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

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