Ardour 8.10 released
Ardour 8.10 is now available for Linux, Windows and macOS. As with the last several releases, 8.9 turned out to have at least a couple of new major issues that required a hot-fix. We believe that we have corrected issues with performance caused by scheduling of disk input/output threads (these problems tended to be system dependent, but were very real on systems where they occured). Importing SMF (MIDI) via drag-n-drop now uses the file name once again. Content-slipping a region correctly causes an update of the playback buffers so you can hear the result as expected.
In addition to those hot-fixes, 8.10 sees small updates to all our non-default color themes, a new MIDI binding map for the M-Audio Axiom 49 MkII and a new Lua script to duplicate regions on the grid.
This is intended to be the last release of the 8.x series. Our git repository is now at 9.0-pre0, and should no longer be considered stable or usable for production work now that it contains what was the “pianorule” branch. Over the next few months, we will be working hard to get this into shape for a 9.0 release with several notable new features.
Download as usual with the full release notes (for 8.7 - 8.10) at the normal place.
A new version of the audio workstation software Ardour has been released. The updated version resolves performance concerns associated with disk input/output thread scheduling, updates the naming of SMF imports, and corrects content-slipping regions. The release includes updates to non-default color themes, a new MIDI binding map for the M-Audio Axiom 49 MkII, and a Lua script intended for duplicating grid regions. Ardour 8.10 represents the concluding release of the 8.x series, while the git repository is presently at 9.0-pre0.
