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1 Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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4 ChangeLog
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7 GIT HEAD
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9 * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
10 sub-routine is now in effect. (EXPERIMENTAL)
11
12 * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
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14
15 0.3.0 2015-03-25 Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
16
17 * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
18
19 * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
20 of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
21
22 * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
23
24 * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
25 stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
26
27 * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
28 main toolbar orientation.
29
30 * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
31 as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
32
33 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
34
35 * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
36 debian, thanks).
37
38 * Translations install directory change.
39
40 * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
41
42 * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
43 the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
44 instruments of the same file.
45
46 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
47 (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
48
49
50 0.2.3 2013-12-31 A fifth of a Jubilee.
51
52 * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
53
54 * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
55
56 * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
57 session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
58
59 * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
60
61 * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
62
63 * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
64
65 * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
66 configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
67
68 * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
69
70 * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
71
72 * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
73
74 * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
75
76 * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
77 and make.
78
79 * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
80 as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
81 Debian 6.
82
83 * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
84 into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
85
86 * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
87 other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
88 been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
89 instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
90
91 * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
92
93 * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
94 been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
95 wrong main widget hidden state.
96
97 * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
98
99 * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
100 traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
101 option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
102 targets (--enable-debug).
103
104 * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
105
106 * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
107 now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
108 (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
109
110 * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
111 just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
112
113 * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
114 a menu separator has been added.
115
116 * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
117 and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
118
119 * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
120 widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
121 lame green solid background :).
122
123 * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
124 disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
125
126 * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
127
128
129 0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle.
130
131 * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
132 brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
133 ever may follow ;)
134
135 * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
136
137 * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
138 (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
139 settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
140 automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
141 a sampler the next time.
142
143 * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
144
145 * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
146
147 * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
148 font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
149 to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
150 (default none).
151
152 * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
153 the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
154 (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
155
156 * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
157 running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
158 iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
159 main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
160
161 * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
162 with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
163
164 * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
165 screwed.
166
167 * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
168 e.g. by other frontends.
169
170 * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
171 e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
172 (fixes segfault on device changes)
173
174 * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
175 "View" main menu.
176
177 * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
178
179 * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
180
181 * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
182 strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
183
184 * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
185 decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
186
187
188 0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete.
189
190 * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
191 names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
192 the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
193 default.
194
195 * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
196 evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
197
198 * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
199 the main menu and toobar are not visible.
200
201 * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
202 creating a new sampler channel.
203
204 * README requirements and configuration notes update.
205
206 * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
207 form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
208 users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
209 first time).
210
211 * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
212 which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
213
214 * Added Windows file path support.
215
216 * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
217 under win32.
218
219 * Qt4 port of the application.
220
221
222 0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
223
224 * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
225 mapping instrument files with special characters in their
226 filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
227 and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
228
229 * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
230 does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
231 instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
232 tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
233
234 * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
235 application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
236 spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
237
238 * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
239
240
241 0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
242
243 * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
244 cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
245 highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
246
247 * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
248
249 * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
250 the session state, only at code-level.
251
252 * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
253 existing instrument file name.
254
255 * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
256 hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
257 keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
258 improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
259 instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
260 corrected some tooltip text strings.
261
262 * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
263 which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
264 window managers.
265
266 * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
267 with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
268 MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
269 the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
270
271 * GPL address update.
272
273
274 0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
275
276 * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
277 on qsampler.spec (RPM).
278
279 * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
280
281 * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
282 installation paths have been added to configure command
283 arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
284
285 * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
286 option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
287 number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
288 increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
289 (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
290
291 * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
292 and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
293 are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
294 before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
295
296 * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
297
298 * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
299 the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
300
301 * All widget captions changed to include proper application
302 title name prefix.
303
304 * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
305 sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
306 generated at configure time.
307
308 * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
309 registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
310 to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
311 argument have some effect on X11.
312
313 * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
314
315 * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
316 compiled with -no-stl.
317
318
319 0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
320
321 * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
322 turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
323 one, while on qjackctl).
324
325 * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
326 minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
327
328
329 0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
330
331 * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
332 to Christian Schoenebeck design.
333
334 * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
335 in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
336 info updates.
337
338 * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
339 buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
340 device dialog.
341
342 * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
343
344 * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
345 Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
346 with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
347 Mayat, for pointing these out).
348
349
350 0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough.
351
352 * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
353
354 * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
355 consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
356 sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
357
358 * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
359 instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
360
361 * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
362 an instrument.
363
364 * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
365
366
367 0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release.
368
369 * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
370 which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
371 configurations to the default audio driver type (which
372 is ALSA) unexpectedly.
373
374 * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
375 session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
376 loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
377
378 * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
379 session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
380
381 * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
382
383 * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
384 only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
385 change information are now also posted to messages window.
386
387 * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
388 instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
389 drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
390 files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
391
392 * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
393 featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
394 sampler instrument file.
395
396 * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
397 from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
398 avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
399 channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
400
401 * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
402 available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
403 a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
404
405 * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
406 count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
407 maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
408 otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
409
410
411 0.0.4 2004-11-19 Fourth alpha-release.
412
413 * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
414 actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
415 the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
416
417 * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
418 the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
419 following common user-interface guidelines.
420
421 * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
422 control structures.
423
424 * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
425
426 * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
427 the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
428 channel (omni mode).
429
430 * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
431 color to black (was green), being now an user option.
432
433 * Minor configure fixes.
434
435
436 0.0.3 2004-07-06 Third alpha-release.
437
438 * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
439
440 * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
441 and on session file save.
442
443 * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
444 on create time.
445
446 * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
447
448
449 0.0.2 2004-06-15 Pre-revolutionary release.
450
451 * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
452 over the empty workspace area.
453
454 * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
455 so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
456 avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
457 correct salvage of settings and configuration.
458
459 * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
460 provided to override the default (which is 100%).
461
462 * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
463 increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
464
465 * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
466 each sampler channel strip.
467
468 * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
469 qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
470
471 * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
472 a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
473
474 * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
475 new sampler channel strip.
476
477 * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
478 suggested in the following lines:
479
480 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
481 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
482 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
483 LOAD ENGINE ...
484 LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
485 SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
486
487
488 0.0.1 2004-06-05 Primordial alpha release.
489

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