[Ardour-Users] Ardour 3.4 released

[Paul Davis]

Ardour 3.4 is released, after a month and half of the lazy, hot,
travel-filled days of the end of summer (for those of us in the
Northern Hemisphere, at least). This is primarily a maintainance
release, with a couple of new features that will prove useful for
various users. Note: one of the fixes addresses a very serious issue
with session clean-up in cases where time-stretched or pitch-shifted
regions are present. Anyone who ever uses these features of Ardour is
absolutely and unequivocally advised to upgrade.

As usual you can download it from the usual place
(http://ardour.org/download), and as usual subscribers get this update
without cost. Thanks to everyone for their support (and
encouragement).

Once again, the OS X release situation has still not improved, though
a demo copy of 3.4 is available (fully featured except that is has no
video timeline, no saving or restoring of plugin settings, and no
plugin presets).

New Features
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  * 7 new meter types: DIN, EBU, Nordic, BBC, VU, K14 and K20
             (total meter types now stands at 9)
  * optional master bus meter now available in transport bar
  * MIDI data is now forwarded "around" plugins with no MIDI output/input
  * for export, add CAF to support audio file formats

Fixes
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  * fix extremely hard-to-fix damage done to session when cleaning up
          any session containing time-stretched and/or pitch-shifted
regions.
  * fix issue with timecode subframe rounding
  * fix issue tracking LTC when locate occurs when stopped
  * fix issues with removing ports from tracks + busses (they were
          never completely removed)
  * fix a crash when deleting a bus
  * MIDI Clock can now send positional information correctly
  * MIDI trace window now prints human readable version of MIDI clock
messages
  * fix long term issue that could silence or add noise to
          channels not processed by a plugin
  * make K-20 the default meter type for the master bus
  * some meter polishing (font, colors, NaN & inf protection, etc)
  * when importing audio with "1 track per channel", correctly name
          each track with a different name, to fix problems when
          reloading the session
  * meters cannot be deactivated anymore
  * support for LV2 plugins using the KXstudio:external-ui extension
  * fix special handling of scroll wheel when vertically zooming
  * fix crash if a folder being added to the shortcut folder
            (in the generic GTK filechooser) is already there.
  * re-organize library initializations during startup

Developers
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Robin Gareus, Michael Fisher, Tim Blechmann, Colin Fletcher, Tim Mayberry,
Paul Davis

Testers
--------

Many Ardour users have tested aspects of 3.4 during development, but
particular thanks for their intensive testing and extensive feedback go to
Chris Goddard, Axel Mueller, Conor McCormack.

Translation Updates
-------------------

    Czech translation updated (Pavel Frich)
    German translation updated (Edgar Aichinger)
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