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Last Sunday 11 July 2004 00:01, R Parker was like:

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> > I'm using ardour 0.9beta11.2-2 on Debian testing and

> > a Midiman Audiophile 2496

> > soundcard.

>

> That version of Ardour is pretty old. I'm not a Debian

> user so I can't help with any of upgrade issues. I was

> gonna suggest you upgrade but you are new to linux

> that might not be the best advice. If that version of

> Ardour has the features you need for learning and

> working on your sessions don't bother. A 1.0 stable

> release is expected soon enough that you could wait

> for it.

Hmm, this is a bit problematical.

Ardour is probably changing too fast for Debian packagers to keep up with at a

guess. If a stable release is on the horizon it's probably best for all of us

to wait (that will be at _least_ two months for a Debian package to appear

[0] ;-) I assume anyone following Ardour's development on Debian is compiling

from CVS, which puts it out of range for newbies. That, and I'd also guess

that a lot of Debian users would be happy to continue using ecasound.
Well, that's true for me, anyway. I shouldn't generalise about others. I look

at Ardour occasionally, sigh and think 'this is going to be _Magnificent_ -

when it's finished'. Right now I wouldn't commit an important project to it.

All in all, that's a fat lot of use to Sebastian. If it's a straightforward

build, installing a more recent snapshot to /usr/local/bin/ might be an

option. It depends how much of a learning curve you're ready for ;-]
A stable release on the horizon is indeed good news. I'd love to see Debian

Sarge go stable including stable versions of ALSA, JACK, Rosegarden and

Ardour, I think it would be kind of neat. It would also provide a solid,

reliable and user-friendly production environment (albeit with no guarantees,

of course ;-). I'm not really expecting to see this manifest before the

autumn. I think it will represent a major milestone in Linux Audio

development, which is good enough for me, I have enough work to do just

remastering some of my old stuff with JAMin and preparing new MIDI files. I

have yet to get deeply into multitracking, so I'll probably shut up at this

point (again, no guarantees ;-).
cheers
tim hall
[0] if (length of time it takes one person with no free time to compile and

package an application for 13 different architectures > length of time

between minor releases) : Is it worth trying to keep up with frequent beta

releases?