Ardour 5.9 Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation Released with More Improvements

Ardour developer Paul Davis is announcing today the release of yet another maintenance update to his powerful, free, open-source and cross-platform DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) program.

Ardour 5.9 includes several months of changes and improvements made since the previous stable update of the application, and among some notable accomplishments we can mention support for the Presonus Faderport 8 control surface, MIDI enhancements, state serialization and redraw optimizations.

"Among other things, some significant optimizations were made to redraw performance on OS X/macOS that may be apparent if you are using Ardour on that platform. There were further improvements to tempo and MIDI related features and lots of small improvements to state serialization," reads today's announcement.

Ardour now supports VST effSetBypass plugins

Lots of improvements are also included in Ardour 5.9 for scripting, tempo,...