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LS Development Roadmap
The following list shows the planned work to be done until the next
release of LinuxSampler. There will be no new release before all of them
are completed.
- nothing scheduled yet
Done |
Partly implemented |
No work started yet |
Features
The following list shows which features have already been implemented in
current CVS version of LinuxSampler and what is planned to be done in
(hopefully) near future. If you are missing something that is not already
listed below, you can write a proposol to the
developers mailing list
or even better send us your patch if you have done something. Even
if features are listed to be planned below, it can be that it takes a
while until somebody finds the time to implement it. So if you have the
time and will to finish one of them, let us know!
- Operating Systems
- Linux
- Mac OS X
- Sampler Engines
- Gigasampler Engine
- Gig file loader
- Gig v2 format
- Gig v3 format
- large file support (64 bit file offsets are currently truncated to 32 bit)
- 24 bit samples (uncompressed as well as compressed)
- support for multi-file format (.gig, .gx01, .gx02, ...)
- support for articulation (.art) files
- support for Dimension Splits not equal to two
- up to 8 Dimensions or 256 Dimension Regions
- Generic playback (RAM playback & disk streaming)
- Dimension switching
- Sample Channel
- Layer
- Velocity
- Channel Aftertouch
- Release Trigger
- Keyboard Position
- Round Robin
- Random
- Modulation Wheel
- Breath Ctrl.
- Foot Ctrl.
- Portamento Time Ctrl.
- Effect 1 & 2 Ctrl.
- Effect 1 - 5 Depth Ctrl.
- General Purpose Ctrl. 1 - 8
- Sustain Pedal
- Portamento
- Sostenuto Pedal
- Soft Pedal
- Sustain pedal interpretation
- Sostenuto pedal interpretation
- Key velocity <-> volume mapping
- Looping
- endless loop
- limited amount of loops
- fractional looping
- Pitchbend wheel support
- Bidirectional voice state transition, allowing
to cancel the relase stage of voices forth and back arbitrary
times if needed
- Filter (VCF)
- Highpass
- Bandpass
- Bandreject
- Lowpass
- Turbo lowpass
- all filter types provide extremely
accurate characteristics compared to the original
Gigasampler format filters
- Cutoff frequency controllable by MIDI controller
- Resonance controllable by MIDI controller
- VCA Envelope Generator (Volume)
- VCF Envelope Generator (Filter)
- VCO Envelope Generator (Pitch)
- VCA Low Frequency Oscillator (Volume)
- VCF Low Frequency Oscillator (Filter Cutoff)
- VCO Low Frequency Oscillator (Pitch)
- Layers
- Crossfades
- Key Groups (a.k.a Exclusive Groups),
for mutually switching off sounds i.e. for drumkits
- Release Triggered Voices, specific samples
that are played back when voices are released
- Key Switching, which allows to map a certain
range on thy keyboard as additional performance controller,
i.e. for switching articulations of orchestral sounds in realtime
- Voice Stealing
- Portamento Mode and Solo Mode (a.k.a 'Mono Mode',
can be altered via standard GM messages, that is CC5 for
altering portamento time, CC65 for enabling / disabling
portamento mode, CC126 for enabling solo mode and CC127 for
disabling solo mode)
- Scale Tuning (via standard MIDI GS SysEx message)
- DLS Engine
- DLS file loader (DLS version 1 & 2)
- Generic playback
- Akai Engine
- Akai file loader (S1000, S3000 series)
- Generic playback
- Custom, modular Engine
- Control interfaces
- Native C++ API
- Custom network interface for frontends (LSCP)
- OSC
- MIDI input drivers
- ALSA
- VSTi
- MIDI over ethernet (Distributed MIDI)
- CoreMIDI (Mac OS X)
- MidiShare (Linux, OS X, Windows)
- Audio output drivers
- ALSA
- JACK
- aRts (not RT safe!)
- VSTi
- Audio over ethernet
- CoreAudio (Mac OS X)
- Time stamp event system & jitter correction
- Multi channel & multi engine support
- Pitch shifter / Interpolation
- Linear interpolation
- Cubic interpolation
- Formant frequency correction / formant manipulation
- Dynamic engine recompilation
- Extensive SMP (multi processor) support
- Network cluster support
- MIDI instrument mapper, allows to create very flexible MIDI progam change setups in a very easy way.
- MIDI program change
- MIDI bank select (automatic detection of MSB only, LSB only or full MSB+LSB)
- Load Strategy for each Item individually
- On-Demand: loads the instrument only when needed, frees it immediately once not used by any sampler channel anymore
- On-Demand-Hold: loads the instrument when needed and keeps it in memory, that is even if not used by a sampler channel
- Persistent: loads the instrument immediately in the background (i.e. at sampler startup), allowing immediate program changes in realtime even of largest instruments, without wait time
- Default: let the sampler decide
- Volume Factor for each Item, allowing to compensate the volume difference of sample library collections i.e. for live performances, without having to edit the instrument files
- Mapping of arbitrary Instrument Files, already independent of the underlying format in respect for future sampler engines
- arbitrary amount of independent MIDI instrumet maps, (i.e. for chromatic instruments, drumkits, ...), each sampler channel can be assigned to a specific MIDI map
- Effect Sends
- Arbitrary Amount of FX Sends on Sampler Channels
- Realtime MIDI Control of Send Level
- Arbitrary MIDI Controller assignable
- Flexible Routing i.e. to a dedicated effect audio output
- Instrument Database System, allowing to keep track of even the largest sample library collections
- Ordering in Categories
- Search by various Criteria
- Transparently maintained on backend side
- (Graphical) frontends
- QSampler (C++ based frontend using Qt)
- Supports all features of LinuxSampler except the following ...
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Effect Sends (qsampler retrieves current FX send settings from the sampler,
stores FX send settings in session .lscp files and restores them, but
currently does not yet offer a widget to modify FX send settings)
- MIDI Instrument Maps
(qsampler does currently not yet support to create more than two MIDI instrument maps [one intended for chromatic instruments and one for drumkits])
- Instruments DB support (to ease handling of huge sample library collections)
- Sampler events (to let qsampler react on certain events occuring on sampler side)
- Audio and MIDI device management (only minor thing that qsampler lacks support yet are "multiplicity" type device parameters, that is parameters which don't just accept one value, but also a list of values, i.e. for the "ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS" parameter of the ALSA MIDI driver)
- JSampler (Java based frontend)
- Supports all currently available features of LinuxSampler
- VSTi frontend
- Playing while Loading, i.e. allowing to play and hold notes on the keyboard
while loading a new instrument on the same sampler channel at the same time
- Instrument Editor Plugin System for 3rd Party Instrument Editors
- Instrument Editors
- gigedit (C++ based using gtkmm/Gtk+)
- allows to modify all aspects of Gigsampler v2 and v3 format files
- allows to modify existing as well as creating completely new .gig files from scratch
- stand-alone mode (independent of LinuxSampler)
- live-mode (attached with LinuxSampler), which makes all modifications audible in the sampler in realtime without having to reload
- created / modified files are accepted by LinuxSampler as well as by Gigastudio 3
(Last page update on $Date: 2007-11-27 19:43:15 $ by $Author: schoenebeck $,
also see CVS Log for recent changes)
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