MantisBT - Issues

0010386: Please add action to nudge playhead with 1 second steps

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:33:32 +0000

The generic Mackie control surface nudges the playhead with 1 second steps when using the jogwheel.
There is, however, no user accessible action (https://manual.ardour.org/appendix/menu-actions-list/) that implements this operation. This makes it impossible to bind this operation to other keys/controls.

Suggested names:
"Common/nudge-playhead-forward-1sec"
"Common/nudge-playhead-backward-1sec"

Thanks.

0010387: Inconsistency in automation point levels at -infiity

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:45:35 +0000

I've been having trouble while editing automation points, seemingly pointing to the fact that what appears to be -inf dB isn't really. This leads to level inconsistencies if I try to create a fade-in and fade-out in between the two original points.

0010385: User modified surface bindings do not show

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:04:44 +0000

With a custom profile for the Mackie surface function keys not all (re)bindings show.

0010384: Custom MIDI map does not show in the list

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:12:33 +0000

When I create a custom control surface map (midi map) according to https://manual.ardour.org/using-control-surfaces/generic-midi/midi-binding-maps/#Getting%20Started, it does not appear in the list unless also contains a manufacturer.

I would have expected a map without manifacturer to appear under 'Other' but that isn't the case.

0010383: crash when Midi un-learn

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:26:33 +0000

When i click in the Cue Window on:
Midi un-learn

ardour 9.5 crashes:

[New Thread 0x7ffeca7fc6c0 (LWP 3141489)]
[New Thread 0x7ffec9ffb6c0 (LWP 3141490)]

Thread 1 "ArdourGUI" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff4edd454 in std::_Rb_tree_increment(std::_Rb_tree_node_base*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
(gdb)

0010374: Edit - Sidebar - Clips - Sort numbered items in sequential order

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:24:55 +0000

Edit-Sidebar-Clips

Currently files that contain numbering sort like this
Snare (1)
Snare (10)
Snare (2)

This can be confusing when experienced on a larger scale.

Suggesting to make number sort in sequential order like this
Snare (1)
Snare (2)
Snare (10)

Thank You

0010096: Keyboard Shortcuts Dialog - Numbering not in sequential order

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:24:39 +0000

I have mentioned this in the past about this occurring in other parts of Ardour but this post is regarding the `Keyboard Shortcuts` dialog specifically.
(In the future I will create a new post for other sections this occurs in and I will link it to this post)

Ardour does not follow sequential numbering, which can be confusing to users. This occurs when any number sequences go over the number 9.

0010372: Plugin Manager - Sort numbered items in sequential order

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:24:35 +0000

Plugin Manager
Suggesting to make numbered items sort in sequential order.
Can be confusing when they are not.

Example:
Many LSP plugins experience this issue.
For example the
"LSP Spectrum Analyzer" plugins

Current Sorting
Spectrum Analyzer x1
Spectrum Analyzer x12
Spectrum Analyzer x16
Spectrum Analyzer x2
Spectrum Analyzer x4
Spectrum Analyzer x8

Desired Sequential Sorting
Spectrum Analyzer x1
Spectrum Analyzer x2
Spectrum Analyzer x4
Spectrum Analyzer x8
Spectrum Analyzer x12
Spectrum Analyzer x16

Thank You

0010373: Plugin Selector - Sort numbered items in sequential order

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:23:54 +0000

Plugin Selector
Suggesting to make numbered items sort in sequential order.
Can be confusing when they are not.

Example:
Many LSP plugins experience this issue.
For example the
"LSP Spectrum Analyzer" plugins

Current Sorting
Spectrum Analyzer x1
Spectrum Analyzer x12
Spectrum Analyzer x16
Spectrum Analyzer x2
Spectrum Analyzer x4
Spectrum Analyzer x8

Desired Sequential Sorting
Spectrum Analyzer x1
Spectrum Analyzer x2
Spectrum Analyzer x4
Spectrum Analyzer x8
Spectrum Analyzer x12
Spectrum Analyzer x16

Thank You

0010382: Crash with BadWindow when LV2 UI exits

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:13:21 +0000

The UI of an LV2 plugin, the idle() function of the LV2_Idle_Interface may return a non-zero value when the UI has been closed. In the LV2 doc it reads "in which case the host should stop calling idle(), and can either completely destroy the UI, or re-show it and resume calling idle()."

See: https://lv2plug.in/c/html/group__ui.html#structLV2UI__Idle__Interface

In ardour, the value returned from idle() is ignored: see libs/tk/suil/x11_in_gtk2.c, line 457 in suil_x11_wrapper_idle().

Consider this situation:

The UI of an LV2 plugin has and Exit button. The user clicks on it, and the UI destroys its widget (an X11 window)

The UI wrapper window ardour creates hangs empty and eventually ardour crashes with an X11 BadWindow error.

The error I see:

The program 'ardour-9.5.120' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 16061 error_code 3 request_code 25 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

0010381: Keyboard Shortcuts - Solo based on region or range selection

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:36:13 +0000

I might be overlooking something but I noticed that the following action was not available.

If you go into Editor and you select one or more track boxes,
and use the default shortcut ALT+S,
this applies the "Toggle Solo" action.
Which makes sense.

Yet there does not seem to be a way to achieve this by selecting region(s) or range(s) within tracks?

Suggesting that an action/shortcut like this be added to Ardour.

Being that a Track Box and a Region/Range cannot be selected at the same time.
If there would not be any conflicts, I think an even better idea could be to allow the "Toggle Solo" action to achieve this action for selected track boxes, regions and regions within those track boxes.

If this is possible I think this could be something worth adding to Ardour.

Hopefully this makes sense
Thank You

0010380: Plugin Generic GUI Window - Switches has less height max then Controls

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:35:11 +0000

Not sure if this is on purpose?
When you open a plugins generic GUI window
The maximum amount of "Switches" allowed before it breaks into a new column is less then the amount allowed in the "Controls" section.

I think "Switches" column allows for a maximum of 12 in each column before breaking into a new column.
I think "Controls" column allows for maximum of 25 in each column.
This gives the generic GUI window a lot more height, which would give room for more switches in the same column.

Should the maximum amounts be similar?

If the current amounts are expected behavior/not agreed with, then this can post can be closed.

Thank You

0010378: Plugin Selector - Show highlight in plugin list pane after Up Arrow is applied

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:34:28 +0000

-The `Plugin Selector` opens with focus in the search field.
-When you type keyword into search field, the results show up in plugin list pane above
-If you hit your UP ARROW to move the focus up into that plugin list pane, it works, but no visual indication is shown, you have to then hit your UP or DOWN ARROW again, and then the cursor highlight becomes visible at the top of the list.

There might be a reason for this existing behavior, but if possible, I am suggesting to make the first UP ARROW key press, automatically show the cursor highlight in the plugin list pane above, this way user knows that this action worked.
Not all users might assume to hit the UP or DOWN ARROW again.

Thank You

0009909: Allow windows to be centered instead of where mouse cursor is located

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:33:47 +0000

I have mentioned this in the past.
Ardour is designed to open up dialogs, windows, plugin GUI windows where your mouse cursor is located.

To me this has always been very confusing and is the only program I have ever seen do anything like this.
Here are just a couple of examples of issues I have experienced with this behavior.

-Sometimes I use "X" or hotkey to close Ardour.
I still get tricked each time because I am looking in the center of my screen and do not see anything, I then think maybe I did not apply hotkey or click on the "X" correctly but then realize that the little "are you sure" dialog is opened somewhere on my screen already.
-Another issue is when in the Mixer when you click on effect button to open effect GUI window for the first time (remembers location for that session after) the effect GUI opens right on top of that mixer channel blocking anything from being seen, prevents the ablity to do things like open up another plugins window or even toggle that window back close if just checking something quickly.

Suggesting to add some options in Preferences - Quirks section :) to allow users to choose how / where these items are opened.
Could get tricky how many settings to add but I will mention some ideas and developers can choose if interested in adding this request.

QUIRKS
-Center dialogs and windows for their first open but remember their location/size after repositiioned
-Center dialogs and windows always (only remembering size adjustements)

Probably will not be considered but could also offer a different set of same settings mentioned above specifically for plugin GUI windows
-Center plugin windows for their first open but remember their location/size after repositiioned
-Center plugin windows always (only remembering size adjustements)

Thank You

0010379: Deleting tracks keeps plugin gui and jack port opened when midi keyboard is connected

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:23:23 +0000

After deleting a few tracks together (audio tracks, midi tracks, busses) , a plugin GUI is kept opened, and jack ports are still available.
See screen pictures.

Adding then a new track remove old GUI and ports, except if I try to add a track with same name that a deleted track, JACK reports that port_name is already existing and the old things aren't removed.

When I disconnect the midi keyboard (Novation Launchkey MK4), old GUIs and JACK port are removed immediatly.
If the keyboard is not connected, deleting tracks is OK.

Tested with 9.2 and 9.5

0010135: Play Range-Selection plays beginning of non selected regions after

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:34:24 +0000

`Play Range/Selection` transport button / shortcut issue

Instead of stopping the playing at the end of a selected region, if there are any regions right after (edges align) you will notice it plays a short amount of the beginning of that next region.

Thank you to anyone who reads this

0009994: Keyboard Shortcuts Dialog - Double click on

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:33:57 +0000

In the "Keyboard Shortcuts" dialog there are categories within each tab that can be expanded or collapsed.
Suggesting to allow double clicking on these categories to expand / collapse them rather then having to click on little arrows to their left.

Thank You

0010084: Keyboard Shortcuts Dialog - Hitting Escape in field adds the Search text to the field

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:33:01 +0000

1. Open `Keyboard Shortcuts` dialog
2. Type keyword in the field such as "play"
3. While focus is still in field, hit your ESCAPE key
4. You will notice that the search field is cleared shows "Search..." again
5. Now type in a different keyword
6. You will notice that the "Search..." text is actually now in the field as you type and you have to delete it.
7. This "Search..." text should not be added to field, should just be able to type keyword

Hope this helps

0010377: Segfault while loading translated session

Sun, 31 May 2026 14:25:08 +0000

Ardour crashes with a segfault right after the "Indexing Plugins..." step while opening or creating a session when the Use translations option is enabled and a non-english language is used. The chosen locale must be installed

(on my system) `LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en ardour9` works but `LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=sv ardour9` triggers the issue. `LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=de ardour9` also works but falls back to English since I don't have the locale installed. `LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=sv` is the native environment on my system and Swedish is the only language I have installed. Let me know if you want me to test more cases or languages

0010376: Include a scroll bar in the Comments box for the Master bus (-for when notes get quite long)...

Sat, 30 May 2026 13:23:15 +0000

Yo,

Any way you guys could make the Comments box for the Master bus (-at least for the Master-) be able to include a scroll bar if the running text gets too long?

I have a few projects where I've been logging editing notes, and am now really pushing its limits...

See the screenshot attached to have a look at an example. If you put 'too much' text, it makes it impossible to scroll lower. And yes, you can widen the box, but sometimes even that's not enough to see all possible notes... (-Think: weeks of logging.)

Thanks for considering! : )

-J

0010375: Desktop Environment font size increases button size

Fri, 29 May 2026 21:25:35 +0000

I mentioned this on forum a while ago
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/desktop-environment-font-size-increases-button-size/110472

If user increases their Desktop Environments default font size, this causes Ardour to increase the size of its buttons shown in its `Application Bar`, but the text size itself does not increase.
This just causes more space to be used by the `Application Bar`.
In forum post linked above, this was said to be a possible bug that the text size does not increase.

Even if this did work, then this would also mean that it should increase the Menu Bar font size as well, etc.

I understand the thought of trying to make Ardour function like other applications in this way, but as it has been said Ardour is more of a unique application.
For example, in one of my recent posts I asked about setting to adjust font size without the need to scale the GUI and it was said that it is not possible.
So being that Ardour achieves font size/button size increases through a scaling method, to me it seems that this DE + Ardour connection should be removed.
(GUI scaling increase + this issue = even bigger buttons)

GTK
Also if user wanted to override/prevent a specific application from being affected by a DE setting such as font size, they would be able to achieve this through GTK. Now that Ardour has "absorbed" GTK2 as its own toolkit, I do not think this method is available any longer to the user?

So I am suggesting to remove this connection between DE and Ardour GUI
or
Provide some sort of way for user to prevent this from happening.

Thank You

0010371: Plugin Fan Out Dialog - Hitting Cancel still an empty MIDI track

Thu, 28 May 2026 20:54:21 +0000

Possible Bug?

If you insert an instrument plugin into a MIDI track that has multiple outputs, a fanout dialog appears before the plugin is loaded.

I noticed that if you hit the `Cancel` button, it still creates a MIDI track that ends up having no instrument inserted into it.
I was wondering if this is expected behavior?

To me it seems like the action should have been canceled and no MIDI track should be added?
If this is true/agreed with, I am suggesting to make this update.
If not, then developers can close this post.

Thank You

0010369: Plugin Selector - Add shortcut to apply focus to search field

Thu, 28 May 2026 20:49:40 +0000

Suggesting to allow the common CTRL+F shortcut to apply focus back into the search field.

-When this shortcut if performed, focus will go from anywhere within this window, into the field.
-If field already currently contains text, that text will automatically get highlighted, allowing user to easily just type over it to apply a new keyword search.

Thank You

0010368: Import Audio Midi Window - Add filter field

Thu, 28 May 2026 20:48:28 +0000

Suggesting to consider adding a filter field in the `Clips` section.
Would be similar to the filter field found in the `Plugin Manager`/`Plugin Selector`
Field, left justified text, Clear icon or "Clear" button on the right.

I think filter field probably should retain the keyword text as user navigates in and out of folders. Filter would only be cleared when user decides to hit the clear button.

Thank You

0010366: Edit - Sidebar - Clips - Add filter field

Thu, 28 May 2026 20:46:53 +0000

Edit-Sidebar-Clips

Suggesting to consider adding a filter field in the `Clips` section.
Would be similar to the filter field found in the `Plugin Manager`/`Plugin Selector`
Field, left justified text, Clear icon or "Clear" button on the right.

I think filter field probably should retain the keyword text as user navigates in and out of folders. Filter would only be cleared when user decides to hit the clear button.

Thank You