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3      <entry date="2024-03-26">
4        linuxsampler 2.3.1 maintenance release (fixes build errors with certain C++ stdlib versions, no behaviour change to recent 2.3.0 release).
5      </entry>
6      <entry date="2024-02-20">
7        libgig 4.4.1 maintenance release (fixes build errors with some compilers only, no behaviour change to recent 4.4.0 release).
8      </entry>
9      <entry date="2024-01-26">
10        LinuxSampler 2.3.0 had been released. This is basically a maintenance release.
11        See the
12        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Release_Notes/LinuxSampler_2_3_0/">release notes</link>
13        for details.
14      </entry>
15      <entry date="2021-10-09">
16        Kolja Koch started work on <b>gigcreator</b>, a GUI application that
17        automatically creates a GigaStudio/Gigasampler (.gig) file from a
18        directory of .wav files as input.
19        You find the
20        <link ref="https://gitlab.com/koljakoch/gigcreator">gigcreator project on Gitlab</link>.
21        gigcreator was motivated by libgig's new <b>wav2gig</b> command line tool,
22        with the goal to be more user friendly than wav2gig.
23      </entry>
24      <entry date="2021-05-09">
25        LinuxSampler 2.2.0 had been released. There are a load of new features
26        packed into this release. See the
27        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Release_Notes/LinuxSampler_2_2_0/">release notes</link>
28        for details.
29      </entry>
30      <entry date="2019-09-17">
31        New <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Instrument_Scripts/NKSP_Language/">NKSP</link>
32        core language features in the latest development version:
33        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Instrument_Scripts/NKSP_Language/Real_Numbers_Units_and_Finalness/">
34            Support for Real Numbers, Standard Units and Finalness ...
35        </link>
36      </entry>
37      <entry date="2019-07-27">
38        LinuxSampler 2.1.1 had been released. This is mainly a maintenance release.
39        See the
40        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Release_Notes/LinuxSampler_2_1_1/">release notes</link>
41        for details.
42      </entry>
43      <entry date="2019-03-10">
44        The <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxsampler/mailman/message/36608653/">macOS Installer has been modernized</link>
45        e.g. using now Gtk 3 for Gigedit and Qt 5 for QSampler and a modern
46        C++11 capable compiler. Support for ancient PowerPC Macs and 32-bit Intel
47        Macs has been dropped for that reason. So all Mac snapshot builds starting
48        from today onwards will require a 64-bit Intel Mac with at least macOS 10.7 or
49        higher. If you still have one of those ancient Macs and can't find an old
50        snapshot build on our website that still works for your old Mac, then you may
51        write us on the
52        <link ref="https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxsampler/lists/linuxsampler-devel">mailing list</link>.
53      </entry>
54      <entry date="2017-11-26">
55        LinuxSampler 2.1.0 had been released after two years of development.
56        Check the
57        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Release_Notes/LinuxSampler_2_1_0/">release notes</link>
58        for a detailed review of what's new with LinuxSampler and friends.
59      </entry>
60      <entry date="2017-07-20">
61        You are working with <link ref="http://muse-sequencer.org">MusE</link>?
62        Then Andrew Coughlan's <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/lscp2idf">lscp2idf scripts</link>
63        might help you to automatically extract MIDI instruments from LSCP files to
64        the MusE sequencer's IDF format, which can be helpful for patch changes
65        in that sequencer.
66      </entry>
67      <entry date="2017-03-05">
68        Services are back online. After reviewing the recent server incident we
69        came to the conclusion that the attack was fortunately quite limited.
70        We rolled back the system, closed the exploited security
71        hole and brought all services back online. In case you downloaded or updated any source files
72        from our <link ref="http://svn.linuxsampler.org">svn server</link>
73        between March 2nd and March 3rd, we recommend you to
74        delete the entire source directory and make an entire fresh checkout from
75        svn to avoid any issues. The svn server is now back at a clean state.
76      </entry>
77      <entry date="2017-03-03">
78          <b>Important notice:</b>
79        Our server had been compromised. For that reason we were forced to take most
80        services offline for now to protect you from accessing any compromised material.
81        We are currently investigating this incident and will update you accordingly.
82      </entry>
83      <entry date="2016-07-06">
84        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">Web Forum</link> and
85        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracker</link>
86        are back online: As you might have noticed, our
87        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">Web Forum</link> as well as our
88        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracker</link> were partly
89        unavailable for quite a while. It was possible to read them, but especially
90        registration of new user accounts were disabled (i.e. due to numerous
91        spam bot attacks we suffered in the past). Those issues have been
92        resolved and so both sites are back available and should now work entirely
93        as expected.
94      </entry>
95      <entry date="2016-05-04">
96        There is some progress regarding Gigedit's integrated
97        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Instrument_Scripts/NKSP_Language/">NKSP</link>
98        real-time instrument script editor. Check out the
99        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/News/Instrument_Script_Editor_2016-05-04/">News Article ...</link>
100      </entry>
101      <entry date="2015-07-18">
102        LinuxSampler 2.0.0 had been released after six years of development!
103        Check the
104        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Release_Notes/LinuxSampler_2_0_0/">release notes</link>
105        for a detailed review of what's new with LinuxSampler and friends.
106      </entry>
107      <entry date="2015-06-11">
108        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/apple.png"></link>
109        The Mac installer was broken on latest OS X 10.10 Yosemite. This had been
110        fixed today. Get the latest
111        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">snapshot for Mac</link>
112        with Yosemite support now.
113      </entry>
114      <entry date="2015-04-29">
115        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org" img="gfx/new_article.png"></link>
116        A new documentation site has been launched:
117        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org">http://doc.linuxsampler.org</link> -
118        This separate page dedicated to manuals, tutorials and other kind of
119        articles for the LinuxSampler project, is using a new solution to write
120        and maintain such articles with a minimum of effort. Be invited to help us
121        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Writing_Docs/">writing documentation</link>
122        for LinuxSampler and friends! As one of the first topics, this site is now
123        hosting an introduction to the new
124        <link ref="http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Instrument_Scripts/NKSP_Language/">NKSP Real-Time Instrument Script Language</link>.
125        The long-term plan is to move all documentation of this project from our www
126        server to that new site.
127      </entry>
128      <entry date="2015-01-18">
129        <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>
130        For the Mac users out there: We finally have a convenient installer for the
131        OS X version of LinuxSampler. This is already integrated in our automatic
132        build system. So from now on all
133        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">daily snapshot builds for Mac</link>
134        are automatically built with an installer. By default the installer will
135        install all components (LinuxSampler stand-alone application, VST and
136        Audio Unit plugin version of LinuxSampler, QSampler, Fantasia, GigEdit and
137        command line tools. At step "Installation Type" you can however also
138        override the default installation and select which components to install.
139      </entry>
140      <entry date="2014-06-19">
141        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/apple.png"></link>
142        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">gigedit finally included with OS X snapshots!</link>
143        Due to the variety of third party library dependencies it took a while, but
144        finally "gigedit", our graphical instrument editor for Gigasampler /
145        GigaStudio files, is now included with the automatic binary snapshots builds
146        for Mac OS X. The automatic snapshot installers are automatically compiled
147        by one of our servers each time a developer commits something new to our
148        Subversion (development) server. You can use gigedit on Mac OS X as
149        stand-alone instrument editor as well as in live-mode while running
150        LinuxSampler. In the latter case your changes with gigedit get immediately
151        audible while playing the instrument on the keyboard at the same time.
152      </entry>
153      <entry date="2011-08-25">
154        <link ref="sfz/" img="gfx/logos/sfz.png"></link>
155        <link ref="sfz/">Added SFZ implementation status page.</link>
156        We are currently in the works to implement support for the SFZ format,
157        which is a powerful and open sample library format, already adopted by
158        many commercial samplers. Check our new SFZ status page to see which
159        aspects of the format are already supported by LinuxSampler, and which
160        ones are yet to be implemented.
161      </entry>
162      <entry date="2011-07-18">
163        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/apple.png"></link>
164        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/osx/snapshots/">Download the latest OS X snapshot of the sampler!</link>
165        Following our ongoing sympathy for automatic snapshots, we finally provide
166        automatic builds also for Apple OS X! As soon as some developer commits
167        something new to our Subversion server, a new binary snapshot for OS X will
168        automatically be available for download from our webserver within minutes.
169        The snapshot tbz2 archive file contains universal binaries
170        (PPC 32 bit, Intel 32 &amp; 64 bit) of the stand-alone version of the
171        sampler, VST and AU plugin version, and the graphical frontend applications
172        QSampler and Fantasia. Only our graphical instrument editor gigedit is not
173        yet part of the snapshots, it might follow at a later point. Please read
174        the README file in the tbz2 archive file for instructions how to install
175        everything on your Mac.
176      </entry>
177      <entry date="2011-06-05">
178        <link ref="http://svn.linuxsampler.org" img="gfx/logos/subversion.png"></link>
179        From now on, our source code is managed by a Subversion server. We
180        converted our existing CVS repository for the
181        <link ref="http://svn.linuxsampler.org">new Subversion server</link>, so
182        the complete history from the beginning of this project is also
183        available in this new Subversion repository. Our
184        <link ref="http://cvs.linuxsampler.org">old CVS server, along with its web frontend</link>
185        is still available, however is now in read only mode, so no changes can be
186        commited to CVS anymore. On the downloads page you can find
187        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html#svn">instructions how
188        to download ("checkout") source code from our Subversion server.</link>
189      </entry>
190      <entry date="2011-06-05">
191        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org" img="gfx/sorryd.jpg"></link>
192        After a huge down time of almost one month, we decided to move to new, more
193        reliable servers. Thanks to the University of Heilbronn which kindly hosted
194        our servers for 8 years. We started to move the most important services to
195        a commercial server host, which will be financed by your donations. Sorry
196        for this long absence and thank you for your support!
197      </entry>
198      <entry date="2011-02-05">
199        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/win32/snapshots/" img="gfx/logos/windows.png"></link>
200        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/win32/snapshots/">Download the latest Windows snapshot of the sampler!</link>
201        Since we have to confess that we are a bit lazy about putting out official
202        releases, and since the latest official release of the sampler for Windows
203        is quite old, we decided to establish automatic builts of the sampler and
204        all other software components for Windows. As soon as some developer
205        commits something new to the CVS server for any of the project's software
206        components, a new snapshot binary for Windows will automatically built and
207        be available for download within few minutes. Sorry for neglecting you
208        Windows users out there for so long!
209      </entry>
210      <entry date="2011-01-23">
211        <link ref="nkitool/" img="nkitool/native-instruments-kontakt.png"></link>
212        In case you are working a lot on Native Instruments Kontakt instrument
213        files, or if you are just interested in the .nki file format, you might have
214        a look at <link ref="nkitool/">nkitool</link>. It is a simple console
215        application which allows to export and import the human readable XML file
216        from and to Native Instruments Kontakt .nki instrument articulation files.
217        It can be very handy to speedup or even automate the process of creating
218        and editing .nki instrument files.
219      </entry>
220      <entry date="2010-10-01">
221        <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>
222        LinuxSampler is featured in the october special issue of the "Computer Music"
223        magazine. It is available in English language in magazine stores around the
224        UK. This special issue focused on demonstrating the "best free software" for
225        music production on PC, Mac and mobile. LinuxSampler is covered along to four
226        other samplers, with an introduction howto on page 57. You can
227        <link ref="misc/press/computer_music_special_44_2010/cms_44_2010_article.jpg">read the full article here.</link>
228      </entry>
229      <entry date="2010-01-07">
230        The <link ref="reports/annual_report_2009.pdf">annual report of 2009</link>
231        with our financial situation is now online. Happy new year everybody!
232      </entry>
233      <entry date="2009-10-16">
234        Better a late than no announcement at all:
235        <list>
236          <li>linuxsampler 1.0.0</li>
237          <li>Fantasia 0.9</li>
238          <li>qsampler 0.2.2</li>
239          <li>gigedit 0.2.0</li>
240          <li>libgig 3.3.0</li>
241          <li>jlscp 0.8</li>
242          <li>liblscp 0.5.6</li>
243        </list>
244        This is the first release which allows the sampler to be used as audio
245        host plugin, namely supporting the standards VST, AU, DSSI and LV2. The
246        sampler's limits for max. voices &amp; disk streams can now be altered at
247        runtime by frontends, no need to recompile the sampler anymore. The Mac
248        version now also supports CoreAudio as audio driver. The Windows version
249        finally supports the sampler's instruments DB feature as well, however
250        expect it still to be unstable at this point. Along to the already
251        existing JACK audio driver, Jack MIDI support has been added in this
252        release. The sampler allows frontends now basic MIDI control, that is to
253        monitor incoming MIDI data on MIDI input devices and sampler channels and
254        to send note-on and note-off MIDI events to sampler channels, which
255        allows frontends to provide a virtual MIDI keyboard to the user. Besides
256        these major changes there were countless bugfixes and optimizations.
257      </entry>
258      <entry date="2009-05-12">
259        On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and
260        friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available
261        from our
262        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/win/">download server</link>.
263        This is the first Windows version which includes a VST plugin version
264        of the sampler. The installer includes both, native 64 bit binaries and
265        32 bit binaries. The installer detects the system type and installs the
266        appropriate binaries automatically.
267        Please follow the ongoing discussion and development on our
268        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=339">web forum</link>
269        and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
270        to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
271      </entry>
272      <entry date="2009-02-17">
273        Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin!
274        It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout
275        the experimental AU binary package of LinuxSampler, available from our
276        <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/mac/">download server</link>.
277        As this is still an early development version, please follow the ongoing
278        discussion and development on our
279        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=295">web forum</link>
280        and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
281        to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
282      </entry>
283      <entry date="2008-02-15">
284        We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library
285        is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for
286        giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano
287        library with you. You find the download link along with the library's
288        license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our
289        <link ref="instruments.html">instruments</link> site.
290      </entry>
291      <entry date="2008-02-07">
292        Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
293        site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
294        specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
295        <link ref="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</link>
296        chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
297      </entry>
298      <entry date="2008-01-23">
299        Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
300        place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
301        <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
302      </entry>
303      <entry date="2008-01-03">
304        Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
305        by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
306        available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
307        latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
308        <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
309        Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
310        work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
311        Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
312        at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
313      </entry>
314      <entry date="2007-12-26">
315        You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
316        problems? Check out the
317        <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
318        Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
319        doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
320        <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
321        Mailing List
322        </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
323        <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
324      </entry>
325      <entry date="2007-12-07">
326        Another strike:
327        <list>
328          <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
329          <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
330          <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
331          <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
332          <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
333          <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
334        </list>
335        What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
336        <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
337        world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
338        the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
339        "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
340        MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
341        plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
342        feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
343        <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
344        Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
345        fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
346        .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
347        option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
348        multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
349        to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
350        another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
351        and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
352        Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
353        of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
354        encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
355        of bug fixes.
356      </entry>
357    <entry date="2007-10-23">    <entry date="2007-10-23">
358      As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS      As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
359      names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server      names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server

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