The shown blank control list is exactly what I’m seeing in KDE too. Does anyone have a working Control Surfaces page in Linux/KDE?
Did you self-build Ardour or install the official build?
Ok, that shows it correctly. Not sure why some of our builds are not working. Will keep digging into it.
That’s very cool, and quite a suprise.
For unknown reasons i am not too much a fan of the pianoroll (perhaps yet, just a question getting used to it). But being able to do the chord-editing from Editor-List is really nice.
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Oh, I didn’t see that everything was explained here
Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now
- it’s these small details added to Ardour that continues to impress me (not sure how long that statement was in the ‘About’ section.
- That statement is the thinking/outlook I have grown into without knowing there was a movement
- Thanks!
James
Ardour release codenames are Brian Eno album titles and we hope he can keep up with Ardour releases 
January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now - Wikipedia
only for the 9.7 (and aborted 9.6) release.
9.5’s codename was Drawn from Life - Wikipedia
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If not, you could use albums the community made with ardour😉
The problem is caused by using UI scaling below 100%. It has already been fixed in git (thus, in the nightlies).
Many thanks for your fast reply. Just to clarify, does this mean the 9.7
download is not fixed yet?
Warmest regards as ever
We don’t “fix” a release. It is whatever it is/was at the time it was released. We haven’t judged this to be a sufficiently critical bug to merit another release yet. Subscribers and self-builders can get the fix already.
Thank you for all of your hard work on this. It works fine using the
nightly build.
As a matter of curiosity, is this an x11/ Wayland problem? The reason I ask
is that I will shortly be rebuilding the music PC, and I wonder if anyone
has any views on the future of X11.
Since moving to Linux around 2012-ish ( Ubuntu Warty Warthog, I think), I
have used two applications which, in my opinion, are peerless and have no
equivalent. One of these is Ardour, the other is Darktable. Thank you,
Paul, and all of the team, for their tireless work
Many Thanks
Alastair Fulcher
Hi,
There is probably no future for X11 (aside from XWayland) and the ‘big’ Desktop Environments (Gnome, KDE, XFCE4, LXQt at the very least). So I suppose for many people it will be Wayland without question… However not all of Linuxdom bows to the will of the Red Hat gods and Open Source is a two-edged sword where some things manage to hold on against all odds (ie Devuan, antiX, Artix and MX remaining systemd-free or optional). Although the XLibre project has been a public relations nightmare it’s code seems pretty robust, I’m using it daily and it actually uses less RAM than Xorg and I have no issues running Ardour and all my regular applications. I’m certainly not a Wayland-hater or an Xlibre zealot, my current DE doesn’t have Wayland fully implemented yet so I’m curious to see if X11 has a horse that can still run until such time as there is no longer a vaild choice. Ardour at this point seems better with X11 and since they have no plans to turn it upside down for Wayland I would personally make my DE choice for a future PC build around Ardour not the Desktop Environment… Just my opinion…
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No, it’s unrelated to X11 or Wayland. It was caused by a very small but consequential coding mistake that only causes problems if the UI scale is set below 100%.
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Probably a dumb question but how does one enable the vertical summary? “Disabled by default” but I can’t find a setting for it in Preferences.
EDIT: yep that was a dumb question. It’s in the menu: View > Show Vertical Summary.
Thank you, Glen, for your opinion and thank you again, Paul
Must we, nobody is forcing distros to use anything.
There are more subtle ways than force to get things done, the end result is often the same. What other organization has reinvented the init system, audio server and graphics compositor which is then adopted by every other mainstream Distro (sometimes to benefit and sometimes not)? Red Hat calls the tune and that has been clearly illustrated many times over, whether that’s good or bad is above my pay grade but it’s a curious thing to observe that Linux isn’t as free of corporate oversight and influence as it says on the can.