Ardour 5.9 released

• Prevent adding Master Bus to a Track/Bus group and make group button insensitive.
• Re/Add send options in the Processor box context menu and an option to allow feedback loop via Aux sends.
• Improvements to behaviour of Track/Bus/VCA Color Selection dialog.
• Consistent Color Selection dialogs with customizable color palette.
• Update Track/Bus/VCA colors while choosing color in Color Selection dialog.
• Use Shift key to toggle gain-grouping on a Fader, ctrl to override solo/mute grouping.
• Update Selection Clock when selected Region properties change.
• Hide SoundCloud upload in Export Dialog until fixed.
• Use OpenGL backed rendering/drawing for several Widgets on OS X/macOS including main Track Canvas to improve performance.
• Add ability to drop Group from VCA via right click on Group tab.
• Add preference to disable blinking of alert buttons.
• Various improvements to Audio Setup dialog.
• Add preference to only enable Click when recording is enabled.
• Updates to Blueberry Milk colors/theme.
• Merge most of the string-convert branch (see ardour-dev list for overview).
• Remove no longer necessary LocaleMode preference.
• Make -b/--bindings command line option output key bindings to HTML and launch in browser.
• Add -A/--actions command line option to output actions' names in HTML and open in browser.
• Deselect WASAPI support by default in Windows installer.
• Make Track/Bus XML node order in Session file independent of display order [#7327]
• Add action to select the topmost track and use in Faderport8 surface.
• Make Group color property accessible to surfaces and scripts.
• Improve Tap Tempo and allow tapping with keyboard (Space or Enter).
• Add configurable limit to clock display range.
• Restore visibility of Monitor Section and whether attached/detached.

• Allow tempo discontinuities at the beginning of ramped tempo section.
• Changes to Tempo marker operations and modifiers.
• Add 'Ramp to Next' to Tempo Marker menu, when next tempo is different.
• Add 'Continue' to Tempo Marker menu to continue end tempo value of previous Tempo Marker.
• Display red Tempo Mark pointer if tempo jumps more than 1 NTPM.
• Display note type in marker text if note type is non-quarter.
• Add entry for end bpm when creating a ramped Tempo in the Tempo Dialog.

• Use a Patch Change dialog to send immediate patch changes via the MIDI Track Controls context/right-click menu.
• Support note name editing in the MIDI List Editor.

• Add support for VST effSetBypass. [#7266]
• Cut reverb tail in a-reverb when deactivating plugin.
• Improve a-delay to follow tempo-ramps and BPM changes.
• Increase VST scan timeout and set default of Verbose Plugin Scan to false.
• Changes to plugin categories to improve consistency across plugin API's/standards.

• Add action script to bypass all plugins.
• Add action script to mute all Tracks.
• Add script to installers/bundles to save a Session snapshot on export.
• Add '==' instance equality operator and update scripts to use it.
• Add bindings for transient analysis and add a script to print transients of selected regions.
• Add Lua bindings to access MIDI Region note events and example script.
• Optimize garbage collection (affecting performance of serialization).
• Improve bindings for RouteGroupList and Plugin classes.
• Add bindings for FileSource.
• Add example script to convert MIDI-CC to Plugin Automation.
• Add LuaDialog and derived Widgets as well as an example script.
• Add bindings for setting group color.

• Use "Mix" and "Proj" buttons on the Faderport to present the Mixer and Editor rather than a toggle.
• Various improvements to the OSC surface.
• Add support for Faderport8 control surface.
• Update preferences when control surfaces change with session.
• Retain the state of disabled control surfaces.
• Add scrub and multi-mode jog commands to OSC surface.
• Add automation mode feeback to OSC surface.
• Support gain automation feeback in OSC surface [#7160]
• Assign some default actions for the function select (F-keys) in the Mackie MCP user profile.
• Updates to Korg Nano Kontrol2 MIDI map by Philippe Demartin.
• Add MIDI map for Korg Studio and Arturia KeyLab 49.
• Add MIDI map for Alesis QX25 from Nathan Stewart [#7345]

• Allow changing track colours with older 4.X Sessions.
• Fix for touch mute automation.
• Allow loading of SMF meta data with size greater than 127 bytes.
• Fix implicit selection when operating Track header control buttons.
• Fix audition with monitor section.
• Don't display channel selector for instrument plugins with zero audio outputs.
• Don't automatically open generic UIs for plugins without controls.
• Fix crash when adding a plugin immediately after re-order (via script).
• Fix issue with mouse button event ordering in EngineDialog.
• Prevent an empty system config and ship the system_config in bundles again.
• Fix crash when inserting time with split intersected regions.
• Offset linked regions to compensate for negative start after trim drag [#7105]
• Restore screen position when undoing creation of a MIDI note.
• Prevent the General MIDI Control Protocol surface from overriding Session version.
• Ensure no horizontal movement occurs when dragging regions with the x-constrain modifier enabled [#7260]
• Fix AFL/PFL from MIDI tracks without audio
• Work around a crash at exit with some Linux VST UIs.
• Prevent creation of MIDI regions with length less than a pixel [#7271]
• Fixes to VST Window re/sizing.
• Prevent crash when removing time from track with automation. [#7287]
• Fix issue when undoing of Fade range operation [#7283]
• Use Tempo Curve color for measure line beats [#4930]
• Correctly restore clock modes in Location Window and other AudioClocks.
• Restore Solo/Mute when loading old 4.X Sessions.
• Avoid possible crash with multi-bus AudioUnit plugins.
• Prevent issue with automation playback setting Session as modified.
• Fix issue with Pan stuck at center in OSC surface.
• Fix toggling Monitor Mute/Dim/Mono actions with OSC.
• Prevent MIDI tracks from drawing into the Ruler area.
• Make Peak display in MixerStrip insensitive to mouse clicks/drags.
• Update Patch Change Naming when plugins change.
• Fix count-in for non 4/4 time signatures.
• Hide eye-dropper color picker on OS X/macOS builds due to it not working.
• Correctly load Track templates with inserts [#5778]
• Fix crash when dragging playhead or mouse in ruler area [#7304]
• Fix `set-*-from-edit-range` actions, when accessed from control surfaces
• Fixes to reset keybindings.
• Prevent crash during extreme timestretch. [#7305]
• Fixes for performance issues with region selection. [#7274]
• Retain order of concurrent MIDI events.
• Prevent truncation of concurrent events with ALSA raw MIDI buffers.
• Restore Track/Bus polarity invert state from older Sessions.
• Use correct action path names in several midi-maps.
• Prevent crash when loading MIDI port info where ports no longer exist.
• Fix crash when clicking on the canvas while unloading a Session.
• Avoid a possible deadlock in the control surface manager.
• Prevent possible freeze when clicking on canvas without a AudioBackend running.
• Fixes to performance issues when restoring Region selection state [#7274]
• Fix nested VCA assigns and mixer-layout.
• Fixes to copy/paste of MIDI automation from/to Parameter automation.
• Corrections to latency measurement and Audio Setup dialog behaviour.
• In smart-mode, don't switch to range-mode after "set range selection" and similar operations. [#7332]
• Fix vari-speed and non-locked slave modes.
• Use correct descriptions and typos in --help output.
• Prevent MIDI learn handling events intended for other operations like temporary un/solo/mute.
• Make exclusive solo work again via ctrl+alt+click on solo button.
• Correctly restore track monitoring state from older Sessions. [#7336]
• Correctly scale ruler for HiDPI. [#7226]
• Scale text correctly in group tabs for HiDPI. [#7331]
• Allow Session end marker to move correctly when a Session is created from a template. [#7348]
• Prevent crash when replacing some LV2 plugins on a MIDI Track. [#7341]
• Update the profile name in the Mackie control panel to reflect the profile being edited when assigning actions.
• Make Save As and switch work correctly with a read-only Session. [#7352]
• Remove duplicate "Tape" menu item in Record Mode drop down in the Add Track/Bus/VCA dialog.
• Prevent creation of out-of-bounds image sizes during waveform rendering with high samplerates and high zoom levels.

• Updated Japanese translation by Hiroki Inagaki.
• Updated German translation by Edgar Aichinger.

André Nusser, Ben Loftis, cooltehno, Edgar Aichinger, Hiroki Inagaki, John Emmas, Len Ovens, licorne-sama, Nathan Stewart, Nick Mainsbridge, Nils Geisweiller, Paul Davis, Robert Schneider, Robin Gareus, Tim Mayberry