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* Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
  the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
  instruments of the same file.

1 Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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4 ChangeLog
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6 SVN TRUNK
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8 * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
9 (EXPERIMENTAL)
10
11 * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
12 the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
13 instruments of the same file.
14
15
16 0.2.3 2013-12-31 A fifth of a Jubilee.
17
18 * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
19
20 * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
21
22 * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
23 session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
24
25 * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
26
27 * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
28
29 * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
30
31 * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
32 configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
33
34 * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
35
36 * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
37
38 * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
39
40 * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
41
42 * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
43 and make.
44
45 * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
46 as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
47 Debian 6.
48
49 * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
50 into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
51
52 * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
53 other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
54 been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
55 instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
56
57 * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
58
59 * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
60 been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
61 wrong main widget hidden state.
62
63 * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
64
65 * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
66 traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
67 option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
68 targets (--enable-debug).
69
70 * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
71
72 * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
73 now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
74 (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
75
76 * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
77 just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
78
79 * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
80 a menu separator has been added.
81
82 * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
83 and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
84
85 * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
86 widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
87 lame green solid background :).
88
89 * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
90 disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
91
92 * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
93
94
95 0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle.
96
97 * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
98 brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
99 ever may follow ;)
100
101 * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
102
103 * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
104 (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
105 settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
106 automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
107 a sampler the next time.
108
109 * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
110
111 * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
112
113 * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
114 font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
115 to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
116 (default none).
117
118 * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
119 the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
120 (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
121
122 * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
123 running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
124 iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
125 main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
126
127 * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
128 with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
129
130 * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
131 screwed.
132
133 * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
134 e.g. by other frontends.
135
136 * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
137 e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
138 (fixes segfault on device changes)
139
140 * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
141 "View" main menu.
142
143 * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
144
145 * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
146
147 * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
148 strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
149
150 * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
151 decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
152
153
154 0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete.
155
156 * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
157 names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
158 the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
159 default.
160
161 * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
162 evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
163
164 * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
165 the main menu and toobar are not visible.
166
167 * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
168 creating a new sampler channel.
169
170 * README requirements and configuration notes update.
171
172 * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
173 form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
174 users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
175 first time).
176
177 * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
178 which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
179
180 * Added Windows file path support.
181
182 * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
183 under win32.
184
185 * Qt4 port of the application.
186
187
188 0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
189
190 * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
191 mapping instrument files with special characters in their
192 filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
193 and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
194
195 * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
196 does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
197 instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
198 tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
199
200 * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
201 application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
202 spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
203
204 * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
205
206
207 0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
208
209 * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
210 cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
211 highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
212
213 * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
214
215 * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
216 the session state, only at code-level.
217
218 * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
219 existing instrument file name.
220
221 * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
222 hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
223 keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
224 improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
225 instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
226 corrected some tooltip text strings.
227
228 * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
229 which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
230 window managers.
231
232 * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
233 with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
234 MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
235 the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
236
237 * GPL address update.
238
239
240 0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
241
242 * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
243 on qsampler.spec (RPM).
244
245 * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
246
247 * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
248 installation paths have been added to configure command
249 arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
250
251 * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
252 option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
253 number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
254 increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
255 (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
256
257 * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
258 and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
259 are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
260 before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
261
262 * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
263
264 * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
265 the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
266
267 * All widget captions changed to include proper application
268 title name prefix.
269
270 * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
271 sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
272 generated at configure time.
273
274 * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
275 registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
276 to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
277 argument have some effect on X11.
278
279 * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
280
281 * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
282 compiled with -no-stl.
283
284
285 0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
286
287 * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
288 turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
289 one, while on qjackctl).
290
291 * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
292 minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
293
294
295 0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
296
297 * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
298 to Christian Schoenebeck design.
299
300 * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
301 in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
302 info updates.
303
304 * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
305 buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
306 device dialog.
307
308 * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
309
310 * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
311 Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
312 with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
313 Mayat, for pointing these out).
314
315
316 0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough.
317
318 * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
319
320 * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
321 consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
322 sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
323
324 * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
325 instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
326
327 * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
328 an instrument.
329
330 * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
331
332
333 0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release.
334
335 * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
336 which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
337 configurations to the default audio driver type (which
338 is ALSA) unexpectedly.
339
340 * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
341 session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
342 loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
343
344 * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
345 session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
346
347 * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
348
349 * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
350 only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
351 change information are now also posted to messages window.
352
353 * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
354 instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
355 drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
356 files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
357
358 * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
359 featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
360 sampler instrument file.
361
362 * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
363 from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
364 avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
365 channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
366
367 * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
368 available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
369 a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
370
371 * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
372 count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
373 maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
374 otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
375
376
377 0.0.4 2004-11-19 Fourth alpha-release.
378
379 * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
380 actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
381 the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
382
383 * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
384 the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
385 following common user-interface guidelines.
386
387 * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
388 control structures.
389
390 * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
391
392 * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
393 the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
394 channel (omni mode).
395
396 * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
397 color to black (was green), being now an user option.
398
399 * Minor configure fixes.
400
401
402 0.0.3 2004-07-06 Third alpha-release.
403
404 * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
405
406 * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
407 and on session file save.
408
409 * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
410 on create time.
411
412 * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
413
414
415 0.0.2 2004-06-15 Pre-revolutionary release.
416
417 * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
418 over the empty workspace area.
419
420 * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
421 so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
422 avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
423 correct salvage of settings and configuration.
424
425 * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
426 provided to override the default (which is 100%).
427
428 * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
429 increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
430
431 * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
432 each sampler channel strip.
433
434 * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
435 qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
436
437 * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
438 a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
439
440 * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
441 new sampler channel strip.
442
443 * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
444 suggested in the following lines:
445
446 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
447 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
448 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
449 LOAD ENGINE ...
450 LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
451 SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
452
453
454 0.0.1 2004-06-05 Primordial alpha release.
455

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