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2  <news>  <news>
3      <entry date="2019-03-10">
4        The <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxsampler/mailman/message/36608653/">macOS Installer has been modernized</link>
5        e.g. using now Gtk 3 for Gigedit and Qt 5 for QSampler and a modern
6        C++11 capable compiler. Support for ancient PPC Macs and 32-bit Intel
7        Macs has been dropped for that reason. So all Mac snapshot builds starting
8        from today onwards will require a 64-bit Intel Mac with at least macOS 10.7 or
9        higher. If you still have one of those ancient Macs and can't find an old
10        snapshot build on our website that still works for your old Mac, then you may
11        write us on the
12        <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxsampler/lists/linuxsampler-devel">mailing list</link>.
13      </entry>
14      <entry date="2017-11-26">
15        LinuxSampler 2.1.0 had been released after two years of development.
16        Check the
17        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Release_Notes/LinuxSampler_2_1_0/">release notes</link>
18        for a detailed review of what's new with LinuxSampler and friends.
19      </entry>
20      <entry date="2017-07-20">
21        You are working with <link ref="http://muse-sequencer.org">MusE</link>?
22        Then Andrew Coughlan's <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/lscp2idf">lscp2idf scripts</link>
23        might help you to automatically extract MIDI instruments from LSCP files to
24        the MusE sequencer's IDF format, which can be helpful for patch changes
25        in that sequencer.
26      </entry>
27      <entry date="2017-03-05">
28        Services are back online. After reviewing the recent server incident we
29        came to the conclusion that the attack was fortunately quite limited.
30        We rolled back the system, closed the exploited security
31        hole and brought all services back online. In case you downloaded or updated any source files
32        from our <link ref="http://svn.linuxsampler.org">svn server</link>
33        between March 2nd and March 3rd, we recommend you to
34        delete the entire source directory and make an entire fresh checkout from
35        svn to avoid any issues. The svn server is now back at a clean state.
36      </entry>
37      <entry date="2017-03-03">
38          <b>Important notice:</b>
39        Our server had been compromised. For that reason we were forced to take most
40        services offline for now to protect you from accessing any compromised material.
41        We are currently investigating this incident and will update you accordingly.
42      </entry>
43      <entry date="2016-07-06">
44        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">Web Forum</link> and
45        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracker</link>
46        are back online: As you might have noticed, our
47        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">Web Forum</link> as well as our
48        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracker</link> were partly
49        unavailable for quite a while. It was possible to read them, but especially
50        registration of new user accounts were disabled (i.e. due to numerous
51        spam bot attacks we suffered in the past). Those issues have been
52        resolved and so both sites are back available and should now work entirely
53        as expected.
54      </entry>
55      <entry date="2016-05-04">
56        There is some progress regarding Gigedit's integrated
57        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Instrument_Scripts/NKSP_Language/">NKSP</link>
58        real-time instrument script editor. Check out the
59        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/News/Instrument_Script_Editor_2016-05-04/">News Article ...</link>
60      </entry>
61      <entry date="2015-07-18">
62        LinuxSampler 2.0.0 had been released after six years of development!
63        Check the
64        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Release_Notes/LinuxSampler_2_0_0/">release notes</link>
65        for a detailed review of what's new with LinuxSampler and friends.
66      </entry>
67      <entry date="2015-06-11">
68        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/apple.png"></link>
69        The Mac installer was broken on latest OS X 10.10 Yosemite. This had been
70        fixed today. Get the latest
71        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">snapshot for Mac</link>
72        with Yosemite support now.
73      </entry>
74      <entry date="2015-04-29">
75        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org" img="gfx/new_article.png"></link>
76        A new documentation site has been launched:
77        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org">http://doc.linuxsampler.org</link> -
78        This separate page dedicated to manuals, tutorials and other kind of
79        articles for the LinuxSampler project, is using a new solution to write
80        and maintain such articles with a minimum of effort. Be invited to help us
81        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Writing_Docs/">writing documentation</link>
82        for LinuxSampler and friends! As one of the first topics, this site is now
83        hosting an introduction to the new
84        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Instrument_Scripts/NKSP_Language/">NKSP Real-Time Instrument Script Language</link>.
85        The long-term plan is to move all documentation of this project from our www
86        server to that new site.
87      </entry>
88      <entry date="2015-01-18">
89        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/pix/screenshots/mac_installer_1.jpg" img="http://download.linuxsampler.org/pix/screenshots/mac_installer_1_240x169.jpg"></link>
90        For the Mac users out there: We finally have a convenient installer for the
91        OS X version of LinuxSampler. This is already integrated in our automatic
92        build system. So from now on all
93        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">daily snapshot builds for Mac</link>
94        are automatically built with an installer. By default the installer will
95        install all components (LinuxSampler stand-alone application, VST and
96        Audio Unit plugin version of LinuxSampler, QSampler, Fantasia, GigEdit and
97        command line tools. At step "Installation Type" you can however also
98        override the default installation and select which components to install.
99      </entry>
100      <entry date="2014-06-19">
101        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/apple.png"></link>
102        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">gigedit finally included with OS X snapshots!</link>
103        Due to the variety of third party library dependencies it took a while, but
104        finally "gigedit", our graphical instrument editor for Gigasampler /
105        GigaStudio files, is now included with the automatic binary snapshots builds
106        for Mac OS X. The automatic snapshot installers are automatically compiled
107        by one of our servers each time a developer commits something new to our
108        Subversion (development) server. You can use gigedit on Mac OS X as
109        stand-alone instrument editor as well as in live-mode while running
110        LinuxSampler. In the latter case your changes with gigedit get immediately
111        audible while playing the instrument on the keyboard at the same time.
112      </entry>
113      <entry date="2011-08-25">
114        <link ref="sfz/" img="gfx/logos/sfz.png"></link>
115        <link ref="sfz/">Added SFZ implementation status page.</link>
116        We are currently in the works to implement support for the SFZ format,
117        which is a powerful and open sample library format, already adopted by
118        many commercial samplers. Check our new SFZ status page to see which
119        aspects of the format are already supported by LinuxSampler, and which
120        ones are yet to be implemented.
121      </entry>
122      <entry date="2011-07-18">
123        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/apple.png"></link>
124        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">Download the latest OS X snapshot of the sampler!</link>
125        Following our ongoing sympathy for automatic snapshots, we finally provide
126        automatic builds also for Apple OS X! As soon as some developer commits
127        something new to our Subversion server, a new binary snapshot for OS X will
128        automatically be available for download from our webserver within minutes.
129        The snapshot tbz2 archive file contains universal binaries
130        (PPC 32 bit, Intel 32 &amp; 64 bit) of the stand-alone version of the
131        sampler, VST and AU plugin version, and the graphical frontend applications
132        QSampler and Fantasia. Only our graphical instrument editor gigedit is not
133        yet part of the snapshots, it might follow at a later point. Please read
134        the README file in the tbz2 archive file for instructions how to install
135        everything on your Mac.
136      </entry>
137      <entry date="2011-06-05">
138        <link ref="http://svn.linuxsampler.org" img="gfx/logos/subversion.png"></link>
139        From now on, our source code is managed by a Subversion server. We
140        converted our existing CVS repository for the
141        <link ref="http://svn.linuxsampler.org">new Subversion server</link>, so
142        the complete history from the beginning of this project is also
143        available in this new Subversion repository. Our
144        <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">old CVS server, along with its web frontend</link>
145        is still available, however is now in read only mode, so no changes can be
146        commited to CVS anymore. On the downloads page you can find
147        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html#svn">instructions how
148        to download ("checkout") source code from our Subversion server.</link>
149      </entry>
150      <entry date="2011-06-05">
151        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org" img="gfx/sorryd.jpg"></link>
152        After a huge down time of almost one month, we decided to move to new, more
153        reliable servers. Thanks to the University of Heilbronn which kindly hosted
154        our servers for 8 years. We started to move the most important services to
155        a commercial server host, which will be financed by your donations. Sorry
156        for this long absence and thank you for your support!
157      </entry>
158      <entry date="2011-02-05">
159        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/win32/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/windows.png"></link>
160        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/win32/snapshots/">Download the latest Windows snapshot of the sampler!</link>
161        Since we have to confess that we are a bit lazy about putting out official
162        releases, and since the latest official release of the sampler for Windows
163        is quite old, we decided to establish automatic builts of the sampler and
164        all other software components for Windows. As soon as some developer
165        commits something new to the CVS server for any of the project's software
166        components, a new snapshot binary for Windows will automatically built and
167        be available for download within few minutes. Sorry for neglecting you
168        Windows users out there for so long!
169      </entry>
170      <entry date="2011-01-23">
171        <link ref="nkitool/" img="nkitool/native-instruments-kontakt.png"></link>
172        In case you are working a lot on Native Instruments Kontakt instrument
173        files, or if you are just interested in the .nki file format, you might have
174        a look at <link ref="nkitool/">nkitool</link>. It is a simple console
175        application which allows to export and import the human readable XML file
176        from and to Native Instruments Kontakt .nki instrument articulation files.
177        It can be very handy to speedup or even automate the process of creating
178        and editing .nki instrument files.
179      </entry>
180      <entry date="2010-10-01">
181        <link ref="misc/press/computer_music_special_44_2010/cms_44_2010_cover.jpg" img="misc/press/computer_music_special_44_2010/cms_44_2010_cover_s.jpg"></link>
182        LinuxSampler is featured in the october special issue of the "Computer Music"
183        magazine. It is available in English language in magazine stores around the
184        UK. This special issue focused on demonstrating the "best free software" for
185        music production on PC, Mac and mobile. LinuxSampler is covered along to four
186        other samplers, with an introduction howto on page 57. You can
187        <link ref="misc/press/computer_music_special_44_2010/cms_44_2010_article.jpg">read the full article here.</link>
188      </entry>
189      <entry date="2010-01-07">
190        The <link ref="reports/annual_report_2009.pdf">annual report of 2009</link>
191        with our financial situation is now online. Happy new year everybody!
192      </entry>
193      <entry date="2009-10-16">
194        Better a late than no announcement at all:
195        <list>
196          <li>linuxsampler 1.0.0</li>
197          <li>Fantasia 0.9</li>
198          <li>qsampler 0.2.2</li>
199          <li>gigedit 0.2.0</li>
200          <li>libgig 3.3.0</li>
201          <li>jlscp 0.8</li>
202          <li>liblscp 0.5.6</li>
203        </list>
204        This is the first release which allows the sampler to be used as audio
205        host plugin, namely supporting the standards VST, AU, DSSI and LV2. The
206        sampler's limits for max. voices &amp; disk streams can now be altered at
207        runtime by frontends, no need to recompile the sampler anymore. The Mac
208        version now also supports CoreAudio as audio driver. The Windows version
209        finally supports the sampler's instruments DB feature as well, however
210        expect it still to be unstable at this point. Along to the already
211        existing JACK audio driver, Jack MIDI support has been added in this
212        release. The sampler allows frontends now basic MIDI control, that is to
213        monitor incoming MIDI data on MIDI input devices and sampler channels and
214        to send note-on and note-off MIDI events to sampler channels, which
215        allows frontends to provide a virtual MIDI keyboard to the user. Besides
216        these major changes there were countless bugfixes and optimizations.
217      </entry>
218    <entry date="2009-05-12">    <entry date="2009-05-12">
219      On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and      On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and
220      friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available      friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available

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