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103 <h1><span class="hidden">The LinuxSampler Project</span></h1>
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123
124 <h2>LS Development Roadmap</h2>
125 <p class="default">
126 The following list shows the planned work to be done until the next
127 release of LinuxSampler. There will be no new release before all of them
128 are completed.
129 </p>
130
131 <ol class="default">
132 <li class="false">nothing scheduled yet</li>
133 </ol>
134
135 <table class="default">
136 <tr>
137 <td class="default"><img src="gfx/okay_green.png" alt="Done" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Done </td>
138 <td class="default"><img src="gfx/yellow_light.png" alt="Partly implemented" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Partly implemented </td>
139 <td class="default"><img src="gfx/x.png" alt="Not started yet" width="13" height="13" border="1"> No work started yet </td>
140 </tr>
141 </table>
142
143 <h2>Features</h2>
144 <p class="default">
145 The following list shows which features have already been implemented in
146 current CVS version of LinuxSampler and what is planned to be done in
147 (hopefully) near future. If you are missing something that is not already
148 listed below, you can write a proposol to the
149 <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
150 developers mailing list
151 </a>, open an "enhancement" request on our
152 <a href="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bug tracking system</a>
153 or even better send us your patch if you have done something. Even
154 if features are listed to be planned below, it can be that it takes a
155 while until somebody finds the time to implement it. So if you have the
156 time and will to finish one of them, let us know!
157 </p>
158
159 <ol class="default">
160 <li class="partly"> Operating Systems
161 <ol>
162 <li class="ok">Linux</li>
163 <li class="partly">Mac <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">OS X</a> (gigedit and JSampler are not yet available for OS X and thus not included with the installer yet)</li>
164 <li class="partly">Windows</a> (we provide a convenient Windows installer for all components of the project, only the <a href="#instruments_db">instruments DB feature</a> is not yet supported on Windows)</li>
165 </ol>
166 </li>
167 <li class="partly"> Sampler Engines
168 <ol>
169 <li class="partly"> Gigasampler Engine
170 <ol>
171 <li class="ok">Gig file loader
172 <ol>
173 <li class="ok">Gig v2 format</li>
174 <li class="partly">Gig v3 format
175 <ol>
176 <li class="partly">large file support (64 bit file offsets are currently truncated to 32 bit)</li>
177 <li class="ok">24 bit samples (uncompressed as well as compressed)</li>
178 <li class="ok">support for multi-file format (.gig, .gx01, .gx02, ...)</li>
179 <li class="partly">support for articulation (.art) files</li>
180 <li class="ok">support for Dimension Splits not equal to two</li>
181 <li class="ok">up to 8 Dimensions or 256 Dimension Regions</li>
182 </ol>
183 </li>
184 </ol>
185 </li>
186 <li class="ok">Generic playback (RAM playback & disk streaming)</li>
187 <li class="ok">Dimension switching
188 <ol>
189 <li class="ok">Sample Channel</li>
190 <li class="ok">Layer</li>
191 <li class="ok">Velocity</li>
192 <li class="ok">Channel Aftertouch</li>
193 <li class="ok">Release Trigger</li>
194 <li class="ok">Keyboard Position</li>
195 <li class="ok">Round Robin</li>
196 <li class="ok">Random</li>
197 <li class="ok">Modulation Wheel</li>
198 <li class="ok">Breath Ctrl.</li>
199 <li class="ok">Foot Ctrl.</li>
200 <li class="ok">Portamento Time Ctrl.</li>
201 <li class="ok">Effect 1 &#038; 2 Ctrl.</li>
202 <li class="ok">Effect 1 - 5 Depth Ctrl.</li>
203 <li class="ok">General Purpose Ctrl. 1 - 8</li>
204 <li class="ok">Sustain Pedal</li>
205 <li class="ok">Portamento</li>
206 <li class="ok">Sostenuto Pedal</li>
207 <li class="ok">Soft Pedal</li>
208 </ol>
209 </li>
210 <li class="ok">Sustain pedal interpretation</li>
211 <li class="ok">Sostenuto pedal interpretation</li>
212 <li class="ok">Key velocity &#060;-&#062; volume mapping</li>
213 <li class="ok">Looping
214 <ol>
215 <li class="ok">endless loop</li>
216 <li class="ok">limited amount of loops</li>
217 <li class="ok">fractional looping</li>
218 </ol>
219 </li>
220 <li class="ok">Pitchbend wheel support</li>
221 <li class="ok">Bidirectional voice state transition, allowing
222 to cancel the relase stage of voices forth and back arbitrary
223 times if needed</li>
224 <li class="ok">Filter (VCF)
225 <ol>
226 <li class="ok">Highpass</li>
227 <li class="ok">Bandpass</li>
228 <li class="ok">Bandreject</li>
229 <li class="ok">Lowpass</li>
230 <li class="ok">Turbo lowpass</li>
231 <li class="ok">all filter types provide extremely
232 accurate characteristics compared to the original
233 Gigasampler format filters</li>
234 <li class="ok">Cutoff frequency controllable by MIDI controller</li>
235 <li class="ok">Resonance controllable by MIDI controller</li>
236 </ol>
237 </li>
238 <li class="ok">VCA Envelope Generator (Volume)</li>
239 <li class="ok">VCF Envelope Generator (Filter)</li>
240 <li class="ok">VCO Envelope Generator (Pitch)</li>
241 <li class="ok">VCA Low Frequency Oscillator (Volume)</li>
242 <li class="ok">VCF Low Frequency Oscillator (Filter Cutoff)</li>
243 <li class="ok">VCO Low Frequency Oscillator (Pitch)</li>
244 <li class="ok">Layers</li>
245 <li class="ok">Crossfades</li>
246 <li class="ok">Key Groups (a.k.a Exclusive Groups),
247 for mutually switching off sounds i.e. for drumkits</li>
248 <li class="ok">Release Triggered Voices, specific samples
249 that are played back when voices are released</li>
250 <li class="ok">Key Switching, which allows to map a certain
251 range on thy keyboard as additional performance controller,
252 i.e. for switching articulations of orchestral sounds in realtime</li>
253 <li class="ok">Voice Stealing</li>
254 <li class="ok">Portamento Mode and Solo Mode (a.k.a 'Mono Mode',
255 can be altered via standard GM messages, that is CC5 for
256 altering portamento time, CC65 for enabling / disabling
257 portamento mode, CC126 for enabling solo mode and CC127 for
258 disabling solo mode)</li>
259 <li class="ok">Scale Tuning (via standard MIDI GS SysEx message)</li>
260 </ol>
261 </li>
262 <li style="partly"><a href="http://www.midi.org/about-midi/dls/abtdls.shtml">DLS</a> Engine
263 <ol>
264 <li class="ok">DLS file loader (DLS version <a href="http://www.midi.org/about-midi/dls/dls1v11b.pdf">1</a> &#038; <a href="http://www.midi.org/about-midi/dls/dls2spec.shtml">2</a>)</li>
265 <li class="false">Generic playback</li>
266 </ol>
267 </li>
268 <li class="partly">Akai Engine</li>
269 <ol>
270 <li class="ok"><a href="http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~cschoene/projects/libakai/">Akai file loader</a> (<a href="http://www.vintagesynth.com/akai/s1000.shtml">S1000</a>, <a href="http://www.vintagesynth.com/akai/s3000.shtml">S3000</a> series)</li>
271 <li class="false">Generic playback</li>
272 </ol>
273 <li class="false">Custom, modular Engine</li>
274 </ol>
275 </li>
276 <li class="partly">Control interfaces
277 <ol>
278 <li class="ok">Native C++ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface">API</a></li>
279 <li class="ok">Custom network interface for frontends (<a name="LSCP" href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html">LSCP</a>)
280 </li>
281 <li class="false"><a name="OSC" href="http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/">OSC</a>
282 </li>
283 </ol>
284 </li>
285 <li class="partly">MIDI input drivers
286 <ol>
287 <li class="ok"><a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/">ALSA</a> (Linux)</li>
288 <li class="false"><a href="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">JACK</a> (Linux, OSX, Windows, ...)</li>
289 <li class="false"><a href="http://www.steinberg.net/en/support/3rdparty/">VSTi</a></li>
290 <li class="false">MIDI over ethernet (<a href="http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/p1639app.html">Distributed MIDI</a>)</li>
291 <li class="ok"><a href="http://developer.apple.com/audio/pdf/coreaudio.pdf">CoreMIDI</a> (Mac <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">OS X</a>)</li>
292 <li class="ok"><a href="http://midishare.sourceforge.net/">MidiShare</a> (Linux, OS X, Windows)</li>
293 <li class="ok"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiMedia_Extensions">MME</a> (Windows)</li>
294 </ol>
295 </li>
296 <li class="partly">Audio output drivers
297 <ol>
298 <li class="ok"><a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/">ALSA</a> (Linux)</li>
299 <li class="ok"><a href="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">JACK</a> (Linux, OSX, Windows, ...)</li>
300 <li class="ok"><a href="http://www.arts-project.org/">aRts</a> (not RT safe!)</li>
301 <li class="ok"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_stream_input_output">ASIO</a> (Windows)</li>
302 <li class="false"><a href="http://www.steinberg.net/en/support/3rdparty/">VSTi</a></li>
303 <li class="false">Audio over ethernet</li>
304 <li class="false"><a href="http://developer.apple.com/audio/pdf/coreaudio.pdf">CoreAudio</a> (Mac <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">OS X</a>)</li>
305 </ol>
306 </li>
307 <li class="ok">Time stamp event system &#038; jitter correction</li>
308 <li class="ok">Multi channel &#038; multi engine support</li>
309 <li class="partly">Pitch shifter / Interpolation
310 <ol>
311 <li class="ok">Linear interpolation</li>
312 <li class="ok">Cubic interpolation</li>
313 <li class="false">Formant frequency correction / formant manipulation</li>
314 </ol>
315 </li>
316 <li class="false">Dynamic engine recompilation</li>
317 <li class="false">Extensive SMP (multi processor) support</li>
318 <li class="false">Network cluster support</li>
319 <li class="ok">MIDI instrument mapper, allows to create very flexible MIDI progam change setups in a very easy way.
320 <ol>
321 <li class="ok">MIDI program change</li>
322 <li class="ok">MIDI bank select (automatic detection of MSB only, LSB only or full MSB+LSB)</li>
323 <li class="ok">Load Strategy for each Item individually
324 <ol>
325 <li class="ok">On-Demand: loads the instrument only when needed, frees it immediately once not used by any sampler channel anymore</li>
326 <li class="ok">On-Demand-Hold: loads the instrument when needed and keeps it in memory, that is even if not used by a sampler channel</li>
327 <li class="ok">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</li>
328 <li class="ok">Default: let the sampler decide</li>
329 </ol>
330 </li>
331 <li class="ok">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</li>
332 <li class="ok">Mapping of arbitrary Instrument Files, already independent of the underlying format in respect for future sampler engines</li>
333 <li class="ok">arbitrary amount of independent MIDI instrumet maps, (i.e. for chromatic instruments, drumkits, ...), each sampler channel can be assigned to a specific MIDI map</li>
334 </ol>
335 </li>
336 <li class="ok">Effect Sends
337 <ol>
338 <li class="ok">Arbitrary Amount of FX Sends on Sampler Channels</li>
339 <li class="ok">Realtime MIDI Control of Send Level</li>
340 <li class="ok">Arbitrary MIDI Controller assignable</li>
341 <li class="ok">Flexible Routing i.e. to a dedicated effect audio output</li>
342 </ol>
343 </li>
344 <a name="instruments_db"></a>
345 <li class="ok">Instrument Database System, allowing to keep track of even the largest sample library collections
346 <ol>
347 <li class="ok">Ordering in Categories</li>
348 <li class="ok">Search by various Criteria</li>
349 <li class="ok">Transparently maintained on backend side</li>
350 </ol>
351 </li>
352 <li class="partly">(Graphical) frontends
353 <ol>
354 <li class="partly"><a href="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</a> (C++ based frontend using Qt)
355 <ol>
356 <li class="ok">Supports all features of LinuxSampler except the following ...</li>
357 <li class="partly"><a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html#CREATE FX_SEND">
358 Effect Sends</a> (qsampler retrieves current FX send settings from the sampler,
359 stores FX send settings in session .lscp files and restores them, but
360 currently does not yet offer a widget to modify FX send settings)
361 </li>
362 <li class="partly"><a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html#MIDI Instrument Mapping">MIDI Instrument Maps</a>
363 (qsampler does currently not yet support to create more than two MIDI instrument maps [one intended for chromatic instruments and one for drumkits])
364 </li>
365 <li class="false"><a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html#Managing Instruments Database">Instruments DB support</a> (to ease handling of huge sample library collections)</li>
366 <li class="false"><a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html#events">Sampler events</a> (to let qsampler react on certain events occuring on sampler side)</li>
367 <li class="partly">Audio and MIDI device management (only minor thing that qsampler lacks support yet are <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/api/draft-linuxsampler-protocol.html#GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO">"multiplicity"</a> 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)</li>
368 </ol>
369 </li>
370 <li class="ok"><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler">JSampler</a> (Java based frontend)
371 <ol>
372 <li class="ok">Supports all currently available features of LinuxSampler</li>
373 </ol>
374 </li>
375 <li class="false">VSTi frontend</li>
376 </ol>
377 </li>
378 <li class="ok">Playing while Loading, i.e. allowing to play and hold notes on the keyboard
379 while loading a new instrument on the same sampler channel at the same time</li>
380 <li class="ok">Instrument Editor Plugin System for 3rd Party Instrument Editors</li>
381 <li class="ok">Instrument Editors
382 <ol>
383 <li class="ok"><a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html">gigedit</a> (C++ based using gtkmm/Gtk+)
384 <ol>
385 <li class="ok">allows to modify all aspects of Gigsampler v2 and v3 format files</li>
386 <li class="ok">allows to modify existing as well as creating completely new .gig files from scratch</li>
387 <li class="ok">stand-alone mode (independent of LinuxSampler)</li>
388 <li class="ok">live-mode (attached with LinuxSampler), which makes all modifications audible in the sampler in realtime without having to reload</li>
389 <li class="ok">created / modified files are accepted by LinuxSampler as well as by Gigastudio 3</li>
390 </ol>
391 </li>
392 </ol>
393 </li>
394 </ol>
395
396 <hr>
397
398 <p>
399 <TABLE class="formatmatrix">
400 <TR>
401 <TD><IMG src="gfx/okay_green.png" alt="Done" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Done</TD>
402 <TD><IMG src="gfx/yellow_light.png" alt="Partly implemented" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Partly implemented</TD>
403 <TD><IMG src="gfx/x.png" alt="Planned" width="13" height="13" border="1"> Planned</TD>
404 </TR>
405 </TABLE>
406 </p>
407
408 <p>
409 (Last page update on <b>$Date: 2008-01-03 21:50:44 $</b> by $Author: schoenebeck $,
410 also see <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org">CVS Log</a> for recent changes)
411 </p>
412
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