Fwd: Re: Ardour Version Question: 2 versus 3?

ORL <orl@xxxxxxxx> · Mon, 04 May 2015 21:56:19 +0200



    (I never paied attention that reply-to is not positionned by LAU...)

    Here's what I've been writing.

      
      Le 04/05/2015 20:56, Bruno Ruviaro a
        écrit :

      
      On Monday, May 4, 2015, Ivan K <ivan_521521@xxxxxxxxx>

        wrote:

        I have some
          question regarding versions of Ardour

          that people are using.

          
          Currently, I am running Fedora 20, and their

          software repository has two versions of Ardour available:

          
          ardour-2.8.16-12.fc20

          ardour-3.5.403-1.fc20

          
          I seem to recall that in the past, despite

          Ardour3 being available, some people were still preferring

          to use Ardour2.  This seems to be supported by the

          fact that Fedora offers both versions.

          
          Why might one prefer Ardour2 over Ardour3?
        

        I think some people stayed with A2 just because it was
          working well for them and didn't want to run risks or change
          their workflow. 

        
      I'm one of these people.

      Actually, I've been using Ardour2 for many years, but I was OK to
      switch to A3, especially because I was lacking several things (for
      example the fact that MIDI bindings weren't recalled after closing
      the session).

      Still I use Ardour for audio recording only, I have other habits
      concerning MIDI, and feel in ease with the modular approach
      allowed by Jack, so it was not absolutely necessary for me to
      swtich to A3.

      I tried (and am always trying, by the way), but I've experienced
      many bugs, including the big ones around MIDI things (MIDI being
      un-editable, then MIDI files being lost, and so on), and finally,
      I kept on Ardour2 for the moment, because, once again, I don't
      need Ardour to care about the MIDI.

      As I work in a studio and also for audio-engineers schools, I
      prefer to have something which works reliably and that I trust in,
      than a more bleeding-edge soft, and as far as I've tried for now
      (but I must say I didn't try A3 for 4 monthes), it lead me to stay
      on A2.

      I use Debian, and use the stable version when it's about schools,
      for example.

      
      There is something else too. I'm not so keen of A3 GUI. It's not
      that far from A2, but I'd like the sobriety of A2, and, more
      precisely, I really don't like the way Zoom/Scrolling is done in
      A3, and I really miss the scroll bars (mightbe I can custom my
      preferences so that it looks like that, I didn't try) of A2.

      To end up, but that's not really an Ardour pb, much more my
      workflow problem, but I feel A3 quite less usable in i3wm, as you
      need to recall much more key bindings to be able to close the
      windows you've opened (i3 doesn't provide window decoration) as
      there is no "OK" nor "cancel".

      
      Well, that's my reasons. By that time, I would be sad not to have
      Ardour2 (still, I've not tried A4).

      
      (to be honest, for my own audio-engineering works, I use non-mixer
      / non-timeline, and sometimes ecasound)

      
      Cheers.

      Aurélien

      
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