Ardour 8.8 released

Ardour 8.8 is now available for Linux, Windows and macOS. Version 8.7 was only released a couple of weeks ago, but it turned out to have a couple of major issues that required a hot-fix. Along the way, several other nice improvements happened. A summary of the changes is listed below:

  • Add option to name new MIDI tracks from SMF with just the SMF track name.
  • Fix for LV2 plugins whose GUI depend on a “changed” signal (e.g. ZynSubAddFX).
  • Fix MIDI Clock output times by using the correct call to get tempo at a position.
  • Overdubbing in non-layered mode no longer assignes regions to the wrong groups.
  • Add build support for latest versions of macOS.
  • Generic MIDI: do not send touch events for all mapped controllers when one is touched.
  • Fix fan-out of instruments with illegal path-chars in their name.
  • Require user’s own color theme files to be versioned.
  • Fix underruns when looping/locating and changing region content.
  • Do not allow changing the loop range while recording.
  • Avoid pixel-level shifts in waveform when splitting or trimming regions.
  • Fix playhead moving beyond loop range.
  • Use dedicated thread to start export timespans.
  • Fix count-in/preroll recording offsets
  • Fix and simplify Playlist::fade_range for multiple ranges.
  • Fix interaction with snapshot list.
  • Fix sample-rate display rounding for 22.05kHz.
  • Fix playback of sessions with low sample-rate.
  • VST3: Fix possible deadlock when using PSL extension for sends.
  • VST3: work around plugins that do not heed ContextInfo::kSendCount.
  • Fix XML syntax for AKAI MPK mini mk3 MIDI binding map.

Alexandre Prokoudine, Ben Loftis, Fabio Pesari, John Emmas Paul Davis and Robin Gareus contributed to this release.

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Thanks to all the team. its great to be able to use Sitala again without having to delete 16 channels and put plugins in the remainder! :grinning:

Ardour 8.8. crashes on Lubuntu multiple times when doing a recording session from the browser.
Are there older versions of Ardour as ready-to-run available for download?

Thank you for your work on Ardour!

Hi, I’ve got the same problem as amir. Using LUbuntu 22.04. One hour ago I installed Ardour 8.8 and unistalled 8.6, and now I cannot use the program at all. The moment I press play Ardour freezes and then crashes. I need to get on working, cannot wait till a solution is found. Please make version 8.6 available again, so we can keep on working.

Thanks for your job.

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Hi Amir, same problem here. Please reply my message below if you find a workaround. Thanks in advance.

I have the same problem
Ardour 8.8 is crashing about 93 seconds into an audio recording.
This occurs on a new session created in 8.8, with no midi and no plugins

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My workaround was (since me to had to go on working) to uninstall 8.8 and install the 8.6. as I had the older version still on my computer.

I think too it would be great if the older versions would be available somewhere on the site, so that people could fall-back to older versions in such situations until the problem is located. :slightly_smiling_face:

Do you still have the installer with you?

Does disabling waveform display in preferences help?

For those who experience this issue, could you provide a crash report or backtrace?

i am in the studio right now so can’t do a dbg,
However in a panic, I just downloaded and installed the liquorix kernel, and the problem went away.
Was on ubuntu focal with lowlatency kernel 6.8.0-45 - get crashes and awful stutters and xruns.
Now on 6.11.2-1-liquorix-amd64, and it’s back to normal. Recording complete takes with no problem.

I disabled show waveform while recording in preferences and have now done 4 test recordings, all more than 3 minutes long without a crash. This is in a session which was previously crashing.
I had liquorix kernel whilst the problem was ongoing, now it seems to be resolved.
I cant do a dbg as i currently don’t have nightlies access (waiting for V9)
Many thanks

In my case, I unchecked the three checkboxes in the vaweform preferences (show in regions, while recording and clippling) but no success. I cannot do anything. Any action involving the playhead (moving it around, playing, recording) freezes the program.

I also tried disabling the plugins with no luck.

Could you point me to how to provide a crash report or backtrace?

I am using LUbuntu 22.04.5 release, with 6.8.0-40-generic kernel (threadirqs and preempt=full flags)

Can you point me into how to do that?

Thanks

https://ardour.org/debugging_ardour

in short: start a debug build (https://nightly.ardour.org/) from a terminal:

Ardour8 --gdb

then on the gdb prompt: run and when Ardour crashes, back on the gdb prompt: thread apply all bt

I just installed it and still the same problem. Thanks anyway.

I’ll try now. At the same time, I ask you to provide an older version of the app (8.6 was working fine for me) so I can keep on working, and then I’ll update when the bug is fixed.

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This is a bit like a joke. In that page the Download button is disabled. I then followed the link List of all available versions, installed last for my system, but when running it with the --gdb it gives me this error:

/usr/local/bin/Ardour8: 47: exec: gdb: not found

(I guess because that link points to non debuggable versions of Ardour?)

So I am stuck now into getting a debuggable nightly version.

Seems like 8.9 with fixes will be out soon.