Ardour

Ardour is a digital audio workstation that runs natively on OS X. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. Produce your own CD's. Mix video soundtracks. Experiment with new ideas about music and sound. Generate sound installations for 12 speaker gallery shows...

Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you've been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it.

Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means implementing all the "hard stuff" that other DAWs (even some leading commercial apps) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a completely flexible "anything to anywhere" routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as "persistent undo", multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren't available on other platforms.

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 OSX/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.

• 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.

• 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.

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