Ardour 6.3 is released. This is mostly a maintenance release, but the new Loudness Analysis feature will be very useful to some users. The usual steady drip-drip of bug fixes continues, and thanks to Ayan Shafqat, we now have up to date super-optimized metering code for Linux on both x86(64) and ARM platforms (metering is the most computationally expensive thing that Ardour itself does).
Anything that brings levity during these difficult times is good with me
About the loudness stuff, I find it very interesting timing that RX8 now includes a loudness “normalizer”. Also Merging have changed up their Pyramix packs to include “Final Check” for the middle tier. Not only does it do live loudness analysis but it will allow for loudness normalizing on export (but limited to integrated and true peak). I much prefer Ardour’s implementation already even before Robin starts refining things. By the way, “Robin and the Nerd-snipers” sounds like a great band name.
Hah! I’ve been shooting photos with vintage lenses lately and using their defects to artistic advantage, which made me think that a good name for a band would be the Chromatic Aberrations. The Spherical Aberrations would come in close second.
As a funny side note (for the German speaking): It happened to me several times lately that when a musician asks what software we use for recording and I answer “Ardour” they are somewhat puzzled and say something like: “No, the song is in G minor!?”
Made me pronounce “Ardour” exeggeratedly English…
(“Ardour” sounds quite a little like the German “A Dur” (“A major” in English)…)
Just wanted to say thanks (yeah, I know I’m late) for the update ! I work for a local radio station and the new Loudness Assistant is very useful to me. Ardour is the only DAW that manages to surprise me with every update. Keep up the good stuff !