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
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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
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    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
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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
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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