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* Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler
  channel settings dialog.
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 - Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler
10 channel settings dialog. (EXPERIMENTAL)
11
12 - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.
13
14 - AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with
15 latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation.
16
17
18 0.5.2 2018-07-22 A Summer'18 Release.
19
20 - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all
21 permisssive license (FSFAP).
22
23
24 0.5.1 2018-05-21 Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy.
25
26 - Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic
27 when the display server platform is not X11.
28
29 - Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
30
31 - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
32
33 - Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
34
35 - Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.
36
37
38 0.5.0 2017-12-12 An Autumn'17 release.
39
40 - French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert
41 (qsampler_fr.ts).
42
43 - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent
44 from build/configure template chains.
45
46 - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo
47 file (formerly AppData).
48
49
50 0.4.3 2017-04-27 Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
51
52 - Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
53
54 - Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of
55 the configure build date and time stamps.
56
57
58 0.4.2 2016-11-14 A Fall'16 release.
59
60 * Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
61 instance setup.
62
63 * Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
64 line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
65 eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
66
67
68 0.4.1 2016-09-14 End of Summer'16 release.
69
70 * Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
71 in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
72
73 * Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
74 given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
75 Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
76
77 * Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
78 auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
79
80
81 0.4.0 2016-04-05 Spring'16 release frenzy.
82
83 * Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
84
85 * Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
86
87 * Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
88 in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
89
90 * Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
91
92
93 0.3.1 2015-07-19 Summer'15 release frenzy.
94
95 * Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
96 64bit Linux flavours.
97
98 * Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
99
100 * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
101 sub-routine is now in effect.
102
103 * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
104
105
106 0.3.0 2015-03-25 Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
107
108 * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
109
110 * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
111 of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
112
113 * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
114
115 * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
116 stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
117
118 * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
119 main toolbar orientation.
120
121 * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
122 as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
123
124 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
125
126 * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
127 debian, thanks).
128
129 * Translations install directory change.
130
131 * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
132
133 * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
134 the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
135 instruments of the same file.
136
137 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
138 (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
139
140
141 0.2.3 2013-12-31 A fifth of a Jubilee.
142
143 * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
144
145 * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
146
147 * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
148 session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
149
150 * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
151
152 * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
153
154 * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
155
156 * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
157 configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
158
159 * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
160
161 * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
162
163 * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
164
165 * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
166
167 * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
168 and make.
169
170 * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
171 as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
172 Debian 6.
173
174 * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
175 into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
176
177 * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
178 other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
179 been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
180 instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
181
182 * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
183
184 * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
185 been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
186 wrong main widget hidden state.
187
188 * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
189
190 * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
191 traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
192 option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
193 targets (--enable-debug).
194
195 * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
196
197 * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
198 now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
199 (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
200
201 * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
202 just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
203
204 * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
205 a menu separator has been added.
206
207 * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
208 and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
209
210 * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
211 widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
212 lame green solid background :).
213
214 * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
215 disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
216
217 * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
218
219
220 0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle.
221
222 * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
223 brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
224 ever may follow ;)
225
226 * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
227
228 * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
229 (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
230 settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
231 automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
232 a sampler the next time.
233
234 * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
235
236 * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
237
238 * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
239 font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
240 to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
241 (default none).
242
243 * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
244 the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
245 (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
246
247 * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
248 running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
249 iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
250 main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
251
252 * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
253 with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
254
255 * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
256 screwed.
257
258 * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
259 e.g. by other frontends.
260
261 * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
262 e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
263 (fixes segfault on device changes)
264
265 * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
266 "View" main menu.
267
268 * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
269
270 * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
271
272 * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
273 strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
274
275 * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
276 decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
277
278
279 0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete.
280
281 * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
282 names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
283 the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
284 default.
285
286 * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
287 evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
288
289 * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
290 the main menu and toobar are not visible.
291
292 * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
293 creating a new sampler channel.
294
295 * README requirements and configuration notes update.
296
297 * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
298 form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
299 users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
300 first time).
301
302 * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
303 which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
304
305 * Added Windows file path support.
306
307 * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
308 under win32.
309
310 * Qt4 port of the application.
311
312
313 0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
314
315 * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
316 mapping instrument files with special characters in their
317 filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
318 and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
319
320 * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
321 does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
322 instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
323 tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
324
325 * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
326 application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
327 spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
328
329 * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
330
331
332 0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
333
334 * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
335 cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
336 highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
337
338 * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
339
340 * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
341 the session state, only at code-level.
342
343 * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
344 existing instrument file name.
345
346 * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
347 hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
348 keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
349 improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
350 instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
351 corrected some tooltip text strings.
352
353 * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
354 which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
355 window managers.
356
357 * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
358 with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
359 MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
360 the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
361
362 * GPL address update.
363
364
365 0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
366
367 * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
368 on qsampler.spec (RPM).
369
370 * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
371
372 * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
373 installation paths have been added to configure command
374 arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
375
376 * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
377 option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
378 number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
379 increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
380 (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
381
382 * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
383 and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
384 are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
385 before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
386
387 * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
388
389 * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
390 the sampler channel dialog, at last!
391
392 * All widget captions changed to include proper application
393 title name prefix.
394
395 * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
396 sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
397 generated at configure time.
398
399 * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
400 registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
401 to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
402 argument have some effect on X11.
403
404 * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
405
406 * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
407 compiled with -no-stl.
408
409
410 0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
411
412 * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
413 turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
414 one, while on qjackctl).
415
416 * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
417 minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
418
419
420 0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
421
422 * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
423 to Christian Schoenebeck design.
424
425 * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
426 in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
427 info updates.
428
429 * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
430 buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
431 device dialog.
432
433 * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
434
435 * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
436 Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
437 with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
438 Mayat, for pointing these out).
439
440
441 0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough.
442
443 * Device configuration is now complete.
444
445 * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
446 consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
447 sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
448
449 * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
450 instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
451
452 * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
453 an instrument.
454
455 * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
456
457
458 0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release.
459
460 * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
461 which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
462 configurations to the default audio driver type (which
463 is ALSA) unexpectedly.
464
465 * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
466 session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
467 loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
468
469 * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
470 session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
471
472 * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
473
474 * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
475 only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
476 change information are now also posted to messages window.
477
478 * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
479 instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
480 drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
481 files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
482
483 * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
484 featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
485 sampler instrument file.
486
487 * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
488 from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
489 avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
490 channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
491
492 * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
493 available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
494 a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
495
496 * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
497 count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
498 maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
499 otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
500
501
502 0.0.4 2004-11-19 Fourth alpha-release.
503
504 * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
505 actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
506 the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
507
508 * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
509 the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
510 following common user-interface guidelines.
511
512 * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
513 control structures.
514
515 * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
516
517 * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
518 the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
519 channel (omni mode).
520
521 * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
522 color to black (was green), being now an user option.
523
524 * Minor configure fixes.
525
526
527 0.0.3 2004-07-06 Third alpha-release.
528
529 * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
530
531 * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
532 and on session file save.
533
534 * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
535 on create time.
536
537 * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
538
539
540 0.0.2 2004-06-15 Pre-revolutionary release.
541
542 * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
543 over the empty workspace area.
544
545 * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
546 so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
547 avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
548 correct salvage of settings and configuration.
549
550 * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
551 provided to override the default (which is 100%).
552
553 * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
554 increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
555
556 * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
557 each sampler channel strip.
558
559 * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
560 qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
561
562 * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
563 a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
564
565 * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
566 new sampler channel strip.
567
568 * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
569 suggested in the following lines:
570
571 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
572 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
573 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
574 LOAD ENGINE ...
575 LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
576 SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
577
578
579 0.0.1 2004-06-05 Primordial alpha release.
580

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