[LAA] Composite 0.006 Released (LV2 Sampler)

In the spirit of "release early, release often," I am pleased to announce the release of Composite 0.006. This release marks the completion of the LV2 Sampler Plugin, which supports Hydrogen drum kits. STATUS ------ Composite is a project with a large vision. Here is the status of the different components: composite-gui: Alpha (i.e. "a broken version of Hydrogen") compoiste_sampler (LV2): production/stable, no GUI libTritium: Not a public API, yet. LINKS ----- Composite: http://gabe.is-a-geek.org/composite/ Plugin Docs: file:///home/gabriel/code/composite-planning/plugins/sampler/1 Tarball: http://gabe.is-a-geek.org/composite/releases/composite-0.006.tar.bz2 Git: http://gitorious.org/composite git://gitorious.org/composite/composite.git HOW TO USE THE PLUGIN --------------------- To use the plugin, you need the following: * A program (host) that loads LV2 plugins. * A MIDI controller. * An audio output device. :-) The following LV2 hosts are known to work with this plugin: Ingen http://drobilla.net/blog/software/ingen/ lv2_jack_host http://drobilla.net/software/slv2/ The following is known to _not_ work: zynjacku (Uses a different MIDI port type) If you don't have a hardware MIDI controller, I suggest using jack-keyboard (http://jack-keyboard.sourceforge.net/). The first time you run the sampler, it will create a file ~/.composite/data/presets/default.xml, which will set up presets on Bank 0 for the two default drum kits (GMkit and TR808EmulationKit). Sending MIDI PC 0 and PC 1 will switch between the two kits. See composite_sampler(1) for more information on setting up presets. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ---------------- With this release, I would especially like to thank: Harry Van Haaren - For help with testing. This release has much more polish because of you. David Robillard - For general help with Ingen and LV2. I also stole a lot of great design ideas from Ingen. Peace, Gabriel M. Beddingfield