[Ardour-Users] Ardour-Users Digest, Vol 92, Issue 10

peiman khosravi peimankhosravi at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 16:36:18 PDT 2011


Amazing,

Thanks very much.

P

On 28 September 2011 21:00,  <ardour-users-request at lists.ardour.org> wrote:
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>   1. Ardour 2.8.12 released (Paul Davis)
>   2. Re: Ardour 2.8.12 released (Joe Hartley)
>   3. Re: Ardour 2.8.12 released (Arve Barsnes)
>   4. Re: Ardour 2.8.12 released (Robin Gloster)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:27:27 -0400
> From: Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
> To: ardour-users <ardour-users at lists.ardour.org>,       linux-audio-user
>        <linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org>
> Cc: ardour-dev mailing list <ardour-dev at lists.ardour.org>
> Subject: [Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.12 released
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> After a year in which Ardour 2 has seen little focused development due
> to the work on Ardour 3, the release of OS X Lion finally created the
> motivation to consolidate the accumulation of patches and improvements
> and release 2.8.12.
>
> You can download it from http://ardour.org/download
>
> The list of changes is suprisingly long for something supposedly in
> maintainance-only mode, and its a good list. The most important
> changes are probably:
>
>              * binary packages for Linux (these should run on any
> Linux system, with no dependencies on your existing system libraries)
>              * major (though subtle) fixes to the way Ardour handles
> latency and the alignment of newly recorded material.
>              * OS X Lion support
>
> Please note that Ardour now requires the latest JACK latency API which
> can be found in JACK1 0.120.2 or JACK2 1.9.7 (on OS X, JackOSX 0.88)
> or any later versions. Using Ardour 2.8.12 with older versions of JACK
> will lead to random crashes and generally bad behaviour. There's no
> reason not to upgrade JACK if you haven't already done so. If you are
> on Linux and your distro doesn't provide a new enough version, please
> complain to them.
>
> Binary packages of Ardour for Linux means that almost all Linux users
> of Ardour can choose to download Ardour directly from
> http://ardour.org/download rather than their distribution's packaging
> system. In the future, I plan to scale back the support and attention
> that I give to users of distribution-packaged versions of Ardour,
> mostly because it is so hard to track what each distribution does, let
> alone the bugs introduced by their handling of libraries that Ardour
> depends on.
>
> 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
>
> Contributions to this release from: Carl Hetherington, Ben Loftis,
> Todd Naugle, Colin Fletcher, the Basque translation team and Paul
> Davis
>
>
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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:56:06 -0400
> From: Joe Hartley <jh at brainiac.com>
> To: ardour-users at lists.ardour.org
> Subject: Re: [Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.12 released
> Message-ID: <20110928095606.8be1f019078083cbb474bbe3 at brainiac.com>
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> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:27:27 -0400
> Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
>
>>     * 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
>
>>     * Fix occasional deafening noise at region cut points
>
> Wow, I was not expecting such a big update to the 2.8 release.  The
> above 2 items (especially the automation/zoom issue) had caused me
> quite a bit of trouble in the last sessions I worked on.  It's great
> to see these fixes back-ported!
>
> Thanks for all the work you do on this, and thanks to all the folks who
> support the effort through coding and donations to keep this a fantastic
> project.
>
> --
> ======================================================================
>       Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh at brainiac.com
>  Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:22:48 +0200
> From: Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes at gmail.com>
> To: ardour-users at lists.ardour.org
> Subject: Re: [Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.12 released
> Message-ID:
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> On 28 September 2011 15:56, Joe Hartley <jh at brainiac.com> wrote:
>> Wow, I was not expecting such a big update to the 2.8 release. ?The
>> above 2 items (especially the automation/zoom issue) had caused me
>> quite a bit of trouble in the last sessions I worked on. ?It's great
>> to see these fixes back-ported!
>>
>> Thanks for all the work you do on this, and thanks to all the folks who
>> support the effort through coding and donations to keep this a fantastic
>> project.
>>
> Indeed! Looking forward to get a few of these fixes. Wondering what
> this means though:
>
>   * Forces new tempo and meter markers to start a new bar on the first beat
>
> I'm likely misunderstanding something, but is it now not possible to
> change the tempo in the middle of a bar? Sounds weird...
>
> Arve
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:31:36 +0200
> From: Robin Gloster <robin.gloster at googlemail.com>
> To: ardour-users at lists.ardour.org
> Subject: Re: [Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.12 released
> Message-ID: <4E836808.8030806 at gmail.com>
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> If I understand that correctly you can still do this, but it now starts
> a new bar instead of running wild.
> And thanks for the great work on the update!!
>
> Robin
>
> Am 28.09.2011 20:22, schrieb Arve Barsnes:
>> On 28 September 2011 15:56, Joe Hartley <jh at brainiac.com> wrote:
>>> Wow, I was not expecting such a big update to the 2.8 release.  The
>>> above 2 items (especially the automation/zoom issue) had caused me
>>> quite a bit of trouble in the last sessions I worked on.  It's great
>>> to see these fixes back-ported!
>>>
>>> Thanks for all the work you do on this, and thanks to all the folks who
>>> support the effort through coding and donations to keep this a fantastic
>>> project.
>>>
>> Indeed! Looking forward to get a few of these fixes. Wondering what
>> this means though:
>>
>>    * Forces new tempo and meter markers to start a new bar on the first beat
>>
>> I'm likely misunderstanding something, but is it now not possible to
>> change the tempo in the middle of a bar? Sounds weird...
>>
>> Arve
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