ardour-lua

Ardour 8 is out now (release notes, CDM review), which includes the three arpeggiator plugins, update the documentation accordingly.

Some cosmetic changes to the plugin meta data of the arpeggiators, also added some proper documentation for raptor_arp and a few sample Ardour sessions for the arpeggiators (see the examples subdir). The descriptions of the arpeggiator plugins now include version information, and the controls of barlow_arp and simple_arp also have tooltips now.

This release sports a few improvements to raptor_arp.lua:

• Added the same kind of deterministic pulse filter as in barlow_arp.lua (wmin/wmax controls).
• MIDI input and output channels can now be set explicitly with the inchan/outchan controls. The default is inchan = outchan = 0 = omni, which matches the previous behavior of receiving on all MIDI channels and playing back on the same MIDI channel as the input.
• Some changes to the factory presets (tr808 now sets output to the GM drumkit channel 10, and a few variations of the raptor preset for different instruments were added).

Please check the changelog for details.

Initial release. Contains two basic arpeggiators (barlow_arp, simple_arp), a rather advanced one (raptor_arp, a port of the pd-lua external, which is still a bit experimental), and a few edit actions, all written using Ardour's Lua interface. Requires Ardour from git (7.5-120 or later) to make everything work -- some of the needed bits and pieces have just recently been implemented after the release of Ardour 7.5.