Notices by Ardour DAW (ardour@fosstodon.org)

We've just released Ardour 8.2 with note tupling and support for Solid State Logic UF8, as well as Novation Launchpad X and Mini Mk3

https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

A really neat side effect of working on better MIDI velocity editing is that the next version is coming with freehand automation drawing. Pressing Ctrl enables straight lines, you can press it on/off and keep drawing, no need to stop. Patch by @PaulDavisTheFirst

We've just released Ardour 7.5 featuring mapping tempo to performance, early support for timeline sections, autoconnection of I/O when switching between backends, and more

https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

We've just released Ardour 7.4 with bugfixes and several new features: MIDI subgroup busses, volume control for the clip picker, optional neutral color for new tracks & busses, a Lua script to downmix 5.1 to stereo, and more.

Release notes: https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

Downloads: https://ardour.org/download.html

MIDI drawing toolbar is one of the new features in Ardour 7. You can set predefined duration, channel, and velocity of new notes and then quickly add them to a region

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ooZQS5OQm8

We have just released Ardour 7.3 with support for VST3 I/O busses, sample rate independence, searchable preferences, AVX-512 support in DSP, and more improvements and new features, as well as bugfixes

Release notes: https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

New in development: support for VST3 plugins with multiple I/O busses. Patch by @x42, coming in version 7.3

https://discourse.ardour.org/t/vst-3-multi-bus-support/108208

We've just released Ardour 7.2. Not many big new features this time, but it's a nice balance between bug fixes and various improvements.

You can now use MIDI Learn for trigger slots, easily discover Ardour in TouchOSC, import and export Opus files, import MIDI Lyrics.

There have also been UX improvements, notably in the region bouncing feature.

Oh, and we've eliminated a lot of crashes when editing the tempo map!

See here for more details:

https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

Thanks to Robin Gareus, Ardour now announces itself in the local network through zeroconf/mDNS on Linux and macOS. So if you are a TouchOSC user, you will be able to discover it easily. Coming to v7.2 soon. Screenshot courtesy by Ben Loftis (Harrison)

Hello Fediverse, happy to join you :) Robin Gareus recently added a tiny nostalgic feature: importing lyrics from MIDI files as region markers. The "Import MIDI markers" checkbox has to be on. You can also convert those to location markers and then clean up region markers. The new feature is coming in v7.2 soon.