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html">manual</link> for
117 installation instructions.
118 </entry>
119 <entry date="2007-03-24">
120 gigedit 0.0.3 has been released, a graphical instrument editor allowing
121 to edit existing Gigasampler format files as well as creating new ones
122 completely from scratch. Along comes a new release of libgig (3.1.1).
123 </entry>
124 <entry date="2006-11-24">
125 After a long, long development cycle LinuxSampler 0.4.0 has finally been
126 released.
127 </entry>
128 <entry date="2006-11-24">
129 libgig 3.1.0 has been released.
130 </entry>
131 <entry date="2006-08-07">
132 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.3a.tar.bz2?download">
133 JSampler 0.3a</link> has been released.
134 <list>
135 <li>
136 Partially implemented a new view - Fantasia (graphic desing: Olivier
137 Boyer). Only channel manipulation for now.
138 </li>
139 <li>
140 More new features in JS Classic - Implemented an LS Console with
141 command autocompletion (using the Tab key), command history (using Up,
142 Down keys), command history search (Ctrl + R), command list search
143 (Ctrl + F), and more.
144 </li>
145 <li>
146 Implemented Orchestras (something like Bookmarks/Favorites for
147 instruments). Drag &amp; Drop support for instrument loading, adding an
148 instrument to orchestra and autocompleting an instrument loading
149 command in the LS Console.
150 </li>
151 </list>
152 </entry>
153 <entry date="2006-06-02">
154 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.3 is now
155 available. It's been a long time isn't it?
156 </entry>
157 <entry date="2006-04-28">
158 libgig 3.0.0 has been released.
159 </entry>
160 <entry date="2006-03-16">
161 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JS_Classic-0.2a.jar?download">
162 JS Classic 0.2a</link> has been released.
163 </entry>
164 <entry date="2005-12-22">
165 Major services (CVS, downloads, Bug Tracking System) were down in the last
166 days due to a hardware defect on one of our servers. CVS is finally up
167 again and we are working on restoring all other services in the next days
168 as well. We are also establishing further backup facilities to prevent this
169 happening again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
170 </entry>
171 <entry date="2005-11-24">
172 Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
173 of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
174 libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
175 (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">
176 read announcement</link>). Please let
177 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</link>
178 know if you are interested in writing an instrument patch editor.
179 </entry>
180 <entry date="2005-10-10">
181 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/js-classic.jar?download">
182 JS Classic 0.1a</link> has been released (the first distribution of the
183 <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler/">JSampler</link>
184 project).
185 </entry>
186 <entry date="2005-08-16">
187 Due to ongoing synthesis optimizations, CVS version of LS might be broken
188 for a while. Please use the tarball release in the meantime.
189 </entry>
190 <entry date="2005-07-15">
191 LinuxSampler 0.3.3 has been released. Once again a bug fix release.
192 </entry>
193 <entry date="2005-06-24">
194 LinuxSampler 0.3.2 has been released. This is more or less just a bug fix
195 release. Just by coincidence, <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
196 QSampler</link> 0.1.2 has also been thrown out.
197 </entry>
198 <entry date="2005-06-12">
199 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.1 has been
200 released, after a few bugfixes and a new logo icon.
201 </entry>
202 <entry date="2005-05-25">
203 LinuxSampler 0.3.1, the first official release is finally out!
204 </entry>
205 <entry date="2005-05-23">
206 After some time laying around in the backyard,
207 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.0 has
208 been released, now with the promised Audio and MIDI device configuration
209 interface. Enjoy!
210 </entry>
211 <entry date="2005-03-15">
212 Our bug tracking system is now online and available on
213 <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bugs.linuxsampler.org</link>.
214 </entry>
215 <entry date="2005-03-04">
216 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link>,
217 the Qt GUI front-end in the works for the LinuxSampler engine, was bumped
218 to its now fifth primordial release (0.0.5). Still alpha code. Time to move
219 on... to a better and complete Audio/MIDI device configuration interface,
220 as predicted by LSCP and wrapped by liblscp.
221 </entry>
222 <entry date="2005-02-26">
223 Due to a design change, current LinuxSampler CVS version is quite unstable.
224 You might want to use the previous, stable version of LS in the meantime,
225 which can be downloaded as
226 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">source tarball
227 </link>. Alternatively you can also checkout the old version from CVS which
228 was tagged as "v0_2_0".
229 </entry>
230 <entry date="2004-11-19">
231 The Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine has been updated: the 4th
232 alpha-release of
233 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> has been
234 released.
235 </entry>
236 <entry date="2004-11-13">
237 On monday (November, 15th) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
238 cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> may be temporarily down due to maintenance work
239 around 13:00 UTC.
240 </entry>
241 <entry date="2004-07-06">
242 The third alpha-release of <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
243 QSampler</link>, the Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine, is now
244 publicly available.
245 </entry>
246 <entry date="2004-06-05">
247 Added a screenshot to the Screenshots page, instructions how to compile the
248 GUI are on the linked qsampler site.
249 </entry>
250 <entry date="2004-05-31">
251 On wednesday (June, 2nd) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
252 cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> will be temporarily not available from 6:00 UTC
253 until 16:00 UTC due to construction works.
254 </entry>
255 <entry date="2004-05-24">
256 The CVS repository is now <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
257 browseable</link>.
258 </entry>
259 <entry date="2004-05-03">
260 We are currently in a transition stage due to the recent changes (multi
261 channel / multi engine / multi audio output device and multi MIDI input
262 device support) this also leads to multi problems we have to solve ;-) so
263 meanwhile you can use the old single channel version. We created the two
264 CVS alias tags 'singlechannel' and 'v0_1_0' which you can use to checkout
265 the old single channel version of LinuxSampler. The CVS command line is the
266 same except that you have to add '-r singlechannel'.
267 </entry>
268 <entry date="2004-03-26">
269 CVS root path has changed! See <link ref="downloads.html">downloads</link>
270 section for instructions how to checkout the latest version of LinuxSampler
271 from CVS.
272 </entry>
273 <entry date="2004-03-23">
274 Updated <link ref="features.html">features</link> section on this site,
275 hopefully we will keep the features list in sync with the latest
276 developments from now on.
277 </entry>
278 <entry date="2004-01-07">
279 The document for the network protocol definition is now available in the
280 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
281 section. Have a look at it if you can imagine to write a frontend for
282 LinuxSampler!
283 </entry>
284 <entry date="2003-11-08">
285 Added CVS log to this site, showing the latest commits to the LinuxSampler
286 CVS repository.
287 </entry>
288 <entry date="2003-11-02">
289 Lots of news for the Linuxsampler community. We've got a new site, new
290 domain and new code available in CVS. Check the
291 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
292 section for instructions. If you want to check it out, please keep in mind
293 that it might contain bugs, it might crash and that it's still lacking tons
294 of features. CVS is directed towards developers who would like to test
295 things and add code. Users should wait for a tarball release.
296 </entry>
297 </news>

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