Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.
Ardour has lots of capabilities, including: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plug-ins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces
If you`ve been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it.
Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means implementing all the "hard stuff" that other DAWs ( even some leading commercial apps ) handle incorrectly or not at all.
Ardour has a completely flexible "anything to anywhere" routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample rates.
You will also find powerful features such as "persistent undo", multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren`t available on other platforms.
Here are some key features of "Ardour":
· Unlimited audio tracks and buses
· Non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo
· Anything-to-anywhere signal routing
· Unlimited pre- and post-fader plugins
· 32 bit floating point audio path
· Automatic track delay compensation
· Sample accurate automation
· Standard file formats (BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF, CAF & more ...)
· Full AudioUnit plugin support on OS X
· More than 200 LADSPA & LV2 plugins freely available
· Support for Windows VST plugins available
· MIDI CC control with 1 click
· Level 2 MIDI Machine Control
· MIDI Timecode (MTC) Master or Slave
· Full integration with all JACK applications
· Video-synced playback, pull up/pull down
· No copy-protection
· Distributed, world-wide development
· Released under the GPL
· Source code for everyone
· Open XML session file format
· On OS X, works with any CoreAudio supported audio hardware
· On Linux, works with any ALSA/FFADO-supported audio hardware
· Network audio (full fidelity over local network or long haul with CELT) via NetJack
Requirements:
· JACK
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Contains a fix for a another critical bug on OS X that causes ardour to crash when deleting plugins with Carbon-based user interfaces.
· There are also two other small fixes: logarithmic plugin parameters can now be modified sensibly, and when importing files using the "copy files to session" option, an existing BWF timestamp is no longer lost.
