Downloads are always at Download Ardour | Ardour Community
There are no fixed URLs for specific versions. We do not make older versions available, feeling that they undermine our continuing work on new features and bugfixes.
Downloads are always at Download Ardour | Ardour Community
There are no fixed URLs for specific versions. We do not make older versions available, feeling that they undermine our continuing work on new features and bugfixes.
So, I guess it’s fair to say Ardour was still hungry after it 8.6!
Great. Thanks for your work.
Is there a thread about V9 features?
Hopefully Region FX will be available in 9.0…?
Ah, no “MIDI ghost tracks” and MIDI event chasing on the roadmap? Yes, I know anecdote about "two most important features”, but a little lobbying won’t hurt, I guess.
MIDI event chasing is already implemented in the pianorule branch. How much and where we will use it is not yet decided.
No plans for MIDI ghost tracks, at least not as I understand them.
I really hope you do implement it at some point. Let me tell you one of the main ways they fit into my workflow.
I write my music in Musescore. I export the parts as MIDI files. I load the MIDI into the DAW. Then I play in/re-record the MIDI in realtime using the imported MIDI as a guide. Being able to see the imported MIDI as a ghost under my played in MIDI helps greatly in making sure I played stuff in properly, that my timing is accurate, and that I didn’t miss anything.
Another area where I find ghost tracks helpful is if I can view all tracks in a single piano roll, it gives me a great overview of the arrangement.
Turns out we had some breakage for macOS with this release. We thought enough testing had been done, but that turns out not to be the case. On macOS, it is relatively easy to end up with every item in the global menus made insensitive.
I’ve already fixed this, and we will replace the 8.7 build for macOS with tonight’s build.
My use case is very similar. This why for any major MIDI work still using MusE which has the feature. Actually, I like their implementation a lot, because you can edit notes from any selected track on a single pianoroll. By clicking on a note, all notes from a given track become active and others become “ghosts”.
On the other hand, implementation of similar feature in Ardour would be difficult, I guess. Mainly because there is no separate window for note editing and some new element to the editor probably would have to be added (e.g. MIDI “aggregate” tracks). No wonder it isn’t on the radar.
In Ardour 8.7 i am missing cd markers.
Hello,
We decided it was time to reduce the number of possible rulers Ardour can display, to reduce confusion and chances for error. Those showing markers of various kinds have been reduced to just three: one for locations (single points in time), one for ranges (pairs of points, a start and an end), and one for arrangement (sections). You can still show all the same kinds of markers as before, but some of them (e.g. CD markers — it’s 2024! — and cue markers) no longer get their own ruler.
Can we expect 8,8 or 8.7.x anytime soon ? The Zyn/Lv2 bug is critical for some people.
I think this is another good reason for the devs to keep the last version or two available…
Any subscribers (or folks who paid US$45 or more for 8.x) can get a nightly build from https://nightly.ardour.org/
Sure, but what there is a situation if there is a bug in the new version and it isn’t fixed in the nightly. The user didn’t keep a backup of the previous version, and have some work they need to complete. The simple solution would be to roll back to the last working version, but this isn’t possible. So they are stuck until the bug is fixed - admittedly this is usually very fast for critical bugs.
That can be worst… IMHO it’s only a partial solution for some users.
Anyway, Ardour from openSUSE repo is fixed
Just delay uninstalling the previous version until you’ve made sure the “latest and greatest” works for you.
You can have several versions of Ardour installed at the same time, they don’t interfere with each other.
I think ever since upgrading to 8.7, sometimes when I have Ardour open I get weird popping noises in other applications (opening pavucontrol = popping, opening MPV = popping noise, no audio). Ardour then itself actually stops outputting audio (it runs fine, but no audio comes out).
The audio interface I’m using is set to “Pro Audio” in pavucontrol. I’m using pipewire under the hood.
After I close Ardour, audio seems to fix itself. Any idea how to avoid this from happening?
Using the JACK backend of Ardour?
Which version of Pipewire? There are (or at least were until recently) frequent updates with fixes for various problems.