I am happy to announce the release of Ardour 2.8.1. Although this is primarily a bug-fix release, the bugs that it fixes are important enough that we hope all users, especially those on OS X, will choose to upgrade. Crashes when deleting AudioUnit plugins, and a very important potential data loss issue with session cleanup are now fixed. 2.8.1 also has a builtin "Chat" option to connect (via your web browser) to our IRC channel. To download, visit the download page.
New Features
Built-in menu item to connect to #ardour on IRC via web browser
Insert Time action can now optionally move tempos & meter markers
Improvements
sort playlist menus in a more agreeable way
sort ports correctly in many lists/menus
faster startup by using pre-rendered region names
implement panner reset functionality (missing since 0.99!)
Fixes
Crashing Bugs
fix crash when deleting AudioUnit plugins (Leopard/Cocoa GUI
specific)
fix crash when closing a session after displaying 1 or more plugin
GUIs
Data Loss Bug
fix serious error in Cleanup that could lead to data loss
Others
fix AudioUnit input/output configuration cache handling for some
plugins with "interesting" configurations.
switching into write automation mode doesn't reset gain levels
stop import dialog from resizing at various times
fix apparently-insensitive file selector in import dialog on OS X
fix details of file formats when exporting CD markers
fix marker bars, canvas and playhead getting out of sync with
timeline
fixes for some newer versions of gcc (4.4)
don't bother to search for JACK server software if JACK is already
running
catch JACK shutdown and handle more safely - should solve issues
with trying to save after a JACK shutdown.
AudioUnit plugins can be turned off/bypassed and then turned back on
Session names that include '/' or '\' are caught and asked for again.
restore markers (including session start & end) and playhead
correctly even if they had very large values (>12hrs)
Updated/New Translations
Swedish (Petter Sundlof)
French (Martin Blanchard/Ralph Doursenaud)
Czech (Pavel Frich)
Italian (Emanuele Constantini)
Norwegian (Eivind Ødegård)
Contributors
Carl Hetherington, Nick Mainsbridge, Andreas Ruge, Ben Loftis and
head grunt Paul Davis
I don’t think it’s necessary, since it’s so evident as soon as you start the program in a screen that is not HUGE (I guess the italian translator had a very big one not to notice this issue…).
Oh my god! the italian translation makes the ardour window too big for my screen! It’s unusable!!! Please correct this issue as soon as you can or restore the old translation…
EDIT. just found that I like it better in english… but still I think it’s a big issue for italian users…
I have a huge backlog of these “associate my paypal & ardour.org” messages. In retrospect, I should probably not have offered to do it. I will start working through them over the next 12 hours.
I know it’s not the right place to do this, but after two messages sent to you, my ardour account is not yet associated to my paypal subscribtion… So I can’t download this wonderful 2.8.1. Can you help me ?
Please file a report on mantis. No developer is using the Italian translation so we will not see the problem. You could also try contacting the translator in question. Another option is for you to identify the words which are causing the issue and offer a better translation.
I don’t know if you solved your problem about the size of the window… I’m Italian (Venezia) and I HAD the same problem with ardour 2.8.2 (built from revision 5396) that is in Ubuntustudio Karmic Koala Beta Version wich I’m testing now.
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