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* announced Maestro Grand piano library

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2 <news>
3 <entry date="2008-02-15">
4 We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library
5 is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for
6 giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano
7 library with you. You find the download link along with the library's
8 license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our
9 <link ref="instruments.html">instruments</link> site.
10 </entry>
11 <entry date="2008-02-07">
12 Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
13 site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
14 specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
15 <link ref="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</link>
16 chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
17 </entry>
18 <entry date="2008-01-23">
19 Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
20 place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
21 <link ref="https://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
22 </entry>
23 <entry date="2008-01-03">
24 Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
25 by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
26 available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
27 latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
28 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
29 Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
30 work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
31 Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
32 at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
33 </entry>
34 <entry date="2007-12-26">
35 You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
36 problems? Check out the
37 <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
38 Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
39 doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
40 <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
41 Mailing List
42 </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
43 <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
44 </entry>
45 <entry date="2007-12-07">
46 Another strike:
47 <list>
48 <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
49 <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
50 <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
51 <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
52 <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
53 <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
54 </list>
55 What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
56 <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
57 world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
58 the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
59 "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
60 MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
61 plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
62 feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
63 <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
64 Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
65 fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
66 .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
67 option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
68 multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
69 to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
70 another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
71 and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
72 Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
73 of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
74 encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
75 of bug fixes.
76 </entry>
77 <entry date="2007-10-23">
78 As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
79 names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
80 out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
81 moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
82 again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
83 </entry>
84 <entry date="2007-10-16">
85 A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
86 <list>
87 <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
88 <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
89 <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
90 <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
91 <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
92 <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
93 <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
94 </list>
95 With our new instrument editor
96 <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
97 we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
98 instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
99 also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
100 <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
101 "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
102 instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
103 audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
104 simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
105 clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
106 provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
107 only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
108 change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
109 the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
110 freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
111 each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
112 altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
113 some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
114 certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
115 not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
116 you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
117 order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
118 feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
119 Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
120 allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
121 hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
122 sampler channel at the same time.
123 </entry>
124 <entry date="2007-10-12">
125 libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
126 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
127 Please update your links and bookmarks!
128 </entry>
129 <entry date="2007-08-10">
130 <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
131 JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
132 The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
133 Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
134 available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
135 </entry>
136 <entry date="2007-05-24">
137 <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
138 JSampler 0.5a</link> has been released, now with instruments database
139 support.
140 </entry>
141 <entry date="2007-05-04">
142 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.4 has been
143 released. Almost another year has gone by.
144 </entry>
145 <entry date="2007-04-02">
146 JSampler 0.4a has been released. Read the
147 <link ref="jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html">manual</link> for
148 installation instructions.
149 </entry>
150 <entry date="2007-03-24">
151 gigedit 0.0.3 has been released, a graphical instrument editor allowing
152 to edit existing Gigasampler format files as well as creating new ones
153 completely from scratch. Along comes a new release of libgig (3.1.1).
154 </entry>
155 <entry date="2006-11-24">
156 After a long, long development cycle LinuxSampler 0.4.0 has finally been
157 released.
158 </entry>
159 <entry date="2006-11-24">
160 libgig 3.1.0 has been released.
161 </entry>
162 <entry date="2006-08-07">
163 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.3a.tar.bz2?download">
164 JSampler 0.3a</link> has been released.
165 <list>
166 <li>
167 Partially implemented a new view - Fantasia (graphic desing: Olivier
168 Boyer). Only channel manipulation for now.
169 </li>
170 <li>
171 More new features in JS Classic - Implemented an LS Console with
172 command autocompletion (using the Tab key), command history (using Up,
173 Down keys), command history search (Ctrl + R), command list search
174 (Ctrl + F), and more.
175 </li>
176 <li>
177 Implemented Orchestras (something like Bookmarks/Favorites for
178 instruments). Drag &amp; Drop support for instrument loading, adding an
179 instrument to orchestra and autocompleting an instrument loading
180 command in the LS Console.
181 </li>
182 </list>
183 </entry>
184 <entry date="2006-06-02">
185 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.3 is now
186 available. It's been a long time isn't it?
187 </entry>
188 <entry date="2006-04-28">
189 libgig 3.0.0 has been released.
190 </entry>
191 <entry date="2006-03-16">
192 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JS_Classic-0.2a.jar?download">
193 JS Classic 0.2a</link> has been released.
194 </entry>
195 <entry date="2005-12-22">
196 Major services (CVS, downloads, Bug Tracking System) were down in the last
197 days due to a hardware defect on one of our servers. CVS is finally up
198 again and we are working on restoring all other services in the next days
199 as well. We are also establishing further backup facilities to prevent this
200 happening again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
201 </entry>
202 <entry date="2005-11-24">
203 Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
204 of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
205 libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
206 (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">
207 read announcement</link>). Please let
208 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</link>
209 know if you are interested in writing an instrument patch editor.
210 </entry>
211 <entry date="2005-10-10">
212 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/js-classic.jar?download">
213 JS Classic 0.1a</link> has been released (the first distribution of the
214 <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler/">JSampler</link>
215 project).
216 </entry>
217 <entry date="2005-08-16">
218 Due to ongoing synthesis optimizations, CVS version of LS might be broken
219 for a while. Please use the tarball release in the meantime.
220 </entry>
221 <entry date="2005-07-15">
222 LinuxSampler 0.3.3 has been released. Once again a bug fix release.
223 </entry>
224 <entry date="2005-06-24">
225 LinuxSampler 0.3.2 has been released. This is more or less just a bug fix
226 release. Just by coincidence, <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
227 QSampler</link> 0.1.2 has also been thrown out.
228 </entry>
229 <entry date="2005-06-12">
230 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.1 has been
231 released, after a few bugfixes and a new logo icon.
232 </entry>
233 <entry date="2005-05-25">
234 LinuxSampler 0.3.1, the first official release is finally out!
235 </entry>
236 <entry date="2005-05-23">
237 After some time laying around in the backyard,
238 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.0 has
239 been released, now with the promised Audio and MIDI device configuration
240 interface. Enjoy!
241 </entry>
242 <entry date="2005-03-15">
243 Our bug tracking system is now online and available on
244 <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bugs.linuxsampler.org</link>.
245 </entry>
246 <entry date="2005-03-04">
247 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link>,
248 the Qt GUI front-end in the works for the LinuxSampler engine, was bumped
249 to its now fifth primordial release (0.0.5). Still alpha code. Time to move
250 on... to a better and complete Audio/MIDI device configuration interface,
251 as predicted by LSCP and wrapped by liblscp.
252 </entry>
253 <entry date="2005-02-26">
254 Due to a design change, current LinuxSampler CVS version is quite unstable.
255 You might want to use the previous, stable version of LS in the meantime,
256 which can be downloaded as
257 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">source tarball
258 </link>. Alternatively you can also checkout the old version from CVS which
259 was tagged as "v0_2_0".
260 </entry>
261 <entry date="2004-11-19">
262 The Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine has been updated: the 4th
263 alpha-release of
264 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> has been
265 released.
266 </entry>
267 <entry date="2004-11-13">
268 On monday (November, 15th) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
269 cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> may be temporarily down due to maintenance work
270 around 13:00 UTC.
271 </entry>
272 <entry date="2004-07-06">
273 The third alpha-release of <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
274 QSampler</link>, the Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine, is now
275 publicly available.
276 </entry>
277 <entry date="2004-06-05">
278 Added a screenshot to the Screenshots page, instructions how to compile the
279 GUI are on the linked qsampler site.
280 </entry>
281 <entry date="2004-05-31">
282 On wednesday (June, 2nd) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
283 cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> will be temporarily not available from 6:00 UTC
284 until 16:00 UTC due to construction works.
285 </entry>
286 <entry date="2004-05-24">
287 The CVS repository is now <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
288 browseable</link>.
289 </entry>
290 <entry date="2004-05-03">
291 We are currently in a transition stage due to the recent changes (multi
292 channel / multi engine / multi audio output device and multi MIDI input
293 device support) this also leads to multi problems we have to solve ;-) so
294 meanwhile you can use the old single channel version. We created the two
295 CVS alias tags 'singlechannel' and 'v0_1_0' which you can use to checkout
296 the old single channel version of LinuxSampler. The CVS command line is the
297 same except that you have to add '-r singlechannel'.
298 </entry>
299 <entry date="2004-03-26">
300 CVS root path has changed! See <link ref="downloads.html">downloads</link>
301 section for instructions how to checkout the latest version of LinuxSampler
302 from CVS.
303 </entry>
304 <entry date="2004-03-23">
305 Updated <link ref="features.html">features</link> section on this site,
306 hopefully we will keep the features list in sync with the latest
307 developments from now on.
308 </entry>
309 <entry date="2004-01-07">
310 The document for the network protocol definition is now available in the
311 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
312 section. Have a look at it if you can imagine to write a frontend for
313 LinuxSampler!
314 </entry>
315 <entry date="2003-11-08">
316 Added CVS log to this site, showing the latest commits to the LinuxSampler
317 CVS repository.
318 </entry>
319 <entry date="2003-11-02">
320 Lots of news for the Linuxsampler community. We've got a new site, new
321 domain and new code available in CVS. Check the
322 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
323 section for instructions. If you want to check it out, please keep in mind
324 that it might contain bugs, it might crash and that it's still lacking tons
325 of features. CVS is directed towards developers who would like to test
326 things and add code. Users should wait for a tarball release.
327 </entry>
328 </news>

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