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