QSampler A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface

Downloads

You can browse all files available for download, including binary packages, at Qsampler Files on SourceForge.net.

Latest release

2009-08-01 New release cycle.
qsampler-0.2.2.tar.gz

• Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom ever may follow ;)
• Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
• Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning settings will be saved in case the user modified them and automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to a sampler the next time.
• Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
• Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
• Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding font size configuration, a new global user option is now available to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size (default none).
• Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode. (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
• Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
• Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance, with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
• Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were screwed.
• Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed e.g. by other frontends.
• Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed, e.g. on changes caused by other frontends (fixes segfault on device changes)
• Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the "View" main menu.
• Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
• Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
• Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
• Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.

Previous release

2007-12-06 Qt4 migration complete.
qsampler-0.2.1.tar.gz

• Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument names in a very fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by default.
• The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
• Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though the main menu and toobar are not visible.
• Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when creating a new sampler channel.
• README requirements and configuration notes update.
• Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the first time).
• Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
• Added Windows file path support.
• Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles under win32.
• Qt4 port of the application.

Older releases

2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
qsampler-0.1.5.tar.gz

• Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and mapping instrument files with special characters in their filename, as well as special characters for instrument names and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
• Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
• Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps; application desktop entry file is now included in installation; spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
• Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.

2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
qsampler-0.1.4.tar.gz

• Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
• Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
• Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving the session state, only at code-level.
• Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor existing instrument file name.
• Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save; hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save; keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context; improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load; instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional); corrected some tooltip text strings.
• Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag, which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some window managers.
• Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities; MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
• GPL address update.

2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
qsampler-0.1.3.tar.gz

• Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license, on qsampler.spec (RPM).
• Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
• Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig installation paths have been added to configure command arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
• Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100 (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
• The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog, are now expected to be a little better looking than it was before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
• Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
• Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
• All widget captions changed to include proper application title name prefix.
• Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date; sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and generated at configure time.
• Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line argument have some effect on X11.
• Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
• Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was compiled with -no-stl.

2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
qsampler-0.1.2.tar.gz

• Fixed output disability when messages limit option is turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this one, while on qjackctl).
• Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling; minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.

2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
qsampler-0.1.1.tar.gz

• New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks to Christian Schoenebeck design.
• Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found in an error state, which was preventing correct channel info updates.
• Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the device dialog.
• Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
• Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim Mayat, for pointing these out).

2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough.
qsampler-0.1.0.tar.gz

• Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
• [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention consistency, regarding the enumeration of available sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
• [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
• Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading an instrument.
• Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).

2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release.
qsampler-0.0.5.tar.gz

• Fixed device driver type channel information gathering, which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session configurations to the default audio driver type (which is ALSA) unexpectedly.
• Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
• Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
• Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
• Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for only those settings that are actually changed gets applied; change information are now also posted to messages window.
• Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
• Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel sampler instrument file.
• Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved from the instrument file, even though libgig is available, avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
• Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where available, as the default handler is usually fatal when a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
• Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line count exceeds in one third the user configured line count maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.

2004-11-19 Fourth alpha release.
qsampler-0.0.4.tar.gz

• Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget; actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
• Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if, the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted, following common user-interface guidelines.
• Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal control structures.
• Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
• MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler channel (omni mode).
• Channel strip display glass effect has changed background color to black (was green), being now an user option.
• Minor configure fixes.

2004-07-09 Third alpha release.
qsampler-0.0.3.tar.gz

• Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
• Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog, and on session file save.
• Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults on create time.
• Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.

2004-06-15 Second alpha release.
qsampler-0.0.2.tar.gz

• The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking over the empty workspace area.
• Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(), so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the correct salvage of settings and configuration.
• Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option, provided to override the default (which is 100%).
• Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
• A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over each sampler channel strip.
• Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
• Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
• An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every new sampler channel strip.
• The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as suggested in the following lines:

      SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
      SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
      SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
      LOAD ENGINE ...
      LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
      SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...

2004-06-05 - Primordial alpha release.
qsampler-0.0.1.tar.gz

Subversion (SVN) Access

Qsampler's already assumed in beta stage of development. However, the bleeding-edge source is available from the sourceforge's public Subversion (SVN) repository that can be checked out through anonymous (http) access with the following instructions:

1. Install liblscp

svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/qsampler/code/liblscp liblscp-svn

cd liblscp-svn

make -f Makefile.svn
./configure
make
[sudo] make install

cd ..

2. Build qsampler

svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/qsampler/code/trunk qsampler-svn

cd qsampler-svn

make -f Makefile.svn
./configure
make
[sudo] make install

Then you may run qsampler and you'll see what's cookin' :)

Note: These instructions are for Linux of course. But win32 support is also in the box. If someone want to try...