[64studio-devel] ardour2 rc1 question

[Quentin Harley]

Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Free,
>
>   
>> According to the reports of the people I've talked with about, you can
>> safely import the old .99 format with ardour 2.0.
>>     
>
>   
The problem is that once you ported it to ardour2, it will not go back 
to 0.99... so you'll have to have all your ducks in a row when you have 
a dual installation.  I try to use ardour2 as much as possible (except 
for really critical work where I need to know the recorded material will 
be ok) At least those projects should port to 0.99 easily when I move 
over to the new installment of ardour permanently.

> I've tried that on a few old Ardour projects; it worked with some, but 
> not others. I recall there was another file format change to do with 
> panning, back in the 0.9x series - maybe that's the culprit.
>
> I think the guiding principle here is that we shouldn't force users to 
> have a major new version of an app before the new version is available 
> as a stable release. Quentin's example of the control surface feedback 
> being broken in the last Ardour beta is an illustrative one.
>   

At least that problem has been sorted out for me.  I had little to none 
feedback from the ardour guys ( the letter from Paul on the Jackd-devel 
list ) but it seems stuff happens when no one is watching. Good for me then!

Quentin