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2 <news>
3 <entry date="2009-10-16">
4 Better a late than no announcement at all:
5 <list>
6 <li>linuxsampler 1.0.0</li>
7 <li>Fantasia 0.9</li>
8 <li>qsampler 0.2.2</li>
9 <li>gigedit 0.2.0</li>
10 <li>libgig 3.3.0</li>
11 <li>jlscp 0.8</li>
12 <li>liblscp 0.5.6</li>
13 </list>
14 This is the first release which allows the sampler to be used as audio
15 host plugin, namely supporting the standards VST, AU, DSSI and LV2. The
16 sampler's limits for max. voices &amp; disk streams can now be altered at
17 runtime by frontends, no need to recompile the sampler anymore. The Mac
18 version now also supports CoreAudio as audio driver. The Windows version
19 finally supports the sampler's instruments DB feature as well, however
20 expect it still to be unstable at this point. Along to the already
21 existing JACK audio driver, Jack MIDI support has been added in this
22 release. The sampler allows frontends now basic MIDI control, that is to
23 monitor incoming MIDI data on MIDI input devices and sampler channels and
24 to send note-on and note-off MIDI events to sampler channels, which
25 allows frontends to provide a virtual MIDI keyboard to the user. Besides
26 these major changes there were countless bugfixes and optimizations.
27 </entry>
28 <entry date="2009-05-12">
29 On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and
30 friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available
31 from our
32 <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/win/">download server</link>.
33 This is the first Windows version which includes a VST plugin version
34 of the sampler. The installer includes both, native 64 bit binaries and
35 32 bit binaries. The installer detects the system type and installs the
36 appropriate binaries automatically.
37 Please follow the ongoing discussion and development on our
38 <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=339">web forum</link>
39 and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
40 to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
41 </entry>
42 <entry date="2009-02-17">
43 Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin!
44 It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout
45 the experimental AU binary package of LinuxSampler, available from our
46 <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/mac/">download server</link>.
47 As this is still an early development version, please follow the ongoing
48 discussion and development on our
49 <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=295">web forum</link>
50 and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
51 to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
52 </entry>
53 <entry date="2008-02-15">
54 We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library
55 is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for
56 giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano
57 library with you. You find the download link along with the library's
58 license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our
59 <link ref="instruments.html">instruments</link> site.
60 </entry>
61 <entry date="2008-02-07">
62 Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
63 site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
64 specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
65 <link ref="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</link>
66 chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
67 </entry>
68 <entry date="2008-01-23">
69 Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
70 place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
71 <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
72 </entry>
73 <entry date="2008-01-03">
74 Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
75 by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
76 available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
77 latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
78 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
79 Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
80 work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
81 Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
82 at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
83 </entry>
84 <entry date="2007-12-26">
85 You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
86 problems? Check out the
87 <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
88 Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
89 doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
90 <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
91 Mailing List
92 </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
93 <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
94 </entry>
95 <entry date="2007-12-07">
96 Another strike:
97 <list>
98 <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
99 <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
100 <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
101 <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
102 <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
103 <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
104 </list>
105 What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
106 <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
107 world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
108 the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
109 "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
110 MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
111 plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
112 feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
113 <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
114 Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
115 fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
116 .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
117 option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
118 multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
119 to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
120 another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
121 and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
122 Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
123 of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
124 encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
125 of bug fixes.
126 </entry>
127 <entry date="2007-10-23">
128 As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
129 names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
130 out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
131 moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
132 again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
133 </entry>
134 <entry date="2007-10-16">
135 A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
136 <list>
137 <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
138 <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
139 <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
140 <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
141 <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
142 <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
143 <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
144 </list>
145 With our new instrument editor
146 <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
147 we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
148 instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
149 also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
150 <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
151 "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
152 instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
153 audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
154 simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
155 clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
156 provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
157 only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
158 change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
159 the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
160 freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
161 each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
162 altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
163 some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
164 certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
165 not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
166 you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
167 order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
168 feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
169 Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
170 allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
171 hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
172 sampler channel at the same time.
173 </entry>
174 <entry date="2007-10-12">
175 libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
176 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
177 Please update your links and bookmarks!
178 </entry>
179 <entry date="2007-08-10">
180 <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
181 JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
182 The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
183 Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
184 available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
185 </entry>
186 <entry date="2007-05-24">
187 <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
188 JSampler 0.5a</link> has been released, now with instruments database
189 support.
190 </entry>
191 <entry date="2007-05-04">
192 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.4 has been
193 released. Almost another year has gone by.
194 </entry>
195 <entry date="2007-04-02">
196 JSampler 0.4a has been released. Read the
197 <link ref="jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html">manual</link> for
198 installation instructions.
199 </entry>
200 <entry date="2007-03-24">
201 gigedit 0.0.3 has been released, a graphical instrument editor allowing
202 to edit existing Gigasampler format files as well as creating new ones
203 completely from scratch. Along comes a new release of libgig (3.1.1).
204 </entry>
205 <entry date="2006-11-24">
206 After a long, long development cycle LinuxSampler 0.4.0 has finally been
207 released.
208 </entry>
209 <entry date="2006-11-24">
210 libgig 3.1.0 has been released.
211 </entry>
212 <entry date="2006-08-07">
213 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.3a.tar.bz2?download">
214 JSampler 0.3a</link> has been released.
215 <list>
216 <li>
217 Partially implemented a new view - Fantasia (graphic desing: Olivier
218 Boyer). Only channel manipulation for now.
219 </li>
220 <li>
221 More new features in JS Classic - Implemented an LS Console with
222 command autocompletion (using the Tab key), command history (using Up,
223 Down keys), command history search (Ctrl + R), command list search
224 (Ctrl + F), and more.
225 </li>
226 <li>
227 Implemented Orchestras (something like Bookmarks/Favorites for
228 instruments). Drag &amp; Drop support for instrument loading, adding an
229 instrument to orchestra and autocompleting an instrument loading
230 command in the LS Console.
231 </li>
232 </list>
233 </entry>
234 <entry date="2006-06-02">
235 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.3 is now
236 available. It's been a long time isn't it?
237 </entry>
238 <entry date="2006-04-28">
239 libgig 3.0.0 has been released.
240 </entry>
241 <entry date="2006-03-16">
242 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JS_Classic-0.2a.jar?download">
243 JS Classic 0.2a</link> has been released.
244 </entry>
245 <entry date="2005-12-22">
246 Major services (CVS, downloads, Bug Tracking System) were down in the last
247 days due to a hardware defect on one of our servers. CVS is finally up
248 again and we are working on restoring all other services in the next days
249 as well. We are also establishing further backup facilities to prevent this
250 happening again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
251 </entry>
252 <entry date="2005-11-24">
253 Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
254 of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
255 libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
256 (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">
257 read announcement</link>). Please let
258 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</link>
259 know if you are interested in writing an instrument patch editor.
260 </entry>
261 <entry date="2005-10-10">
262 <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/js-classic.jar?download">
263 JS Classic 0.1a</link> has been released (the first distribution of the
264 <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler/">JSampler</link>
265 project).
266 </entry>
267 <entry date="2005-08-16">
268 Due to ongoing synthesis optimizations, CVS version of LS might be broken
269 for a while. Please use the tarball release in the meantime.
270 </entry>
271 <entry date="2005-07-15">
272 LinuxSampler 0.3.3 has been released. Once again a bug fix release.
273 </entry>
274 <entry date="2005-06-24">
275 LinuxSampler 0.3.2 has been released. This is more or less just a bug fix
276 release. Just by coincidence, <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
277 QSampler</link> 0.1.2 has also been thrown out.
278 </entry>
279 <entry date="2005-06-12">
280 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.1 has been
281 released, after a few bugfixes and a new logo icon.
282 </entry>
283 <entry date="2005-05-25">
284 LinuxSampler 0.3.1, the first official release is finally out!
285 </entry>
286 <entry date="2005-05-23">
287 After some time laying around in the backyard,
288 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.0 has
289 been released, now with the promised Audio and MIDI device configuration
290 interface. Enjoy!
291 </entry>
292 <entry date="2005-03-15">
293 Our bug tracking system is now online and available on
294 <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bugs.linuxsampler.org</link>.
295 </entry>
296 <entry date="2005-03-04">
297 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link>,
298 the Qt GUI front-end in the works for the LinuxSampler engine, was bumped
299 to its now fifth primordial release (0.0.5). Still alpha code. Time to move
300 on... to a better and complete Audio/MIDI device configuration interface,
301 as predicted by LSCP and wrapped by liblscp.
302 </entry>
303 <entry date="2005-02-26">
304 Due to a design change, current LinuxSampler CVS version is quite unstable.
305 You might want to use the previous, stable version of LS in the meantime,
306 which can be downloaded as
307 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">source tarball
308 </link>. Alternatively you can also checkout the old version from CVS which
309 was tagged as "v0_2_0".
310 </entry>
311 <entry date="2004-11-19">
312 The Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine has been updated: the 4th
313 alpha-release of
314 <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> has been
315 released.
316 </entry>
317 <entry date="2004-11-13">
318 On monday (November, 15th) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
319 cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> may be temporarily down due to maintenance work
320 around 13:00 UTC.
321 </entry>
322 <entry date="2004-07-06">
323 The third alpha-release of <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
324 QSampler</link>, the Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine, is now
325 publicly available.
326 </entry>
327 <entry date="2004-06-05">
328 Added a screenshot to the Screenshots page, instructions how to compile the
329 GUI are on the linked qsampler site.
330 </entry>
331 <entry date="2004-05-31">
332 On wednesday (June, 2nd) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
333 cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> will be temporarily not available from 6:00 UTC
334 until 16:00 UTC due to construction works.
335 </entry>
336 <entry date="2004-05-24">
337 The CVS repository is now <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
338 browseable</link>.
339 </entry>
340 <entry date="2004-05-03">
341 We are currently in a transition stage due to the recent changes (multi
342 channel / multi engine / multi audio output device and multi MIDI input
343 device support) this also leads to multi problems we have to solve ;-) so
344 meanwhile you can use the old single channel version. We created the two
345 CVS alias tags 'singlechannel' and 'v0_1_0' which you can use to checkout
346 the old single channel version of LinuxSampler. The CVS command line is the
347 same except that you have to add '-r singlechannel'.
348 </entry>
349 <entry date="2004-03-26">
350 CVS root path has changed! See <link ref="downloads.html">downloads</link>
351 section for instructions how to checkout the latest version of LinuxSampler
352 from CVS.
353 </entry>
354 <entry date="2004-03-23">
355 Updated <link ref="features.html">features</link> section on this site,
356 hopefully we will keep the features list in sync with the latest
357 developments from now on.
358 </entry>
359 <entry date="2004-01-07">
360 The document for the network protocol definition is now available in the
361 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
362 section. Have a look at it if you can imagine to write a frontend for
363 LinuxSampler!
364 </entry>
365 <entry date="2003-11-08">
366 Added CVS log to this site, showing the latest commits to the LinuxSampler
367 CVS repository.
368 </entry>
369 <entry date="2003-11-02">
370 Lots of news for the Linuxsampler community. We've got a new site, new
371 domain and new code available in CVS. Check the
372 <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
373 section for instructions. If you want to check it out, please keep in mind
374 that it might contain bugs, it might crash and that it's still lacking tons
375 of features. CVS is directed towards developers who would like to test
376 things and add code. Users should wait for a tarball release.
377 </entry>
378 </news>

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