Ardour 6.7 released

• Dedicated “Recorder” tab/window
  • Provides a compact view of your track’s record & monitor status plus a simplified timeline that keeps everything in view at once.
  • Allows you to rename your device’s hardware inputs to match your studio connections: “Vocal Mic”, “Guitar Mic”, “Bass DI” (these names will be retained across sessions).
  • Every hardware input has a high-precision meter with peak-hold, a scrolling waveform history so you can recognize your source signals, and a PFL solo button to listen to that signal (requires the Monitor section to be engaged).
  • Vision and support for this work came from Harrison Consoles.
• New "Streaming" preset option for export (defines correct defaults for YouTube, Apple Music, SoundCloud and Amazon Music streaming services, particularly loudness levels).
• Allow import of SMF (MIDI) cue markers as global markers.

• Improvement in GUI drawing speed on macOS (snappier, more responsive feel, less CPU load).
• Preferences window/tab significantly re-organized.
• Overhaul LAN dialog: add loudness graph, allow for custom presets, update layout to always show conformity analysis.
• Warn if the audio interface to be used differs from the one last used with the session.
• After drawing automation, automatically switch that parameter to "Play" mode.
• Allow "all-in" and "all-disk" monitoring options to be selected at the same time (just as we do for individual tracks).
• The tab/window select buttons at the upper right now use verbs to describe what you're doing
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• Fix pasting processors in pre-fader position (they would end up in an unpredictable position).
• Keep mixer input/output buttons updated if available ports and groupings of ports change.
• Big clock window now correctly shows recording state.
• Audition tool correctly controls transport speed.
• Catch up with latest version of liblo (used for OSC support).
• Add preference to keep auto-spilled automation-lanes visible.
• Rename "Plugin Manager" to "Plugin Selector".
• MonitorSection: fade input in/out for AFL/PFL.
• Allow re-try when session-parameters mismatch.
• Allow auto-spill-on-touch for Fader,Trim,Panner and Mute controls.
• Allow removal of all xrun markers.
• Return/Enter does not have special behavior in the processor box.
• Make cursor visible on mixer strip gain entry.
• Increase visual contrast of insensitive faders.
• Change Solo button tooltip when using A/PFL.
• Foldback: spill follows selection.
• Foldback: improve GUI consistency.
• Add A/PFL button to foldback strip
• Spill only direct feeds - if track A sends to bus 1 which sends to bus 2 and you spill bus 2, only show bus 1, not track A
• Consistent "add track/bus" widget in recorder, editor and mixer tab
• Make group tabs insensitive when spilling sends
• Open add-route dialog on double-click or context-click in "empty space"
• Implement zero-latency convolver (available to Lua scripts).
• Indicate ambiguous latency, which can lead to capture alignment issues.
• Recover waveform-gradient-depth slider for ardour, and timeline-item-gradient-depth for mixbus.
• Include a loudness plot on export-report.
• Tweak export-report to fit on smaller screens (#8698).
• Set default master-bus meter-point to output.
• Overhaul export loudness normalization (include limiter).
• Disambiguate export formats with same loudness but different true-peak.
• Improve GUI behavior of the tempo dialog by preselecting the start BPM text field.
• Use -90dB as default threshold for silence trim during export, rather than -inf dB.
• Primary-w now closes Preferences window (like any other dialog/window).
• Inform user if there have been dropouts during realtime export.
• macOS: improve realtime thread scheduling.
• Rewind/ffwd controls can now optionally act more like a shuttle (incremental) speed control (see Edit > Preferences > Transport).
• Reduce default maximum transport speed to 2.0 to avoid DSP overload.
• Add new config parameter for auto-return after rewind/ffwd (set to false by default).
• Significant optimizations to speed of many operations affecting multiple regions.
• Use sub-menus for automation parameter selection if a processor (e.g. plugin) has more than 32 automatable parameters.
• Ignore JACK2 xruns during freewheel export for now.
• Redesign color mgmt when entering/leaving markers of various kinds.
• Change chat URL used via About > Chat to one that redirects via ardour.org, reflecting turmoil on the Freenode IRC network.

• Fix Windows process thread priorities.
• Fix double region freeze, stuck changes (#8701).
• Fix session loading when aborting latency measurement (#8691).
• Fix export race condition (and crash).
• Update drag-n-drop mininum movement threshold (#8686).
• Fix several incorrect transport behaviors.
• Fix crashes when rippling many regions.
• Fix incorrect port lists due to using a custom sorting method.
• Use correct harvid bind address on BigSur.
• Loading old route-templates now working.
• Use correct insert-position when adding route from template.
• Correct behavior when dragging a region to the dropzone (#8672).
• Video-monitor display fixed when locating.
• Fix deadlock when duplicating regions w/ripple.
• Fix insert ripple undo/redo.
• Fix crash when consolidating range with automation.
• fix "trim to loop" region edit operation so that it applies to any region that intersects the loop, not just those spanning it.
• Fix shuttle wheel semi-tone mode.
• Ctrl-surface: do not name single-channel bundle ports.
• Consistent port-matrix channel name display.
• Fix crash if no audition synth is unset.
• Fix blurry text in connection manager.
• Remove redundancy between CD and DVD-A export formats, which are identical.
• Fix formatting of `-inf' on some Windows systems.
• Fix BPM button text display on Windows.
• Fix possible BPM button text overflow.
• UTF8 compatibility with default windows font.
• Fix undo after non-layered record pass.
• Fix crash at exit with classic Faderport.
• Include Tracks and Busses in connection dropdown (#8636).
• Avoid a crash when reopening a session saved with selected MIDI notes.
• macOS: Fix crash when timing issues alter startup process.
• Correctly show splash screen content.
• Fix a crash when separating ranges that include automation.
• Don't put empty "split" commands on the undo/redo list.
• Fix session-archive extraction on Windows.
• Prevent use of "recorder:" in audio/MIDI file names (causes strange issues on Windows).
• Fix potential issue during creation of session archives on macOS.
• Fix for lost/empty MIDI files when using snapshots (#8552).
• Fix analysis chunksize to be multiple of channel-count (#8631).
• Fix crash when removing custom transients.
• Fix export-analysis true-peak display offset when stripping silence (#8578).
• Collect Playlist::ContentsChanged() signals (#8626).
• Ignore pinout when copy/pasting plugins using Ctrl c/v.
• Code changes to support newer glib definitions for atomic variables (no volatile specifier).
• Fix display of region peak information for trimmed audio regions.
• Foldback: fix removing last fb bus.
• Fix A/B plugins, skip internal but visible plugins (e.g. LAN).

• ALSA (Linux): add option to prefer interleaved access.
• ALSA (Linux): Fix swapped systemic latencies.
• ALSA (Linux): handle asymmetric systemic latencies correctly.
• PortAudio (Windows): Fix a problem with ASIO buffer sizes.

• VST3
  • Linux: prevent registering multiple identical file descriptors.
  • work around plugins with missing controller state.
  • Fix MSVC related crashes.
  • Add option to not show Micro Edit ctrls by default.
  • Prevent recursive endless resizing.
  • on macOS, add entitlements to get plugins working.
  • pass a read-only state stream to the plugin (#8642).
• VST2
  • Support MacVST2 plugins with multiple child views (e.g. UAD).
  • Fix enter/return ambiguity -- thanks to falktx.
• macOS (VST and AU)
• Fix Mac Plugin re/sizing.
• Included Plugins
  • a-delay: BPM is independent of the meter (quarter notes / min).
  • a-fluidsynth updated to use Fluidsynth 2.2.

• Various: Fix one off in calculation of fader position.
• Binding map for Maschine Mikro MK2.
• Binding map for Alesis_VI25.map.
• Mackie Control: device description and profile for Arturia MkII keyboard/control surface.
• Mackie Control: if master surface has a jog wheel *and* a scrub button, button toggles between scroll and shuttle behavior.
• Mackie Control: set select state correctly during initial setup.
• Mackie Control: Don't crash if master fader is not avaliable.
• Fix OSC "/marker" feedback.

• Add Lua Bindings to access Bundles.
• Add lua methods to control range locations.
• Prevent denormals in Lua DSP state (LPF, Biquad).
• Add Lua binding to rename session.
• Fix Lua `get_processor_param` API.
• Fix Lua bindings for C 17/C 20 (#8683).
• Add Lua bindings to modify region gain curve.
• Lua API for sends, sidechains and monitoring.
• Add a Lua binding to determine Ardour version.

• Update Clear Gray RecBox, and Cubasish theme colors.

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