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2     <news>
3 schoenebeck 2005 <entry date="2009-10-16">
4     Better a late than no announcement at all:
5     <list>
6     <li>linuxsampler 1.0.0</li>
7     <li>Fantasia 0.9</li>
8     <li>qsampler 0.2.2</li>
9     <li>gigedit 0.2.0</li>
10     <li>libgig 3.3.0</li>
11     <li>jlscp 0.8</li>
12     <li>liblscp 0.5.6</li>
13     </list>
14     This is the first release which allows the sampler to be used as audio
15     host plugin, namely supporting the standards VST, AU, DSSI and LV2. The
16     sampler's limits for max. voices &amp; disk streams can now be altered at
17     runtime by frontends, no need to recompile the sampler anymore. The Mac
18     version now also supports CoreAudio as audio driver. The Windows version
19     finally supports the sampler's instruments DB feature as well, however
20     expect it still to be unstable at this point. Along to the already
21     existing JACK audio driver, Jack MIDI support has been added in this
22     release. The sampler allows frontends now basic MIDI control, that is to
23     monitor incoming MIDI data on MIDI input devices and sampler channels and
24     to send note-on and note-off MIDI events to sampler channels, which
25     allows frontends to provide a virtual MIDI keyboard to the user. Besides
26     these major changes there were countless bugfixes and optimizations.
27     </entry>
28 schoenebeck 1905 <entry date="2009-05-12">
29     On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and
30     friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available
31     from our
32     <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/win/">download server</link>.
33     This is the first Windows version which includes a VST plugin version
34     of the sampler. The installer includes both, native 64 bit binaries and
35     32 bit binaries. The installer detects the system type and installs the
36     appropriate binaries automatically.
37     Please follow the ongoing discussion and development on our
38     <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=339">web forum</link>
39     and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
40     to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
41     </entry>
42 schoenebeck 1838 <entry date="2009-02-17">
43     Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin!
44     It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout
45     the experimental AU binary package of LinuxSampler, available from our
46     <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/mac/">download server</link>.
47     As this is still an early development version, please follow the ongoing
48     discussion and development on our
49 schoenebeck 1856 <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=295">web forum</link>
50 schoenebeck 1838 and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
51     to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
52     </entry>
53 schoenebeck 1694 <entry date="2008-02-15">
54     We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library
55     is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for
56     giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano
57     library with you. You find the download link along with the library's
58     license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our
59     <link ref="instruments.html">instruments</link> site.
60     </entry>
61 schoenebeck 1674 <entry date="2008-02-07">
62     Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
63     site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
64     specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
65 schoenebeck 1694 <link ref="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</link>
66 schoenebeck 1674 chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
67     </entry>
68 schoenebeck 1647 <entry date="2008-01-23">
69     Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
70     place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
71 schoenebeck 1856 <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
72 schoenebeck 1647 </entry>
73 schoenebeck 1619 <entry date="2008-01-03">
74     Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
75     by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
76     available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
77     latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
78     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
79     Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
80     work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
81     Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
82     at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
83     </entry>
84 schoenebeck 1597 <entry date="2007-12-26">
85     You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
86     problems? Check out the
87     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
88     Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
89     doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
90 schoenebeck 1598 <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
91     Mailing List
92 schoenebeck 1597 </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
93     <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
94     </entry>
95 schoenebeck 1576 <entry date="2007-12-07">
96     Another strike:
97     <list>
98     <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
99     <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
100     <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
101     <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
102     <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
103     <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
104     </list>
105     What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
106 schoenebeck 1578 <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
107     world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
108     the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
109 schoenebeck 1576 "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
110     MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
111 schoenebeck 1578 plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
112     feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
113 schoenebeck 1576 <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
114     Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
115     fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
116 schoenebeck 1578 .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
117     option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
118 schoenebeck 1576 multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
119     to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
120 schoenebeck 1578 another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
121     and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
122     Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
123     of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
124     encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
125     of bug fixes.
126 schoenebeck 1576 </entry>
127 schoenebeck 1457 <entry date="2007-10-23">
128     As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
129     names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
130     out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
131     moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
132     again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
133     </entry>
134 schoenebeck 1448 <entry date="2007-10-16">
135     A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
136     <list>
137     <li>linuxsampler 0.5.0</li>
138     <li>qsampler 0.1.5</li>
139     <li>jsampler 0.7a</li>
140     <li>gigedit 0.1.0</li>
141     <li>libgig 3.2.0</li>
142     <li>liblscp 0.5.5</li>
143     <li>jlscp 0.6a</li>
144     </list>
145     With our new instrument editor
146     <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/screenshots/gigedit_0_0_3.png">gigedit</link>
147     we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
148     instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
149     also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
150     <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
151     "attached" to LinuxSampler</link>. The latter case allows you to play and edit
152     instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
153     audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
154     simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
155     clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
156     provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
157     only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
158     change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
159     the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
160     freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
161     each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
162     altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
163     some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
164     certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
165     not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
166     you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
167     order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
168 iliev 1449 feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
169 schoenebeck 1448 Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
170     allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
171     hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
172     sampler channel at the same time.
173     </entry>
174 schoenebeck 1408 <entry date="2007-10-12">
175     libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
176     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/" />
177     Please update your links and bookmarks!
178     </entry>
179 iliev 1289 <entry date="2007-08-10">
180     <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.6a.tar.bz2">
181     JSampler 0.6a</link> has been released.
182     The <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/Fantasia-0.6a.jar">
183     Fantasia</link> distribution is now capable of controlling all features
184     available in LinuxSampler. See <link ref="screenshots/fantasia.png">screenshot</link>.
185     </entry>
186 schoenebeck 1268 <entry date="2007-05-24">
187     <link ref="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.5a.tar.bz2">
188     JSampler 0.5a</link> has been released, now with instruments database
189     support.
190     </entry>
191     <entry date="2007-05-04">
192     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.4 has been
193     released. Almost another year has gone by.
194     </entry>
195     <entry date="2007-04-02">
196     JSampler 0.4a has been released. Read the
197     <link ref="jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html">manual</link> for
198     installation instructions.
199     </entry>
200     <entry date="2007-03-24">
201     gigedit 0.0.3 has been released, a graphical instrument editor allowing
202     to edit existing Gigasampler format files as well as creating new ones
203     completely from scratch. Along comes a new release of libgig (3.1.1).
204     </entry>
205     <entry date="2006-11-24">
206     After a long, long development cycle LinuxSampler 0.4.0 has finally been
207     released.
208     </entry>
209     <entry date="2006-11-24">
210     libgig 3.1.0 has been released.
211     </entry>
212     <entry date="2006-08-07">
213     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JSampler-0.3a.tar.bz2?download">
214     JSampler 0.3a</link> has been released.
215     <list>
216     <li>
217     Partially implemented a new view - Fantasia (graphic desing: Olivier
218     Boyer). Only channel manipulation for now.
219     </li>
220     <li>
221     More new features in JS Classic - Implemented an LS Console with
222     command autocompletion (using the Tab key), command history (using Up,
223     Down keys), command history search (Ctrl + R), command list search
224     (Ctrl + F), and more.
225     </li>
226     <li>
227     Implemented Orchestras (something like Bookmarks/Favorites for
228     instruments). Drag &amp; Drop support for instrument loading, adding an
229     instrument to orchestra and autocompleting an instrument loading
230     command in the LS Console.
231     </li>
232     </list>
233     </entry>
234     <entry date="2006-06-02">
235     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">Qsampler</link> 0.1.3 is now
236     available. It's been a long time isn't it?
237     </entry>
238     <entry date="2006-04-28">
239     libgig 3.0.0 has been released.
240     </entry>
241     <entry date="2006-03-16">
242     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/JS_Classic-0.2a.jar?download">
243     JS Classic 0.2a</link> has been released.
244     </entry>
245     <entry date="2005-12-22">
246     Major services (CVS, downloads, Bug Tracking System) were down in the last
247     days due to a hardware defect on one of our servers. CVS is finally up
248     again and we are working on restoring all other services in the next days
249     as well. We are also establishing further backup facilities to prevent this
250     happening again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
251     </entry>
252     <entry date="2005-11-24">
253     Latest <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">CVS version</link>
254 schoenebeck 1453 of <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/libgig/">
255 schoenebeck 1268 libgig</link> now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
256     (<link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9051147&amp;forum_id=12792">
257     read announcement</link>). Please let
258     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">us</link>
259     know if you are interested in writing an instrument patch editor.
260     </entry>
261     <entry date="2005-10-10">
262     <link ref="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jsampler/js-classic.jar?download">
263     JS Classic 0.1a</link> has been released (the first distribution of the
264     <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsampler/">JSampler</link>
265     project).
266     </entry>
267     <entry date="2005-08-16">
268     Due to ongoing synthesis optimizations, CVS version of LS might be broken
269     for a while. Please use the tarball release in the meantime.
270     </entry>
271     <entry date="2005-07-15">
272     LinuxSampler 0.3.3 has been released. Once again a bug fix release.
273     </entry>
274     <entry date="2005-06-24">
275     LinuxSampler 0.3.2 has been released. This is more or less just a bug fix
276     release. Just by coincidence, <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
277     QSampler</link> 0.1.2 has also been thrown out.
278     </entry>
279     <entry date="2005-06-12">
280     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.1 has been
281     released, after a few bugfixes and a new logo icon.
282     </entry>
283     <entry date="2005-05-25">
284     LinuxSampler 0.3.1, the first official release is finally out!
285     </entry>
286     <entry date="2005-05-23">
287     After some time laying around in the backyard,
288     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> 0.1.0 has
289     been released, now with the promised Audio and MIDI device configuration
290     interface. Enjoy!
291     </entry>
292     <entry date="2005-03-15">
293     Our bug tracking system is now online and available on
294     <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">bugs.linuxsampler.org</link>.
295     </entry>
296     <entry date="2005-03-04">
297     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link>,
298     the Qt GUI front-end in the works for the LinuxSampler engine, was bumped
299     to its now fifth primordial release (0.0.5). Still alpha code. Time to move
300     on... to a better and complete Audio/MIDI device configuration interface,
301     as predicted by LSCP and wrapped by liblscp.
302     </entry>
303     <entry date="2005-02-26">
304     Due to a design change, current LinuxSampler CVS version is quite unstable.
305     You might want to use the previous, stable version of LS in the meantime,
306     which can be downloaded as
307     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">source tarball
308     </link>. Alternatively you can also checkout the old version from CVS which
309     was tagged as "v0_2_0".
310     </entry>
311     <entry date="2004-11-19">
312     The Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine has been updated: the 4th
313     alpha-release of
314     <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">QSampler</link> has been
315     released.
316     </entry>
317     <entry date="2004-11-13">
318     On monday (November, 15th) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
319     cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> may be temporarily down due to maintenance work
320     around 13:00 UTC.
321     </entry>
322     <entry date="2004-07-06">
323     The third alpha-release of <link ref="http://qsampler.sourceforge.net">
324     QSampler</link>, the Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine, is now
325     publicly available.
326     </entry>
327     <entry date="2004-06-05">
328     Added a screenshot to the Screenshots page, instructions how to compile the
329     GUI are on the linked qsampler site.
330     </entry>
331     <entry date="2004-05-31">
332     On wednesday (June, 2nd) <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
333     cvs.linuxsampler.org</link> will be temporarily not available from 6:00 UTC
334     until 16:00 UTC due to construction works.
335     </entry>
336     <entry date="2004-05-24">
337     The CVS repository is now <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">
338     browseable</link>.
339     </entry>
340     <entry date="2004-05-03">
341     We are currently in a transition stage due to the recent changes (multi
342     channel / multi engine / multi audio output device and multi MIDI input
343     device support) this also leads to multi problems we have to solve ;-) so
344     meanwhile you can use the old single channel version. We created the two
345     CVS alias tags 'singlechannel' and 'v0_1_0' which you can use to checkout
346     the old single channel version of LinuxSampler. The CVS command line is the
347     same except that you have to add '-r singlechannel'.
348     </entry>
349     <entry date="2004-03-26">
350     CVS root path has changed! See <link ref="downloads.html">downloads</link>
351     section for instructions how to checkout the latest version of LinuxSampler
352     from CVS.
353     </entry>
354     <entry date="2004-03-23">
355     Updated <link ref="features.html">features</link> section on this site,
356     hopefully we will keep the features list in sync with the latest
357     developments from now on.
358     </entry>
359     <entry date="2004-01-07">
360     The document for the network protocol definition is now available in the
361     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
362     section. Have a look at it if you can imagine to write a frontend for
363     LinuxSampler!
364     </entry>
365     <entry date="2003-11-08">
366     Added CVS log to this site, showing the latest commits to the LinuxSampler
367     CVS repository.
368     </entry>
369     <entry date="2003-11-02">
370     Lots of news for the Linuxsampler community. We've got a new site, new
371     domain and new code available in CVS. Check the
372     <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads</link>
373     section for instructions. If you want to check it out, please keep in mind
374     that it might contain bugs, it might crash and that it's still lacking tons
375     of features. CVS is directed towards developers who would like to test
376     things and add code. Users should wait for a tarball release.
377     </entry>
378     </news>

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