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Digital Audio Workstation
Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. Produce your own CD's. Mix video soundtracks. Experiment with new ideas about music and sound. Generate sound installations for 12 speaker gallery shows. Have Fun.
Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-linear, non-destructive region based editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a mixer whose capabilities rival high end hardware consoles, lots of plugins to warp, shift and shape your music, and controllable from hardware control surfaces at the same time as it syncs to timecode. If you've been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Cubase SX, Digital Performer, Samplitude or Sequoia, you might have found it.
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Version 3beta3 | MacOS X Intel | (App) | Feb 18, 2012 |
Significant New Functionality
Click/metronome is now latency compensated
Monitor Section is now an optional feature that can be added/removed to/from a session as needed.
Restore ability to create TOC and CUE files during export, and improve the formatting of these files
Enter and exit node edit mode with dbl-click in any MIDI region (also leave with a single click on anything other than a MIDI region or note)
Make plugin controls displayable in the mixer strip
Add a way to create a new MIDI track with an instrument pre-selected
Restore independent gain control over click/metronome
Now-functional MIDI list editor
delete notes
full keyboard and scroll editing
keyboard navigation
Primary-z and Primary-r undo/redo, as expected
much more to be done in the future (including note insertion)
GUI Improvements
Smart mode (combined object+range mode) now improved in many ways large and small
Return of the splash screen
More and improved tooltips
Reorganize structure of the Regions and region context menus
Make contents of region properties dialogue expand with the window
Cleanups for the Freesound browser (add stop, remove URI, clear barberpole)
New mouse mode (Draw Notes) rather than overloading range mode
Double click on send "box" toggles the display of its controls in its parent mixer strip
Add option to use plugin GUIs or Ardour generic ones.
"aux-" dropped from the name of aux sends
Add warnings for overwriting marker files
Use the same criteron to sensitize the choose-top-region menu item as to decide whether to open it or not, to prevent a sensitive menu item that does nothing.
Tidy up RegionLayeringOrderEditor a bit, including making it respect edit groups.
Don't offer to save master bus as a route template
Show proper progress information for export while normalizing
Some improvements to the add track/bus dialog to make it more obvious how to add MIDI tracks
Region list now accurately tracks regions' fade in/out status and length
Don't autoscroll right if we are moving left, and vice versa;
Fix issue with export channel splitting getting stuck in the filename
Show an example filename in the main export dialog
Use custom i-beam cursor for range mode
Fix position of viewport after a playhead drag outside the viewport (when following the playhead).
Improve usage of expanded window space in the export dialog + put the "advanced" stuff in a Gtk::VPaned
Fix the width of generic plugin editors
Don't bother opening a time FX dialog if we are just time stretching MIDI regions
Update summary on switching playlists
Button joiner: used to surround the play-range & roll buttons, and also object and range mouse mode buttons; clicking on it toggles special modes ("always play range" and "smart mode" respectively).
Clicking on track rec-enable button while step-editing now exits step-editing mode.
Add delta-time option to MIDI tracer window. Note that its not incredibly accurate or useful right now, because timestamps come from the system clock and are taken when the data is read/written to the port buffer, not its actual timestamp within the buffer
New display of "implicitly on" buttons (rather than using an alternate color, we draw the "actively on" color as a border around the button).
Internal Improvements
Aux sends and regular sends are now numbered independently
Various optimizations for the core processing loop (reduces apparent DSP load, especially with small sessions)
For now, only use the multi-threaded process code if we are using >1 processor for DSP; this involves making the DSP use setting only take effect on a restart of Ardour.
Increase size of click pool to cover longer latency settings
Make adding tracks/busses from templates just like adding them at the start of a session, in that IO connedon't offer to save master bus as a route templatections are prevented until they are all added
Use new Lilv state API to save LV2 plugin state (requires latest lilv version)
Store Region export state in instant.xml
Add aux sends at the position that the menu was opened, rather than always pre-fader
Make crossfade active state and length changes undo-able.
Use musical_time_equal() test for equality when copying notes, not strict floating point equality.
Make crossfade convert-to-full and activate/deactivate work across edit groups
Stop sending MMC/MTC while exporting or freewheeling for any other reason.
Bugs Squashed
Fixed crashing bug caused by Apple's implementation of getmntinfo()
Fix a variety of bugs of varying severity related to the tempo map changes done for 3.0 beta2
Catch exception thrown by SMF code when it cannot write to a file
Fix export threading timeouts when disk operations take long. Might fix other timeout issues also.
Fix failure to find route templates
Clear clicks when auto-returning or looping
Make time stretch respect edit group
Make plugins-stop-with-transport work
Explicitly cancelling solo status when a route's inputs drop to zero
Rework design of midi clock ticker to avoid expensive generalization that has turned out to have no particular use, and fix bug that caused incorrect ticks to be sent (or attempted) as the transport starts up.
Fix timefx on multiple regions, even regions of mixed type
Tape track files need to be created when opened, not when written to
Fix failure to summon the disk butler thread when a track that needs it is followed by a track that does not
Do not crash if an LV2 plugin calls the UI write callback with a port number that ardour has decided is not an automatable parameter
Fix for crash-by-assert just after a MIDI diskstream overwrite (e.g. just after an edit, while playback is active)
Fix bug in MidiClock that sent MIDI Clock messages with negative offsets after a loop point
Click/metronome is now latency compensated
Monitor Section is now an optional feature that can be added/removed to/from a session as needed.
Restore ability to create TOC and CUE files during export, and improve the formatting of these files
Enter and exit node edit mode with dbl-click in any MIDI region (also leave with a single click on anything other than a MIDI region or note)
Make plugin controls displayable in the mixer strip
Add a way to create a new MIDI track with an instrument pre-selected
Restore independent gain control over click/metronome
Now-functional MIDI list editor
delete notes
full keyboard and scroll editing
keyboard navigation
Primary-z and Primary-r undo/redo, as expected
much more to be done in the future (including note insertion)
GUI Improvements
Smart mode (combined object+range mode) now improved in many ways large and small
Return of the splash screen
More and improved tooltips
Reorganize structure of the Regions and region context menus
Make contents of region properties dialogue expand with the window
Cleanups for the Freesound browser (add stop, remove URI, clear barberpole)
New mouse mode (Draw Notes) rather than overloading range mode
Double click on send "box" toggles the display of its controls in its parent mixer strip
Add option to use plugin GUIs or Ardour generic ones.
"aux-" dropped from the name of aux sends
Add warnings for overwriting marker files
Use the same criteron to sensitize the choose-top-region menu item as to decide whether to open it or not, to prevent a sensitive menu item that does nothing.
Tidy up RegionLayeringOrderEditor a bit, including making it respect edit groups.
Don't offer to save master bus as a route template
Show proper progress information for export while normalizing
Some improvements to the add track/bus dialog to make it more obvious how to add MIDI tracks
Region list now accurately tracks regions' fade in/out status and length
Don't autoscroll right if we are moving left, and vice versa;
Fix issue with export channel splitting getting stuck in the filename
Show an example filename in the main export dialog
Use custom i-beam cursor for range mode
Fix position of viewport after a playhead drag outside the viewport (when following the playhead).
Improve usage of expanded window space in the export dialog + put the "advanced" stuff in a Gtk::VPaned
Fix the width of generic plugin editors
Don't bother opening a time FX dialog if we are just time stretching MIDI regions
Update summary on switching playlists
Button joiner: used to surround the play-range & roll buttons, and also object and range mouse mode buttons; clicking on it toggles special modes ("always play range" and "smart mode" respectively).
Clicking on track rec-enable button while step-editing now exits step-editing mode.
Add delta-time option to MIDI tracer window. Note that its not incredibly accurate or useful right now, because timestamps come from the system clock and are taken when the data is read/written to the port buffer, not its actual timestamp within the buffer
New display of "implicitly on" buttons (rather than using an alternate color, we draw the "actively on" color as a border around the button).
Internal Improvements
Aux sends and regular sends are now numbered independently
Various optimizations for the core processing loop (reduces apparent DSP load, especially with small sessions)
For now, only use the multi-threaded process code if we are using >1 processor for DSP; this involves making the DSP use setting only take effect on a restart of Ardour.
Increase size of click pool to cover longer latency settings
Make adding tracks/busses from templates just like adding them at the start of a session, in that IO connedon't offer to save master bus as a route templatections are prevented until they are all added
Use new Lilv state API to save LV2 plugin state (requires latest lilv version)
Store Region export state in instant.xml
Add aux sends at the position that the menu was opened, rather than always pre-fader
Make crossfade active state and length changes undo-able.
Use musical_time_equal() test for equality when copying notes, not strict floating point equality.
Make crossfade convert-to-full and activate/deactivate work across edit groups
Stop sending MMC/MTC while exporting or freewheeling for any other reason.
Bugs Squashed
Fixed crashing bug caused by Apple's implementation of getmntinfo()
Fix a variety of bugs of varying severity related to the tempo map changes done for 3.0 beta2
Catch exception thrown by SMF code when it cannot write to a file
Fix export threading timeouts when disk operations take long. Might fix other timeout issues also.
Fix failure to find route templates
Clear clicks when auto-returning or looping
Make time stretch respect edit group
Make plugins-stop-with-transport work
Explicitly cancelling solo status when a route's inputs drop to zero
Rework design of midi clock ticker to avoid expensive generalization that has turned out to have no particular use, and fix bug that caused incorrect ticks to be sent (or attempted) as the transport starts up.
Fix timefx on multiple regions, even regions of mixed type
Tape track files need to be created when opened, not when written to
Fix failure to summon the disk butler thread when a track that needs it is followed by a track that does not
Do not crash if an LV2 plugin calls the UI write callback with a port number that ardour has decided is not an automatable parameter
Fix for crash-by-assert just after a MIDI diskstream overwrite (e.g. just after an edit, while playback is active)
Fix bug in MidiClock that sent MIDI Clock messages with negative offsets after a loop point
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Version 3beta1a | MacOS X Intel | (App) | Nov 26, 2011 |
After a furious 3 months (more than 600 code commits), the Ardour team is pleased to announce the release of Ardour 3.0 Beta 1. This is the first version of Ardour 3 that has support for OS X (Intel only for now, sorry PPC users), where you will find fully functional AudioUnit instrument support among all the other goodies that Ardour 3 brings. The (very long) list below documents the other many changes, including support for Linux native VSTs, an initial new version of Freesound browsing, some shinier (and perhaps out of place) new buttons, and a metric ton of bug fixes and improvements.
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Version 2.8.12 | MacOS X UB | (App) | Oct 10, 2011 |
New Features or Behaviour and workflow improvements
OS X Lion Support
Linux binary packages (for all versions of Linux on x86 or x86_64 processors)
Correctly align newly recorded material on the timeline
OS X: double-click on a session file opens Ardour
reinstate "merge files" in import dialog so that 2 mono files can be imported as a stereo track
Forces new tempo and meter markers to start a new bar on the first beat
Changes to automation data recording
No longer decide automation control point visibility based on zoom level
Remove unnecessary control points in automation data as it is recorded
Allow timecode to skip forwards or backwards or even loop while recording automation (data is only recorded during forward playback)
Add a second Delete action, so both Backspace and Delete can be bound to delete. this is really useful on macbooks which have a backspace but no delete key. to turn on this behavior, users will have to add the new editor-alternate-delete action to theri bindings, OR go to Preferences->Mouse/Key and re-load one of the default bindings files
New route groups are turned "on" at creation
F4 is bound to the real separate action, not the Separate sub-menu (ergnomic bindings only)
Remove some rhythm ferret options that are not implemented in A2
Change order of range menu so more common operations are nearer the top
Crash Fixes
Fix crash when two overlapped regions are selected
Fixes crashes when playhead is moved if fader automation is on the 'write' setting
Symptom-fix for an issue with bogus crossfades. Avoids crashes though it doesn't fix the underlying problem.
Bug Fixes
Fix misbehaviour when freewheeling due to Ardour's own export
Change the way we use "physical screen height" to better account for multi-monitor setups
Make sequence-files option for import use file timecode, make all import/embed ops use per-file TC if timecode was requested, rather than just the first file's TC
Fix occasional deafening noise at region cut points
Fix management of fade in/out active management
Restore text to the editor canvas on big-endian machines (OS X PPC)
Don't try to call "render" on AU plugins with no input elements
Some Mackie-emulation systems (e.g. euphonix) send zero for the tick count when the jog wheel is moved, so accomodate this by pretending that they reported 1 tick
Save/restore environment as needed when forking external apps like JACK
Fix possible drift out of sync of tracks during varispeed
Don't adjust session end location when any region end is moved.
LV2 UI parameter now handled by the GUI thread, not just the same thread that the update happened
Prevent ardour from ever, EVER, EVAH removing an existing source file
Make sure declicking fades reach their target
Fix Insert Region From List and Fill Range with Selected Region
Add support for AudioUnit parameter listening
Make timefx thread sleep for a bit after its done, so that the GUI can process its requests before it dies and takes it request buffer with it
Fix old issue where copy-pasting a range selection from region(s), each region would inherit the parents full fade-in or -out even when the region excerpt didnt include the fade
Fixes for gcc 4.6
Do not try to silence port buffers after a reconnect, since this violates old JACK policy and new JACK implementation
Fix reallocation of silent, passthru and send buffers, specifically after a reconnect to JACK
Fix cut-n-paste typo that caused Session::send_buffers to be the wrong size
Commit patch from colinf to just err, rather than abort, if ::truncate_start() is called on an empty automation list
Fixed bug where embedded sources did not correctly obey the BWF time stamp and would import at the timestamp of the first file
When importing sources that are using sample rate conversion, the BWF start time has to be converted also
Fix bug that prevented fade-ins from being restored in an inactive state
Remove almost all use of Glib::ustring to avoid issues with non-Latin characters in file names on some versions of OS X
Do not attempt to lookup sndfile constants/enums using a string, because this breaks when using anything but english
Allow correct restoration of Lock Edit mode
Translations
New Basque translation from Maider Likona and friends
OS X Lion Support
Linux binary packages (for all versions of Linux on x86 or x86_64 processors)
Correctly align newly recorded material on the timeline
OS X: double-click on a session file opens Ardour
reinstate "merge files" in import dialog so that 2 mono files can be imported as a stereo track
Forces new tempo and meter markers to start a new bar on the first beat
Changes to automation data recording
No longer decide automation control point visibility based on zoom level
Remove unnecessary control points in automation data as it is recorded
Allow timecode to skip forwards or backwards or even loop while recording automation (data is only recorded during forward playback)
Add a second Delete action, so both Backspace and Delete can be bound to delete. this is really useful on macbooks which have a backspace but no delete key. to turn on this behavior, users will have to add the new editor-alternate-delete action to theri bindings, OR go to Preferences->Mouse/Key and re-load one of the default bindings files
New route groups are turned "on" at creation
F4 is bound to the real separate action, not the Separate sub-menu (ergnomic bindings only)
Remove some rhythm ferret options that are not implemented in A2
Change order of range menu so more common operations are nearer the top
Crash Fixes
Fix crash when two overlapped regions are selected
Fixes crashes when playhead is moved if fader automation is on the 'write' setting
Symptom-fix for an issue with bogus crossfades. Avoids crashes though it doesn't fix the underlying problem.
Bug Fixes
Fix misbehaviour when freewheeling due to Ardour's own export
Change the way we use "physical screen height" to better account for multi-monitor setups
Make sequence-files option for import use file timecode, make all import/embed ops use per-file TC if timecode was requested, rather than just the first file's TC
Fix occasional deafening noise at region cut points
Fix management of fade in/out active management
Restore text to the editor canvas on big-endian machines (OS X PPC)
Don't try to call "render" on AU plugins with no input elements
Some Mackie-emulation systems (e.g. euphonix) send zero for the tick count when the jog wheel is moved, so accomodate this by pretending that they reported 1 tick
Save/restore environment as needed when forking external apps like JACK
Fix possible drift out of sync of tracks during varispeed
Don't adjust session end location when any region end is moved.
LV2 UI parameter now handled by the GUI thread, not just the same thread that the update happened
Prevent ardour from ever, EVER, EVAH removing an existing source file
Make sure declicking fades reach their target
Fix Insert Region From List and Fill Range with Selected Region
Add support for AudioUnit parameter listening
Make timefx thread sleep for a bit after its done, so that the GUI can process its requests before it dies and takes it request buffer with it
Fix old issue where copy-pasting a range selection from region(s), each region would inherit the parents full fade-in or -out even when the region excerpt didnt include the fade
Fixes for gcc 4.6
Do not try to silence port buffers after a reconnect, since this violates old JACK policy and new JACK implementation
Fix reallocation of silent, passthru and send buffers, specifically after a reconnect to JACK
Fix cut-n-paste typo that caused Session::send_buffers to be the wrong size
Commit patch from colinf to just err, rather than abort, if ::truncate_start() is called on an empty automation list
Fixed bug where embedded sources did not correctly obey the BWF time stamp and would import at the timestamp of the first file
When importing sources that are using sample rate conversion, the BWF start time has to be converted also
Fix bug that prevented fade-ins from being restored in an inactive state
Remove almost all use of Glib::ustring to avoid issues with non-Latin characters in file names on some versions of OS X
Do not attempt to lookup sndfile constants/enums using a string, because this breaks when using anything but english
Allow correct restoration of Lock Edit mode
Translations
New Basque translation from Maider Likona and friends
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Version 2.8.11 | MacOS X UB | (App) | Jul 23, 2010 |
Ardour 2.8.11 is now available. It contains only 1 change from 2.8.10, but it's an important one:
* Do not prevent transport operations after an export (and potentially at other times)
* Do not prevent transport operations after an export (and potentially at other times)
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Version 2.8.10 | MacOS X UB | (App) | Jun 17, 2010 |
2.8.10
Ardour 2.8.10 is released into the wild today, primarily to fix an annoying regression in 2.8.9:
* keyboard presses and releases are now correctly sent to Ardour created plugin GUIs (e.g. for LADSPA plugins), making it possible to use the keyboard to set parameter values and define preset names.
2.8.9
Just a couple of days since 2.8.8, and Ardour 2.8.9 is here. Why? It turned out that the infamous mute bug (which caused the mute button to do nothing) was actually not fixed in 2.8.8 (or prior versions where this has been claimed). This has been one of the worst regressions of recent versions of Ardour, and I mistakenly blamed packagers and distributions for it. Thankfully ardour.org member the_CLA spent time with me on IRC and we finally proved to my satisfaction that the bug was really in Ardour. Its now fixed, hopefully forever.
In addition, a new Ardour user on OS X pointed out two rather unfortunate problems that have now been fixed:
* If a plugin has existing presets, the preset selector in the plugin editor window would steal key events, possibly causing an unintentional (and unrecoverable) reset of the plugin state (very annoying)
* All canvas items except for the text used to label and regions could have their color adjusted. These two exceptions have now been added to the set of things that can be tweaked by, for example, a color-blind user, or someone who just wants dark colors for tracks and white text on region names.
2.8.8
IMPORTANT FIXES
* Dramatic improvements to automation editing so that it more or less works as anyone might expect. DOWNSIDE: for this release, the display of automation data is not updated in realtime while in write/touch mode. This will be fixed in a future release.
* Correct very strange and erratic punch recording behaviour that would create regions on tracks that were not record enabled
* Fix crash when zooming canvas repeatedly
* Fix handling of files larger than 2GB that could cause very slow reload of existing sessions (speedup was from 9 minutes to 30 seconds)
* Subtle but important change that may fix issues with recording not placing material in the correct location on the timeline
* Correctly order signal processing after adding a send (fixes issues with placement of recorded material)
* Regions overlapped by 2 other regions will now no longer semi-randomly fail to be audible during playback
* Region exports and bounces now use region fade in and fade out curves.
USEFUL FIXES
* Save & recall port insert latency values
* JACK Latency = 256 menu option now works
* Importing files with the "Sequence files" option now works
* Cleanup LV2 "external gui" extension support
* Clear solo state when deleting a route that is soloed
* Notify user that deleting a route will save the session state
* Ellipsize long names in the track/bus inspector
* Force exported AIFF files to be big-endian
* Anchor the crossfade start and end points so that they cannot be edited
* Correctly retain MIDI bindings for global transport controls
* Do not burn 100% of a CPU's available cycles if disconnected from JACK
* Put the fixed size columns (check marks) on the left side of the mixer's track and group lists for easier access to their functionality
* Fix strange behaviour when dragging region(s) towards time zero
* Rationalize track selection and range selection
* Make selecting a range in mouse range mode work even if there is already a time selection
* When splitting N-channel regions to mono regions, each new region shows up as its own region, not a child of the original
* Clearing an automation track of data no longer generates an error when next loading the session ("Cannot reconstitute XML history node ...")
HANDY NEW FEATURES
* Include links in Help menu to the tutorial and reference manuals
* switch from ctrl-drag to alt-drag for "drag-selection-as-region"
* change automation track selection model slightly so that auto tracks are highlighted as expected. only show range boxes when the automation will actually get edited. clicking an automation track should show the editor-mixer for the parent track
* Configurable behaviour when an N channel track plays a region that has less than N channels (silence or replicate the last channel). Default is silence.
OS X ONLY
* Significantly updated version of the GTK GUI toolkit in use, which fixes a number of issues including...
* Multiple monitors now supported correctly
* Various fixes for handling AudioUnits, particularly UAD
* Use Apple's ExtAudioFile API for file types not otherwise handled on OS X (MP3, AAC and others)
* Use libsndfile to try to get timestamp info because Apple has no API for this
* Do not categorize AU plugins using the "subtype" property because its meaningless. Use "type" instead which is coarser but has a clear meaning.
* Added a shortcut to Volumes (external disk drives) when opening a session
* Add option to enable/disable translation on OS X
* Remove automation mode selector from AU plugin view window, since it doesn't do anything useful
* Correctly handle AU parameter types, so that more parameters are available for automation
* If a plugin has a Carbon-based editor, properly close that window when deleting the plugin (e.g. when closing the session)
TRANSLATION UPDATES
* Spanish (Pablo Fernández)
* French (Raphaël Doursenaud)
Ardour 2.8.10 is released into the wild today, primarily to fix an annoying regression in 2.8.9:
* keyboard presses and releases are now correctly sent to Ardour created plugin GUIs (e.g. for LADSPA plugins), making it possible to use the keyboard to set parameter values and define preset names.
2.8.9
Just a couple of days since 2.8.8, and Ardour 2.8.9 is here. Why? It turned out that the infamous mute bug (which caused the mute button to do nothing) was actually not fixed in 2.8.8 (or prior versions where this has been claimed). This has been one of the worst regressions of recent versions of Ardour, and I mistakenly blamed packagers and distributions for it. Thankfully ardour.org member the_CLA spent time with me on IRC and we finally proved to my satisfaction that the bug was really in Ardour. Its now fixed, hopefully forever.
In addition, a new Ardour user on OS X pointed out two rather unfortunate problems that have now been fixed:
* If a plugin has existing presets, the preset selector in the plugin editor window would steal key events, possibly causing an unintentional (and unrecoverable) reset of the plugin state (very annoying)
* All canvas items except for the text used to label and regions could have their color adjusted. These two exceptions have now been added to the set of things that can be tweaked by, for example, a color-blind user, or someone who just wants dark colors for tracks and white text on region names.
2.8.8
IMPORTANT FIXES
* Dramatic improvements to automation editing so that it more or less works as anyone might expect. DOWNSIDE: for this release, the display of automation data is not updated in realtime while in write/touch mode. This will be fixed in a future release.
* Correct very strange and erratic punch recording behaviour that would create regions on tracks that were not record enabled
* Fix crash when zooming canvas repeatedly
* Fix handling of files larger than 2GB that could cause very slow reload of existing sessions (speedup was from 9 minutes to 30 seconds)
* Subtle but important change that may fix issues with recording not placing material in the correct location on the timeline
* Correctly order signal processing after adding a send (fixes issues with placement of recorded material)
* Regions overlapped by 2 other regions will now no longer semi-randomly fail to be audible during playback
* Region exports and bounces now use region fade in and fade out curves.
USEFUL FIXES
* Save & recall port insert latency values
* JACK Latency = 256 menu option now works
* Importing files with the "Sequence files" option now works
* Cleanup LV2 "external gui" extension support
* Clear solo state when deleting a route that is soloed
* Notify user that deleting a route will save the session state
* Ellipsize long names in the track/bus inspector
* Force exported AIFF files to be big-endian
* Anchor the crossfade start and end points so that they cannot be edited
* Correctly retain MIDI bindings for global transport controls
* Do not burn 100% of a CPU's available cycles if disconnected from JACK
* Put the fixed size columns (check marks) on the left side of the mixer's track and group lists for easier access to their functionality
* Fix strange behaviour when dragging region(s) towards time zero
* Rationalize track selection and range selection
* Make selecting a range in mouse range mode work even if there is already a time selection
* When splitting N-channel regions to mono regions, each new region shows up as its own region, not a child of the original
* Clearing an automation track of data no longer generates an error when next loading the session ("Cannot reconstitute XML history node ...")
HANDY NEW FEATURES
* Include links in Help menu to the tutorial and reference manuals
* switch from ctrl-drag to alt-drag for "drag-selection-as-region"
* change automation track selection model slightly so that auto tracks are highlighted as expected. only show range boxes when the automation will actually get edited. clicking an automation track should show the editor-mixer for the parent track
* Configurable behaviour when an N channel track plays a region that has less than N channels (silence or replicate the last channel). Default is silence.
OS X ONLY
* Significantly updated version of the GTK GUI toolkit in use, which fixes a number of issues including...
* Multiple monitors now supported correctly
* Various fixes for handling AudioUnits, particularly UAD
* Use Apple's ExtAudioFile API for file types not otherwise handled on OS X (MP3, AAC and others)
* Use libsndfile to try to get timestamp info because Apple has no API for this
* Do not categorize AU plugins using the "subtype" property because its meaningless. Use "type" instead which is coarser but has a clear meaning.
* Added a shortcut to Volumes (external disk drives) when opening a session
* Add option to enable/disable translation on OS X
* Remove automation mode selector from AU plugin view window, since it doesn't do anything useful
* Correctly handle AU parameter types, so that more parameters are available for automation
* If a plugin has a Carbon-based editor, properly close that window when deleting the plugin (e.g. when closing the session)
TRANSLATION UPDATES
* Spanish (Pablo Fernández)
* French (Raphaël Doursenaud)
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Version 2.8.7 | MacOS X UB | (App) | Feb 4, 2010 |
Fixes
* Smarter decision making when deciding which in/out configuration to choose when handling an AU plugin that has several.
* When exporting/bouncing/consolidating, tell AU plugins the new processing blocksize so they will actually run during the process. Yes, that means what you think it means.
* Remove use of std::locale() which is utterly and completely broken on OS X, and causes a program to crash if used with any actual national locale.
* Don't reconfigure I/O of AU plugins when they already have the correct I/O configuration
* Smarter decision making when deciding which in/out configuration to choose when handling an AU plugin that has several.
* When exporting/bouncing/consolidating, tell AU plugins the new processing blocksize so they will actually run during the process. Yes, that means what you think it means.
* Remove use of std::locale() which is utterly and completely broken on OS X, and causes a program to crash if used with any actual national locale.
* Don't reconfigure I/O of AU plugins when they already have the correct I/O configuration
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Version 2.8.5 | MacOS X UB | (App) | Jan 25, 2010 |
General
* MMC (and other remote control protocols) no longer causes Ardour to discard recorded material when stopping transport.
* fix latency compensation when punching in (which was a regression in 2.8.2)
* fix crash when loading a session with certain kinds of crossfades
* fix "crashes" caused by an endless loop of events related to the editor track "big text cursor"
* don't cause clicks and/or possible plugin problems when editing while the transport is stopped
* load plugin presets at the right time
* an implementation of "Save As" (result is still saved within the session folder)
* new option in editor track list context menu to show only tracks that have regions under the playhead
* initialize the export folder name correctly
* initialize system template folder name correctly
* fixes for 64 bit build with some versions of gcc (ensures that assembler optimizations will be used)
* plugin "favorites" file format modified for portability. We are sorry that you will lose your list of favorites (and/or hidden plugins) after upgrading.
* updated translations for Italian, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian
OS X only
* fix potential (and observed) crash in AudioUnit plugins caused by Ardour's incorrect setup of data buffers
* fix crash when using AudioUnit plugins that use tempo/meter information from Ardour
* fix discovery of AudioUnit factory presets
* reimplement integration with the OS X main menubar
* make all shortcuts work (Ardour used to ignore many or most Alt/Option- combinations)
* fix issues with the cache of AudioUnit configuration data, and ensure that the file can be safely updated in the future.
* fix display of AudioUnit GUI's written in Carbon (no more "white windows of death")
* make international language support work on OS X (Ardour will try, and generally succeed) to follow the preferences you specify in System Preferences).
* MMC (and other remote control protocols) no longer causes Ardour to discard recorded material when stopping transport.
* fix latency compensation when punching in (which was a regression in 2.8.2)
* fix crash when loading a session with certain kinds of crossfades
* fix "crashes" caused by an endless loop of events related to the editor track "big text cursor"
* don't cause clicks and/or possible plugin problems when editing while the transport is stopped
* load plugin presets at the right time
* an implementation of "Save As" (result is still saved within the session folder)
* new option in editor track list context menu to show only tracks that have regions under the playhead
* initialize the export folder name correctly
* initialize system template folder name correctly
* fixes for 64 bit build with some versions of gcc (ensures that assembler optimizations will be used)
* plugin "favorites" file format modified for portability. We are sorry that you will lose your list of favorites (and/or hidden plugins) after upgrading.
* updated translations for Italian, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian
OS X only
* fix potential (and observed) crash in AudioUnit plugins caused by Ardour's incorrect setup of data buffers
* fix crash when using AudioUnit plugins that use tempo/meter information from Ardour
* fix discovery of AudioUnit factory presets
* reimplement integration with the OS X main menubar
* make all shortcuts work (Ardour used to ignore many or most Alt/Option- combinations)
* fix issues with the cache of AudioUnit configuration data, and ensure that the file can be safely updated in the future.
* fix display of AudioUnit GUI's written in Carbon (no more "white windows of death")
* make international language support work on OS X (Ardour will try, and generally succeed) to follow the preferences you specify in System Preferences).
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Version 2.8.4 | MacOS X UB | (App) | Nov 15, 2009 |
New Features
* plugin manager now has a "hide" option so that you can control which plugins show up in the plugin menus (J. Abelardo Gutierrez)
* new "by category" plugin menu, to complement the "by creator" one that already existed (J. Abelardo Gutierrez)
* if auto-play is enabled, defining or changing a range selection will immediately start playing it
* new action, ToggleRollMaybe, which leaves loop play or range play mode but without stopping the transport (Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-space by default)
* PortInsert GUIs now have a builtin hardware latency "ping" tester, modelled on Fons Adriennsen's jdelay. This can accurately measure the roundtrip signal latency of your insert and sets the latency that JACK sees. You can now use external h/w processing and get sample-accurate latency compensation within Ardour.
* new Region Layering Editor. This is accessed via the region context menu, and provides an easy way to modify the layering of regions at a given location (it will only show in the menu if there is more than one region under the mouse pointer). It can be used as an excellent tool for comping loop recording or overdubs in general. Thanks to JAG for this excellent addition.
Critical Fixes
* fix BWF header contents
* fix crash caused by auto-saving after unloading a session
* fix crash caused by using an audio interface without inputs or outputs
* fix crash caused by data overrun when generating peak files
* fix crash bug caused by having no outputs on a track or bus and more than 1 input
Improvements
* make exported file name text entry "activatable" in export region dialog
* correctly continue to keep sending MTC when looping
* make display of files to process during import correct
* window titles are now consistent (and do not include "ardour")
* show region sync point in the popup region editor
* fix copy-drag operations when in lock edit mode
* tidy up region gain line drawing so that it doesn't extend past the region
* improve audio file format names shown in the interface
* remove edit point clock
* more vertically-oriented layout of toggle controls in LADSPA editors
* add key stroke (left/right arrow) and wheel (left/right, shift-down/up) scrolling in mixer window
* fix missing display of plugins in the plugin manager (corrupt plugin type information)
* do not ignore auto-connect setting when it is disabled for a new session
* do not stop at session end if synced to JACK but not the time master.
* save audio settings even when using FFADO
* don't reset panner or plugin parameter values when switching automation to Write or Off (avoids losing a manually set value)
* fix "separate" edit so that regions created do not overlap by 1 sample
* provide host callbacks for AU plugins to get tempo, musical time and transport information
* make region "lower-to-bottom" and "raise-to-top" have persistent rather than temporary effects
* sort items in the region context menu to match order in the track
* cleanup of Mackie/Logic Control support to prevent it from stopping Session unloading from proceeding correctly
* save and restore seamless loop setting when changing transport slave mode, since no JACK doesn't allow seamless loop
* when renaming tracks/busses/sends/inserts, scan everything to avoid JACK port duplicate names
* display an explanation if JACK shuts down due to backend issues (e.g. another application changes the sample rate)
* updated swedish and italian translations
OS X specific
* add /Volumes to file browser, to make external drives more visible
* prevent the editor right hand side notebook from vanishing and being un-resizable
* left click on the error/status bar clears whatever text is displayed there
* send AU Event notifications when modifying parameters or presets - makes ALL AudioUnit GUIs update during automation or preset changes, rather than just the ones from Waves, PSP, etc.
Contributors
Carl Hetherington, J. Abelardo Gutierrez, Valerio Orlandini, Emanuele Costantini, Petter Sundlöf, Ben Loftis, and your increasingly overweight chief grunt Paul Davis.
* plugin manager now has a "hide" option so that you can control which plugins show up in the plugin menus (J. Abelardo Gutierrez)
* new "by category" plugin menu, to complement the "by creator" one that already existed (J. Abelardo Gutierrez)
* if auto-play is enabled, defining or changing a range selection will immediately start playing it
* new action, ToggleRollMaybe, which leaves loop play or range play mode but without stopping the transport (Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-space by default)
* PortInsert GUIs now have a builtin hardware latency "ping" tester, modelled on Fons Adriennsen's jdelay. This can accurately measure the roundtrip signal latency of your insert and sets the latency that JACK sees. You can now use external h/w processing and get sample-accurate latency compensation within Ardour.
* new Region Layering Editor. This is accessed via the region context menu, and provides an easy way to modify the layering of regions at a given location (it will only show in the menu if there is more than one region under the mouse pointer). It can be used as an excellent tool for comping loop recording or overdubs in general. Thanks to JAG for this excellent addition.
Critical Fixes
* fix BWF header contents
* fix crash caused by auto-saving after unloading a session
* fix crash caused by using an audio interface without inputs or outputs
* fix crash caused by data overrun when generating peak files
* fix crash bug caused by having no outputs on a track or bus and more than 1 input
Improvements
* make exported file name text entry "activatable" in export region dialog
* correctly continue to keep sending MTC when looping
* make display of files to process during import correct
* window titles are now consistent (and do not include "ardour")
* show region sync point in the popup region editor
* fix copy-drag operations when in lock edit mode
* tidy up region gain line drawing so that it doesn't extend past the region
* improve audio file format names shown in the interface
* remove edit point clock
* more vertically-oriented layout of toggle controls in LADSPA editors
* add key stroke (left/right arrow) and wheel (left/right, shift-down/up) scrolling in mixer window
* fix missing display of plugins in the plugin manager (corrupt plugin type information)
* do not ignore auto-connect setting when it is disabled for a new session
* do not stop at session end if synced to JACK but not the time master.
* save audio settings even when using FFADO
* don't reset panner or plugin parameter values when switching automation to Write or Off (avoids losing a manually set value)
* fix "separate" edit so that regions created do not overlap by 1 sample
* provide host callbacks for AU plugins to get tempo, musical time and transport information
* make region "lower-to-bottom" and "raise-to-top" have persistent rather than temporary effects
* sort items in the region context menu to match order in the track
* cleanup of Mackie/Logic Control support to prevent it from stopping Session unloading from proceeding correctly
* save and restore seamless loop setting when changing transport slave mode, since no JACK doesn't allow seamless loop
* when renaming tracks/busses/sends/inserts, scan everything to avoid JACK port duplicate names
* display an explanation if JACK shuts down due to backend issues (e.g. another application changes the sample rate)
* updated swedish and italian translations
OS X specific
* add /Volumes to file browser, to make external drives more visible
* prevent the editor right hand side notebook from vanishing and being un-resizable
* left click on the error/status bar clears whatever text is displayed there
* send AU Event notifications when modifying parameters or presets - makes ALL AudioUnit GUIs update during automation or preset changes, rather than just the ones from Waves, PSP, etc.
Contributors
Carl Hetherington, J. Abelardo Gutierrez, Valerio Orlandini, Emanuele Costantini, Petter Sundlöf, Ben Loftis, and your increasingly overweight chief grunt Paul Davis.
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Version 2.8.3 | MacOS X UB | (App) | Oct 13, 2009 |
FEATURES
* Ardour can now open un-writable sessions without complaining. This includes sessions on read-only media and those for which write access is not granted to the user.
* support FLAC & Ogg/Vorbis import and export (via system libsndfile)
* provide jdelay-based hardware/port insert latency measurement (note: this is not automatic, but is initiated by the user in the insert GUI)
* Enable very basic automation for On/Off plugin parameters. Write and Read modes only (no Touch, graphical editing is not allowed). It is a little crude but better than none at all and can only get better!
* OSC API now supports add locate command (/ardour/locate i= i=)
FIXES
* the OS X builds include a fix for a crashing bug in the Pango font handling library. This would often occur during zoom operations.
* plugin/send/insert displays in mixer strips should now always list the correct items
* change keybindings to more closely match 3.0
* make keybindings pay attention only to "relevant" modifiers (i.e. ignore numlock)
* when loading a template, make sure the user template directory exists
* add track-record-enable-toggle action to menu, to make it actually bindable
* fixup creation of tracks/busses with > 2 channels from track templates
* simplify waveform choices menu
* compiles cleanly with gcc4.4 patches
* limit group button width
* "in" and "out" as part of a port name should not be translatable by default, since it will break session portability. French & Polish users who need to get old sessions that have these names translated and need to keep them working should set the environment variable ARDOUR_RETAIN_PORT_NAME_SUFFIX_TRANSLATION to force old behaviour.
* Transpose appears in the popup region context menu as well as the Regions menu
* auto-* buttons now have a fixed size
* keep the transient auto-analyse dialog from showing up more than once per launch of Ardour
* fix some actions that need to be sensitive depending on the existence of selected tracks
* save and recall rectified waveform view setting(s)
* make tearoff windows still forward key events (and thus bindings still work)
* make big clock window into a utility window, not a menu
* Bad syntax in LV2 RDF files no longer causes crash on startup.
* Apply button made clickable when modifying the meter marker at the start of the session.
* fix import channel->track Mapping option so it follows the region/track menu selection
* add shortcuts to both SYSTEM and USER templates folder.
* correctly display wastebasket content size
* reinstate export-region which was lost
* make zoom-to-region more straightforward.
* fix logic in undo, redo and swapping of visual state changes
* Add "all" items to track right click context menu instead of relying on the -all- edit/mix group
* New Session/Startup dialog changes
o if no interface has been identified previously, put the audio setup tab as the first tab
o if JACK is not running and no interface has ever been chosen, show JUST the audio setup tab. once JACK is successfully
o properly handle situation where use opts not to load a session because of SR mismatch
* better (less crash-prone) behaviour when JACK fails to start from "within" ardour.
* Freesound mootcher patch (it might work now!)
* LV2 external UIs supported
* LV2 epp logarithmic parameters handled
* LADSPA log parameters default values set appropriately
* handle localized decimal indicator in BarController widget
* i/o buttons now show connection state a bit more sensibly
* edit group visibility maintained in session file
* better behaviour of the splash window with the Ion WM (activated by setting the environment variable ARDOUR_USE_OVERRIDE_REDIRECT_SPLASH)
* "About" window set as transient for editor
* Prevent sends/inserts from ever being renamed to the same name as a track/bus
* make handling of session and history files more robust across ardour versions
* don't allow crossfade point dragging to create illegal values
* allow DIST_LIBDIR to override LIBDIR during the build
TRANSLATIONS
# updated russian translation from Alexandre Prokoudine
# updated french translation from Raphaël Doursenaud
# tweaks to german translation
* Ardour can now open un-writable sessions without complaining. This includes sessions on read-only media and those for which write access is not granted to the user.
* support FLAC & Ogg/Vorbis import and export (via system libsndfile)
* provide jdelay-based hardware/port insert latency measurement (note: this is not automatic, but is initiated by the user in the insert GUI)
* Enable very basic automation for On/Off plugin parameters. Write and Read modes only (no Touch, graphical editing is not allowed). It is a little crude but better than none at all and can only get better!
* OSC API now supports add locate command (/ardour/locate i= i=)
FIXES
* the OS X builds include a fix for a crashing bug in the Pango font handling library. This would often occur during zoom operations.
* plugin/send/insert displays in mixer strips should now always list the correct items
* change keybindings to more closely match 3.0
* make keybindings pay attention only to "relevant" modifiers (i.e. ignore numlock)
* when loading a template, make sure the user template directory exists
* add track-record-enable-toggle action to menu, to make it actually bindable
* fixup creation of tracks/busses with > 2 channels from track templates
* simplify waveform choices menu
* compiles cleanly with gcc4.4 patches
* limit group button width
* "in" and "out" as part of a port name should not be translatable by default, since it will break session portability. French & Polish users who need to get old sessions that have these names translated and need to keep them working should set the environment variable ARDOUR_RETAIN_PORT_NAME_SUFFIX_TRANSLATION to force old behaviour.
* Transpose appears in the popup region context menu as well as the Regions menu
* auto-* buttons now have a fixed size
* keep the transient auto-analyse dialog from showing up more than once per launch of Ardour
* fix some actions that need to be sensitive depending on the existence of selected tracks
* save and recall rectified waveform view setting(s)
* make tearoff windows still forward key events (and thus bindings still work)
* make big clock window into a utility window, not a menu
* Bad syntax in LV2 RDF files no longer causes crash on startup.
* Apply button made clickable when modifying the meter marker at the start of the session.
* fix import channel->track Mapping option so it follows the region/track menu selection
* add shortcuts to both SYSTEM and USER templates folder.
* correctly display wastebasket content size
* reinstate export-region which was lost
* make zoom-to-region more straightforward.
* fix logic in undo, redo and swapping of visual state changes
* Add "all" items to track right click context menu instead of relying on the -all- edit/mix group
* New Session/Startup dialog changes
o if no interface has been identified previously, put the audio setup tab as the first tab
o if JACK is not running and no interface has ever been chosen, show JUST the audio setup tab. once JACK is successfully
o properly handle situation where use opts not to load a session because of SR mismatch
* better (less crash-prone) behaviour when JACK fails to start from "within" ardour.
* Freesound mootcher patch (it might work now!)
* LV2 external UIs supported
* LV2 epp logarithmic parameters handled
* LADSPA log parameters default values set appropriately
* handle localized decimal indicator in BarController widget
* i/o buttons now show connection state a bit more sensibly
* edit group visibility maintained in session file
* better behaviour of the splash window with the Ion WM (activated by setting the environment variable ARDOUR_USE_OVERRIDE_REDIRECT_SPLASH)
* "About" window set as transient for editor
* Prevent sends/inserts from ever being renamed to the same name as a track/bus
* make handling of session and history files more robust across ardour versions
* don't allow crossfade point dragging to create illegal values
* allow DIST_LIBDIR to override LIBDIR during the build
TRANSLATIONS
# updated russian translation from Alexandre Prokoudine
# updated french translation from Raphaël Doursenaud
# tweaks to german translation
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Version 2.8.2 | MacOS X UB | (App) | Jul 22, 2009 |
Ardour 2.8.2 contains a fix for a another critical bug on OS X that causes ardour to crash when deleting plugins with Carbon-based user interfaces. There are also two other small fixes - logarithmic plugin parameters can now be modified sensibly, and when importing files using the "copy files to session" option, an existing BWF timestamp is no longer lost. All OS X users are recommended to upgrade immediately - for those who have paid for any previous 2.8-series version, it is a free upgrade. Linux users may choose to wait for 2.8.3 in a couple of weeks which will contain a dozen or so other bug fixes. Thanks to Thomas Vecchione for help with debugging the crash, and Nick Murtagh for those two other fixes.
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Version 2.8.1 | MacOS X UB | (App) | Jul 10, 2009 |
New Features
* Built-in menu item to connect to #ardour on IRC via web browser
* Insert Time action can now optionally move tempos & meter markers
Improvements
* sort playlist menus in a more agreeable way
* sort ports correctly in many lists/menus
* faster startup by using pre-rendered region names
* implement panner reset functionality (missing since 0.99!)
Fixes
Crashing Bugs
* fix crash when deleting AudioUnit plugins (Leopard/Cocoa GUI specific)
* fix crash when closing a session after displaying 1 or more plugin GUIs
Data Loss Bug
* fix serious error in Cleanup that could lead to data loss
Others
* fix AudioUnit input/output configuration cache handling for some plugins with "interesting" configurations.
* switching into write automation mode doesn't reset gain levels
* stop import dialog from resizing at various times
* fix apparently-insensitive file selector in import dialog on OS X
* fix details of file formats when exporting CD markers
* fix marker bars, canvas and playhead getting out of sync with timeline
* fixes for some newer versions of gcc (4.4)
* don't bother to search for JACK server software if JACK is already running
* catch JACK shutdown and handle more safely - should solve issues with trying to save after a JACK shutdown.
* AudioUnit plugins can be turned off/bypassed and then turned back on
* Session names that include '/' or '\' are caught and asked for again.
* restore markers (including session start & end) and playhead correctly even if they had very large values (>12hrs)
Updated/New Translations
* Swedish (Petter Sundlof)
* French (Martin Blanchard/Ralph Doursenaud)
* Czech (Pavel Frich)
* Italian (Emanuele Constantini)
* Norwegian (Eivind Ødegård)
Contributors
Carl Hetherington, Nick Mainsbridge, Andreas Ruge, Ben Loftis and head grunt Paul Davis
* Built-in menu item to connect to #ardour on IRC via web browser
* Insert Time action can now optionally move tempos & meter markers
Improvements
* sort playlist menus in a more agreeable way
* sort ports correctly in many lists/menus
* faster startup by using pre-rendered region names
* implement panner reset functionality (missing since 0.99!)
Fixes
Crashing Bugs
* fix crash when deleting AudioUnit plugins (Leopard/Cocoa GUI specific)
* fix crash when closing a session after displaying 1 or more plugin GUIs
Data Loss Bug
* fix serious error in Cleanup that could lead to data loss
Others
* fix AudioUnit input/output configuration cache handling for some plugins with "interesting" configurations.
* switching into write automation mode doesn't reset gain levels
* stop import dialog from resizing at various times
* fix apparently-insensitive file selector in import dialog on OS X
* fix details of file formats when exporting CD markers
* fix marker bars, canvas and playhead getting out of sync with timeline
* fixes for some newer versions of gcc (4.4)
* don't bother to search for JACK server software if JACK is already running
* catch JACK shutdown and handle more safely - should solve issues with trying to save after a JACK shutdown.
* AudioUnit plugins can be turned off/bypassed and then turned back on
* Session names that include '/' or '\' are caught and asked for again.
* restore markers (including session start & end) and playhead correctly even if they had very large values (>12hrs)
Updated/New Translations
* Swedish (Petter Sundlof)
* French (Martin Blanchard/Ralph Doursenaud)
* Czech (Pavel Frich)
* Italian (Emanuele Constantini)
* Norwegian (Eivind Ødegård)
Contributors
Carl Hetherington, Nick Mainsbridge, Andreas Ruge, Ben Loftis and head grunt Paul Davis
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Version 2.8 | MacOS X Intel | (App) | Apr 10, 2009 |
New Features
* Track/Bus Templates (see below)
* Distributable VST support (see below)
* 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
* be willing to load some additional types of AU plugins, including AUNetSend and AUNetReceive
* 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 occured while dragging a region after a split
* Do not cache JACK port buffer addresses, to permit operation with experimental versions of Jack2.
* Track/Bus Templates (see below)
* Distributable VST support (see below)
* 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
* be willing to load some additional types of AU plugins, including AUNetSend and AUNetReceive
* 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 occured 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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Version 2.8 | MacOS X PPC | (App) | Apr 10, 2009 |
New Features
* Track/Bus Templates (see below)
* Distributable VST support (see below)
* 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
* be willing to load some additional types of AU plugins, including AUNetSend and AUNetReceive
* 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 occured while dragging a region after a split
* Do not cache JACK port buffer addresses, to permit operation with experimental versions of Jack2.
* Track/Bus Templates (see below)
* Distributable VST support (see below)
* 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
* be willing to load some additional types of AU plugins, including AUNetSend and AUNetReceive
* 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 occured 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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Version 2.7.1 | MacOS X Intel | (App) | Dec 10, 2008 |
NEW FEATURES & 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
* 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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Version 2.7 | MacOS X PPC | (App) | Nov 24, 2008 |
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!)
* 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!)
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Version 2.7 | MacOS X Intel | (App) | Nov 24, 2008 |
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!)
* 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!)
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Version 2.4.1 | MacOS X UB | (App) | Apr 10, 2008 |
- new "Insert Time" operation (see the Track menu)
- fix problems with port insert I/O configuration
- clocks used for duration start at 0|0|0 in BBT mode, not 1|1|0
- audio file suffix detection is now case-insensitive
- fix missing undo/redo for region drags
- fix problems with dragging in Locked Edit mode
- rename menu items for monitoring options, and make the one based on JACK insensitive if there are no JACK ports capable of being monitored in that way
- make plugin latency compensation work for AU's
- fix incorrect muting of regions when auditioning a crossfade
- add a declicking fade at start and end of any audition
- fixes for window sizes of AU plugin GUIs,
- fix "hidden AU GUI shows up when app becomes active/focus again" bug
- new LevelMeter class used for all meters
- fix problems with port insert I/O configuration
- clocks used for duration start at 0|0|0 in BBT mode, not 1|1|0
- audio file suffix detection is now case-insensitive
- fix missing undo/redo for region drags
- fix problems with dragging in Locked Edit mode
- rename menu items for monitoring options, and make the one based on JACK insensitive if there are no JACK ports capable of being monitored in that way
- make plugin latency compensation work for AU's
- fix incorrect muting of regions when auditioning a crossfade
- add a declicking fade at start and end of any audition
- fixes for window sizes of AU plugin GUIs,
- fix "hidden AU GUI shows up when app becomes active/focus again" bug
- new LevelMeter class used for all meters
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Version 2.4 | MacOS X UB | (App) | Apr 2, 2008 |
Features
- on OS X, direct support for import of all file types supported by CoreAudio, including MP3 and AAC. Linux users can take comfort: there is ongoing work to offer similar capabilities on their platform.
- per-track faders in editor window
- Freesound integration (direct searching and download of samples from Freesound) via the Import dialog.
- Vertical auto-scrolling (if you drag a region off the top or bottom of the editor, the editor "canvas" will scroll just as it does now with left/right scrolling)
- AU GUIs basically working (issues remain with SmartElectronix plugins but we're working them to fix the situation)
- AU automation working
- New option to create xrun markers on the location markerbar
- Tape Machine monitoring mode ( description)
- Rubberbanding Snaps to Grid (self explanitory I hope, defaults to off)
- Per-track gain faders in the editor window (when the track height is large enough)
- dynamic discovery & loading of keybindings
- Locked Edit mode disallows sliding regions in time. Override by holding 3rd mouse button
- Font size scaler in Windows -> Preferences -> Misc
- MIDI auto-rebinding patch (the first N controllers always control the first N tracks in the mixer, no matter which tracks they are)
Improvements
- Updated French translation
- Newly added audio (recorded/imported/embedded) is not analyzed by default (an option exists to control this). if you use "split at percussive onsets" frequently, you may want to turn the option on to avoid having to do the analysis on demand.
- New menu arrangement (less clutter, more logical for the most part)
- Enforce unique names for playlists, busses and tracks
- Pop up warning dialog for massive split operations
- Try to make adding lots of regions (e.g. from split-at-points) scale a bit better
- Splash screen displays startup/progress messages
- New grabber mouse edit point cursor used when edit point is set to mouse and the mouse is in object mode
- Allow ardour to use the (hard) maximum number of open files
Make import GUI report if you are importing a file of a name that already exists in the session.
- super-optimize meter drawing
- Remove beat entry from meter dialog (beats are not allowed in API)
- Notably speed up startup time by deferring track display untl the GUI is idle
- Put focus in plugin search entry when plugin selector is shown
- New FREEDESKTOP scons option installs desktop MIME entry and .desktop file. Also uses fd.o standard names and locations for icons.
- Minimize clock redrawing
- Rearrange icons/presets on xfade editor to be symmetric
- Add CAF to list of likely audio file suffixes
- Add a quick file type icon.
- Improvements on the FFT analysis tool:
Enable FFT analysis by default
FFT graph is now drawn using Cairo
The window is now a window instead of a dialog
Analysis window can be resized
The view can be switched between normalized and an absolute value
The minimum and maximum values for a graph can be shown
- Enable icon-start-from-.ardour-file to work on OS X
- Ignore dbl-clicks on mute/solo/rec-enable buttons since they make the user-experience feel inconsistent
Fixes
- AU plugins work on PPC
- copy-n-paste of AU plugins working
- fix problem where peakfile is slightly older than audio data even though it is ready
- prevent flush_pending() calls from "top menu" items on OS X from locking the GUI
- fix splashscreen crash
- fix problems with files being needlessly re-analysed at startup
- Fix bug which caused the current import logic to select existing file name as target file when importing. This caused the newly imported file to be concatenated after the original data.
- fixed uninitialized variable that made ardour scrub at the wrong times
- fix deadlock in playlist::partition();
- fix up meter thread management when JACK client starts/stops/is halted
- fix Playlist::partition_internal() to avoid acting on regions that should not be operated on given the range provided ;
- fix locate-play-locate
- make AudioRegion::master_read() obey length limit of (first) master source, not the region length
- fixes from chris cannam for rb_effect bugs
- fix up BWF creation
- fix silly error in removing channels from audio_diskstream
- (OS X native: don't write dynamic pango.rc into app.bundle)
- use Glib::get_home_dir() rather than HOME for user_ardour_path
- make feature lines (rhythm ferret etc) scale with zoom and hide them whenever RF hides
- properly install apple event handlers
- change plugin add logic to avoid asking for stream counts before they would be configured
- fix up new session dialog to not use manage(), and thus not throw away widgets when their page is hidden (by removal) in the tabbed browser
- fix untranslated string comparison of import mode names when comparing with whatever the user selected
- fix dragging that involves locked regions
stop crash occuring when carrying out playlist partitions in empty playlists
- on OS X, direct support for import of all file types supported by CoreAudio, including MP3 and AAC. Linux users can take comfort: there is ongoing work to offer similar capabilities on their platform.
- per-track faders in editor window
- Freesound integration (direct searching and download of samples from Freesound) via the Import dialog.
- Vertical auto-scrolling (if you drag a region off the top or bottom of the editor, the editor "canvas" will scroll just as it does now with left/right scrolling)
- AU GUIs basically working (issues remain with SmartElectronix plugins but we're working them to fix the situation)
- AU automation working
- New option to create xrun markers on the location markerbar
- Tape Machine monitoring mode ( description)
- Rubberbanding Snaps to Grid (self explanitory I hope, defaults to off)
- Per-track gain faders in the editor window (when the track height is large enough)
- dynamic discovery & loading of keybindings
- Locked Edit mode disallows sliding regions in time. Override by holding 3rd mouse button
- Font size scaler in Windows -> Preferences -> Misc
- MIDI auto-rebinding patch (the first N controllers always control the first N tracks in the mixer, no matter which tracks they are)
Improvements
- Updated French translation
- Newly added audio (recorded/imported/embedded) is not analyzed by default (an option exists to control this). if you use "split at percussive onsets" frequently, you may want to turn the option on to avoid having to do the analysis on demand.
- New menu arrangement (less clutter, more logical for the most part)
- Enforce unique names for playlists, busses and tracks
- Pop up warning dialog for massive split operations
- Try to make adding lots of regions (e.g. from split-at-points) scale a bit better
- Splash screen displays startup/progress messages
- New grabber mouse edit point cursor used when edit point is set to mouse and the mouse is in object mode
- Allow ardour to use the (hard) maximum number of open files
Make import GUI report if you are importing a file of a name that already exists in the session.
- super-optimize meter drawing
- Remove beat entry from meter dialog (beats are not allowed in API)
- Notably speed up startup time by deferring track display untl the GUI is idle
- Put focus in plugin search entry when plugin selector is shown
- New FREEDESKTOP scons option installs desktop MIME entry and .desktop file. Also uses fd.o standard names and locations for icons.
- Minimize clock redrawing
- Rearrange icons/presets on xfade editor to be symmetric
- Add CAF to list of likely audio file suffixes
- Add a quick file type icon.
- Improvements on the FFT analysis tool:
Enable FFT analysis by default
FFT graph is now drawn using Cairo
The window is now a window instead of a dialog
Analysis window can be resized
The view can be switched between normalized and an absolute value
The minimum and maximum values for a graph can be shown
- Enable icon-start-from-.ardour-file to work on OS X
- Ignore dbl-clicks on mute/solo/rec-enable buttons since they make the user-experience feel inconsistent
Fixes
- AU plugins work on PPC
- copy-n-paste of AU plugins working
- fix problem where peakfile is slightly older than audio data even though it is ready
- prevent flush_pending() calls from "top menu" items on OS X from locking the GUI
- fix splashscreen crash
- fix problems with files being needlessly re-analysed at startup
- Fix bug which caused the current import logic to select existing file name as target file when importing. This caused the newly imported file to be concatenated after the original data.
- fixed uninitialized variable that made ardour scrub at the wrong times
- fix deadlock in playlist::partition();
- fix up meter thread management when JACK client starts/stops/is halted
- fix Playlist::partition_internal() to avoid acting on regions that should not be operated on given the range provided ;
- fix locate-play-locate
- make AudioRegion::master_read() obey length limit of (first) master source, not the region length
- fixes from chris cannam for rb_effect bugs
- fix up BWF creation
- fix silly error in removing channels from audio_diskstream
- (OS X native: don't write dynamic pango.rc into app.bundle)
- use Glib::get_home_dir() rather than HOME for user_ardour_path
- make feature lines (rhythm ferret etc) scale with zoom and hide them whenever RF hides
- properly install apple event handlers
- change plugin add logic to avoid asking for stream counts before they would be configured
- fix up new session dialog to not use manage(), and thus not throw away widgets when their page is hidden (by removal) in the tabbed browser
- fix untranslated string comparison of import mode names when comparing with whatever the user selected
- fix dragging that involves locked regions
stop crash occuring when carrying out playlist partitions in empty playlists
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I think it would be fair to the developers to point out that this is NOT freeware.
They ask for a donation at download. But someone going to the site expecting free software may be disappointed. That said there is nothing stopping you downloading for evaluation and then returning to pay later if the software is up to your expectations.
They fixed my bug! yea!!!!
Never mind my previous bug complaint - it was a bug with playing multichannel AIFF files - which not everyone has on their computers - an easy thing for a developer to overlook.
I love the concept behind Ardour, and the price tag. But it is just not stable for me - I managed to get version 2.7 to crash on me within the first 5 minutes by doing things like resizing file import dialogs, etc, as I have been able to do to almost every version of this program I have tried. I hope they keep working on it though, because it is a fantastic program.