After a somewhat unusual release process, we are pleased to announce Ardour 9.8. Notable features in this release include some initial steps in musical scale support, the return (after perhaps a decade) of robust data recovery after crashes/power outages while recording, and some improvements to clip recording. As usual, there’s a host of bug fixes and quality of life improvements.
…arpeggiator.
Ardour becomes increasingly better for edm, so much that i started doing some edm again, after more than 2 decades of not doing that at all, just out of curiosity.
There’s also lot of bug fixes.
Congratulations to Paul, Robin and the team!
Wow, great work, this little change makes a great daily usability difference:
Use pixel based logic to determine where to start the edge where resize/reposition occurs. This is mainly to avoid too large/too small regions for resizing.
Another great release. Many thanks, guys! I really like the direction Ardour’s development is taking.
Obviously, I checked whether I could still crash Ardour by triggering the bugs I reported for 9.7 some time ago. And the good news is that the first one doesn’t work anymore. The notes still disappear from the bottom panel, but resizing the region boundary no longer causes a crash. Great!
Unfortunately, I can still reproduce the second one quite easily. Any chance it could be addressed? Or am I the only one experiencing this?
Again, thanks for all your effort! Much appreciated.
Since the arpeggiate is added in the editor properties box, I did take a look at the Editor List > midi tools > region properties.
This bug is still present : Region properties dont update on selecting
Also because of the Control Surfaces updates I was hoping the shuttle pro2 issue would be solved.
Ardour now allows you to visualise out-of-scale notes
I am not entirely sure how this works, and I find the three examples in the “What’s new” page confusing:
#1 shows dark and light lines: dark in-key, light out-of-key (I am assuming here a B major scale) #2 and #3 have three shades: dark, middle and light grey (#2 has so low contrast that the shades are not really distinguishable). This is also what I see in my screen, never #1.
After a bit of try and error, I presume the middle grey lanes are the out-of-key, the lightand the dark in-key. The purpose of the dark is not evident (it marks the “extra” notes as opposed to C major or A minor, but the “missing” ones don’t get special treatment? Or possibly I didn’t get it at all
Some enlightenment on the matter would be helpful, thanks.
Your best bet may be to play with Edit > Preferences > Colors. Find the “pianoroll offkey” color, and change it.
It also depends on which theme you are using - we do not support user-contributed themes, the only two that are officially supported are the default “dark” theme and also the “xcolors” theme. All others just got some color that might or might not have made sense.
Being out-of-key takes precedence over the usual white/black (or, of you prefer light/dark) coloring to reflect the piano’s physical structure.
For some time (basically version 9.7), and probably because I am also more invested in the use of ardour, I find it more beautiful and pleasant. It must also be said that I have a little moderated my experiences with MIDI so it makes my experience more musical than tripping in computer science.
But the work done by the developer team is once more very good and congratulations.
A suggestion: since I am ardour, that is to say since version 6, I find that systematically, the most stabilized version is around version x.7… Would there not be another way to present the versions (currently “nightly” and then official) so that in fact the stabilized version is the official version? (“nightly” would be the alpha, the X.0 would be the beta… and the X.7 would be the official)
In any case congratulations for this version and long live the ardour developers.
This actually reminded me of something i noticed a few months ago while checking out ZRythm. Yes, i know regions and midi notes are not exactly the same thing :), and aldo i find Ardour much more serious/mature in a lot of different ways, manipulating midi notes using mouse (adding, resizing, repositioning) in ZRythm felt a lot more “fluid” for the lack of a better word…I’m not sure exactly why, but I’m guessing this has something to do with it? Ardour (9.7) was kind of “stiff” in this regard. I guess i should sit down and compare it side by side to determine and describe exactly why, but i just don’t have the time right now (i’m currently under attack of life&work related stuff ).
Loving all the new features we’re getting with each new release.
Paul, I have a question. I recall you saying awhile ago that the chord editing features were inspired by Cubase. Do you plan to implement some of Cubase’s other chord features, such as the Chord Track, Chord Pads, or Chord Assistant?
Whatever you’re planning to do, I’m excited. Ardour keeps getting better with each new release. Keep up the good work!
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