Ardour 8.8 Open-Source DAW Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements
Ardour 8.8 comes only two weeks after Ardour 8.7 as a hot-fix update addressing some important issues like playhead moving beyond loop range, sample-rate display rounding for 22.05kHz, playback of sessions with low sample rate, XML syntax for AKAI MPK mini mk3’s MIDI binding map, and a possible deadlock when using PSL extension for sends.
This release also fixes MIDI Clock output times by using the correct call to get tempo at a position, LV2 plugins whose GUI depend on a “changed” signal, fan-out of instruments with illegal path-chars in their name, underruns when looping/locating and changing region content, interaction with the snapshot list, and the Playlist::fade_range for multiple ranges.
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Ardour 8.8 (Open Source DAW) Drops Fresh Fixes & Features - OMG! Ubuntu
Now, I can’t profess to be some kind of music-making maestro, though I did spend much of my late teens face-first in FL Studio (formerly Fruity Loops) trying – and failing – to channel my inner Cash Cash (’08 ‘era, before their mainstream genre shift).
Ardour 8.8 is the second update to the DAW in 2 weeks because, as the software’s devs explain, “v8.7 […] turned out to have a couple of major issues that required a hot-fix. Along the way, several other nice improvements happened.”
Some of those bug fixes include an issue with the playhead moving beyond the loop range, a VST3 issue causing ‘possible deadlock when using PSL extension for sends’, and interaction quirks with the snapshot list.