Ardour updated to v5.10

Ardour has been updated to v5.10. This is primarily a bug-fix release, with several important fixes for recent selection/cut/copy/paste regressions along with fixes for many long standing issues large and small.

This release also sees the arrival of VCA slave automation, along with improvements in overall VCA master/slave behaviour. There are also significant extensions to Ardour's OSC support.

General Fixes and Improvements:

• (Time) Range selection and copy/cut/paste now works again.
• Selection and copy/cut/paste for automation tracks now works again.
• Extend list of reserved track/port names (including translated versions of "Click").
• Fix another case where potentially illegal track/port names were not checked correctly.
• Context click on [Marker] > loop range should set loop range.
• Tweak/fix splash screen management.
• Update writable status of a Save-as copy of a Session.
• Add note name parser to convert to MIDI note number.
• VST parameter names can now be up to 128 characters long.
• Remember the state (shown/hidden, attached/detached) of the Monitor section.
• Ardour's own custom buttons now correctly reflect the initial state of the action they control.
• Stop crash after deleting a group.
• Fix double "Tape" in Record Mode drop down when adding new track.
• Support note name editing in MIDI list editor.
• Fix out-of-bounds waveform image rendering.
• Set Display Name for OS X/macOS.
• Fix libhid compile with /recent/ libc (GNU_SOURCE).
• Fix failure to laod old tempo maps.
• Use correct variable in BasicUI:jump_by_seconds.
• Tempo sections with a BBT start XML node are never ramped.
• Sort tempo map after legacy sections have been assigned a pulse.
• Include ParameterDescriptor in read-only control output.
• Implement basic AU parameter-printing.
• Pretty print control-outputs in generic-UI.
• Always create a deep copy of MIDI regions when copying playlists.
• Use correct names when setting MIDITrack properties.
• Use correct property name in generic MIDI surface.
• Allow export presets for 176.4kHz.
• When creating a new session after working on one, the "Cancel" button should be a quit button.
• Duplicate routes start off unsoloed to avoid issues related to upstream / downstream buses.
• If actively recording, prevent interaction between mouse and audio clock widget (s).
• Remove "Close" button from import-dialog (prefer WM close button).
• Import Dialog now behaves now other dialogs/windows when using Escape.
• Add route dialog now has "Add" and "Add and Close" buttons. "Add" keeps dialog open so user can add multiple templates.
• Fix recording-region graphics when using count-in.
• Fix reversed logic in legacy tempo secton detection.
• Tempo lines display subdivisions correctly over a tempo change.
• Fix crash when showing plugin-UI in safe-mode.
• Fix DSP in a-EQ, when parameters change very slowly.
• Fix playhead behaviour when synced to JACK tranport.
• When dragging notes, keep the note length correct even if tempo changes across the drag.
• a-EQ: Tweak knob layout to be less confusing.
• Make Import the default action in the Import Dialog.
• Restore the state of the autoplay button in the import dialog.
• Consistent "cancel/close" button position on the left.

Lua:

• Add a file-chooser LuaDialog Widget.
• Update LuaDialog example script to include File/Folder selection.
• Add Lua bindings for VCAs and VCAManager.

VCA & Automation:

• Do not crash when removing a VCA master.
• Fix relative grouped + VCA slaved gain.
• Fix Monitor Group override.
• Allow group gain sharing + VCA again.
• Remember subgroup-bus.

OSC Support and Control:

• Add Automation control to OSC.
• Faders can select automation mode.
• Frame work to add automation for more controls.
• Add Touch message for faders.
• Add fake timeout based touch.
• GUI settings take effect on first incoming message.
• Catch case of surface sending fader move before touch.
• Add optional paging to sends in select.
• Add option to send /reply instead of #reply (OSC1.0 compat).
• Select channel plugin support with paging.
• Allow set_surface and settings GUI to set send and plugin page sizes.

Control Surfaces:

• Improve all control surfaces' handling of track/bus selection changes.
• MIDI map for Alesis QX25.
• Update FaderPort8: new possible controllable parameters.
• Mackie Control: Momentarily light buttons when they are used to trigger a defined action. (This is mainly for F-keys).
• Mackie Control: If a button is not assigned an action, it will not light, hopefully indicating to the user that it is unmapped).
• Mackie Control: F-keys are reserved only for user-defined actions; no need for explicit handling.
• Mackie Control: configuration panel should display the profile name when any button action is changed.
• Mackie Control: Assign some F-keys for default user profile.
• Mackie Control map the well-known EQ knobs more explicitly, not heuristically.
• Mackie Control: Fix issue with strip "select" buttons that stayed stuck on.

Translation Updates:

• German (Edgar Aichinger).
• Russian (Alexander Prokoudine).