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Ardour General Sequencers
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Ardour Update
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Ardour has been updated to v2.8.
This is primarily a bug fix version but it also comes with a couple of significant features. These include much more reliable VST support on Linux, track/bus templates and, with some important qualifications, AudioUnit state and preset handling, according to Ardour.
New Features:
- Track/Bus Templates.
- Distributable VST support.
- VST preset handling.
- VST chunk handling.
- AudioUnit state & preset handling.
- New playhead-to-{next,previous}-region-boundary variant commands that ignores track selection (on Linux, Windows-LeftArrow or Windows-RightArrow; on OS X, Ctrl-LeftArrow or Ctrl-RightArrow).
- New, thoroughly edited Spanish translation.
- New "accurate" crossfade icons.
Fixes:
- Correct handling of Shift- shortcuts on OS X.
- Fix confusion with Ctrl/Cmd/Option on OS X.
- Cmd-, now shows Preferences window on OS X.
- Removing a track/bus that was visible in the editor mixer strip causes the editor mixer strip to move to the next track/bus.
- Default click output is dual mono (2 outs), not mono (1 out).
- Fix ordering of editor & mixer displays when order in the other window is changed and sync-editor-mixer-order is enabled.
- If we attempt to move beyond the current limit of the horizontal scrollbar, change its upper limit so that we keep scrolling (fixes a bug with playhead tracking beyond the current session end).
- Standardize sizing of ComboBoxSelectors throughout the GUI.
- Fix crash when renaming a track after deleting a plugin that had a visible GUI/editor window.
- Make "consolidate range" and "bounce range to region list" not apply processing to the original audio.
- Added variants of "consolidate range" and "bounce range" which do apply processing.
- Fix potential for clipping when use Transpose or TimeFX.
- Standardize some menu actions across CD and loop/punch rulers. also allow right-click drag to create ranges, which may be more discoverable than ctrl-click drag because the other rulers already use right-click for creating markers.
- Mute region" shortcut operates on all selected regions.
- Fixes for crossfade clicks.
- Fixes for gcc 4.4.
- Fix crash when sending MIDI feedback with MTC enabled.
- Allow dragging of automation lines.
- Preserve sufficient significant digits when saving automation events to disk.
- Quantize shuttle speed changes to whole semitones when shuttle in semitone mode.
- Use region sync points correctly for grid and playhead motion.
- Fix subtle bug when playing plugin automation that could sometimes lead to crashes and memory corruption.
- Use Vamp 2.0 and Rubberband 1.3 (includes an important fix for a potential audible issue when stretching).
- Fix freeze progress bar display.
- Fix potential crash caused by multithreaded execution of plugins while "freezing" a track.
- Make name-click to toggle plugin active state show up via the bypass button state in the GUI.
- Context menu-driven operations on ruler bars now cause things to be added in the right place (e.g. new markers).
- Fix a crash that occurred while dragging a region after a split.
- Do not cache JACK port buffer addresses, to permit operation with experimental versions of Jack2.
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Ardour Updated to v2.7.1
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Not only has there finally been a working new release of JACK, but Ardour has also seen several major bug fixes, a useful collection of new features, and many smaller fixes that correct annoying behavior.
Mac OS X Intel users will find an Intel build; a PPC one will be ready as soon as possible. If you tried Ardour 2.7 on OS X and it would not start up for you, please give 2.7.1 a test.
New features and changes:
- Option to preserve formants when stretching/shifting.
- New option to control whether newly added plugins are active or not, enabled by default.
- Copy sends as well as plugins when doing copy/paste operations in the mixer strip.
- Copy send I/O configurations when copying sends.
- Remove height buttons from automation tracks.
- New option to do cubase-style solo-overrides mute (off by default).
- Ardour-build plugin GUIs are now "taller" rather than "wider".
- Insert-time operation can now move markers too.
- Double-click on plugin/send/insert boxes now brings up plugin manager.
- Handle an instant.xml file (GUI state) that has been modified by ardour 3.0 (without crashing).
- Shorten coreaudio's format text strings.
- Creating ranges from region selections now offers two different options: create 1 range spanning all selected regions, or create 1 range per selected region.
Fixes:
- Fix OS X display of startup message about missing JACK.
- Actually delete commands from undo history when limiting depth of the history list. this fixes a massive memory leak in ardour when working with lots of regions and/or lots of edits.
- MAJOR fix for any situation where an audio track is playing more channels than it has output ports. triggered by a report about playing an 8-chn AIFF file via the auditioner.
- Set up folder/directory name correctly for range export.
- Drastically improve handling of Drag-n-Drop internally, avoiding memory leaks and potential memory corruption.
- When using a top menubar (as on OS X), don't quit when the editor window is closed.
- Prevent lockup/hangs when caused by editing a track name and then resizing so that the track name entry field is hidden.
- Select objects when clicking on them in region gain mouse mode, so that subsequent operations do not operate on unexpected objects.
- Don't duplicate LADSPA plugins in plugin manager list.
- Items in region context menus that need a position (e.g. split) are desensitized if the edit point is "mouse", to avoid odd behaviour.
- Fix a bug that made certain prompt windows potentially able to cause crashes.
- Make panner changes propagate into the panner GUIs even when the number of streams being handled is reduced.
- Do not crash in an xrun handler when there is no session.
- Lots of Session members now initialized in constructor, rather than being left to chance.
- Correct control surface track indexing (fixes a crash when using Tranzport and others to go to "next" or "prev" track).
- MTC message delivered internally when handling an MMC locate now contains correct FPS value, avoiding stupid error message from showing up.
- Compile correctly even with NLS=0.
- Track names are now visible even with the "light" theme.
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Ardour v2.7
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The public release of Ardour v2.7 is now available.
For the first time, this includes public versions for Mac OS X (Intel and PPC) as well as the usual source tarball. This release is dominated by dramatic improvements in Mac OS X GUI performance and startup time, but it also contains a lot of significant bug fixes. Ardour also accumulated quite a lot of nice new features since 2.6.1.
Features:
- Overall dramatic improvements in OS X GUI performance.
- New action to rotate editor/mixer window stacking.
- New action to cycle through mouse modes.
- Plugin windows can now have keyboard focus locked to them.
- Add missing extensions to exported files based on selected file type.
- Loop/Range ruler now visible by default.
- Default crossfade is now -3dB cut.
- Crossfade presets changed to include -6dB cut and two S-curves (icons sadly not changed yet).
- New support for Wiimote control (experimental, disabled by default and not currently possible on OS X).
- Selected tracks are always visible when scrolling through with select-next-track or select-previous-track.
- Skip non-active and hidden tracks with select-previous-track and select-next-track.
- Several new tooltips all over the place and better tooltip colors.
- On OS X, Button2 can be emulated with Ctrl-Option-Button1.
- Busses are never auto-connected to physical inputs.
- Unmodified clicking in canvas rulers now sets playhead position, similar to existing behaviour in the "real" rulers. Use Ctrl- (Linux) or Command (OS X)-click/drag for new markers/ranges.
- Crossfade-editor specific keybindings: space => play xfade, left-arrow => play fade out, ctrl-left-arrow => dry fade out, right-arrow => play fade in, ctrl-right-arrow => dry fade in.
- Drag-n-Drop from OS X Finder now more reliable but no longer supports MP3 or AAC (will be reverted in the future).
- Start position and Sync position clocks added popup region editor.
- Better stay-on-top behaviour for certain windows.
- LV2 port notification fix for GUI updating.
- New German translation.
- New post-export nag screen.
- Per-track OSC control of solo/mute/rec-enable and gain.
Fixes:
- Removed suggestion that users can save while disconnected from JACK.
- Corrected reversed handling of "show-editor-mixer" state on startup.
- Fixed crasher caused by changing gain with transport stopped & panner bypassed.
- Correct reverse logic for making h/w monitoring available given h/w capabilities.
- Fix confusing relabelling of plugin bypass button.
- Prevent double registration of ALSA sequencer ports.
- Correctly initialize JACK timeout parameter when starting JACK.
- Ignore triple-clicks on mute/solo/rec-enable button.
- Momentary solo/mute now works.
- Fix serious error when calculating interpolated Curve values (will cause tiny, almost certainly undetectable changes in automation and fade curves, but may also remove clicks).
- Fix quoting in TOC files wrap PBD::Thread... signals in a mutex to avoid crashing during startup as multiple threads "emit" the signal.
- Make comboboxes a little bigger on X11.
- B|B|T clocks measuring duration now use zero-based values.
- New regions created by AudioFilters (Reverse/TimeFX/Transpose) inherit all relevant settings of their ancestor.
- Fix for incorrect reading of fade out curve under a few circumstances.
- Catch exceptions while loading AudioUnits.
- Correct some glitches with playhead motion when looping/reversing.
- Fix failure when opening a session by double-clicking the session file icon (OS X).
- Fix loss of "current dialog" tracking when exiting a dialog via a button (could cause crash on next Ctrl-w).
- Detect no-installed-JACK on OS X to avoid silent crashes for new users.
Development
- GTK/OSX patch now in SVN.
- Check build host for broken mutex-based glib atomic ops.
- Two versions of clearlooks now in SVN - older, for X11 (crisp!), and newer for OS X (faster!).
