14 DAY TRIAL // The Ardour software has been updated recently to version 4.2, a release that brings a huge number of new features covering almost all of the application's core functionality. Ardour 4.2 has been released for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.
According to the comprehensive release notes, Ardour 4.2 brings with it new functionality like 176.4kHz support to the export sample rate list, support for defining disk buffering by presets, the ability to cancels loop by enabling recording when using loop-is-mode, as well as support for saving more markers and auto loop range in session templates.
Furthermore, Ardour 4.2 fixes numerous issues reported by users since the previous version of the software, including the region brush drag, multiple reversible commands bugs, swing quantization, cleanup of temporary files after export, looping, unintentional limits on track name length, flickering of various pop-up windows, state restoration in Audio/MIDI setup, and auditioning of audio at different sample rates.
"The Ardour project is pleased to announce the release of 4.2. This is primarily a bug fix release, but the list of fixes is long, and we've also replaced the audio/MIDI IO backend for Windows with completely new code which we think will address some of the issues faced on that platform. This release also sees the return of downloads for Apple PowerPC platforms," says Paul Davis, Ardour creator.
Ardour 4.2 brings lots of goodies for Mac OS X users
Besides the awesome new features listed above, Ardour 4.2 comes with lots of goodies for Mac OS X users, such as better support for parsing MIDI data in the CoreAudio backend, the addition of the CMD+H keyboard shortcut for hiding the app, improvements to the enable/disable of the main menu while in "Locked" state, as well as PowerPC (PPC) support.
Additionally, automatic creation of aggregate devices on Mac OS X 10.5 has been repaired, the automatically created.DS_Store hidden files are now ignored when doing "Save As," an export problem with Mac OS X Mavericks has been fixed, an workaround for loss of thread-safety in the loadlocale() functions has been added, and a serious crash that affected other OS X apps has been resolved.
Last but not least, the second point release of Ardour 4 brings various new features for Windows users, such as the addition of AVX-assembler and SSE-assembler functions on 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, which can be used for various high-performance-requiring and metering tasks, the addition of a new PortAudio backend, and some bugfixes.
There are, of course, improvements for the plugins, automation editing enhancements, MIDI and Mackie control surfaces improvements, and various video additions, so we strongly recommend that you take a look at the entire changelog attached below for more details. Download Ardour 4.2 for GNU/Linux and Mac OS X right now from Softpedia, as well as nightly builds for Microsoft Windows.