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1 <?xml version='1.0' ?>
2 <news>
3 <entry date="2008-01-23">
4 Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
5 place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
6 <link ref="https://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
7 </entry>
8 <entry date="2008-01-03">
9 Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
10 by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
11 available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
12 latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
13 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
14 Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
15 work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
16 Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
17 at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
18 </entry>
19 <entry date="2007-12-26">
20 You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
21 problems? Check out the
22 <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
23 Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
24 doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
25 <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
26 Mailing List
27 </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
28 <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
29 </entry>
30 <entry date="2007-12-07">
31 Another strike:
32 <list>
33 <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
34 <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
35 <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
36 <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
37 <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
38 <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
39 </list>
40 What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
41 <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
42 world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
43 the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
44 "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
45 MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
46 plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
47 feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
48 <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
49 Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
50 fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
51 .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
52 option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
53 multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
54 to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
55 another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
56 and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
57 Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
58 of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
59 encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
60 of bug fixes.
61 </entry>
62 <entry date="2007-10-23">
63 As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
64 names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
65 out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
66 moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
67 again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
68 </entry>
69 <entry date="2007-10-16">
70 A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
71 <list>
72 <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
73 <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
74 <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
75 <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
76 <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
77 <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
78 <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
79 </list>
80 With our new instrument editor
81 <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
82 we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
83 instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
84 also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
85 <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
86 "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
87 instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
88 audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
89 simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
90 clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
91 provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
92 only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
93 change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
94 the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
95 freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
96 each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
97 altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
98 some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
99 certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
100 not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
101 you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
102 order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
103 feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
104 Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
105 allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
106 hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
107 sampler channel at the same time.
108 </entry>
109 <entry date="2007-10-12">
110 libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
111 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
112 Please update your links and bookmarks!
113 </entry>
114 <entry date="2007-08-10">
115 <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
116 JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
117 The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
118 Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
119 available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
120 </entry>
121 <entry date="2007-05-24">
122 <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
123 JSampler 0.5a</link> has been released, now with instruments database
124 support.
125 </entry>
126 <entry date="2007-05-04">
127 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.4 has been
128 released. Almost another year has gone by.
129 </entry>
130 <entry date="2007-04-02">
131 JSampler 0.4a has been released. Read the
132 <link ref="jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html">manual</link> for
133 installation instructions.
134 </entry>
135 <entry date="2007-03-24">
136 gigedit 0.0.3 has been released, a graphical instrument editor allowing
137 to edit existing Gigasampler format files as well as creating new ones
138 completely from scratch. Along comes a new release of libgig (3.1.1).
139 </entry>
140 <entry date="2006-11-24">
141 After a long, long development cycle LinuxSampler 0.4.0 has finally been
142 released.
143 </entry>
144 <entry date="2006-11-24">
145 libgig 3.1.0 has been released.
146 </entry>
147 <entry date="2006-08-07">
148 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.3a.tar.bz2?download">
149 JSampler 0.3a</link> has been released.
150 <list>
151 <li>
152 Partially implemented a new view - Fantasia (graphic desing: Olivier
153 Boyer). Only channel manipulation for now.
154 </li>
155 <li>
156 More new features in JS Classic - Implemented an LS Console with
157 command autocompletion (using the Tab key), command history (using Up,
158 Down keys), command history search (Ctrl + R), command list search
159 (Ctrl + F), and more.
160 </li>
161 <li>
162 Implemented Orchestras (something like Bookmarks/Favorites for
163 instruments). Drag &amp; Drop support for instrument loading, adding an
164 instrument to orchestra and autocompleting an instrument loading
165 command in the LS Console.
166 </li>
167 </list>
168 </entry>
169 <entry date="2006-06-02">
170 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.3 is now
171 available. It's been a long time isn't it?
172 </entry>
173 <entry date="2006-04-28">
174 libgig 3.0.0 has been released.
175 </entry>
176 <entry date="2006-03-16">
177 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JS_Classic-0.2a.jar?download">
178 JS Classic 0.2a</link> has been released.
179 </entry>
180 <entry date="2005-12-22">
181 Major services (CVS, downloads, Bug Tracking System) were down in the last
182 days due to a hardware defect on one of our servers. CVS is finally up
183 again and we are working on restoring all other services in the next days
184 as well. We are also establishing further backup facilities to prevent this
185 happening again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
186 </entry>
187 <entry date="2005-11-24">
188 Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
189 of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
190 libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
191 (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">
192 read announcement</link>). Please let
193 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</link>
194 know if you are interested in writing an instrument patch editor.
195 </entry>
196 <entry date="2005-10-10">
197 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/js-classic.jar?download">
198 JS Classic 0.1a</link> has been released (the first distribution of the
199 <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler/">JSampler</link>
200 project).
201 </entry>
202 <entry date="2005-08-16">
203 Due to ongoing synthesis optimizations, CVS version of LS might be broken
204 for a while. Please use the tarball release in the meantime.
205 </entry>
206 <entry date="2005-07-15">
207 LinuxSampler 0.3.3 has been released. Once again a bug fix release.
208 </entry>
209 <entry date="2005-06-24">
210 LinuxSampler 0.3.2 has been released. This is more or less just a bug fix
211 release. Just by coincidence, <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
212 QSampler</link> 0.1.2 has also been thrown out.
213 </entry>
214 <entry date="2005-06-12">
215 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.1 has been
216 released, after a few bugfixes and a new logo icon.
217 </entry>
218 <entry date="2005-05-25">
219 LinuxSampler 0.3.1, the first official release is finally out!
220 </entry>
221 <entry date="2005-05-23">
222 After some time laying around in the backyard,
223 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.0 has
224 been released, now with the promised Audio and MIDI device configuration
225 interface. Enjoy!
226 </entry>
227 <entry date="2005-03-15">
228 Our bug tracking system is now online and available on
229 <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bugs.linuxsampler.org</link>.
230 </entry>
231 <entry date="2005-03-04">
232 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link>,
233 the Qt GUI front-end in the works for the LinuxSampler engine, was bumped
234 to its now fifth primordial release (0.0.5). Still alpha code. Time to move
235 on... to a better and complete Audio/MIDI device configuration interface,
236 as predicted by LSCP and wrapped by liblscp.
237 </entry>
238 <entry date="2005-02-26">
239 Due to a design change, current LinuxSampler CVS version is quite unstable.
240 You might want to use the previous, stable version of LS in the meantime,
241 which can be downloaded as
242 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">source tarball
243 </link>. Alternatively you can also checkout the old version from CVS which
244 was tagged as "v0_2_0".
245 </entry>
246 <entry date="2004-11-19">
247 The Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine has been updated: the 4th
248 alpha-release of
249 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> has been
250 released.
251 </entry>
252 <entry date="2004-11-13">
253 On monday (November, 15th) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
254 cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> may be temporarily down due to maintenance work
255 around 13:00 UTC.
256 </entry>
257 <entry date="2004-07-06">
258 The third alpha-release of <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
259 QSampler</link>, the Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine, is now
260 publicly available.
261 </entry>
262 <entry date="2004-06-05">
263 Added a screenshot to the Screenshots page, instructions how to compile the
264 GUI are on the linked qsampler site.
265 </entry>
266 <entry date="2004-05-31">
267 On wednesday (June, 2nd) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
268 cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> will be temporarily not available from 6:00 UTC
269 until 16:00 UTC due to construction works.
270 </entry>
271 <entry date="2004-05-24">
272 The CVS repository is now <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
273 browseable</link>.
274 </entry>
275 <entry date="2004-05-03">
276 We are currently in a transition stage due to the recent changes (multi
277 channel / multi engine / multi audio output device and multi MIDI input
278 device support) this also leads to multi problems we have to solve ;-) so
279 meanwhile you can use the old single channel version. We created the two
280 CVS alias tags 'singlechannel' and 'v0_1_0' which you can use to checkout
281 the old single channel version of LinuxSampler. The CVS command line is the
282 same except that you have to add '-r singlechannel'.
283 </entry>
284 <entry date="2004-03-26">
285 CVS root path has changed! See <link ref="downloads.html">downloads</link>
286 section for instructions how to checkout the latest version of LinuxSampler
287 from CVS.
288 </entry>
289 <entry date="2004-03-23">
290 Updated <link ref="features.html">features</link> section on this site,
291 hopefully we will keep the features list in sync with the latest
292 developments from now on.
293 </entry>
294 <entry date="2004-01-07">
295 The document for the network protocol definition is now available in the
296 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
297 section. Have a look at it if you can imagine to write a frontend for
298 LinuxSampler!
299 </entry>
300 <entry date="2003-11-08">
301 Added CVS log to this site, showing the latest commits to the LinuxSampler
302 CVS repository.
303 </entry>
304 <entry date="2003-11-02">
305 Lots of news for the Linuxsampler community. We've got a new site, new
306 domain and new code available in CVS. Check the
307 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
308 section for instructions. If you want to check it out, please keep in mind
309 that it might contain bugs, it might crash and that it's still lacking tons
310 of features. CVS is directed towards developers who would like to test
311 things and add code. Users should wait for a tarball release.
312 </entry>
313 </news>

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