[Ardour-Users] Ardour 3.5.308 released

[Paul Davis]

Continuing on with our cycle of monthly releases, 3.5.308 contains a pile
of bug fixes and several very useful new features. Almost entirely the
single-handed work of Robin Gareus, you will find significant changes with
panning, auditioning and the very striking addition of explicitly-displayed
signal router in the mixer strips.

As usual you can download it from the usual
place<https://community.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 64 bit copy of this version is available (fully featured except that
is has does no saving or restoring of plugin settings, and no plugin
presets).
Additions & Changes


   - add visualization of signal flow within tracks and busses
   - Various improvements to panning
      - add stereo-balance panner
      - right click on panner to select a different (compatible) paner
      - major overhaul to VBAP panner so that it works
      - panner GUI tweaks
      - Sends now have their own panner
      - Send panner may be (un)linked with the main panner via the context
      menu of the send. If linked, the send's panning follows the main panner.
   - Various improvements to import and auditioning
      - Add MIDI auditioning (using Ardour's builtin "reasonableSynth")
      - Consider all tracks in a MIDI (SMF) file
      - allow auditioning via the monitor section to work (and make it the
      default when using a monitor section)
      - add a seek/locate slider to the import auditioner

>Fixes and Improvements


   - do not audio to video when extracting only the audio from a video file
   - re-enable export file tagging and fix export format dialog
   inconsistency
   - fix audio cross-talk between tracks that occured when using 1in/2out
   tracks.
   - fix the "replicate missing channels from regions" option
   - fix text "bleeding" in various buttons
   - provide some level of compatibility with aubio 0.4. Ardour should
   still be built using aubio 3.2.
   - improve rendering of faders
   - add M-Audio 2496 to the list of devices recognized to have a "control
   app"
   - fix behaviour of plugin parameter sliders for ranges [0..]
   - new MIDNAM files for Moog MF-104M and MF-108M
   - add support for MIDNAM controller labels
   - document MIDNAM controller values for Moog Minitaur
   - fix display isues with editor mixer strip
   - fix 32 bit export
   - fix crash when adding processors which change overall track I/O
   configuration
   - fix deadlock when removing monitor section
   - ignore additional channels during AFL/PFL (if the track/bus has more
   channels than the monitor section, ignore the additional channels)
   - fix output metering for Sends
   - new MIDI binding map for Roland V-Studio 20
   - new very basic MIDI binding map for M-Audio Oxygen-25
   - fix display of pan automation and MIDI fader automation
   - working support for VST "timeinfo" delivery to plugins (Windows VST
   and Linux VST)
   - fix crash when instrument plugins fail to load
   - fix potential for duplicate Send IDs
   - auto connect preferences now respected for MIDI tracks
   - use all outputs of VST plugins, not just the input count

Developers

Robin Gareus, Nils Philippsen, David Robillard, Paul Davis. But really,
Robin Gareus.
Inspiration & Designers

As usual, many thanks to Chris Goddard, Axel Müller, Jörn Nettingsmeier and
Gabriel Nordeborn for their participation in the design and testing of many
of the new GUI and backend aspects of this release.
Translation Updates


   - Russian translation updated (Alexandre Prokoudine)
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