Ardour

The recent release of Ardour 2.8.16 for OS X Intel was incorrectly packaged, which led to it missing the ability to save/restore AudioUnit plugin settings (i.e. just like the cost-free version).

If you paid for a copy of this, please send me (paul@linuxaudiosystems.com) your invoice ID and I will send you (quick) instructions on how you can get a new (correct) copy. The version now available via ardour.org has been updated.

My sincere apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced by this mistake.

Hot on the heels of 2.8.15 comes a minor upgrade to 2.8.16. This release is of significance to only 2 groups of people:

• People who use a FFADO-supported audio interface on Linux and like to start JACK from within Ardour (this has been fixed to use the correct "firewire" driver name)
• Packagers for Linux distributions (this release will now build using SYSLIBS=1 on most current Linux distributions, unlike 2.8.15 which was almost impossible to build under any circumstances)

From out the depths it came ... a maintainance release of Ardour 2.8, number 15 in the series. Not many changes in this release:

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A decision has finally been made regarding the release of Ardour 3.0. First, some general stuff.

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Our website host has changed the "host key" used to identify the machine we know and love as subversion.ardour.org. Existing attempts to access the SVN repository with write access will fail. To fix this, remove subversion.ardour.org from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file, and the next time you attempt to connect to the SVN repository just answer the questions in the affirmative.

For the justifiably paranoid among us, the new RSA key is: 96:91:a5:2f:18:a7:56:55:b3:75:23:49:74:bc:22:e2

Some people who come across Ardour and start reading about its "odd" license (the GPL, used by thousands or tens of thousands of software applications and libraries around the world) end up asking "what is with this whole open source/free software thing anyway?" or "why don't the Ardour developers just release Ardour like a normal commercial, proprietary program?".

It isn't a complete answer to this kind of question, but as exhibit 13.1(a) part 8, I offer you:

http://www.zdnet.com/users-petition-avid-to-sell-sibelius-music-software...

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Its been two months and more than 600 source code changes since beta4. I had announced no more betas for Ardour 3, but we've accumulated a prodigious set of changes, fixes, new functionality that it seems silly to try to hold back. Without further ado, here is Ardour 3 beta 5, absolute the last beta release:

• OS X Intel (32 bit build) http://ardour.org/files/Ardour-3.0-13072.dmg
• Linux 32 bit http://ardour.org/files/Ardour_32bit-3.0beta5_13072.tar
• Linux 64 bit http://ardour.org/files/Ardour_64bit-3.0beta5_13072.tar

The change list is huge (more than 200 items of noteworthy changes), so please do read on below.

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Coming rapidly after our last release, Ardour 2.8.14 includes just a couple of fixes:

• packaging changes that make various plugin GUIs work correctly (notably the DISTRHO LV2 ports of TAL plugins)
• Generic MIDI bindings to non-toggle controls using note on/off messages now work in a sane way. Previously, Ardour did something quite odd in this scenario. This enables several generic MIDI controllers to be used much more easily to control the transport state, and several other things too.
• Bindings to the transport control buttons for return-to-start, goto-end and play-selection now work correctly.

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Several people have reported "slow GUI" issues with prebuilt versions of Ardour from ardour.org when used on Linux systems with Nvidia video interfaces.

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Although most development work on Ardour is focused on Ardour 3.0 these days, there are still ongoing maintainance changes (many driven by the continuing development of Harrison's Mixbus). Enough of these changes, fixes, improvements have accumulated that it seems appropriate to get a new Ardour 2.X release out, and so without further ado, Ardour 2.8.13 is now available to download.

Something was wrong with the source tarball available on ardour.org/download. It has been updated. The new file size is 2169762 bytes and the MD5 hash is cf1ddcb5f46847abca6ee0cb5bd4bd5b. Apologies for any confusion and problems that this caused.

Read the full list of changes below....

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