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diff --git a/ReleaseNotes-0.9betaX b/ReleaseNotes-0.9betaX new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..358c1317c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/ReleaseNotes-0.9betaX @@ -0,0 +1,294 @@ + + RELEASE NOTES + *************** + +>>>> 0.9beta13 + +beta13 is mostly bug fixes and a few new features over beta12. + +>>> 0.9beta12 + +Welcome to the 0.9beta12 release of Ardour. We are now moving ever +closer to a 1.0 release. This release includes an incredible number of +changes and improvements since beta11. We expect some instabilities +compared to beta11 to remain - please test, collect debug traces, +etc. etc. + + +++++ FIRST IMPORTANT NOTICE +++++ + +Although beta12 will load sessions created by earlier versions of +Ardour, if it is allowed to save a session at any time, that session +will immediately be INCOMPATIBLE WITH ALL PRIOR VERSIONS OF ARDOUR. + +If you have important sessions, you are advised to back up the session +state files (generally called <session-name>/<session-name>.ardour). + +I repeat: if you care about being able to use prior versions of Ardour +on your existing sessions, you MUST BACKUP YOUR SESSION STATE FILES. + +Please rest assured that after 1.0 appears, no incompatibility, +forward or backwards, will be tolerated in any future version. + + +++++ SECOND IMPORTANT NOTICE +++++ + +Why the change in the session files? At some point as work on beta12 +was in progress, we realized that Ardour's panning model was +fundamentally broken. Not just the mathematics of the pan law, but the +actual software architecture of panning. Fixing this has required a +massive set of changes to Ardour's basic data flow and a lot of subtle +and not-so-subtle changes to a lot of code. On the plus side, we now +have a completely modular panning architecture that will make it +trivial, mostly, to use plugins for panning in the future. + + ++++++ THIRD IMPORTANT NOTICE ++++++ + +ardour/ksi is no longer built by default. The changes to libardour are +massive and widespread, and I do not have the resources to spend time +getting ardour/ksi to catch up with them. I will reenable default +building if and when ardour/ksi compiles again. I wish I could spend +time on this, but the work is just too much at a time when I +desperately need to get Ardour to a reasonable 1.0 release. + + +++++ FOURTH IMPORTANT NOTICE +++++ + +This version of ardour will NOT compile with gcc 2.95. we are now +using the standard C++ class "stringstream", which has no support in +gcc2.95. i will accept patches that attempt to use the gcc class +"strstream", but i am not willing to spend time on this myself. + + + Changes since 0.9beta11 + ------------------------ + +A) PANNING + + * panning control is per-stream + code is now supporting the notion of the "number of active + streams" within various parts of a signal processing + "route". this is different and orthogonal from the number of + inputs and outputs the route has. if you put a 1in/2out + plugin into a 1in/1out route (which arguably should not be + possible), then before the plugin there is 1 active stream, + and afterwards there are 2. + + * panner linkage + - panners for all streams/channels can be moved + together or in opposing motion. + + * new "bar controllers" for controlling panning to + a stereo output, 1 per data stream + * dbl-click on the bar controller to get numerical + entry, then Return or Tab to get back + to graphics. + +B) AUTOMATION + ---------- + + * gain and pan automation now totally separated + - you can playback pan automation while + doing touch automation on gain. + * if playing automation, and playhead goes past + the last control point, value remains + at that level. + * one button for gain automation state and one for + pan automation state per mixer strip + * ignore the automation mode for now + * touch automation for panning now works. + * hide all automation control points, display them + only as mouse pointer moves through them + * automation values reflected after transport stop + or locate if automation is not off, or when + automation is turned on. + +C) PLUGIN GUIs + ----------- + * use bar controllers (see Panning above) instead of sliders + +D) OTHER MAJOR FUNCTIONALITY + ------------------- + + * initial support for win32/x86 VST plugins as native objects + in Ardour + + * Added exclusive solo operation (ctrl-alt click on solo button) + which sets that track to be the only soloed track. it has a + momentary counterpart (ctrl-alt middle-click) which temporarily + exclusively solos the track while the mouse button is pressed. + BTW, middle-clicking mute buttons is momentary mute as well. + + * Added seamless looping. this can be enabled in the options editor + (misc tab). why is this an option you ask? well, our current + looping scheme simply does a transport reposition at the end of the + loop, and while completely sample accurate, there can be a time gap + between the end of the loop and the beginning. This happens due to + the slow-sync jack transport system, to allow all clients to + reposition in sync (including ardour). However, if you need truly + seamless looping with no gap, you can enable this option which will do + it within ardour only -- you must disable ardour as the jack + transport/time master for it to work. In the near future, the Jack + transport system may acquire a notion of looping, and at that time, + seamless may be used at any time. + + Note that for full compatibility with other transport aware apps, the + normal (non-seamless) looping with ardour as jack transport master is + required and is still quite usable, so don't be discouraged from using it. + + * drag-n-drop from a file manager implemented for + placing audio files into audio tracks + + * LADSPA Presets are now saved in RDF format in + ~/.ladspa/rdf/ardour-presets.n3. Ardour will also + read any other RDF files saved in that location. + + * region list redesigned + + * mouse wheel events now scroll canvas, not change mouse mode + + * always store to current snapshot file, do not make read-only + anymore (might cause problems on older sessions with + snapshots if editing the snapshot) + + * mouse shuttle mode (the return of "scrub") + a new widget replaces the ffwd/rev buttons to provide + continuous speed control in forward and reverse directions. + + * Added option to update actively recording regions with waveforms. + Much cooler than just the pink boxes, eh? On by default, you + can turn it back to the plain pink boxes from the display tab + of the options window. + +B) MINOR IMPROVEMENTS + BUG FIXES + ------------------------------ + + * correct handling of JACK transport API when transport master + * improved handling of SMPTE timecode + - SMPTE frames-per-second can be edited from the options editor + - SMPTE offset (what absolute time with respect to audio frame + zero is SMPTE 0:0:0:0) can be edited from the options + editor + - correct drop frame calculations + * fix for "Destroy Last Capture" bug, plus a correction for + a thinko that caused a segv if DLC done twice between + captures. + * recent session dialog doesn't have "subtrees" for sessions + with just a single state (snapshot) + * xfade editor changes + - "shade under line" + - fix left offset of wave display + * buttons/arrows on editor vertical scrollbar now work + * template selector hidden in new session dialog if the user + has no templates + * fix problem with exporting caused by JACK transport fixes + * MMC buttton relabelled "External MIDI Control", and moved + to MIDI tab of Options editor, along with "Send MMC" + * Better implemented the momentary mute and solo operations so that + the previous state is restored on mouse-release. + * added "lock", "unlock", "normalize", "reverse" to region context + menu + * add new operation to return captured regions to their "captured" + location (does not work for embedded/imported regions). the + operation is in the region context menu as "Original position". + * fixes for region naming when handling external audio files + * redesign new session dialog to use a tabbed notebook + * make sure option editor's "follow playhead" button is in-sync + with follow playhead setting + * fix long-standing bug with MIDI request pool running out of + memory. + * fix export of 100% zeroes in 32 bit integer sample files + * added MMC command when in master MMC mode for transport + startup (Deferred Play) + * correct design flaw in creating regions from session file. + (fixes some odd behaviour when undoing close to + start of working on a session, because regions did + not have the correct history set up) + * limited shuttle speed when mouse departs the control box. + * keep JACK shutdown/kick message on top of editor window + * use "e" and "p" to position edit/playhead wherever mouse is + * fixes for transport button madness + * fix for autoloop indicator region visibility + * made the horizontal scrollbar be a standard one + * included new fader pixmaps from ryan (precursor to new theme) + * ExportDialog saves Track information. It doesn't restore it yet though. + * LRDF enumerations are displayed in a combo box in the PluginUI. + * Updated gtk-ardour Russian translation and added new libardour Russian translation. + * Recent Sessions dialog doesn't display sessions that have been deleted. + * Trying to sample a file in the AudioLibrary that has been moved or deleted won't crash. + * fix catastrophic, stupid, unbelievable and just plain ridiculous + bug in editor constructor that left edit_cursor and + playhead_cursor with random values when Editor::set_state() + was called. + * move "optimization flags" setting into a global autoconf file, + and call AM_OPT_FLAGS from most configure scripts + * increase size of UI request pool + * increase size of UI request ringbuffer + * finally get all tracks connected to ins+outs + when using "auto-connect" options. + (previously only the first N tracks + would be connected, where N was the + number of physical i/o's on + your audio interface) + * prevent GTK from loading its default + RC files at all costs. + * fix gcc 3.3 "bug" in libsoundtouch + * start to use the new BarController widget in plugin GUIs + * fixed the declick on transport stop. yes, it probably never + worked, which is why you heard clicks on stopping. this also + fixes the problem where plugins are interrupted briefly on stop... + now reverb tails are undisturbed on transport stop. + * Audition port names are looked up at runtime. + * Library UI uses the new jftw in libpbd. + * The plugin selector is now sortable by clicking on the different column + titles. + * "stop at session end" option is now saved + * "splash/about window" design changes - unfinished, and wow is it + ugly. but its also more flexible, and i'll finish it RSN. + * several dialog windows forced to float over the editor + * "wait for loading" message removed + * when adding multiple tracks, GUI runs between each track + (causes ugly flashing of mixer window, however) + * Select context menu now contains + "Select all in track" + "Select all" + "Invert in track" + "Invert all" + (invert is known not to work on automation tracks) + * incorrect handling of stereo streams through routes fixed. + * check for adequate version of JACK + * fix recursive call to DiskStream::set_name() that caused a crash + when renaming a track + * fix PortInsert to do a pure wire-level copy - no gain, no pan + * count cycles for plugins + * make sends meter correctly + * clean up (longstanding) late initialization of several variables + (thanks valgrind!) + * convert error log to popup messages, mostly + * run Gtk::Main event loop while embedding/linking an external file + (and use the "watch/wait" cursor too) + * add a half-working detent for panner bar controllers + * try to improve operation of gain/pan automation buttons + * Added spanish translation. Thank you Alex Krohn. + * change pan line colors + * fix display of slide/splice mode + * clicks on track canvas views do not select track + * pack IO CLists in IOSelector in a scrolled window (needs theme name) + * select next IO port after making connection to current one + (speeds and smooths UI interaction when doing IO setup) + * Added spanish translation of ardour.1. + * test plugin configuration and display a dialog if its incorrect + (even when loading ... work in progress) + * Added russian translation of man page. + * Added valgrind shortcut for ardour into gtk_ardour. (arval). + * correct problem with lack of playback in rec-enabled + tracks when not using s/w monitoring + * apply gain to s/w monitored rec-enabled tracks + * fix nasty thread synchronization bug related to + allocation+use of session-wide pan automation + buffers + * provide (not very good) warning if rec-enable attempt + made on a track with no input connections + * more tooltips + * pan muting via context menu + * fix potential segfault in ::~Session caused by + double delete of playlists + * MIDI control for panning added back (untested) + |