by plcl (plcl@undisclosed.example.com) at October 12, 2023 05:18 PM
Ardour 8.0 is available now for Linux, Windows, and macOS, including the latest release of macOS, Sonoma. Along with the usual set of important and not-so-important bug fixes, Ardour 8.0 brings users substantial quality of life benefits:
Some people will no doubt laugh at a few these “new features”, given that they’ve been in some other DAWs for 20 years or more. That’s OK — we laugh too when we see other DAWs finally adding things that Ardour could do in 2005. 
As usual, full release notes are over here and you can download from here.
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We’re now about a week away from the release of Ardour 8.0. We are in a total string freeze (where we guarantee not to change any translatable text at all before release). It’s probably a good time for the translation team(s) to start working on the update for 8.0.
Currently Ardour translations for Czech, German, Greek, Spanish, UK English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese (Brazilian and Portugese versions), Russian, Swedish and Chinese. If you’d like to add another language, you can find the instructions for creating (and maintaining) translations here:
If you’re an existing translator for one of the above languages, please try to find the time to go through the update process as soon as possible. Your work is much appreciated, and we’d like to have as many languages updated as possible before the 8.0 release.
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by plcl (plcl@undisclosed.example.com) at August 27, 2023 11:26 AM
Ardour 7.5 has been released. This is primarily a bug-fix release, but there several new features, include session I/O connection management, tempo mapping and the beginnings of section-based editing. As usual, there are also and many more notable improvements and fixes
Please read the full release notes for more details and/or download as usual at https://ardour.org/download .
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Ardour 7.4 is now available. This is mostly a bugfix release — several important ones have accumulated since 7.3 — but there is also a sprinkling of new features, notably MIDI subgroup busses.
There has also been a lot of work on features that we had hoped to have ready for 7.4, but will now be officially released in 7.5. The curious may find some of them already, but we’re not ready to announce or document them yet.
One other small change for this release: people interested in just trying Ardour out via our free/demo build will no longer have to wait to get an email containing the link. We’ve decided that after 10 years of asking people for their email address and doing nothing with them, we’ll just stop asking and provide the download link directly.
Please read the full release notes for more details and/or download as usual at https://ardour.org/download.
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I just put up my latest (3rd!) audio developer chat, this time with web audio developer Tero Parviainen. We talk about web audio, AI in music, the experience of listening to music, the past, present and future of generative music, and much more. You can find it over here (along with the first two, featuring Justin Frankel (Reaper) and Ryan Challinor (Bespoke):
http://adc.equalarea.com/2023/02/26/adc3-paul-davis-tero-parviainen/
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We’re happy to be back on our planned bi-monthly release schedule, this time with 7.3 which brings VST3 multi-bus support, searchable preferences and sample rate independence as notable new features plus dozens of important crash and workflow fixes.
See the full release notes for more information, and download as usual from Download Ardour | Ardour Community
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The source code of Ardour now contains support for searching both global and per-session preferences/properties. However, for this to be truly useful, we need to add “metadata” for each option: essentially a list of keywords for every option (which will also be translated/translatable).
It’s not really very obvious how to organize the effort to collect these keywords together with the relevant option, but to some extent that’s a brute force effort that can be done after we collect a bunch of them.
So, your task, oh lovely Ardouristas, is to add to this thread, as a list of lines that look something this:
“Display selection clock” : visible clock selection hide show display
i.e. some string corresponding (roughly) to what is visible in the GUI, followed by a list of (english) space separated keywords that you associate with that preference item.
The more metadata we get, the more searchable preferences will become, and the easier it will be for everyone to find relevant preferences. Thanks in advance for your help!
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Starting with tomorrow’s nightly build, Ardour 7.2-123 supports VST3 plugins with multiple I/O busses. This allows for instrument plugins to have dedicated additional outputs.
Notably drum software which have direct outs (e.g. ezdummer, AD2), and also VST3 synths (e.g. surge) can now be used to their full potential.
Since the plugin meta-data is cached, this change requires VST3 plugins to be re-scanned, which can be initiated in Ardour Menu > Window > Plugin Manager.
This is a significant change, and while it holds up well in preliminary testing, there might be plugins that have issues. Please test, and if you encounter issues with a specific VST3 plugin it would be great if you could file a bug report at tracker.ardour.org. So that by the time we release Ardour 7.3 most kinks are worked out.
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Another month brings another Ardour release. Although the primary reasons to release 7.2 were to fix some egregious bugs with region automation and the tempo map, this version includes a nice collection of new features too, including MIDI Learn for cue slots, support for Ogg/OPUS compressed audio, importing lyrics from MIDI files and more.
See the full release notes for more information, and download as usual from https://ardour.org/download
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a little over 2 weeks since the release of Ardour 7.0, we’re back with a mostly-bug-fix release driven by the excellent testing and reporting of some intrepid users. Somewhat embarrassingly, there were a lot of serious bugs in our much-touted new time representation system, most of which we have now fixed. This was particularly obvious in sessions involving multiple tempos, something sadly diminished in the present era We deeply appreciate the feedback, and have worked hard to fix as many of the reports as we could. Some of the fixes are extremely important, and we felt it was right to get a new release out as soon as possible. Over the coming weeks, we will continue to work on bug fixes but hopefully shift some attention back towards new features and design/workflow improvements.
Full details on the What’s New page, and as usual download from Download Ardour | Ardour Community
If you’d like to quickly catch up on what was introduced in the 7.0 release, this video may help
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ovqWUnFRXfI
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Our friends at Harrison put together a series of short videos in the run-up to the release of Mixbus 8 covering many different aspects of clip launching. I’ve put them all into a YouTube playlist on the Ardour YT channel to make it easy to find and watch them all.
If you don’t understand the concept, or want some guidance about all the nuances, these videos are excellent. Although Ardour and Mixbus are different DAWs, they share the majority of the code, and clip launching is identical in them both (except the as of right now, Ardour offers 16 slots per track vs 8 in Mixbus.
Enjoy!
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After more than a year since Ardour 6.9, Ardour 7.0 is now available. This new release features major new features for the software, as well as substantial (even if largely invisible) internal engineering changes. We are happy to bring “clip launching” functionality into Ardour for the first time, along with many other significant improvements, including lots of enhancements for MIDI editing …
This release also sees the addition of official builds for Apple Silicon systems (previously available only via the nightly build site). It is also the end of 32 bit builds for Ardour for all platforms as part of the official download site. Some will remain available on the nightly site for the near-term future.
For more details, please read the whole announcement.
Download as usual from https://ardour.org/download
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On Sunday at 11:30am (US Mountain (UTC-6)) I’ll be doing a long livestream with famed libre software music person Unfa, to talk about the upcoming release of Ardour 7.0 and related matters. Please join us and ask questions etc. Please try to ignore my face in the following photo, and focus on the tiny amount of lovely Scottish highlands in the background (from when I did the Cape Wrath Trail in 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZndTAbjPqm0
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Ardour 7.0-rc1 was tagged a short time ago, which means we are now in a string freeze until the 7.0 release takes place (hopefully in about a week).
This is last call for translation updates for 7.0. A few new strings crept in during recent development work, and numerous languages have not yet been updated.
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Planning to implement “deep” support for the Novation Launchpad devices, specifically to control clip launching once Ardour 7.0 is released. But Novation has at least 3 levels of device: the Launchpad Pro (about US$350) Launchpad X (about US$200) and the Launchpad Mini (about US$100). Unfortunately the technical implemention details for each device are subtly differenty, so it is unlikely we can write-one-run-all.
Which level / device do you think we should support first? The cheap and cheerful Mini (Chinese clones available for even less!). The much more capable but also more expensive Pro? Or the X, similar to the Mini but larger?
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So we’re now getting much, much closer to a release of Ardour 7.0. We’re not yet in a total string freeze (where we guarantee not to change any translatable text at all before release), but realistically we’re not far from that. To avoid translations delaying the release and/or not being available for the new version, it’s probably a good time for the translation team(s) to start working on the update for 7.0.
Currently Ardour translations for Czech, German, Greek, Spanish, UK English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese (Brazilian and Portugese versions), Russian, Swedish and Chinese. If you’d like to add another language, you can find the instructions for creating (and maintaining) translations here:
If you’re an existing translator for one of the above languages, please try to find the time to go through the update process as soon as possible. Your work is much appreciated, and we’d like to have as many languages updated as possible before the 7.0 release.
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As some of you may already be aware, the next release of Ardour (7.0) will feature Ableton Live/Bitwig-style clip launching. To make that usable/fun/exciting/interesting “out of the box” requires that we include at least some “clips” with the program.
Those clips are nothing more than loops, either audio or MIDI. It is most likely that they would be essentially “grooves” (i.e. rythmic). However, non-rythmic ones are also fine: they could be even be single chords, but would more likely be chord progressions.
Unlike many/most other DAWs that can afford to license libraries of this sort of material, Ardour doesn’t really have the means to do that. So I’m reaching out to the community to see if we can put together a modest library of grooves and other interesting material to include with the program. That way, people can “get started” more easily.
Licensing is up for discussion, but I’d imagine CC-0 is the most likely (edited), but CC-BY would be an option (with limitations mentioned below).
The loops can be of any length, but 1-16 bars would be typical. For MIDI, keep in mind that unlike Live, Ardour is MIDI-channel aware, so you can put different instruments on different channels if that is useful or offers interesting possibilities.
Hopefully, because the loops are going to be short, it won’t be necessary to exercise too much aesthetic judgement about them. Please do make sure that they are “clean” (no clicks and pops) and also it is best to avoid the loop start being literally on the start of a transient if there’s a lot of broad-spectrum energy there. Somewhat obviously, but importantly, please make sure they are either your own creation or CC-BY licensed (with appropriate attribution) or truly public domain.
If you have material you’re willing to contribute, let us know below, and we’ll follow up with people as replies come in (if they do).
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