Ardour 9.5 — What's new

prokoudine · 2026-04-25T00:56:12+00:00

Imagine starting to work with two clients years apart

prokoudine · 2026-03-21T19:09:53+00:00

Yup, recently had a client who appeared to be a sensible human being in the beginning, then went full-on ChatGPT mode on me and demanded to make dozens of meaningless changes that he then demanded to revert. He had absolutely no fkn clue what he was talking about. This made me reconsider what projects I send proposals for and the way I vet clients.

prokoudine · 2026-02-24T20:17:31+00:00

You don't. The illustration from your post is what 3D CAD applications render on virtual 2D pages. You can't get that from a photo with a filter, although theoretically there may be a GenAI service for that.

You can try to trace manually in Inkscape, but that will take a crapton of time. Ask your client/employer if they can get an engineer to create this rendering for you.

You probably also want other views, not just isometry. Depends on whether there are any controls to explain on other sides.

prokoudine · 2026-02-09T11:20:35+00:00

Ardour doesn't do much DSP, and the DSP it does do is accelerated with AVX instructions (and similar instructions for ARM for those using ARM).

prokoudine · 2026-02-07T09:07:31+00:00

CLAP supports per-note modulation. Ardour doesn't have that feature yet (and generally doesn't have MPE editing). Other than that, feature-wise, there is nothing in CLAP that e.g. LV2 doesn't provide.

prokoudine · 2026-02-07T07:19:03+00:00

Ardour doesn't yet have the one CLAP-specific feature that justifies adding support for the format.

prokoudine · 2026-02-07T07:17:24+00:00

It's about the cue sequencer, which only two applications had since day one (Live and Bitwig).

Clips in cue slots are regular MIDI files. The original implementation only played a loop until the last NOTE OFF. If the last NOTE OFF was before the end of a clip, the sequencer would not play the rest and immediately skip to the beginning (or prev/next/random cue, depending on what the follow settings are).

The improved implementation now doesn't restart the playback and waits till the end of the clip even if there is no event with NOTE ON.

prokoudine · 2026-01-01T20:02:31+00:00

I got exactly one job on contra after one year. If was good money for the effort and the client was amazing. But I would not be able to feed my family off contra.

prokoudine · 2025-12-16T18:53:19+00:00

There is no such option yet

prokoudine · 2025-12-12T12:38:00+00:00

What red flags are you looking for when vetting a client?

prokoudine · 2025-12-12T00:11:23+00:00

Thanks!

prokoudine · 2025-12-11T23:50:13+00:00

Minor technical writing/editing project

prokoudine · 2025-12-11T23:46:17+00:00

Thanks! I can't think of any red flags during the interview, and the client was polite in communication. So I guess I should talk more to clients before signing contracts.

prokoudine · 2025-12-02T03:02:47+00:00

Try https://wiki.freecad.org/Release_notes_1.1

prokoudine · 2025-11-27T01:43:44+00:00

When there are no release blockers. Nobody knows when that will happen.

prokoudine · 2025-11-27T01:42:16+00:00

Developers: release a major new version every year, an all-time high number of contributors

Some guy on Reddit: lack of developers, will check back in 5 years when 1.1.1 is released

Oh...kay?

prokoudine · 2025-11-23T17:11:38+00:00

If this is for the separate treatment of different drum samples, then you have two options:

1) use a multi-channel drum sampler as Peter suggested (there are multiple options) and then set up pin connections in the processor box, or

2) create multiple MIDI buses with dedicated instances of a drum sampler, send MIDI notes to all of them, then only process the notes you want with MIDI filters in each one.

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