
Hello friends, I am new to linux as well to ardour. I like the ardour 5.12 version a lot and I am in love with it. but I was having a problem regarding the plugin GUI size. plugins like geonkick and helm are going out of my view .they are too big to my screen ,I was curious if anybody can help me in getting the size reduce for my viewing.
I Have tried the following.
1.screen size of 1280 x 720 i guess , I have set the display resolution on the same value , I did tried to change the resolution of screen but it doesn't affect .
Ardour attempts to adhere to industry standards, such as SMPTE/MTC, Broadcast Wave Format, MIDI Machine Control and XML. citation neededArdour has been tested on GNU/Linux, on the x86-64, x86, PowerPC and ARM (for at least version 3) architectures, Solaris, macOS on Intel and PowerPC, Windows on Intel architectures and FreeBSD.
Ardour 5.12 Digital audio workstation Ardour is a multi-channel digital audio workstation, allowing users to record, edit, mix and master audio and MIDI projects. It is targeted at audio engineers, musicians, soundtrack editors and composers. Sections of audio are known as Regions in Ardour. A Region can be an entire sound file or a portion of it. Here you will learn how to import audio files from the hard drive of your computer so they can be used in your Ardour session. To import an audio file into your session, you will use the the Add existing media dialog. 2020-01-24 - Erich Eickmeyer ardour (1:5.12.0-3ubuntu2) focal; urgency=medium. This upload does NOT include the changes introduced in 1:5.12.0-3ubuntu1 which is in focal-proposed due to those changes FTBFSing entirely and requiring the changes applied here in -3ubuntu2. Update to waf 2.0.19, patch to build with. Unfa rambling indefinitely #05 I'm talking about current issues with Ardour MIDI workflow. What makes it harder than I'd like it to be? I hope this video can.
2. have tried to resize it from right click mouse menu but it doesn't help.
3. reduce size of ardour in preferences menu but it doesn't affect the plugin size.
FOUND an remedy for that if i press alt with GUI corner i can shift the GUI ,But still if there is an option to reduce the size i would like to know.
waiting for reply. thank you.
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