Improvements and New Functionality

MIDI channel control expanded

• separate controls for input and output handling
• can now filter out MIDI channels on input or playback
• can now record all MIDI channels to a fixed channel (per track)
• can force playback of all MIDI channels to a fixed channel (per track)
• now managed via a popup window
• track header just provides summary of channel control state

Freesound improvements

• Add a 'More' button to load the next page of results without clearing the already-found list.
• Don't allow cancellation of searches, and don't update progress bar around searches, since we only get one page at a time now.
• Show number of pages of results remaining to download in the tooltip of the 'More' button.
• Stop bad things happening when clicking in the Freesound search results list while a search or file download is already in progress.
• Make the 'Stop' button insensitive except when it will actually stop the download of a sound file.
• Only retrieve one page worth of data per search, rather than looping to get all pages.
• Don't show an error in the log window if the user cancelled download.
• Request 100 items per page, rather than the default 30.

• support for the Non Session Manager (NSM) session protocol
• treat file names ending in .midi as well as .mid (case-insensitive) as MIDI files
• correctly handle multiple export files with the same extension (e.g. WAV) but different formats (the format name is appended to the filename)
• when searching for various kinds of files, expand "~" if it is found in the search path, following POSIX conventions (~ => home folder/directory)
• dynamically update plugin menus when "Hide" is used in plugin manager so that it is not necessary to restart Ardour to see the result
• make 0 and keypad-0 keys reset the mono panner, to match stereo panner
• add export track output option to stem export dialog
• use LILV state API to load LV2 presets, thus supporting presets that have extra information associated with them
• improve error reporting when realpath(2) fails
• document -a (no announcements) option on man page

Drag-n-Drop Fixes and Improvements

• fix drag and drop from region list so that it actually works, even though it is not as pretty as it was
• allow Drag-n-Drop onto the blank track area of the editor once again
• correctly indicate during drag-n-drop where a drop is possible and where it isn't (though the clarity of this depends a bit on your desktop environment)
• correctly honor ctrl/command modify during drag-n-drop (to indicate copy vs. embed)
• always import (copy) MIDI files since Ardour considers them writable
• correctly handle drag-n-drop of mixed file types (audio & MIDI)

Fixes

• create "been here before" file even if a first time user doesn't modify the default configuration options
• fix crash on some systems during fetching announcements from ardour.org
• fix incorrect listing of MIDNAM files in the event of the user having their own private set of them in addition to those supplied with Ardour
• fix mishanding of LXVST (and windows VST) plugin names where the path includes a directory with a period/dot in its name such as ~/.lxvst
• fix crash when deleting non-existent plugin presets
• fix crash when using multiply-nested compound regions
• fix undo/redo of deletion of note, patch change and sysex events
• make track header faders insensitive to vertical scroll wheel events (again)
• make MIDI clock synchronization work (again)
• Don't include unselected regions in edit grouped region operations
• Ignore track selection if there are any selected regions.
• fix behaviour when switching into automation write mode while the transport is moving
• "Hide All" in editor track list functions more consistently
• Tracks/busses created from templates get names based on the user-supplied value, if given

Contributors

• Sakari Bergen
• Colin Fletcher
• Robin Gareus
• Julien Dekozak
• David Robillard
• Roy Vegard
• Hans Baier
• Paul Davis