<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">We are pleased to announce the availability of Ardour 5.11. Like 5.10,
this is primarily a bug-fix release, though it also includes VCA
automation graphical editing, a new template management dialog and various
other useful new features.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Download as usual from <a href="http://ardour.org/download">http://ardour.org/download</a><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail-content">
<h2>New Features</h2>
<ul><li>VCA automation can now be graphically edited.</li><li>VCAs can now be selected (e.g. from control surfaces).</li><li>Allow VCA renaming in the editor window.</li><li>Bindable buttons for VCA solo and mute.</li><li>Add select-all-tracks shortcut in the mixer window.</li><li>Template management dialog (both session and track templates).</li><li>Allow control surfaces to hide/show plugin GUIs.</li><li>Realtime export now allows listening to channels being exported.</li><li>Non-layered MIDI recording now works (MIDI regions will be trimmed at the end of recording to avoid overlaps).</li><li>Add an LTC generator to the Dummy backend.</li><li>Update colors for the "Caineville" theme.</li><li>Expose Off/Play states for MIDI CC "automation".</li><li>Allow touch automation to be done via Ardour's own knobs (e.g. trim control).</li></ul>
<h2>General Fixes and Improvements</h2>
<ul><li>Fixes for consistent selection and track/bus ordering.</li><li>Improve display of dB values.</li><li>Improvements when dragging control points for log-scale or relative parameters.</li><li>Lookup VST parameter default values once only, at the correct time.</li><li>Major code cleanup for locale (internationalization) handling.</li><li>Create a deep-copy of MIDI sources when saving snapshots.</li><li>Allow saving state even when audio/MIDI engine is not running.</li><li>Substantial reworking of waveview rendering code.</li><li>More differentiation of error messages during startup.</li><li>Fix for a-fluid handling of out-of-memory conditions.</li><li>Avoid display/use of "mnemonics" in menu items (shortcuts continue to work as usual).</li><li>Correct an issue when sending from a source with less channels than the destination.</li><li>Don't invert azimuth & elevation display value for some panning configurations.</li><li>Fix undo being invoked from a non-GUI thread.</li><li>Fix crash when rapidly switching snapshots.</li><li>Show region name correctly in a context menu.</li><li>Reintroduce a command to toggle editor/mixer windows when they are tabbed.</li><li>Retain plugins order for copy/cut/paste + Drag-n-Drop.</li><li>Correctly adjust gain when selection spans multiple track/bus groups.</li><li>Honor groups when selecting in the mixer.</li><li>Convert summary display into a horizontal scrollbar (no more y-axis sensitivity for scrolling; now zooms).</li><li>Fix loading bundle definitions.</li><li>Changing type of track/bus in the add track/bus dialog no longer resets the name, if edited.</li><li>Take automation lanes into account when changing "visible track count".</li><li>Make it impossible to zoom to ridiculously zoomed-out scales.</li><li>Fix crash when renaming a track to an invalid name.</li><li>Increase the range of the a-comp stereo release time.</li><li>Forward-to-grid and Backward-to-grid now snaps even when in magnetic mode.</li><li>Correct note length setting and display in the note edit dialog.</li><li>Time info box updates its length display correctly across a tempo change.</li><li>Indicate region positional lock style with various UTF-8 glyphs (Beamed 1/8th notes => music position lock).</li><li>Only add a new tempo or meter on a click with the primary modifier pressed (avoid confusion with a tempo-change drag).</li><li>Disable tempo end drag for meter-locked tempi.</li><li>Cropping a single region to time selection works for multiple ranges.</li><li>Setting a tempo to 'Continue' via right click puts it in a permanent state
of continuing the previous section's end tempo (basically what
'Lock Continue' should have been). This can be disabled (unlocked) by
selecting 'Don't Continue'.</li><li>Reorganise menu to separate position lock style from more commonly used functions.</li><li>Main Menu: some re-organization of session- and global-centric windows.</li><li>Track/Bus mute automation now works as expected.</li><li>Many improvements to plugin in-line displays.</li><li>Fix various issues when changing automation state while rolling.</li><li>Make it possible to select regions at zero when the grid is set to Region Bounds.</li><li>Fix a bug with LTC chasing when using small buffer sizes and a large initial offset.</li><li>Ask user about saving when using Save As or Snapshot & Switch.</li><li>Fix the cursor in some TextEntry popups.</li><li>Show a-comp's makeup gain and gain reduction in it's inline display.</li><li>Many crashes at exit or close-session fixed.</li><li>Prevent duplicate playlist names while renaming.</li><li>Session > New ... <em>cancel</em> : now retains current session, if any.</li><li>Use Mach real time priority in process threads.</li><li>Use real-time safe MIDI buffer allocation for ALSA, CoreAudio and PortAudio (Windows) MIDI backends.</li><li>Fix for "MIDI Input follows Selection" (breakage introduced during 5.10 development).</li><li>Improve clock font used on OS X.</li><li>Fix <code>--samplerate</code> option for ardour-export standalone tool.</li><li>Add options for bit-depth and BWF format to ardour-export tool.</li><li>Ensure that broadcast data (BWF) is complaint with EBU specifications.</li><li>Save sample-rate for sessions created with templates.</li><li>Fix LV2 preset path on Windows.</li><li>Do not disable MIDI CC "automation" after clearing all data for a given CC.</li><li>Only button 1 (typically left) will now add new MIDI CC events on click.</li></ul>
<h2>Lua</h2>
<ul><li>Expose editor vertical zoom.</li><li>Expose region list.</li><li>Expose clone/copy regions.</li><li>Expose systemexec.</li><li>Improve script sandboxing.</li><li>Provide access to toggle actions.</li><li>Expose a new Lua message dialog.</li><li>Support for template scripts.</li><li>Support for meta-templates for Session setup.</li></ul>
<h2>OSC Support and Control</h2>
<ul><li>Added /*/db_delta for strip, select, master and monitor.</li><li>bank_up will now accept -1 for bank down so an encoder can bank.</li><li>GUI improvements - usability.</li><li>Allow user selectable group use (/use_group 1 or 0).</li><li>Prevent crashes or hangs in some cases.</li><li>Send fewer duplicate messages.</li></ul>
<h2>FaderPort 8 Support</h2>
<ul><li>Use 2 lines for Plugin Parameter Names.</li><li>Expose Plugin Bypass/Enable per plugin.</li><li>Shift + Select in Plugin Select mode.</li><li>Bypass button in Plugin Parameter Edit mode.</li><li>Don't allow toggling strip bypass/enable.</li><li>Allow selection of plugin presets.</li><li>Scribble-strip display preferences.</li><li>Fixes crash when switching snapshots.</li><li>Display in mixer order.</li><li>Add plugin GUI display options.</li><li>Implement "control link" (control operates on currently focused widget in GUI).</li><li>Fix shutdown sequence.</li><li>Indicate implicit solo by blinking.</li></ul>
<h2>Translation Updates</h2>
<ul><li>Czech translation update (Pavel Frich).</li><li>Japanese translation (Hiroki Inagaki).</li><li>Swedish translation update (Kristoffer Grundström).</li><li>Russian translation updates (Petr Semiletov, Alexandre Prokoudine).</li><li>Chinese translation update (Yq Ysy).</li><li>French translation correction (Léo Andrès).</li></ul>
<h2>Contributors</h2>
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Ben Loftis,
Johannes Mueller,
John Emmas,
Len Ovens,
Nick Mainsbridge,
Paul Davis,
Robin Gareus,
Tim Mayberry,
Jelle van der Waa,
Julien Rivaud,
Thomas Brand,
nickolas360,
cooltehno
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