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1 Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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9 - Custom color (palette) theme editor introduced; color
10 (palette) theme changes are now effective immediately,
11 except on default. (EXPERIMENTAL)
12
13 - Second attempt to fix the yet non-official though
14 CMake build configuration. (EXPERIMENTAL)
15
16 - When using autotools and ./configure --with-qt=...,
17 it is also necessary to adjust the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
18 environment variable (after a merge request by plcl
19 aka. Pedro López-Cabanillas, while on qmidinet,
20 thanks). (EXPERIMENTAL)
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22
23 0.6.0 2019-10-17 An Autumn'19 Release.
24
25 - Added alternate yet non-official CMake build option.
26
27 - Fix HiDPI display screen effective support (Qt >= 5.6).
28
29 - Make sure compiler flags comply to c++11 as standard.
30
31
32 0.5.6 2019-07-12 A Summer'19 Release.
33
34 - Updated for the newer Qt5 translation tools (>= 5.13).
35
36 - Configure updated to check for qtchooser availability.
37
38 - Minor update to Debian packaging control file.
39
40
41 0.5.5 2019-04-11 A Spring-Break'19 Release.
42
43 - Re-defined all main application UNIX signal handling.
44
45
46 0.5.4 2019-03-11 Pre-LAC2019 Release Frenzy.
47
48 - Refactored all singleton/unique application instance
49 setup logic away from X11/Xcb hackery.
50
51 - HiDPI display screen support (Qt >= 5.6).
52
53 - Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2019).
54
55
56 0.5.3 2018-12-06 An End of Autumn'18 Release.
57
58 - Avoid saving plug-in sampler channels and related devices
59 to regular LSCP (*.lscp) session files.
60
61 - Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler
62 channel settings dialog.
63
64 - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.
65
66 - AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with
67 latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation.
68
69
70 0.5.2 2018-07-22 A Summer'18 Release.
71
72 - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all
73 permisssive license (FSFAP).
74
75
76 0.5.1 2018-05-21 Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy.
77
78 - Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic
79 when the display server platform is not X11.
80
81 - Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
82
83 - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
84
85 - Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
86
87 - Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.
88
89
90 0.5.0 2017-12-12 An Autumn'17 release.
91
92 - French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert
93 (qsampler_fr.ts).
94
95 - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent
96 from build/configure template chains.
97
98 - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo
99 file (formerly AppData).
100
101
102 0.4.3 2017-04-27 Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
103
104 - Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
105
106 - Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of
107 the configure build date and time stamps.
108
109
110 0.4.2 2016-11-14 A Fall'16 release.
111
112 * Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
113 instance setup.
114
115 * Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
116 line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
117 eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
118
119
120 0.4.1 2016-09-14 End of Summer'16 release.
121
122 * Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
123 in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
124
125 * Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
126 given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
127 Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
128
129 * Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
130 auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
131
132
133 0.4.0 2016-04-05 Spring'16 release frenzy.
134
135 * Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
136
137 * Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
138
139 * Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
140 in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
141
142 * Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
143
144
145 0.3.1 2015-07-19 Summer'15 release frenzy.
146
147 * Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
148 64bit Linux flavours.
149
150 * Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
151
152 * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
153 sub-routine is now in effect.
154
155 * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
156
157
158 0.3.0 2015-03-25 Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
159
160 * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
161
162 * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
163 of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
164
165 * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
166
167 * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
168 stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
169
170 * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
171 main toolbar orientation.
172
173 * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
174 as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
175
176 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
177
178 * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
179 debian, thanks).
180
181 * Translations install directory change.
182
183 * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
184
185 * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
186 the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
187 instruments of the same file.
188
189 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
190 (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
191
192
193 0.2.3 2013-12-31 A fifth of a Jubilee.
194
195 * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
196
197 * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
198
199 * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
200 session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
201
202 * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
203
204 * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
205
206 * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
207
208 * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
209 configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
210
211 * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
212
213 * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
214
215 * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
216
217 * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
218
219 * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
220 and make.
221
222 * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
223 as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
224 Debian 6.
225
226 * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
227 into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
228
229 * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
230 other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
231 been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
232 instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
233
234 * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
235
236 * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
237 been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
238 wrong main widget hidden state.
239
240 * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
241
242 * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
243 traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
244 option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
245 targets (--enable-debug).
246
247 * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
248
249 * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
250 now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
251 (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
252
253 * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
254 just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
255
256 * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
257 a menu separator has been added.
258
259 * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
260 and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
261
262 * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
263 widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
264 lame green solid background :).
265
266 * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
267 disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
268
269 * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
270
271
272 0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle.
273
274 * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
275 brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
276 ever may follow ;)
277
278 * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
279
280 * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
281 (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
282 settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
283 automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
284 a sampler the next time.
285
286 * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
287
288 * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
289
290 * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
291 font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
292 to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
293 (default none).
294
295 * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
296 the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
297 (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
298
299 * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
300 running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
301 iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
302 main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
303
304 * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
305 with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
306
307 * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
308 screwed.
309
310 * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
311 e.g. by other frontends.
312
313 * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
314 e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
315 (fixes segfault on device changes)
316
317 * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
318 "View" main menu.
319
320 * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
321
322 * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
323
324 * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
325 strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
326
327 * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
328 decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
329
330
331 0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete.
332
333 * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
334 names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
335 the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
336 default.
337
338 * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
339 evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
340
341 * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
342 the main menu and toobar are not visible.
343
344 * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
345 creating a new sampler channel.
346
347 * README requirements and configuration notes update.
348
349 * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
350 form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
351 users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
352 first time).
353
354 * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
355 which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
356
357 * Added Windows file path support.
358
359 * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
360 under win32.
361
362 * Qt4 port of the application.
363
364
365 0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
366
367 * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
368 mapping instrument files with special characters in their
369 filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
370 and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
371
372 * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
373 does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
374 instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
375 tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
376
377 * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
378 application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
379 spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
380
381 * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
382
383
384 0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
385
386 * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
387 cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
388 highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
389
390 * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
391
392 * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
393 the session state, only at code-level.
394
395 * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
396 existing instrument file name.
397
398 * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
399 hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
400 keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
401 improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
402 instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
403 corrected some tooltip text strings.
404
405 * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
406 which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
407 window managers.
408
409 * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
410 with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
411 MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
412 the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
413
414 * GPL address update.
415
416
417 0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
418
419 * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
420 on qsampler.spec (RPM).
421
422 * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
423
424 * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
425 installation paths have been added to configure command
426 arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
427
428 * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
429 option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
430 number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
431 increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
432 (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
433
434 * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
435 and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
436 are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
437 before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
438
439 * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
440
441 * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
442 the sampler channel dialog, at last!
443
444 * All widget captions changed to include proper application
445 title name prefix.
446
447 * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
448 sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
449 generated at configure time.
450
451 * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
452 registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
453 to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
454 argument have some effect on X11.
455
456 * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
457
458 * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
459 compiled with -no-stl.
460
461
462 0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
463
464 * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
465 turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
466 one, while on qjackctl).
467
468 * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
469 minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
470
471
472 0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
473
474 * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
475 to Christian Schoenebeck design.
476
477 * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
478 in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
479 info updates.
480
481 * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
482 buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
483 device dialog.
484
485 * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
486
487 * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
488 Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
489 with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
490 Mayat, for pointing these out).
491
492
493 0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough.
494
495 * Device configuration is now complete.
496
497 * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
498 consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
499 sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
500
501 * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
502 instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
503
504 * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
505 an instrument.
506
507 * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
508
509
510 0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release.
511
512 * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
513 which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
514 configurations to the default audio driver type (which
515 is ALSA) unexpectedly.
516
517 * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
518 session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
519 loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
520
521 * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
522 session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
523
524 * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
525
526 * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
527 only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
528 change information are now also posted to messages window.
529
530 * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
531 instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
532 drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
533 files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
534
535 * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
536 featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
537 sampler instrument file.
538
539 * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
540 from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
541 avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
542 channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
543
544 * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
545 available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
546 a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
547
548 * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
549 count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
550 maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
551 otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
552
553
554 0.0.4 2004-11-19 Fourth alpha-release.
555
556 * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
557 actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
558 the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
559
560 * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
561 the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
562 following common user-interface guidelines.
563
564 * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
565 control structures.
566
567 * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
568
569 * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
570 the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
571 channel (omni mode).
572
573 * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
574 color to black (was green), being now an user option.
575
576 * Minor configure fixes.
577
578
579 0.0.3 2004-07-06 Third alpha-release.
580
581 * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
582
583 * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
584 and on session file save.
585
586 * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
587 on create time.
588
589 * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
590
591
592 0.0.2 2004-06-15 Pre-revolutionary release.
593
594 * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
595 over the empty workspace area.
596
597 * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
598 so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
599 avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
600 correct salvage of settings and configuration.
601
602 * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
603 provided to override the default (which is 100%).
604
605 * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
606 increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
607
608 * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
609 each sampler channel strip.
610
611 * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
612 qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
613
614 * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
615 a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
616
617 * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
618 new sampler channel strip.
619
620 * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
621 suggested in the following lines:
622
623 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
624 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
625 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
626 LOAD ENGINE ...
627 LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
628 SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
629
630
631 0.0.1 2004-06-05 Primordial alpha release.
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