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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