THANK YOU FOR THIS!!
I'm very grateful for the randomly-inaudible overlapping-region bug getting fixed.
-ken
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On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:43:30AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> Finally, its June and Ardour 2.8.8 is finally here.
>
> Although this is primarily a bug-fix release, some of the "bugs" fixed
> are so pervasive and significant that they could almost count as new
> features. In particular, automation editing has finally arrived at a
> place that people with experience on other DAWs may consider actually
> usable. Issues with alignment of new and existing recorded material
> are addressed too, and there are lots of other bug fixes for issues
> small and large (including 3 or 4 crashing bugs). Thanks to motivation
> provided by the Mixbus project, there are also yet more improvements
> to AudioUnit plugin handling on OS X. Anybody using Ardour 2.8.7 or
> earlier should upgrade to enjoy increased stability and better
> functionality.
>
> This is the last feature-adding release of the 2.8 series. The next
> release of Ardour will be version 3.0-alpha1 (unless notable
> regressions are discovered in 2.8.8).
>
> IMPORTANT FIXES
>
> Dramatic improvements to automation editing so that it more or less
> works as anyone might expect. DOWNSIDE: for this release, the display
> of automation data is not updated in realtime while in write/touch
> mode. This will be fixed in a future release.
> Correct very strange and erratic punch recording behaviour that would
> create regions on tracks that were not record enabled
> Fix crash when zooming canvas repeatedly
> Fix handling of files larger than 2GB that could cause very slow
> reload of existing sessions (speedup was from 9 minutes to 30 seconds)
> Subtle but important change that may fix issues with recording not
> placing material in the correct location on the timeline
> Correctly order signal processing after adding a send (fixes issues
> with placement of recorded material)
> Regions overlapped by 2 other regions will now no longer semi-randomly
> fail to be audible during playback
> Region exports and bounces now use region fade in and fade out curves.
>
> USEFUL FIXES
>
> Save & recall port insert latency values
> JACK Latency = 256 menu option now works
> Importing files with the "Sequence files" option now works
> Cleanup LV2 "external gui" extension support
> Clear solo state when deleting a route that is soloed
> Notify user that deleting a route will save the session state
> Ellipsize long names in the track/bus inspector
> Force exported AIFF files to be big-endian
> Anchor the crossfade start and end points so that they cannot be edited
> Correctly retain MIDI bindings for global transport controls
> Do not burn 100% of a CPU's available cycles if disconnected from JACK
> Put the fixed size columns (check marks) on the left side of the
> mixer's track and group lists for easier access to their functionality
> Fix strange behaviour when dragging region(s) towards time zero
> Rationalize track selection and range selection
> Make selecting a range in mouse range mode work even if there is
> already a time selection
> When splitting N-channel regions to mono regions, each new region
> shows up as its own region, not a child of the original
> Clearing an automation track of data no longer generates an error when
> next loading the session ("Cannot reconstitute XML history node ...")
>
> HANDY NEW FEATURES
>
> Include links in Help menu to the tutorial and reference manuals
> switch from ctrl-drag to alt-drag for "drag-selection-as-region"
> change automation track selection model slightly so that auto tracks
> are highlighted as expected. only show range boxes when the automation
> will actually get edited. clicking an automation track should show the
> editor-mixer for the parent track
> Configurable behaviour when an N channel track plays a region that has
> less than N channels (silence or replicate the last channel). Default
> is silence.
>
> OS X ONLY
>
> Significantly updated version of the GTK GUI toolkit in use, which
> fixes a number of issues including...
> Multiple monitors now supported correctly
> Various fixes for handling AudioUnits, particularly UAD
> Use Apple's ExtAudioFile API for file types not otherwise handled on
> OS X (MP3, AAC and others)
> Use libsndfile to try to get timestamp info because Apple has no API for this
> Do not categorize AU plugins using the "subtype" property because its
> meaningless. Use "type" instead which is coarser but has a clear
> meaning.
> Added a shortcut to Volumes (external disk drives) when opening a session
> Add option to enable/disable translation on OS X
> Remove automation mode selector from AU plugin view window, since it
> doesn't do anything useful
> Correctly handle AU parameter types, so that more parameters are
> available for automation
> If a plugin has a Carbon-based editor, properly close that window when
> deleting the plugin (e.g. when closing the session)
>
> TRANSLATION UPDATES
>
> Spanish (Pablo Fern?ndez)
> French (Rapha?l Doursenaud)
>
> CONTRIBUTORS
>
> Carl Hetherington, Lucus, DHess, Ben Loftis and Old Man Davis
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