On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and
friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available
from our
download server.
This is the first Windows version which includes a VST plugin version
of the sampler. The installer includes both, native 64 bit binaries and
32 bit binaries. The installer detects the system type and installs the
appropriate binaries automatically.
Please follow the ongoing discussion and development on our
web forum
and developers' mailing list
to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin!
It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout
the experimental AU binary package of LinuxSampler, available from our
download server.
As this is still an early development version, please follow the ongoing
discussion and development on our
web forum
and developers' mailing list
to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library
is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for
giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano
library with you. You find the download link along with the library's
license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our
instruments site.
Added Debian Howto to the documentation
site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
"Benchmark"
chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
bb.linuxsampler.org
Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
downloads site.
Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
at the OS X HOWTO for an easy start.
You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
problems? Check out the
Trouble
Shooting Section of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
Mailing List
. If you found bugs, please report them to our
Bug Tracking System.
Another strike:
linuxsampler 0.5.1
jsampler 0.8a
qsampler 0.2.1
gigedit 0.1.1
libgig 3.2.1
jlscp 0.7a
What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
conquers the Windows
world. This is the first official release of our applications for
the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
"20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
Windows HOWTO for a smooth start.
Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
.gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
of bug fixes.
As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server
out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely
moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening
again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused!
A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived:
linuxsampler 0.5.0
qsampler 0.1.5
jsampler 0.7a
gigedit 0.1.0
libgig 3.2.0
liblscp 0.5.5
jlscp 0.6a
With our new instrument editor
gigedit
we can finally modify existing, as well as create new Gigasampler format
instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but
also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or
"attached" to LinuxSampler. The latter case allows you to play and edit
instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately
audible, without having to reload the instruments into the sampler. You can
simply edit instruments by selecting the respective sampler channel and
clicking on "Edit" (in QSampler as well as in JSampler). LinuxSampler now
provides a very powerful and easy MIDI program change mapping, which not
only allows you to define which instrument to load on which MIDI program
change number (and bank), it also allows further parameters like whether
the instrument shall be pre-cached or loaded only when needed (and likewise
freed when not needed). You can create arbitrary amount of effect sends for
each sampler channel, each having an arbitrary MIDI controller for
altering the effect send level in realtime and each one can flexible be routed to
some of the sampler's audio output channels, i.e. to a dedicated one for a
certain effect type (managing FX sends is yet only supported by JSampler,
not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows
you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can
order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this
feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler).
Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now
allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and
hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same
sampler channel at the same time.
libgig's home has moved to this server. It's new official home is now:
Please update your links and bookmarks!
JSampler 0.6a has been released.
The
Fantasia distribution is now capable of controlling all features
available in LinuxSampler. See screenshot.
JSampler 0.5a has been released, now with instruments database
support.
Qsampler 0.1.4 has been
released. Almost another year has gone by.
JSampler 0.4a has been released. Read the
manual for
installation instructions.
gigedit 0.0.3 has been released, a graphical instrument editor allowing
to edit existing Gigasampler format files as well as creating new ones
completely from scratch. Along comes a new release of libgig (3.1.1).
After a long, long development cycle LinuxSampler 0.4.0 has finally been
released.
libgig 3.1.0 has been released.
JSampler 0.3a has been released.
Partially implemented a new view - Fantasia (graphic desing: Olivier
Boyer). Only channel manipulation for now.
More new features in JS Classic - Implemented an LS Console with
command autocompletion (using the Tab key), command history (using Up,
Down keys), command history search (Ctrl + R), command list search
(Ctrl + F), and more.
Implemented Orchestras (something like Bookmarks/Favorites for
instruments). Drag & Drop support for instrument loading, adding an
instrument to orchestra and autocompleting an instrument loading
command in the LS Console.
Qsampler 0.1.3 is now
available. It's been a long time isn't it?
libgig 3.0.0 has been released.
JS Classic 0.2a has been released.
Major services (CVS, downloads, Bug Tracking System) were down in the last
days due to a hardware defect on one of our servers. CVS is finally up
again and we are working on restoring all other services in the next days
as well. We are also establishing further backup facilities to prevent this
happening again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
Latest CVS version
of
libgig now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files
(
read announcement). Please let
us
know if you are interested in writing an instrument patch editor.
JS Classic 0.1a has been released (the first distribution of the
JSampler
project).
Due to ongoing synthesis optimizations, CVS version of LS might be broken
for a while. Please use the tarball release in the meantime.
LinuxSampler 0.3.3 has been released. Once again a bug fix release.
LinuxSampler 0.3.2 has been released. This is more or less just a bug fix
release. Just by coincidence,
QSampler 0.1.2 has also been thrown out.
QSampler 0.1.1 has been
released, after a few bugfixes and a new logo icon.
LinuxSampler 0.3.1, the first official release is finally out!
After some time laying around in the backyard,
QSampler 0.1.0 has
been released, now with the promised Audio and MIDI device configuration
interface. Enjoy!
Our bug tracking system is now online and available on
bugs.linuxsampler.org.
QSampler,
the Qt GUI front-end in the works for the LinuxSampler engine, was bumped
to its now fifth primordial release (0.0.5). Still alpha code. Time to move
on... to a better and complete Audio/MIDI device configuration interface,
as predicted by LSCP and wrapped by liblscp.
Due to a design change, current LinuxSampler CVS version is quite unstable.
You might want to use the previous, stable version of LS in the meantime,
which can be downloaded as
source tarball
. Alternatively you can also checkout the old version from CVS which
was tagged as "v0_2_0".
The Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine has been updated: the 4th
alpha-release of
QSampler has been
released.
On monday (November, 15th)
cvs.linuxsampler.org may be temporarily down due to maintenance work
around 13:00 UTC.
The third alpha-release of
QSampler, the Qt GUI front-end for the LinuxSampler engine, is now
publicly available.
Added a screenshot to the Screenshots page, instructions how to compile the
GUI are on the linked qsampler site.
On wednesday (June, 2nd)
cvs.linuxsampler.org will be temporarily not available from 6:00 UTC
until 16:00 UTC due to construction works.
The CVS repository is now
browseable.
We are currently in a transition stage due to the recent changes (multi
channel / multi engine / multi audio output device and multi MIDI input
device support) this also leads to multi problems we have to solve ;-) so
meanwhile you can use the old single channel version. We created the two
CVS alias tags 'singlechannel' and 'v0_1_0' which you can use to checkout
the old single channel version of LinuxSampler. The CVS command line is the
same except that you have to add '-r singlechannel'.
CVS root path has changed! See downloads
section for instructions how to checkout the latest version of LinuxSampler
from CVS.
Updated features section on this site,
hopefully we will keep the features list in sync with the latest
developments from now on.
The document for the network protocol definition is now available in the
downloads
section. Have a look at it if you can imagine to write a frontend for
LinuxSampler!
Added CVS log to this site, showing the latest commits to the LinuxSampler
CVS repository.
Lots of news for the Linuxsampler community. We've got a new site, new
domain and new code available in CVS. Check the
downloads
section for instructions. If you want to check it out, please keep in mind
that it might contain bugs, it might crash and that it's still lacking tons
of features. CVS is directed towards developers who would like to test
things and add code. Users should wait for a tarball release.