Ardour 3.0 alpha9 is now out. There's a nice new feature for people using 1 MIDI device to record multiple tracks, and some very necessary fixes for track visibility, height control and general layout in the editor window, plus the usual selection of crashing and missing functionality bug fixes. I expect a few glitches with the new stuff, so please do leave feedback via the bug tracker or the ardour-users email list (not the forums) .
Ready-to-run binary packages can be found here:
- Linux 64 bit Intel: http://ardour.org/files/Ardour_64bit-3.0alpha9_9807-dbg.tar
- Linux 32 bit Intel: http://ardour.org/files/Ardour_32bit-3.0alpha9_9807-dbg.tar
New Stuff
- It is now possible to enable/disable input on MIDI tracks. This makes it possible to connect several different tracks to the same MIDI device/source, and then choose which one(s) will actually get the incoming MIDI data at any point in time. You can turn this on and off with a button next to the input button in the mixer strip, or in the editor window's Track/Bus list. There's still a little bit of tweaking to provide some "turn others off and this one on" capabilities.
- The icons in the editor window's track/bus list have been redesigned by Thorsten Wilms.
- Track resize "handles" have been removed - you can now resize a track in the editor with the mouse by press-drag-release in the lower 25% of the track controls box. The mouse cursor will change to indicate when the mouse is in the "resize" area.
Fixes
- New system for managing the properties of on-screen GUI "objects". This was introduced primarily to allow us to manage the visibility and height of all tracks. Side Effect: existing track visibility and height information in existing Ardour3 sessions will be ignored. You won't lose any data, but if you had hidden tracks or they were non-default heights, you'll find that all tracks and busses are now visible and the default height. Sorry for the inconvenience, but this new system gives us much more flexibility to manage this stuff as we move forward. It will also fix a number of crashes and incorrect behaviour with automation tracks in alpha8 (and earlier).
- Fix erroneous note resizing in regions with non-zero start (#4143).
- don't try to add Amp processor automation curves using the generic mechanism as they are already special-cased separately (#4127).
- Display audio file format in the menu bar (#4016).
- Updated / new French translations from Roming22-FR
- Send full MIDI time code (if enabled) after changing sync source; should fix #4147.
- LV2 persist extension now works because we don't keep resetting the ID of the plugin.
- Fix horizontal sizing of the track controls area in the editor
- don't mark the big clock window as a "utility" window
- Enable playlist switching for MIDI tracks
- shuttle control: make scroll events step by precisely 1 of the current units (semitones or percent)
- Improve layout of automation track controls box
Thanks once again to Carl Hetherington for his work on bug fixes.