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Paul Davis announced today the release and general availability of Ardour 8.4 as a new maintenance update to this powerful open-source, cross-platform, and free digital audio workstation (DAW) for Linux, Windows, and macOS.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Coming a little over two months after Ardour 8.2<\/a> (the Ardour 8.3 release was skipped due to a critical bug), the Ardour 8.4 release is here to introduce experimental support for importing AAF (Advanced Authoring Format) files. Since this feature is experimental, the devs ask users to send feedback and report bugs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Another important change in Ardour 8.4 is an updated GUI toolkit to ensure the application will be supported on current and future versions of popular GNU\/Linux distributions. This change will allow users and Linux distro maintainers alike to continue building Ardour from sources.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps the most important change is that we have moved the source code of our GUI toolkit (GTK v2) into the Ardour source tree,\u201d said Paul Davis. \u201cThis leaves us free to (slowly) strip down aspects of the toolkit that we do not use, and potentially modify it as needed in the future. It also means that even the distribution builds of Ardour for Linux will contain our patches to GTK, which has historically not been the case.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For Linux users, this update introduces a fresh “adwaita” color theme drawn from GNOME’s Adwaita theme. It enhances compatibility with newer Linux distributions by enabling the use of ardour --gdb<\/code>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The latest Ardour 8.4 also brings updated support for several controllers including Akai MIDIMix, Lexicon MPX100, Yamaha SY85, Donner DMK25, Arturia MiniLab 3, and FaderPort 8. Also, this new update establishes the default MIDI CC values to align more with MIDI specifications.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Various other modifications include updated region groups to avoid grouping multiple takes on a solitary track, tooltips to describe operations on the pianoroll header, metadata for the session property editor to enable search support, along with support for capturing MIDI notes that were already on\/down when recording starts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Of course, several bugs were addressed so make sure that you check out the release notes<\/a><\/em> for more details. Meanwhile, you can download Ardour 8.4 from the official website or from Flathub<\/a><\/em> if you want to install it as a Flatpak app.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Last updated 3 hours ago<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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