[Ardour-Users] Ardour 6.0-pre1 now available for testing

Fri Mar 27 06:51:51 PDT 2020

That reminds me.
What is the oldest version of session format that Ardour 6 can read?
I have some old backups from version 2.x

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 8:04 AM Jörn Nettingsmeier <
nettings at stackingdwarves.net> wrote:

> This one was like making tea for me. Only when you stop watching will
> the water ever come to a boil. Dear Ardour team, thanks for this amazing
> news!
>
> May I assume that the session file format is now sufficiently well
> frozen that you will strive for backwards compatibility in any future
> changes, i.e. it now makes sense to move non-toy projects to ardour 6?
> Of course I understand that the usual disclaimers of pre-release
> software still apply.
>
> Huge thanks, and stay healthy, everyone!
>
>
> Jörn
>
>
> On 3/27/20 1:55 AM, Paul Davis wrote:
> > Well folks, we’ve done it. After two and a half years of development
> > that has both excluded a few hoped-for features and also expanded to
> > include many things not originally envisaged, we’re ready for people to
> > start testing version 6.0-pre1. Please note: this is *NOT* the release
> > of 6.0 - we’re now entering a testing phase that will continue through
> > several “-preN” versions until we’re confident that it’s ready for
> release.
> >
> > The nightly version is now (as ever) available at nightly.ardour.org
> > <http://nightly.ardour.org>. If you’re a subscriber (or paid US$45 or
> > more for a pre-built version of 5.x), you can download the fully
> > functional version. Others can get the free/demo version which
> > periodically goes silent. Obviously, since this is a nightly version, it
> > will be updated most days to reflect any new development work and fixes
> > as we move towards the actual release of 6.0.
> >
> > It will install in parallel to any existing version of Ardour, will not
> > alter your preferences for older versions of Ardour, and if you use it
> > on any existing session, it will save a copy of the session file (or
> > snapshot) just to be safe.
> >
> > *Linux Package Maintainers*
> >
> > /If you maintain a Linux distribution’s package of Ardour, please *DO
> > NOT* consider packaging this version. This is *NOT* a release of Ardour
> > 6.0, but merely a call for testing./
> >
> > Here are some of the things the project needs right now:
> >
> > *Testing*
> >
> > Although 6.0 does not visibly change the most obvious functionality,
> > design and workflow of Ardour, internally huge amounts of the code has
> > changed during development. Several people have been testing it
> > periodically, including users of Harrison Mixbus (whose version 6
> > release is based on the same set of changes). However, it is now time to
> > open up testing to more people, because we know that this always results
> > in unccovering more issues - something we’d like to do (and fix!) before
> > the actual release.
> >
> > We believe that 6.0-pre1 is just as if not more ready for use than
> > Ardour 5.12 was, but we can only establish that with your help. Create
> > some sessions. Do the stuff you do. Exercise your workflow. And if you
> > find issues, please use the bug tracker <http://tracker.ardour.org/> to
> > report them, marking them with the 6.0-pre1 version. Please do not
> > report bugs here on the forums - we will mostly ignore them here
> > (because there is no way to properly manage them).
> >
> > *Bug Triage*
> >
> > If you have ever reported a bug in Ardour, please give 6.0-pre1 a try
> > and then head over to tracker.ardour.org <http://tracker.ardour.org>
> and
> > mark your bug(s) closed if they are fixed. If a bug isn’t fixed, please
> > update the version field to indicate the bug is still an issue in
> > 6.0-pre1. We may automatically close all open bugs for previous versions
> > after a fixed period of time, so if you would like your bug report to
> > receive attention in the future, please go and update its status.
> >
> > *Theme Updates*
> >
> > Many users may not be aware that thanks to the hard work of a user known
> > as cooltehno, Ardour has 6 different themes. During the development of
> > 6.0, there were significant simplifications and changes to the internals
> > of themes, and the 5 themes that cooltehno generated all need updating
> > and revisiting. If you’re interested in doing this, for one or all 5,
> > please get in touch.
> >
> > *Documentation*
> >
> > As anyone who has seen the various “Development Update” posts along the
> > way for 6.0 is aware, there are a lot of new and changed features in
> > this version of Ardour. We need people to update and/or write new
> > sections in the manual <http://manual.ardour.org/> to reflect all these
> > changes. Please get in touch if you’d like to be a part of this effort.
> >
> > *Translation*
> >
> > Ardour has been translated into 15 languages:
> >
> > French, German, Spanish (unified Castillian and Latin American),
> > Portugese (Brasilian & Portugese), Russian, Swedish, Czech, Norwegian,
> > Italian, Japanese, Chinese, English (UK), Polish, Greek
> >
> > All of these translations will need significant updates for version 6.0.
> > Although we are not yet in a string freeze, we hope there won’t be too
> > many string changes before 6.0, so now is an ideal time for existing or
> > new translators to get started. If you’re interested in becoming a
> > translator, please read our guide at
> > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ardour/ardour/master/TRANSLATOR
> > <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ardour/ardour/master/TRANSLATORS>
> >
> >
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