--- web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/news.xml 2007/12/26 16:56:12 1597 +++ web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/news.xml 2017/11/26 23:30:45 3379 @@ -1,12 +1,273 @@ + + LinuxSampler 2.1.0 had been released after two years of development. + Check the + release notes + for a detailed review of what's new with LinuxSampler and friends. + + + You are working with MusE? + Then Andrew Coughlan's lscp2idf scripts + might help you to automatically extract MIDI instruments from LSCP files to + the MusE sequencer's IDF format, which can be helpful for patch changes + in that sequencer. + + + Services are back online. After reviewing the recent server incident we + came to the conclusion that the attack was fortunately quite limited. + We rolled back the system, closed the exploited security + hole and brought all services back online. In case you downloaded or updated any source files + from our svn server + between March 2nd and March 3rd, we recommend you to + delete the entire source directory and make an entire fresh checkout from + svn to avoid any issues. The svn server is now back at a clean state. + + + Important notice: + Our server had been compromised. For that reason we were forced to take most + services offline for now to protect you from accessing any compromised material. + We are currently investigating this incident and will update you accordingly. + + + Web Forum and + Bug Tracker + are back online: As you might have noticed, our + Web Forum as well as our + Bug Tracker were partly + unavailable for quite a while. It was possible to read them, but especially + registration of new user accounts were disabled (i.e. due to numerous + spam bot attacks we suffered in the past). Those issues have been + resolved and so both sites are back available and should now work entirely + as expected. + + + There is some progress regarding Gigedit's integrated + NKSP + real-time instrument script editor. Check out the + News Article ... + + + LinuxSampler 2.0.0 had been released after six years of development! + Check the + release notes + for a detailed review of what's new with LinuxSampler and friends. + + + + The Mac installer was broken on latest OS X 10.10 Yosemite. This had been + fixed today. Get the latest + snapshot for Mac + with Yosemite support now. + + + + A new documentation site has been launched: + http://doc.linuxsampler.org - + This separate page dedicated to manuals, tutorials and other kind of + articles for the LinuxSampler project, is using a new solution to write + and maintain such articles with a minimum of effort. Be invited to help us + writing documentation + for LinuxSampler and friends! As one of the first topics, this site is now + hosting an introduction to the new + NKSP Real-Time Instrument Script Language. + The long-term plan is to move all documentation of this project from our www + server to that new site. + + + + For the Mac users out there: We finally have a convenient installer for the + OS X version of LinuxSampler. This is already integrated in our automatic + build system. So from now on all + daily snapshot builds for Mac + are automatically built with an installer. By default the installer will + install all components (LinuxSampler stand-alone application, VST and + Audio Unit plugin version of LinuxSampler, QSampler, Fantasia, GigEdit and + command line tools. At step "Installation Type" you can however also + override the default installation and select which components to install. + + + + gigedit finally included with OS X snapshots! + Due to the variety of third party library dependencies it took a while, but + finally "gigedit", our graphical instrument editor for Gigasampler / + GigaStudio files, is now included with the automatic binary snapshots builds + for Mac OS X. The automatic snapshot installers are automatically compiled + by one of our servers each time a developer commits something new to our + Subversion (development) server. You can use gigedit on Mac OS X as + stand-alone instrument editor as well as in live-mode while running + LinuxSampler. In the latter case your changes with gigedit get immediately + audible while playing the instrument on the keyboard at the same time. + + + + Added SFZ implementation status page. + We are currently in the works to implement support for the SFZ format, + which is a powerful and open sample library format, already adopted by + many commercial samplers. Check our new SFZ status page to see which + aspects of the format are already supported by LinuxSampler, and which + ones are yet to be implemented. + + + + Download the latest OS X snapshot of the sampler! + Following our ongoing sympathy for automatic snapshots, we finally provide + automatic builds also for Apple OS X! As soon as some developer commits + something new to our Subversion server, a new binary snapshot for OS X will + automatically be available for download from our webserver within minutes. + The snapshot tbz2 archive file contains universal binaries + (PPC 32 bit, Intel 32 & 64 bit) of the stand-alone version of the + sampler, VST and AU plugin version, and the graphical frontend applications + QSampler and Fantasia. Only our graphical instrument editor gigedit is not + yet part of the snapshots, it might follow at a later point. Please read + the README file in the tbz2 archive file for instructions how to install + everything on your Mac. + + + + From now on, our source code is managed by a Subversion server. We + converted our existing CVS repository for the + new Subversion server, so + the complete history from the beginning of this project is also + available in this new Subversion repository. Our + old CVS server, along with its web frontend + is still available, however is now in read only mode, so no changes can be + commited to CVS anymore. On the downloads page you can find + instructions how + to download ("checkout") source code from our Subversion server. + + + + After a huge down time of almost one month, we decided to move to new, more + reliable servers. Thanks to the University of Heilbronn which kindly hosted + our servers for 8 years. We started to move the most important services to + a commercial server host, which will be financed by your donations. Sorry + for this long absence and thank you for your support! + + + + Download the latest Windows snapshot of the sampler! + Since we have to confess that we are a bit lazy about putting out official + releases, and since the latest official release of the sampler for Windows + is quite old, we decided to establish automatic builts of the sampler and + all other software components for Windows. As soon as some developer + commits something new to the CVS server for any of the project's software + components, a new snapshot binary for Windows will automatically built and + be available for download within few minutes. Sorry for neglecting you + Windows users out there for so long! + + + + In case you are working a lot on Native Instruments Kontakt instrument + files, or if you are just interested in the .nki file format, you might have + a look at nkitool. It is a simple console + application which allows to export and import the human readable XML file + from and to Native Instruments Kontakt .nki instrument articulation files. + It can be very handy to speedup or even automate the process of creating + and editing .nki instrument files. + + + + LinuxSampler is featured in the october special issue of the "Computer Music" + magazine. It is available in English language in magazine stores around the + UK. This special issue focused on demonstrating the "best free software" for + music production on PC, Mac and mobile. LinuxSampler is covered along to four + other samplers, with an introduction howto on page 57. You can + read the full article here. + + + The annual report of 2009 + with our financial situation is now online. Happy new year everybody! + + + Better a late than no announcement at all: + +
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  • Fantasia 0.9
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  • qsampler 0.2.2
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  • gigedit 0.2.0
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  • libgig 3.3.0
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  • jlscp 0.8
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  • liblscp 0.5.6
    • +     + This is the first release which allows the sampler to be used as audio + host plugin, namely supporting the standards VST, AU, DSSI and LV2. The + sampler's limits for max. voices & disk streams can now be altered at + runtime by frontends, no need to recompile the sampler anymore. The Mac + version now also supports CoreAudio as audio driver. The Windows version + finally supports the sampler's instruments DB feature as well, however + expect it still to be unstable at this point. Along to the already + existing JACK audio driver, Jack MIDI support has been added in this + release. The sampler allows frontends now basic MIDI control, that is to + monitor incoming MIDI data on MIDI input devices and sampler channels and + to send note-on and note-off MIDI events to sampler channels, which + allows frontends to provide a virtual MIDI keyboard to the user. Besides + these major changes there were countless bugfixes and optimizations. +     + + 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 + + Mailing List . If you found bugs, please report them to our Bug Tracking System.