Ardour

New Features:

• Improvements to the template manager dialog.
• Lua templates for tracks and sessions can now be created/scripted.
• New session dialog functionality improved, with new templates and track wizards.
• New track dialog functionality improved, with new templates and track wizards.
• Expose Lua bindings for VCA create/delete/assign/unassign.
• New patch selector dialog for MIDI tracks. This can be accessed by right clicking in the track header area.
• Ardour's generic GUI for instrument plugins now includes a keyboard to allow auditioning the plugin settings.
• Support for a new LV2 extension to notify the host about MIDI bank/program changes (e.g. driven by the plugin's own GUI).
• Faderport 8: double-click on select button resets gain to 0dB.
• Display playback-only devices when using JACK.

General Fixes and Improvements:

• Fix MIDI quantization when not using US English.
• Fix selection of quantization note-end grid size.
• Catch exceptions thrown from Lua scripts.
• Fix handling of MIDI channels in the Transform dialog.
• Improve the heuristic used to display track/bus I/O connections in a compact form, as well a connection menus.
• Clicks on I/O menus now always connect, rather than toggle connected status.
• OSC: gracefully handle the user sending the wrong number of parameters.
• OSC: changing jog mode no longer stops transport unless started by scrub/shuttle.
• Secondary clock visibility is now a global preference rather than a per-session setting.
• The editor's summary view is now constrained to the extent of actual regions, rather than the session extent, by default. This can be reset from a right-click on the summary.
• New configuration setting for playhead auto-scroll speed. If you want to scroll quickly, it is preferred to zoom out first, then scroll.
• New configuraton setting to define how much zooming will be easily allowed beyond the extents of actual regions in the session.
• Generic plugin GUI: fix sizing and layout for automation state controls in plugins with many controls.
• Increase priority of the thread involved in automation recording. This fixes an issue with sparse automation recording when the CPU is busy.
• Update the included version of NSS (a secure networking library), to provide some features required by some plugins.
• Fix the way MIDI filenames are "bumped" during snapshots and playlist copying.
• Fix crash bug in Ableton Push 2 support, introduced in a recent version.
• Fix various tooltips to avoid problems with special characters in their text.
• Catch some exceptions during session loading.
• Relax some restrictions imposed by the Lua sandbox (for scripts).