Fedora 16 Update: ardour-2.8.12-1.fc16

Wed Oct 19 04:30:29 UTC 2011

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-13624
2011-10-01 18:42:24
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Name        : ardour
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 2.8.12
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://ardour.org
Summary     : Multichannel Digital Audio Workstation
Description :
Ardour is a multichannel hard disk recorder (HDR) and digital audio workstation
(DAW). It is capable of simultaneous recording 24 or more channels of 32 bit
audio at 48kHz. Ardour is intended to function as a "professional" HDR system,
replacing dedicated hardware solutions such as the Mackie HDR, the Tascam 2424
and more traditional tape systems like the Alesis ADAT series. It is also
intended to provide the same or better functionality as software systems such
as ProTools, Samplitude, Logic Audio, Nuendo and Cubase VST (we acknowledge
these and all other names as trademarks of their respective owners). It
supports MIDI Machine Control, and so can be controlled from any MMC
controller, such as the Mackie Digital 8 Bus mixer and many other modern
digital mixers.

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Update Information:

New Features or Behaviour and workflow improvements
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   * Correctly align newly recorded material on the timeline
   * reinstate "merge files" in import dialog so that 2 mono files can be imported as a stereo track
   * Forces new tempo and meter markers to start a new bar on the first beat
   * Changes to automation data recording:
         1- No longer decide automation control point visibility based on zoom level
         2- Remove unnecessary control points in automation data as it is recorded
         3- Allow timecode to skip forwards or backwards or even loop while recording automation (data is only recorded during forward
playback)
   * Add a second Delete action, so both Backspace and Delete can be bound to delete. this is really useful on macbooks which have a backspace but no delete key. to turn on this behavior, users will have to add the new editor-alternate-delete action to theri bindings, OR go to Preferences->Mouse/Key and re-load one of the default bindings files
   * New route groups are turned "on" at creation
   * F4 is bound to the real separate action, not the Separate
sub-menu (ergnomic bindings only)
   * Remove some rhythm ferret options that are not implemented in A2
   * Change order of range menu so more common operations are nearer the top

Crash Fixes
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   * Fix crash when two overlapped regions are selected
   * Fixes crashes when playhead is moved if fader automation is on the 'write' setting
   * Symptom-fix for an issue with bogus crossfades. Avoids crashes though it doesn't fix the underlying problem.

Bug Fixes
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   * Fix misbehaviour when freewheeling due to Ardour's own export
   * Change the way we use "physical screen height" to better account for multi-monitor setups
   * Make sequence-files option for import use file timecode, make all import/embed ops use per-file TC if timecode was requested, rather than just the first file's TC
   * Fix occasional deafening noise at region cut points
   * Fix management of fade in/out active management
   * Restore text to the editor canvas on big-endian machines (OS X PPC)
   * Don't try to call "render" on AU plugins with no input elements
   * Some Mackie-emulation systems (e.g. euphonix) send zero for the tick count when the jog wheel is moved, so accomodate this by
pretending that they reported 1 tick
   * Save/restore environment as needed when forking external apps like JACK
   * Fix possible drift out of sync of tracks during varispeed
   * Don't adjust session end location when any region end is moved.
   * LV2 UI parameter now handled by the GUI thread, not just the
same thread that the update happened
   * Prevent ardour from ever, EVER, EVAH removing an existing source file
   * Make sure declicking fades reach their target
   * Fix Insert Region From List and Fill Range with Selected Region
   * Add support for AudioUnit parameter listening
   * Make timefx thread sleep for a bit after its done, so that the GUI can process its requests before it dies and takes it request buffer with it
   * Fix old issue where copy-pasting a range selection from
region(s), each region would inherit the parents full fade-in or -out even when the region excerpt didnt include the fade
   * Do not try to silence port buffers after a reconnect, since this violates old JACK policy and new JACK implementation
   * Fix reallocation of silent, passthru and send buffers,
specifically after a reconnect to JACK
   * Fix cut-n-paste typo that caused Session::send_buffers to be the wrong size
   * Commit patch from colinf to just err, rather than abort, if
::truncate_start() is called on an empty automation list
   * Fixed bug where embedded sources did not correctly obey the BWF time stamp and would import at the timestamp of the first file
   * When importing sources that are using sample rate conversion, the BWF start time has to be converted also
   * Fix bug that prevented fade-ins from being restored in an inactive state
   * Remove almost all use of Glib::ustring to avoid issues with
non-Latin characters in file names on some versions of OS X
   * Do not attempt to lookup sndfile constants/enums using a string, because this breaks when using anything but english
   * Allow correct restoration of Lock Edit mode

Translations
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   * New Basque translation from Maider Likona and friends

Contributions to this release from: Carl Hetherington, Ben Loftis, Todd Naugle, Colin Fletcher, the Basque translation team and Paul Davis
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #741834 - ardour: update request to version 2.8.12
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741834
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ardour' at the command line.
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