Development update: 6.0-pre1 now ready for testing

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#50

The project format is frozen.

#51

Oh thanks, great to hear that !

So I think will engage subscription this weekend.

In order to not make any mistake, I must be a subscriber and not a donator right?

Another fear of mines, if I finally choose to stick with ardour 5.12 stable after trying pre6, will my ubuntu studio system let me able to uninstall the pre 6 without ruining the 5.12? I do think yes but want to be sure, so please forgive that innocent newbie question.

#52

Yes, Ardour 5 and Ardour6 can be installed in parallel.
Also official binaries can be installed in parallel to distro versions.

(Binaries from ardour.org install to /opt/Ardour-<VERSION>. The launcher has an upper-case “A” e.g. Ardour5, Ardour6, while distro versions use lower-case ardour5, ardour6)

#53

Merci!

Time to have fun!!!

#54

Thanks, I entered my wishes into Mantis as “feature”. Hope this is right.

#55

If you always need people to write the manual, I got some free time.

#56

The manual is in Git, feel free to start submitting pull requests! :slight_smile:

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#57

This is another of those areas of contributing to Ardour where if you not self-motivated, it will be hard, but if you are, it will be great. There is no list or roadmap or plan for the manual because there is no community that works on it regularly. So you need to feel motivated to improve or extend it based on your own assessments.

You should also be ready to accept editorial suggestions from a variety of people. None of these are personal.

#58

each manual page in the manual: https://manual.ardour.org/ Has a github icon in the top right corner. This will lead you to an edit page on git hub where you can add to the page, fix spelling or grammer mistakes etc. If you want to add pages, you will need to clone the whole repo from git and make a more complete pull request. Even if it is just a whole new page with out it being added to the menu, someone can do that part, just don’t be impatient , sometimes it takes a while. Do leave a note where in the menu structure you would expect the page to fit.

#59

Thanks for your 3 anwers :slight_smile:
@paul I can understand the “no roadmap nor plan” concept, but despite this would you say that one can find write/fix priorities somewhere? (e.g. “new in Ardour6”) and locate this somewhere of course!
@lenovens thanks for light on the 1st step. I will read the guide of git now…
@all is there a dedicated place to ask questions?

#60

IRC is the best place. If you don’t know how to access it there is a link at the bottom of ardour.org, though it is probably easiest if you are going to be on there to use an IRC client instead.

        Seablade
#61

If you’re a subscriber (or paid US$45 or more for a pre-built version of 5.x), you can download the fully functional version.

I’ve paid US$45 or more for a pre-built version of 5.x, but I can’t seem to download the uncrippled nightly build?

#62

The most common reason, which happens a lot despite the warnings on all the relevant pages, is that you were not logged into ardour.org when yhou made the payment. The payment needs to be coupled to your ardour.org account. Forward me the email you got from PayPal via help@ardour.org and I can manually check things out (and fix them).

#63

@x42 I’m not entirely sure about the nightly build part. I paid $47 earlier today and the system refused to let me download it.

I was a subscriber earlier, but have had a very troublesome financial situation the last two years. That’s why I now did this single payment. But I will subscribe again as soon as my finances are more even again.

#64

That may be the issue. Paypal doesn’t sent notifications when subscriptions expire, and your status may not be updated correctly. You can check: http://community.ardour.org/user/
@paul will have to flush out the list. Best contact help@ardour.org.

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#65

Thank you very much Robin :slight_smile:

#66

Hi.

I installed Ardour-6.0.pre1 and now want to install the final release. How do I uninstall Ardour-6.0.pre1? It’s not listed in the “software” app (Ubuntu Studio 18.04).

#67

That depends on how you installed it. If you got pre1 from ardour.org, then it will be in /opt and there will be an uninstall script in the folder. If you get 6.0 from ardour.org it will offer to uninstall pre1 for you. If you get 6.0 from the distro repository, you will have to remove pre1 manually.

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#68

Brilliant, I’ll just install 6.0. I didn’t expect it to offer to do it for me. Thanks.

#69

When updating from pre1 to the release I would recommend you remove your preferences completely, see the bottom of the release announcement:

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