Mute button not enabled by default in Ardour 2.8.6 Lucid AM64

Any comments?

Cool

Great to see this getting some action!

Thanks, Team.

Angus

I should mention that the patch will only be effective after Ardour is rebuilt and only for new installs.

If the ardour.rc file is existing in the user's home directory it will need to be moderated as described in the first post of this bug.

ardour-2.8.7 with 120_mute.patch is now in Maverick. This will work new installs of ardour-2.8.7 only!

Users running lucid will still need to update their ~/.ardour2/ardour.rc file as noted in the first post.

Users UPGRADING to Maverick will still need to update their ~/.ardour2/ardour.rc file as noted in the first post as upgrades should not affect home directories.

The patch is already been applied in Debian with new release
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582938#43

I would suggest releasing an updated package for Lucid, if Ubuntu Studio doesn't want to lose old and new users.

SRU:
1. Bug is fixed in current development release (maverick) and bug report is listed as "fix released".
2.1. Currently the mute button in Ardour does not function and requires hand modification of an ardour system configuration file and deletion of a generated configuration file in the user's home directory to activate the mutton button pervasively.
2.2. In the current development branch and new upstream release resolved this bug.
2.3. A patch is attached to this bug report.
2.4. Test case follows....
TEST CASE:
  a. start jack with appropriate settings for stable, low latency performance
  b. start ardour
  c. create new track, arm new track, and record audio on new track
  d. begin playback of new audio track
  e. left click mute button...audio will *NOT* be muted
2.5. I am unaware of any potential regression, however if should be noted that if a regression did occur it would affect those using Ardour (i.e. excludes practically all desktop users and only the subset of ubuntu studio users who use ardour)

It should be noted that this is a significant regression (the loss of mute functionality in a DAW) in an LTS version.

I should also note that I have tested this patch myself and it was originally uploaded to Debian via Debian Multimedia Team (see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582938#43) before upstream released a bug fix updated version.

uploaded with minor tweaking to debian/changelog and debian/control

Accepted ardour into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Any testers?

Martin,

I am building a box for a friend this weekend which will have Lucid installed on it.

I will report if it works or not.

I installed Ubuntu Studio 10.04 64bit on tuesday and the mute button was working out of the box.

@ Lorenzo

I'm not sure how that worked for you. The patch was applied to version 1:2.8.6.1-1ubuntu0.1 which Launchpad lists in -Proposed only.

@Martin,

I'm having trouble testing this because I cannot get Synaptic to show 2.8.6.1-1ubuntu0.1.

I enabled -proposed under Software Sources -> Updates but when I refresh the sources in Synaptic it still shows 1:2.8.6-1 only.

I see the problem, version 2.8.6.1-1ubuntu0.1 failed to build for i386 :(

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ardour/1:2.8.6-1ubuntu0.1

I don't know why, but I swear it worked out of the box!
I don't know if it could be relevant, but it was installed from a DVD downloaded not more than two weeks ago.

I subscribed this bug because it affected me on another machine on which I had installed Ubuntu Studio 64bit in June.

Ah, so Lorenzo probably tested the 64 bit version. The i386 build failure looks weird; I retried it, let's see whether it works better this time.

i386 built now, will be available on the mirrors in about two hours. Can you please test again? Thanks!

Martin,

I will test this tonight.

Martin,

On a fresh, vanilla Lucid install I enabled the lucid-proposed repository, refreshed my sources, and installed ardour 1:2.8.6-1ubuntu0.1.

After adding myself to the audio group and rebooting I was able to start JACK via qjackctl and then Ardour. The Ardour tracks were muted as expected and desired.

Good job!

This bug was fixed in the package ardour - 1:2.8.6-1ubuntu0.1

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ardour (1:2.8.6-1ubuntu0.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Applied 120_mute_patch to enable mute button by default (LP: #581786)
  * (Closes: #582938)
 -- Scott Lavender <email address hidden> Sat, 22 May 2010 15:07:57 -0500