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1 schoenebeck 1268 <?xml version='1.0' ?>
2     <news>
3 schoenebeck 1647 <entry date="2008-01-23">
4     Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
5     place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
6     <link ref="https://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
7     </entry>
8 schoenebeck 1619 <entry date="2008-01-03">
9     Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
10     by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
11     available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
12     latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
13     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
14     Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
15     work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
16     Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
17     at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
18     </entry>
19 schoenebeck 1597 <entry date="2007-12-26">
20     You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
21     problems? Check out the
22     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
23     Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
24     doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
25 schoenebeck 1598 <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
26     Mailing List
27 schoenebeck 1597 </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
28     <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
29     </entry>
30 schoenebeck 1576 <entry date="2007-12-07">
31     Another strike:
32     <list>
33     <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
34     <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
35     <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
36     <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
37     <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
38     <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
39     </list>
40     What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
41 schoenebeck 1578 <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
42     world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
43     the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
44 schoenebeck 1576 "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
45     MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
46 schoenebeck 1578 plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
47     feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
48 schoenebeck 1576 <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
49     Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
50     fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
51 schoenebeck 1578 .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
52     option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
53 schoenebeck 1576 multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
54     to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
55 schoenebeck 1578 another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
56     and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
57     Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
58     of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
59     encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
60     of bug fixes.
61 schoenebeck 1576 </entry>
62 schoenebeck 1457 <entry date="2007-10-23">
63     As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
64     names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
65     out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
66     moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
67     again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
68     </entry>
69 schoenebeck 1448 <entry date="2007-10-16">
70     A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
71     <list>
72     <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
73     <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
74     <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
75     <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
76     <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
77     <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
78     <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
79     </list>
80     With our new instrument editor
81     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
82     we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
83     instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
84     also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
85     <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
86     "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
87     instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
88     audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
89     simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
90     clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
91     provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
92     only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
93     change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
94     the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
95     freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
96     each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
97     altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
98     some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
99     certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
100     not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
101     you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
102     order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
103 iliev 1449 feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
104 schoenebeck 1448 Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
105     allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
106     hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
107     sampler channel at the same time.
108     </entry>
109 schoenebeck 1408 <entry date="2007-10-12">
110     libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
111     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
112     Please update your links and bookmarks!
113     </entry>
114 iliev 1289 <entry date="2007-08-10">
115     <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
116     JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
117     The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
118     Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
119     available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
120     </entry>
121 schoenebeck 1268 <entry date="2007-05-24">
122     <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
123     JSampler 0.5a</link> has been released, now with instruments database
124     support.
125     </entry>
126     <entry date="2007-05-04">
127     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.4 has been
128     released. Almost another year has gone by.
129     </entry>
130     <entry date="2007-04-02">
131     JSampler 0.4a has been released. Read the
132     <link ref="jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html">manual</link> for
133     installation instructions.
134     </entry>
135     <entry date="2007-03-24">
136     gigedit 0.0.3 has been released, a graphical instrument editor allowing
137     to edit existing Gigasampler format files as well as creating new ones
138     completely from scratch. Along comes a new release of libgig (3.1.1).
139     </entry>
140     <entry date="2006-11-24">
141     After a long, long development cycle LinuxSampler 0.4.0 has finally been
142     released.
143     </entry>
144     <entry date="2006-11-24">
145     libgig 3.1.0 has been released.
146     </entry>
147     <entry date="2006-08-07">
148     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.3a.tar.bz2?download">
149     JSampler 0.3a</link> has been released.
150     <list>
151     <li>
152     Partially implemented a new view - Fantasia (graphic desing: Olivier
153     Boyer). Only channel manipulation for now.
154     </li>
155     <li>
156     More new features in JS Classic - Implemented an LS Console with
157     command autocompletion (using the Tab key), command history (using Up,
158     Down keys), command history search (Ctrl + R), command list search
159     (Ctrl + F), and more.
160     </li>
161     <li>
162     Implemented Orchestras (something like Bookmarks/Favorites for
163     instruments). Drag &amp; Drop support for instrument loading, adding an
164     instrument to orchestra and autocompleting an instrument loading
165     command in the LS Console.
166     </li>
167     </list>
168     </entry>
169     <entry date="2006-06-02">
170     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.3 is now
171     available. It's been a long time isn't it?
172     </entry>
173     <entry date="2006-04-28">
174     libgig 3.0.0 has been released.
175     </entry>
176     <entry date="2006-03-16">
177     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JS_Classic-0.2a.jar?download">
178     JS Classic 0.2a</link> has been released.
179     </entry>
180     <entry date="2005-12-22">
181     Major services (CVS, downloads, Bug Tracking System) were down in the last
182     days due to a hardware defect on one of our servers. CVS is finally up
183     again and we are working on restoring all other services in the next days
184     as well. We are also establishing further backup facilities to prevent this
185     happening again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
186     </entry>
187     <entry date="2005-11-24">
188     Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
189 schoenebeck 1453 of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
190 schoenebeck 1268 libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
191     (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">
192     read announcement</link>). Please let
193     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</link>
194     know if you are interested in writing an instrument patch editor.
195     </entry>
196     <entry date="2005-10-10">
197     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/js-classic.jar?download">
198     JS Classic 0.1a</link> has been released (the first distribution of the
199     <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler/">JSampler</link>
200     project).
201     </entry>
202     <entry date="2005-08-16">
203     Due to ongoing synthesis optimizations, CVS version of LS might be broken
204     for a while. Please use the tarball release in the meantime.
205     </entry>
206     <entry date="2005-07-15">
207     LinuxSampler 0.3.3 has been released. Once again a bug fix release.
208     </entry>
209     <entry date="2005-06-24">
210     LinuxSampler 0.3.2 has been released. This is more or less just a bug fix
211     release. Just by coincidence, <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
212     QSampler</link> 0.1.2 has also been thrown out.
213     </entry>
214     <entry date="2005-06-12">
215     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.1 has been
216     released, after a few bugfixes and a new logo icon.
217     </entry>
218     <entry date="2005-05-25">
219     LinuxSampler 0.3.1, the first official release is finally out!
220     </entry>
221     <entry date="2005-05-23">
222     After some time laying around in the backyard,
223     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.0 has
224     been released, now with the promised Audio and MIDI device configuration
225     interface. Enjoy!
226     </entry>
227     <entry date="2005-03-15">
228     Our bug tracking system is now online and available on
229     <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bugs.linuxsampler.org</link>.
230     </entry>
231     <entry date="2005-03-04">
232     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link>,
233     the Qt GUI front-end in the works for the LinuxSampler engine, was bumped
234     to its now fifth primordial release (0.0.5). Still alpha code. Time to move
235     on... to a better and complete Audio/MIDI device configuration interface,
236     as predicted by LSCP and wrapped by liblscp.
237     </entry>
238     <entry date="2005-02-26">
239     Due to a design change, current LinuxSampler CVS version is quite unstable.
240     You might want to use the previous, stable version of LS in the meantime,
241     which can be downloaded as
242     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">source tarball
243     </link>. Alternatively you can also checkout the old version from CVS which
244     was tagged as "v0_2_0".
245     </entry>
246     <entry date="2004-11-19">
247     The Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine has been updated: the 4th
248     alpha-release of
249     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> has been
250     released.
251     </entry>
252     <entry date="2004-11-13">
253     On monday (November, 15th) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
254     cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> may be temporarily down due to maintenance work
255     around 13:00 UTC.
256     </entry>
257     <entry date="2004-07-06">
258     The third alpha-release of <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
259     QSampler</link>, the Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine, is now
260     publicly available.
261     </entry>
262     <entry date="2004-06-05">
263     Added a screenshot to the Screenshots page, instructions how to compile the
264     GUI are on the linked qsampler site.
265     </entry>
266     <entry date="2004-05-31">
267     On wednesday (June, 2nd) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
268     cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> will be temporarily not available from 6:00 UTC
269     until 16:00 UTC due to construction works.
270     </entry>
271     <entry date="2004-05-24">
272     The CVS repository is now <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
273     browseable</link>.
274     </entry>
275     <entry date="2004-05-03">
276     We are currently in a transition stage due to the recent changes (multi
277     channel / multi engine / multi audio output device and multi MIDI input
278     device support) this also leads to multi problems we have to solve ;-) so
279     meanwhile you can use the old single channel version. We created the two
280     CVS alias tags 'singlechannel' and 'v0_1_0' which you can use to checkout
281     the old single channel version of LinuxSampler. The CVS command line is the
282     same except that you have to add '-r singlechannel'.
283     </entry>
284     <entry date="2004-03-26">
285     CVS root path has changed! See <link ref="downloads.html">downloads</link>
286     section for instructions how to checkout the latest version of LinuxSampler
287     from CVS.
288     </entry>
289     <entry date="2004-03-23">
290     Updated <link ref="features.html">features</link> section on this site,
291     hopefully we will keep the features list in sync with the latest
292     developments from now on.
293     </entry>
294     <entry date="2004-01-07">
295     The document for the network protocol definition is now available in the
296     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
297     section. Have a look at it if you can imagine to write a frontend for
298     LinuxSampler!
299     </entry>
300     <entry date="2003-11-08">
301     Added CVS log to this site, showing the latest commits to the LinuxSampler
302     CVS repository.
303     </entry>
304     <entry date="2003-11-02">
305     Lots of news for the Linuxsampler community. We've got a new site, new
306     domain and new code available in CVS. Check the
307     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
308     section for instructions. If you want to check it out, please keep in mind
309     that it might contain bugs, it might crash and that it's still lacking tons
310     of features. CVS is directed towards developers who would like to test
311     things and add code. Users should wait for a tarball release.
312     </entry>
313     </news>

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