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* announced beta pre-release for Windows

1 <?xml version='1.0' ?>
2 <news>
3 <entry date="2009-05-12">
4 On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and
5 friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available
6 from our
7 <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/win/">download server</link>.
8 This is the first Windows version which includes a VST plugin version
9 of the sampler. The installer includes both, native 64 bit binaries and
10 32 bit binaries. The installer detects the system type and installs the
11 appropriate binaries automatically.
12 Please follow the ongoing discussion and development on our
13 <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=339">web forum</link>
14 and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
15 to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
16 </entry>
17 <entry date="2009-02-17">
18 Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin!
19 It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout
20 the experimental AU binary package of LinuxSampler, available from our
21 <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/mac/">download server</link>.
22 As this is still an early development version, please follow the ongoing
23 discussion and development on our
24 <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=295">web forum</link>
25 and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
26 to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
27 </entry>
28 <entry date="2008-02-15">
29 We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library
30 is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for
31 giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano
32 library with you. You find the download link along with the library's
33 license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our
34 <link ref="instruments.html">instruments</link> site.
35 </entry>
36 <entry date="2008-02-07">
37 Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
38 site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
39 specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
40 <link ref="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</link>
41 chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
42 </entry>
43 <entry date="2008-01-23">
44 Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
45 place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
46 <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
47 </entry>
48 <entry date="2008-01-03">
49 Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
50 by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
51 available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
52 latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
53 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
54 Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
55 work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
56 Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
57 at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
58 </entry>
59 <entry date="2007-12-26">
60 You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
61 problems? Check out the
62 <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
63 Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
64 doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
65 <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
66 Mailing List
67 </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
68 <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
69 </entry>
70 <entry date="2007-12-07">
71 Another strike:
72 <list>
73 <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
74 <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
75 <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
76 <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
77 <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
78 <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
79 </list>
80 What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
81 <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
82 world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
83 the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
84 "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
85 MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
86 plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
87 feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
88 <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
89 Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
90 fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
91 .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
92 option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
93 multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
94 to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
95 another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
96 and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
97 Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
98 of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
99 encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
100 of bug fixes.
101 </entry>
102 <entry date="2007-10-23">
103 As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
104 names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
105 out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
106 moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
107 again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
108 </entry>
109 <entry date="2007-10-16">
110 A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
111 <list>
112 <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
113 <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
114 <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
115 <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
116 <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
117 <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
118 <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
119 </list>
120 With our new instrument editor
121 <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
122 we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
123 instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
124 also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
125 <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
126 "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
127 instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
128 audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
129 simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
130 clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
131 provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
132 only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
133 change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
134 the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
135 freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
136 each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
137 altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
138 some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
139 certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
140 not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
141 you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
142 order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
143 feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
144 Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
145 allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
146 hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
147 sampler channel at the same time.
148 </entry>
149 <entry date="2007-10-12">
150 libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
151 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
152 Please update your links and bookmarks!
153 </entry>
154 <entry date="2007-08-10">
155 <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
156 JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
157 The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
158 Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
159 available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
160 </entry>
161 <entry date="2007-05-24">
162 <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
163 JSampler 0.5a</link> has been released, now with instruments database
164 support.
165 </entry>
166 <entry date="2007-05-04">
167 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.4 has been
168 released. Almost another year has gone by.
169 </entry>
170 <entry date="2007-04-02">
171 JSampler 0.4a has been released. Read the
172 <link ref="jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html">manual</link> for
173 installation instructions.
174 </entry>
175 <entry date="2007-03-24">
176 gigedit 0.0.3 has been released, a graphical instrument editor allowing
177 to edit existing Gigasampler format files as well as creating new ones
178 completely from scratch. Along comes a new release of libgig (3.1.1).
179 </entry>
180 <entry date="2006-11-24">
181 After a long, long development cycle LinuxSampler 0.4.0 has finally been
182 released.
183 </entry>
184 <entry date="2006-11-24">
185 libgig 3.1.0 has been released.
186 </entry>
187 <entry date="2006-08-07">
188 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.3a.tar.bz2?download">
189 JSampler 0.3a</link> has been released.
190 <list>
191 <li>
192 Partially implemented a new view - Fantasia (graphic desing: Olivier
193 Boyer). Only channel manipulation for now.
194 </li>
195 <li>
196 More new features in JS Classic - Implemented an LS Console with
197 command autocompletion (using the Tab key), command history (using Up,
198 Down keys), command history search (Ctrl + R), command list search
199 (Ctrl + F), and more.
200 </li>
201 <li>
202 Implemented Orchestras (something like Bookmarks/Favorites for
203 instruments). Drag &amp; Drop support for instrument loading, adding an
204 instrument to orchestra and autocompleting an instrument loading
205 command in the LS Console.
206 </li>
207 </list>
208 </entry>
209 <entry date="2006-06-02">
210 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.3 is now
211 available. It's been a long time isn't it?
212 </entry>
213 <entry date="2006-04-28">
214 libgig 3.0.0 has been released.
215 </entry>
216 <entry date="2006-03-16">
217 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JS_Classic-0.2a.jar?download">
218 JS Classic 0.2a</link> has been released.
219 </entry>
220 <entry date="2005-12-22">
221 Major services (CVS, downloads, Bug Tracking System) were down in the last
222 days due to a hardware defect on one of our servers. CVS is finally up
223 again and we are working on restoring all other services in the next days
224 as well. We are also establishing further backup facilities to prevent this
225 happening again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
226 </entry>
227 <entry date="2005-11-24">
228 Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
229 of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
230 libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
231 (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">
232 read announcement</link>). Please let
233 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</link>
234 know if you are interested in writing an instrument patch editor.
235 </entry>
236 <entry date="2005-10-10">
237 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/js-classic.jar?download">
238 JS Classic 0.1a</link> has been released (the first distribution of the
239 <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler/">JSampler</link>
240 project).
241 </entry>
242 <entry date="2005-08-16">
243 Due to ongoing synthesis optimizations, CVS version of LS might be broken
244 for a while. Please use the tarball release in the meantime.
245 </entry>
246 <entry date="2005-07-15">
247 LinuxSampler 0.3.3 has been released. Once again a bug fix release.
248 </entry>
249 <entry date="2005-06-24">
250 LinuxSampler 0.3.2 has been released. This is more or less just a bug fix
251 release. Just by coincidence, <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
252 QSampler</link> 0.1.2 has also been thrown out.
253 </entry>
254 <entry date="2005-06-12">
255 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.1 has been
256 released, after a few bugfixes and a new logo icon.
257 </entry>
258 <entry date="2005-05-25">
259 LinuxSampler 0.3.1, the first official release is finally out!
260 </entry>
261 <entry date="2005-05-23">
262 After some time laying around in the backyard,
263 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.0 has
264 been released, now with the promised Audio and MIDI device configuration
265 interface. Enjoy!
266 </entry>
267 <entry date="2005-03-15">
268 Our bug tracking system is now online and available on
269 <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bugs.linuxsampler.org</link>.
270 </entry>
271 <entry date="2005-03-04">
272 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link>,
273 the Qt GUI front-end in the works for the LinuxSampler engine, was bumped
274 to its now fifth primordial release (0.0.5). Still alpha code. Time to move
275 on... to a better and complete Audio/MIDI device configuration interface,
276 as predicted by LSCP and wrapped by liblscp.
277 </entry>
278 <entry date="2005-02-26">
279 Due to a design change, current LinuxSampler CVS version is quite unstable.
280 You might want to use the previous, stable version of LS in the meantime,
281 which can be downloaded as
282 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">source tarball
283 </link>. Alternatively you can also checkout the old version from CVS which
284 was tagged as "v0_2_0".
285 </entry>
286 <entry date="2004-11-19">
287 The Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine has been updated: the 4th
288 alpha-release of
289 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> has been
290 released.
291 </entry>
292 <entry date="2004-11-13">
293 On monday (November, 15th) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
294 cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> may be temporarily down due to maintenance work
295 around 13:00 UTC.
296 </entry>
297 <entry date="2004-07-06">
298 The third alpha-release of <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
299 QSampler</link>, the Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine, is now
300 publicly available.
301 </entry>
302 <entry date="2004-06-05">
303 Added a screenshot to the Screenshots page, instructions how to compile the
304 GUI are on the linked qsampler site.
305 </entry>
306 <entry date="2004-05-31">
307 On wednesday (June, 2nd) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
308 cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> will be temporarily not available from 6:00 UTC
309 until 16:00 UTC due to construction works.
310 </entry>
311 <entry date="2004-05-24">
312 The CVS repository is now <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
313 browseable</link>.
314 </entry>
315 <entry date="2004-05-03">
316 We are currently in a transition stage due to the recent changes (multi
317 channel / multi engine / multi audio output device and multi MIDI input
318 device support) this also leads to multi problems we have to solve ;-) so
319 meanwhile you can use the old single channel version. We created the two
320 CVS alias tags 'singlechannel' and 'v0_1_0' which you can use to checkout
321 the old single channel version of LinuxSampler. The CVS command line is the
322 same except that you have to add '-r singlechannel'.
323 </entry>
324 <entry date="2004-03-26">
325 CVS root path has changed! See <link ref="downloads.html">downloads</link>
326 section for instructions how to checkout the latest version of LinuxSampler
327 from CVS.
328 </entry>
329 <entry date="2004-03-23">
330 Updated <link ref="features.html">features</link> section on this site,
331 hopefully we will keep the features list in sync with the latest
332 developments from now on.
333 </entry>
334 <entry date="2004-01-07">
335 The document for the network protocol definition is now available in the
336 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
337 section. Have a look at it if you can imagine to write a frontend for
338 LinuxSampler!
339 </entry>
340 <entry date="2003-11-08">
341 Added CVS log to this site, showing the latest commits to the LinuxSampler
342 CVS repository.
343 </entry>
344 <entry date="2003-11-02">
345 Lots of news for the Linuxsampler community. We've got a new site, new
346 domain and new code available in CVS. Check the
347 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
348 section for instructions. If you want to check it out, please keep in mind
349 that it might contain bugs, it might crash and that it's still lacking tons
350 of features. CVS is directed towards developers who would like to test
351 things and add code. Users should wait for a tarball release.
352 </entry>
353 </news>

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