Ardour 2.8 released -- install with one click on Ubuntu

Mar 31, 2009, 14:03 (1 Talkback[s])

"This 2.8 release is mostly bugfix version (complete list here) that also comes with a couple of very interesting features especially Distributable VST support. This means that there is no more need to fetch the VST SDK from Steinberg in order to build Ardour with VST support, and distributions are now free to compile and release packages of Ardour with VST support. Other 2.8 features are:

* Track/Bus Templates
* VST preset handling
* VST chunk handling
* AudioUnit state & preset handling"

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