The next gui release will feature opengl shader powered rendering, thereby off-loading work to the graphics card where possible. Currently it just replaces the current functionality but paves the way for future improvements.

Ardourd currently doesn’t compile against most versions of LV2, so if you have LV2 installed you will have to disable support for it when building Ardourd. A new version will be forthcoming soon that fixes this issue.

The Beat Detector plugin has been updated to work with the current interface.

After being broken for some time, plugins are now available again (compile the server with the vst option). Sadly, mono tracks only for the time being. There is an outstanding bug in libardour that causes the application to terminate if it attempts to use a stereo panner.

I have been pleasantly surprised how good Wine is now. The success rate on VST plugins is pretty good.

New tarballs are now available for download. No new features but many many bug fixes. Work continues on bringing the Opengl canvas up to the standard of the original.

Autostarting servers has long been overdue. Now that this feature has been implemented it is proving very convenient! There is also now an experimental mode where the song server restarts itself on each song load, thereby avoiding memory leakage and simplifying object management.

Libardour has been updated to revision 9300. The previous update to r7300 had some issues so was not released, but so far this version is looking good. The improvements to the signal management using ScopedConnectionList and boost signals is escpecially welcome. A release will be made shortly once tests pass.

The Auditioner application has been added.

The Ayyi Auditioner is a service that is connected to Jack and can playback audio samples triggered via Alsa Midi and Dbus. It provides the user with a dedicated channel that can be set up and optimised (eg, routing and fx) for the purpose of auditioning from multiple application.

It uses code from the Sonic Visualizer and DSSI projects. Thanks to Chris Cannam and others.

There is now a collection of command line utilities to test and debug your Ayyi system. You can, for example, view the current song, and add and remove objects. The utilities are packaged with the gtk client.

New tarballs are now available. Still no new features, but considerable internal changes have been made to improve stability.