Ardour

6.5.0

6.5.0

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Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Please consider making a donation to help support development.

New Features:

• Support for plugins in VST3 format (for Linux, Windows and macOS)
• Visit Preferences->Plugins and click "Scan Now" to find your installed VST3 plugins.
• There is no need to set search paths for VST3's though you can specify additional folders to search if you do not install them in the VST3 standard location).
• By default, if a plugin is available in both VST3 and VST2 then only the VST3 will show up in your plugin list.
• VST3 support includes support for the Presonus VST3 extensions, as use by (for example) Softube Console1 plugins and control surfaces.

Improvements:

• On Windows build, support launching both JACK1 and JACK2.
• Prevent Session range markers from being hidden.
• Reduce the amount of work done when multiple locate commands are all issued in a very short time.
• Significantly speed up displaying of all MIDI automation lanes.
• Ask before showing 2000 automation lanes (can occur with certain plugins present on a track).
• Mark sessions as dirty if a meter type is changed.
• Improve various details of signal path latency computations.
• Use linear fades when crossfading loop end/start.
• Slightly speed up stem and direct-out export.
• WAV and AIFF files may now include session meta data tags (using id3v2 tags and WAV Info).
• Fix crash during startup on macOS Big Sur (Intel 64bit).

Bug Fixes:

• Correctly sort concurrent MIDI events.
• Check for MIDI buffer overflow when merging into an empty buffer.
• Complain when MidiBuffer::merge_from fails due to buffer full.
• Fix a rare but important race condition bug in the code used to manage several critical real-time data structures.
• Fix handling of musical times between 0 and -1 beats.
• Fix handling of transport manager ports when switching session.
• Fix external/sidechain send solo propagation.
• Cursor position and text color when editing clocks fixed.
• Fix restoring implicit solo on session load.
• Fix the window a plugin GUI/editor floats over when using a detached mixer window.
• Fix AudioUnit window size for some non-resizable plugins.
• Fix various issues when using MIDI on ARM (Raspberry Pi).

Fix bounce & freeze operations:

• Include main-out channel-count when bouncing the output
• Do not de-activate disk-reader and mains-out when freezing a track
• Ignore meter when counting channels

Control Surfaces:

• Handling of MIDI encoders in "Generic MIDI" support is fixed.
• Websocket/JS support now properly supports MIDI strips.

Lua Scripts:

• Fix for a bug in the "Tom's Loop" script.
• MIDI rewriting example script has been made more elaborate.

Included Plugins:

• Plugins previously in the "a-*" family are now consistently referred to as "ACE" (Ardour Community Effects).

Theme Updates:

• A few tweaks in the "dark colors" theme.

Translation Updates:

• Basque
• German
• French
• Russian