A new major version of the digital audio workstation Ardour has been released.
Ardour 8.0 is released
Ardour 8.0 is available now for Linux, Windows, and macOS, including the latest release of macOS, Sonoma. Along with the usual set of important and not-so-important bug fixes, Ardour 8.0 brings users substantial quality of life benefits:
- “Quick groups” - most mix-related controls now operate on all the selected tracks & busses
- Manage sections of a song with arrangement markers. Define your verses, chorus, and bridge. Then rearrange or copy them as you wish.
- Create persistent region groups in the editor window, to make multi-region editing easier.
- Edit velocity easily on a dedicated automation lane whether it’s a single note or a chord.
- Draw automation freely for any controller or press Control (Command) key to enable line-drawing mode. You can also combine free and line segments as you draw just by pressing and releasing the Ctrl/Cmd key.
- Fit the tempo map to a human performance, with a new dedicated tool.
- If (e.g. drum) note names are available for a plugin instrument or external device (via a MIDNAM file), see those names in the all-new MIDI track header.
- Use Novation Launchpad Pro in DAW/Session mode (along with the standalone Sequencer, Note and Chord modes).
- Create new interesting progressions with arpeggiator plugins.
Some people will no doubt laugh at a few these “new features”, given that they’ve been in some other DAWs for 20 years or more. That’s OK — we laugh too when we see other DAWs finally adding things that Ardour could do in 2005.
As usual, full release notes are over here and you can download from here .
