[Ardour-Users] Ardour 4.6 released

Lukas Pirl ardour at lukas-pirl.de
Sun Jan 31 13:06:15 PST 2016


Works like a charm! Thanks again everyone – developers, build system
engineers, testers and reporters – for another great release of this
beautiful piece of OSS.

Cheers,

Lukas

On 01/12/2016 06:12 AM, Paul Davis wrote as excerpted:
> Ardour 4.6, our first release of 2016, is now available. 4.6 includes
> some notable new features - deep support for the Presonus FaderPort
> control surface, Track/Bus duplication, a new Plugin sidebar for the
> Mixer window - as well as the usual dozens of fixes and improvements to
> all aspects of the application, particularly automation editing.
> 
> The full list of changes is shown below.
> 
> Download   <https://community.ardour.org/download.html>
> 
> /For the curious, there was no 4.5 release. This just happens sometimes./
> 
> 
>     Plugins (Platform-Independent)
> 
>   * Add a check button in the session loading dialog to disable all
>     plugins.
>   * Improve layout/appearance/functionality of Plugin Manager dialog.
>   * Fixes for compatibility with LV2 1.0.0.
>   * Clicking on a plugin LED holding Ctrl-shift toggles all
>     plugins/processors in this strip (except the fader).
>   * Fix monitoring of plugin parameter changes with LV2 and AudioUnit
>     plugins, to avoid feedback loops between the plugin and the GUI.
>   * Fix an issue with loading sessions containing certain LV2 plugins.
>   * Show VST plugin search paths (read-only) in Preferences dialog.
>   * Fix LV2 plugin state for copied plugins.
>   * Properly copy plugin state when duplicating tracks/busses.
>   * Save/restore plugin states as part of track templates.
> 
> 
>     GUI
> 
>   * Report on progress while stripping silence from tracks.
>   * Fix fine-adjust modifier overriding snap modifiers.
>   * Clicking on an already selected note when many are selected makes
>     it the only selected note (same behaviour as regions and control
>     points).
>   * Allow use of tooltips to be enabled/disabled from Preferences.
>   * Mixer list pane can now be shrunk to zero width.
>   * Dialogs and unparented windows now default to the current pointer
>     position.
>   * Add relative snap when moving markers.
>   * Increase the minimum size of the recent session scrollview.
>   * Don't make hidden automation controls visible, ever.
>   * Allow numerical entry for setting gain values in Preferences dialog.
>   * Show an informational dialog when opening IRC via Help -> Chat, to
>     try to clarify to new users that they should post a question and
>     then wait, not leave after a few minutes.
>   * When adding a single plugin, immediately show the plugin GUI
>     (except when using drag-n-drop to add the plugin).
>   * Improve the layout of various widgets in the Preferences dialog.
>   * Add "Delete all Unused Playlists" and "Keep All Playlists" options
>     to cleanup dialog.
>   * Fix "Crop to Range" operation to include all (selected) regions
>     covered by the range, not just those that cover the start.
>   * Fix "Fill Track" to avoid single-sample regions.
>   * Keep track of meter visibility.
>   * Hide region frame outline when region is less than 2 pixels wide.
>   * Continue normal scrolling if the pointer is over the dropdown menus
>     in the track header of a MIDI track.
>   * Fix misplacement and improve grouping of various audio and MIDI
>     ports in patchbay(s).
>   * use the correct environment variable to block loading of GTK+2
>     resource files (changed back in 2002 but never updated in our
>     source code).
>   * Makes rows in the theme manager selectable, making it easier to
>     link an object to a color.
>   * Fix incorrect keyboard focus after deleting a marker.
>   * Allow hiding and showing the mixer list.
>   * Disable threaded waveview rendering. This is, sadly, a regression
>     from previous releases, and will slightly slow down the apparent
>     speed of waveform drawing. However, it was causing unacceptable
>     crashes while recording, and until we can be absolutely certain
>     that the issue has been correctly identified and fixed, we are
>     disabling it.
>   * Add a button to master bus strip to show/hide monitor section.
>   * Reduce width of monitor section by 25%.
>   * Allow addition of plugins to monitor section.
>   * Fix monitor section state restore (per-channel dim, mute etc.).
>   * Prefill snapshot dialog name field with current snapshot name .
>   * Use correct position when finishing tempo and meter marker drags.
>   * Fix for inoperative keyboard modifiers after auto-scrolling.
>   * Add more items/links to the Help menu.
>   * Add confirmation dialog for overwriting existing files to most
>     (all?) file dialogs.
>   * Include platform-specific common disk volumes to file selection
>     dialogs.
> 
> 
>     New Plugin Sidebar (Mixer Window)
> 
>   * drag/drop favorite Plugins directly to a track/bus.
>   * allow creating plugin-presets by dragging a plugin to the sidebar
>     <http://manual.ardour.org/working-with-plugins/plugin-sidebar/>.
>   * allow to add a plugin or preset to all selected routes (double-click).
>   * allow dragging plugins directly from the plugin-manager to a track/bus.
>   * save/restore custom order of favorite plugin list.
>   * manage favorites and delete presets from the sidebar’s context menu.
> 
> 
>     MIDI
> 
>   * Snap modifiers now work on MIDI Notes when the grid is disabled.
>   * Gray out unavailable MIDI note context menu items rather than
>     hiding them.
>   * update MIDI channel buttons when their mode is changed.
>   * Enable horizontal scrolling in MIDI regions even when a note is
>     selected.
>   * Include the "Transform..." option in the MIDI region context menu.
>   * Introduce "Transpose..." option in the context menu for selected notes.
>   * Significantly speed up some MIDI note editing operations, and their
>     impact on session loading times.
>   * Make MIDI Panic message work even when seamlessly looping.
>   * Do not clear MIDI buffers when processing cycles are split, and
>     make seamless MIDI looping work correctly.
>   * Removing shorting of inserted notes by 1 tick.
>   * Fix overlapping MIDI note resolution.
>   * Better alignment of note end times with the grid.
>   * Fix issues with large amounts of MIDI data caused by limits on the
>     size of Standard MIDI File format variable-length-quantities.
> 
> 
>     Control Surfaces
> 
>   * Deep support for the Presonus Faderport device. This is fully
>     documented in the Ardour Manual
>     <http://www.manual.ardour.org/using-control-surfaces/Presonus_FaderPort/>.
>   *
> 
>     Mackie Control devices saw a lot of subtle changes which will be
>     documented in the manual in the near future. It is now possible to
>     control input trim, sends and more from a Mackie surface.
> 
>   *
> 
>     OSC:
> 
>       o Allow use of broken apps such as TouchOSC and Lemur with
>         Ardour's OSC support
>         /(These apps/devices violate the OSC specification by requiring
>         all messages to include at least one argument. The new
>         |/ardour/pushbutton/..| OSC "namespace" can be used to provide
>         OSC addresses for messages that always one floating point
>         argument; messages to such addresses are ignored unless the
>         argument is 1.0)/
>       o Add notification of changes in transport speed or record enable
>         status
>   * Add easy-to-use MIDI port selectors to the Generic MIDI settings dialog
>   * Add a MIDI binding map for the Yamaha KX25
>   * Add a MIDI binding map for the Novation Impulse 49
>   * Add full support for NPRN MIDI controllers, allowing their use in
>     MIDI binding maps
>   * Add an explicit "Show settings" button to the Control Surfaces
>     preferences dialog to help users who do not read.
>   * Ensure that when control surfaces are enabled/disabled/re-enabled,
>     they continue to be notified about the state of the session
> 
> 
>     Automation
> 
>   * Make control point selection more consistent
>   * Fix display of automation data for toggled controls
>   * Automation recording now has undo-per-pass, not undo-per-touch
>   * Add undo for region gain point selection
>   * Fix incorrect snap when adding region gain points
>   * Correctly select the control point to be deleted with shift+right click
>   * Ctrl/Cmd-drag adds or toggles rubber band selection of automation
>     control points
>   * Show verbose cursor control point values in internal edit mode
>   * Prevent inadvertent overwriting of automation data
>   * Fix mute automation playback
>   * Fix incorrectly positioned automation control points
>   * Handle pasting data from non-toggled to toggled automation tracks
>   * Fix crash when moving tempo markers with automation present in MIDI
>     tracks
> 
> 
>     General Changes/Improvements
> 
>   * Disable follow-edits and auto-return when synchronized to an
>     external positional clock source.
>   * Fix crash when creating subgroup busses.
>   * Fix some cases where a session was incorrectly marked as
>     changed/not-changed.
>   * Speed up session loading by avoiding unnecessary duplication
>     scanning of MIDNAM files.
>   * Reduce session close time caused by some poor programming design.
>   * Revert back to use mjpeg as the default video codec. Anecdotal
>     evidence suggests that mpeg4 causes issues on some platforms.
>   * Fix an issue where timers for metering prevent session loading from
>     completing (also speeds up session loading).
>   * Duplicate regions now uses correct position (previously was off by
>     one sample).
>   * Improved handling of reserved track/bus/send names ("Master",
>     "Click" etc).
>   * Allow metronome to operate while varispeeding.
>   * Add "Duplicate Track/Bus" functionality.
>   * Make it possible to rename the session root folder without any side
>     effects.
>   * Provide a user-preference for pre-roll.
>   * When loading a session, default to the most-recently-used snapshot.
>   * Prevent deletion of playlists not used while a track is frozen.
>   * Restore last used driver and device for a given audio/MIDI I/O backend.
>   * Prevent concurrent peak (waveform image) file initialization.
>   * Prevent crash when closing a session while some audio data analysis
>     is still underway.
>   * Restore functionality for measuring insert latency.
>   * Load/save measured insert latency with session.
>   * Add a mechanism to allow audio latency updates without restarting
>     the backend.
>   * Avoid uninintentional, unnecessary rebuilds of peak (waveform
>     image) files.
>   * Fix bug with solo/mute state when reopening a session with a soloed
>     bus.
>   * Explicitly disallow looping while synced to an external positional
>     source.
>   * Update available positional sync sources when audioengine is restarted.
>   * Prevent addition of markers within 1/100th second if transport is
>     stopped.
> 
> 
>     Windows
> 
>   * Increase open file limit count on Windows.
>   * New version of Windows backend that uses the PortAudio callback
>     API. This appears to improve functionality with some audio interfaces.
>   * Use a range of values for ASIO buffer sizes if the ASIO driver
>     provides one.
>   * Improve ipMIDI support on Windows.
>   * Fix latency compensation for the Windows audio/MIDI I/O backend.
>   * Attempted fix for issues on Windows when running on machines that
>     use hyper-threading.
> 
> 
>     OS X
> 
>   * Update the API used on OS X to discover AudioUnit plugins, to be
>     compatible with (a) newer versions of OS X (b) newer plugin
>     releases (notably Waves Audio latest versions).
>   * Add a horrible hack to keep the program GUI responsive even when
>     AudioUnit plugins with broken (rapidly redrawing) GUI's/editors are
>     visible.
>   * Fix display of deprecated Carbon-based GUIs for some AudioUnit plugins.
>   * Fix for a crash on OS X caused by changing audio device state while
>     recording.
>   * Add build support for OS X El Capitan.
>   * Fix crash when opening invalid audio/MIDI files on OS X.
>   * Correctly allow opening ardour via a double-click on a .ardour file
>     inside Finder on OS X.
>   * Fix display of AudioUnit factory presets, so that they are shown
>     even when there are no user presets.
>   * Re-add AudioUnit cache/blacklist management.
> 
> 
>     Linux
> 
>   * ALSA backend settings now include number of playback buffers
>     (periods), possibly using different values for playback and capture.
>   * LinuxVST plugins: forward window resizing events to the plugin GUI.
> 
> 
>     Infrastructure
> 
>   * Add ardour4 desktop and mime type files (for use by packagers on
>     platforms that use them)
>   * Add an AppData file for GNOME packagers
>   * Update to libsndfile 1.0.26
>   * Fixes to allow build system to be used on NetBSD
>   * Include a thread-safe version of libfftw, to fix crashes caused by
>     some plugins
> 
> 
>     Developers
> 
> Robin Gareus, Len Ovens, André Nusser, Nick Mainsbridge, Tim Mayberry,
> Johannes Mueller, Ben Loftis, Nils Geisweiller, Ygvgeny Primakov, John
> Emmas, Paul Davis.
> 
> Build system engineering: Nils Philippsen, Kamil Rytarowski, David Otto
> 
> 
>     Updated Translations
> 
> Russian,French,German
> 
> 
> 
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