--- web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/news.xml 2007/08/10 22:31:18 1289 +++ web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/news.xml 2009/03/06 13:07:07 1856 @@ -1,5 +1,142 @@ + + 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
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  • jsampler 0.8a
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  • qsampler 0.2.1
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  • gigedit 0.1.1
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  • libgig 3.2.1
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  • 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
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  • qsampler 0.1.5
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  • jsampler 0.7a
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  • gigedit 0.1.0
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  • libgig 3.2.0
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  • liblscp 0.5.5
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  • 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. @@ -75,7 +212,7 @@ Latest CVS version - of + of libgig now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files ( read announcement). Please let