Awesome! Thanks Paul, and the entire Ardour team, for all that you do. This is core Linux audio software.<br><br>AKJ<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Paul Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com">paul@linuxaudiosystems.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Finally, its June and Ardour 2.8.8 is finally here.<br>
<br>
Although this is primarily a bug-fix release, some of the "bugs" fixed<br>
are so pervasive and significant that they could almost count as new<br>
features. In particular, automation editing has finally arrived at a<br>
place that people with experience on other DAWs may consider actually<br>
usable. Issues with alignment of new and existing recorded material<br>
are addressed too, and there are lots of other bug fixes for issues<br>
small and large (including 3 or 4 crashing bugs). Thanks to motivation<br>
provided by the Mixbus project, there are also yet more improvements<br>
to AudioUnit plugin handling on OS X. Anybody using Ardour 2.8.7 or<br>
earlier should upgrade to enjoy increased stability and better<br>
functionality.<br>
<br>
This is the last feature-adding release of the 2.8 series. The next<br>
release of Ardour will be version 3.0-alpha1 (unless notable<br>
regressions are discovered in 2.8.8).<br>
<br>
IMPORTANT FIXES<br>
<br>
Dramatic improvements to automation editing so that it more or less<br>
works as anyone might expect. DOWNSIDE: for this release, the display<br>
of automation data is not updated in realtime while in write/touch<br>
mode. This will be fixed in a future release.<br>
Correct very strange and erratic punch recording behaviour that would<br>
create regions on tracks that were not record enabled<br>
Fix crash when zooming canvas repeatedly<br>
Fix handling of files larger than 2GB that could cause very slow<br>
reload of existing sessions (speedup was from 9 minutes to 30 seconds)<br>
Subtle but important change that may fix issues with recording not<br>
placing material in the correct location on the timeline<br>
Correctly order signal processing after adding a send (fixes issues<br>
with placement of recorded material)<br>
Regions overlapped by 2 other regions will now no longer semi-randomly<br>
fail to be audible during playback<br>
Region exports and bounces now use region fade in and fade out curves.<br>
<br>
USEFUL FIXES<br>
<br>
Save & recall port insert latency values<br>
JACK Latency = 256 menu option now works<br>
Importing files with the "Sequence files" option now works<br>
Cleanup LV2 "external gui" extension support<br>
Clear solo state when deleting a route that is soloed<br>
Notify user that deleting a route will save the session state<br>
Ellipsize long names in the track/bus inspector<br>
Force exported AIFF files to be big-endian<br>
Anchor the crossfade start and end points so that they cannot be edited<br>
Correctly retain MIDI bindings for global transport controls<br>
Do not burn 100% of a CPU's available cycles if disconnected from JACK<br>
Put the fixed size columns (check marks) on the left side of the<br>
mixer's track and group lists for easier access to their functionality<br>
Fix strange behaviour when dragging region(s) towards time zero<br>
Rationalize track selection and range selection<br>
Make selecting a range in mouse range mode work even if there is<br>
already a time selection<br>
When splitting N-channel regions to mono regions, each new region<br>
shows up as its own region, not a child of the original<br>
Clearing an automation track of data no longer generates an error when<br>
next loading the session ("Cannot reconstitute XML history node ...")<br>
<br>
HANDY NEW FEATURES<br>
<br>
Include links in Help menu to the tutorial and reference manuals<br>
switch from ctrl-drag to alt-drag for "drag-selection-as-region"<br>
change automation track selection model slightly so that auto tracks<br>
are highlighted as expected. only show range boxes when the automation<br>
will actually get edited. clicking an automation track should show the<br>
editor-mixer for the parent track<br>
Configurable behaviour when an N channel track plays a region that has<br>
less than N channels (silence or replicate the last channel). Default<br>
is silence.<br>
<br>
OS X ONLY<br>
<br>
Significantly updated version of the GTK GUI toolkit in use, which<br>
fixes a number of issues including...<br>
Multiple monitors now supported correctly<br>
Various fixes for handling AudioUnits, particularly UAD<br>
Use Apple's ExtAudioFile API for file types not otherwise handled on<br>
OS X (MP3, AAC and others)<br>
Use libsndfile to try to get timestamp info because Apple has no API for this<br>
Do not categorize AU plugins using the "subtype" property because its<br>
meaningless. Use "type" instead which is coarser but has a clear<br>
meaning.<br>
Added a shortcut to Volumes (external disk drives) when opening a session<br>
Add option to enable/disable translation on OS X<br>
Remove automation mode selector from AU plugin view window, since it<br>
doesn't do anything useful<br>
Correctly handle AU parameter types, so that more parameters are<br>
available for automation<br>
If a plugin has a Carbon-based editor, properly close that window when<br>
deleting the plugin (e.g. when closing the session)<br>
<br>
TRANSLATION UPDATES<br>
<br>
Spanish (Pablo Fernández)<br>
French (Raphaël Doursenaud)<br>
<br>
CONTRIBUTORS<br>
<br>
Carl Hetherington, Lucus, DHess, Ben Loftis and Old Man Davis<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>Aaron Krister Johnson<br><a href="http://www.akjmusic.com">http://www.akjmusic.com</a><br><a href="http://www.untwelve.org">http://www.untwelve.org</a><br><br>