Release Notes for DrumGizmo-0.9.20

Roadmap: version_0920

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This release is mainly a bugfix release, but a few features also snug in in lieu of the night…

Noteworthy bugs that has been fixed: * Software regression error in cymbal choke code has been fixed. So now choking of cymbals using both directed chokes and after-touch midi events work again as expected. * A compilation error due to an update in LV2 API (we used an obsolete LV2 type) has been fixed, so now compilation should work for everybody again. * Code can now properly be compiled with NSL support disabled at configure time.

And a lot of crashs bugs has been fixed.

In the feature area a single star shines specifically bright in the night: Thanks to corrados we now welcome alsa midi input support for the command line version of drumgizmo.

Fix compilation with gcc-11 (deva)
Fix OSX AudioCacheFileTest unit-test. (non-error: was really an out-of-disc-space error on the build-agent) (deva)

    Prevent processing jack clients that are being deleted.
    Remove sndfile.h from audiofile header
    Fix missing backslash in libdg includepaths

Record and measure real cymbal choke-time and use this value instead of the current 68ms. (deva)
    Adjust choke ramp-down time to better reflect the actual dampening time of a hand-dampened cymbal.

Add support for triggering multiple instruments with one note. (deva)
    Add support for a single midi note that plays multiple instruments.

Fix crash when loading a drum-kit that has more channels than the engine is compiled 
    Fix crash when loading a kit with more channels than the engine was compiled for.

Make aftertouch choke if velocities > 0 instead of == 0 as this seem to be the vdrum vendor concensus. (deva)
    Aftertouch choke if velocities > 0 instead of == 0 as this seem to be the vdrum vendor concensus.

Fixed directed-chokes regression error. (deva)
Fix after-touch chokes regression error. (deva)
    Fix aftertouch choke regression error.
    Fix compiler warning.

Fix crash when pressing play while loading a drumkit. See IRC (deva/chaot4)
    Skip events whose audio-files has not yet been loaded.

    Clear all active events (ie. stop playing samples) when loading a new kit.
    Add unit-test for EventsDS::clear() method.
    Add clear member function to EventsDS.

Fix crash when loading Crocell kit in ardour (stack allocation issue) - see Ardour bug report. (deva)
    Get rid of big stack allocation during resampler (re-)configuration.

    Add missing include
    Add assert to break infinite loop in case of a bug.
    This should fix wrong sample selection with two samples.
    Add -Wextra to debug compilation flags.
    Make it possible to (only) build unit-test in parrallel.

Add voice-limit parameters to cli (corrados)
    added voice limit cli parameters

Fix cli crash when using async-load (deva/corrados)
    Fix crash when doing async-load in cli.
    Add setting for controlling ALSA periods to output module.

Add ALSA MIDI seq support (corrados)
    Add ALSA midi input support.

Fix ALSA output frame size change. (corrados)
    added getBufferSize function for alsa out

Fix compilation issue when compiling without nls enabled. (deva)
    Fix compiling without nls.
    Fix directed choke regression error.
    Add dggui namespace to libdggui components.
    Split UI code into application/plugin UI and UI library.

Run and fix unit-tests on windows. (deva)
    Fix unit-test compilation on windows.

Make rcgen compile and work on windows again through autotools. (deva)
    Fix rcgen on windows.

Improve macOS rendering speed. (deva/veticus)
    Remove redraw on all cocoa/macOS events to speed up UI rendering.

Make configure fail if nls is enabled but gettext tools not found. (deva)
    Make configure fail if nls is enabled but the gettext tools are not found.

Reduce UI window height to fit on "small" displays
    Make main window slightly less tall to better fit on low-res displays.

Contributors:

• Bent Bisballe Nyeng
• André Nusser
• Volker Fischer
• French translations by Olivier Humbert

Special thanks to Veticus for support in the macOS optimizations.