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Features / Development Roadmap

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!

  1. Operating Systems
    1. Linux
    2. Mac OS X
  2. Sampler Engines
    1. Gigasampler Engine
      1. Gig file loader
      2. Generic playback (RAM & disk streaming)
      3. Dimension switching
      4. Sustain pedal support
      5. Key velocity <-> volume mapping
      6. Looping
      7. Pitchbend wheel support
      8. Bidirectional voice state transition
      9. Filter (VCF)
        1. Highpass
        2. Bandpass
        3. Bandreject
        4. Lowpass
        5. Turbo lowpass
        6. Cutoff frequency controllable by MIDI controller
        7. Resonance controllable by MIDI controller
      10. VCA Envelope Generator (Volume)
      11. VCF Envelope Generator (Filter)
      12. VCO Envelope Generator (Pitch)
      13. VCA Low Frequency Oscillator (Volume)
      14. VCF Low Frequency Oscillator (Filter Cutoff)
      15. VCO Low Frequency Oscillator (Pitch)
      16. Layers
      17. Crossfades
      18. Key Groups (a.k.a Exclusive Groups)
      19. Release Triggered Voices
      20. Key Switching
      21. Voice Stealing
    2. DLS Engine
      1. DLS file loader (DLS version 1 & 2)
      2. Generic playback
    3. Akai Engine
      1. Akai file loader (S1000, S3000 series)
      2. Generic playback
    4. Custom, modular Engine
  3. Control interfaces
    1. Custom network interface for frontends (LSCP)
    2. OSC
  4. MIDI input drivers
    1. ALSA
    2. VSTi
    3. MIDI over ethernet (Distributed MIDI)
    4. CoreMIDI (Mac OS X)
  5. Audio output drivers
    1. ALSA
    2. JACK
    3. VSTi
    4. Audio over ethernet
    5. CoreAudio (Mac OS X)
  6. Time stamp event system & jitter correction
  7. Multi channel & multi engine support
  8. Pitch shifter / Interpolation
    1. Linear interpolation
    2. Cubic interpolation
    3. Formant frequency correction / formant manipulation
  9. Dynamic engine recompilation
  10. Extensive SMP (multi processor) support
  11. Network cluster support
  12. (Graphical) frontends
    1. Qt based frontend (QSampler)
    2. VSTi frontend (based on the Qt frontend)

Done Done Partly implemented Partly implemented Planned Planned

(List last updated 2005-05-18, also see CVS Log for recent changes)