Ardour 3.1.10 released

Version 3.1.10 of Ardour is now available for download for Linux (the OS X release will be out soon). Version 3.0 was released a few weeks ago.

Ardour 3.1
A packaging error caused 3.1 to be lacking all translations into languages other than English. 3.1.10 was released to fix this.

Improvements and New Functionality:

• MIDI channel control expanded:
  • separate controls for input and output handling.
  • can now filter out MIDI channels on input or playback.
  • can now record all MIDI channels to a fixed channel (per track).
  • can force playback of all MIDI channels to a fixed channel (per track).
  • now managed via a popup window.
  • track header just provides summary of channel control state.
• Freesound improvements:
  • Add a 'More' button to load the next page of results without clearing the already-found list.
  • Don't allow cancellation of searches, and don't update progress bar around searches, since we only get one page at a time now.
  • Show number of pages of results remaining to download in the tooltip of the 'More' button.
  • Stop bad things happening when clicking in the Freesound search results list while a search or file download is already in progress.
  • Make the 'Stop' button insensitive except when it will actually stop the download of a sound file.
  • Only retrieve one page worth of data per search, rather than looping to get all pages.
  • Don't show an error in the log window if the user cancelled download.
  • Request 100 items per page, rather than the default 30.
• support for the Non Session Manager (NSM) session protocol.
• treat file names ending in .midi as well as .mid (case-insensitive) as MIDI files.
• correctly handle multiple export files with the same extension (e.g. WAV) but different formats (the format name is appended to the filename).
• when searching for various kinds of files, expand "~" if it is found in the search path, following POSIX conventions (~ => home folder/directory).
• dynamically update plugin menus when "Hide" is used in plugin manager so that it is not necessary to restart Ardour to see the result.
• make 0 and keypad-0 keys reset the mono panner, to match stereo panner.
• add export track output option to stem export dialog.
• use LILV state API to load LV2 presets, thus supporting presets that have extra information associated with them.
• improve error reporting when realpath(2) fails.
• document -a (no announcements) option on man page.

Drag-n-Drop Fixes and Improvements:

• fix drag and drop from region list so that it actually works, even though it is not as pretty as it was.
• allow Drag-n-Drop onto the blank track area of the editor once again.
• correctly indicate during drag-n-drop where a drop is possible and where it isn't (though the clarity of this depends a bit on your desktop environment).
• correctly honor ctrl/command modify during drag-n-drop (to indicate copy vs. embed).
• always import (copy) MIDI files since Ardour considers them writable.
• correctly handle drag-n-drop of mixed file types (audio & MIDI).

Fixes:

• create "been here before" file even if a first time user doesn't modify the default configuration options.
• fix crash on some systems during fetching announcements from ardour.org.
• fix incorrect listing of MIDNAM files in the event of the user having their own private set of them in addition to those supplied with Ardour.
• fix mishanding of LXVST (and windows VST) plugin names where the path includes a directory with a period/dot in its name such as ~/.lxvst.
• fix crash when deleting non-existent plugin presets.
• fix crash when using multiply-nested compound regions.
• fix undo/redo of deletion of note, patch change and sysex events.
• make track header faders insensitive to vertical scroll wheel events (again).
• make MIDI clock synchronization work (again).
• Don't include unselected regions in edit grouped region operations.
• Ignore track selection if there are any selected regions.
• fix behaviour when switching into automation write mode while the transport is moving.
• "Hide All" in editor track list functions more consistently.
• Tracks/busses created from templates get names based on the user-supplied value, if given.

Ardour 3.0
This is a list of major new features since version 2.8.16. There are also hundreds or thousands of bug fixes. Read about this in more detail here.

Major New Features:

• MIDI recording, playback and editing, including plugin instrument support for LV2, VST and AudioUnits.
• Parallelization of DSP operations to use any number of processors.
• Matrix-style patching/routing.
• Overhauled export system (multiple formats at once, stem exports, multichannel exports).

New & Improved Audio Signal Handling:

• Monitor section.
• Solo operation redesigned, includes Solo Isolate and correct AFL/PFL modes.
• Per-channel visible phase invert buttons.
• Internal aux sends and explicit aux busses.
• Improved send control.
• Stereo panning via width+position.
• Track/Bus groups extended.

Audio Editing:

• Option for Automation moves with Regions.
• Rhythm Ferret improvements.
• Vertical stacking of overlapping regions in tracks.
• Non-destructive, non-overlapping recording mode.
• New region editing features.
• Strip Silence.
• Media search path.

New & Improved GUI details:

• Session overview pane.
• Unified processor list (plugins, sends, returns etc).
• Extended Region list.
• Extended Track/Bus list.
• Improved and expanded editor cursor set.
• Dynamically resizable big clock window.
• New and improved preferences dialog(s).
• New editing implementation for clocks.

External Control:

• MIDI binding maps.
• Dramatically improved Mackie Control support.
• Linear Timecode support.
• Improved MTC chase.
• MIDI Clock chase.

Miscellaneous:

• 64-bit timeline.
• Dynamically resizable disk buffers.
• JACK Session support.
• Undo system internals use less memory and improve speed.