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Paul Davis of the Ardour project. Ardour is probably one of the best digital audio workstations ever made. Sad thing is that Ardour is such niche software that
by aaronarduino 8y ago
Paul Davis of the Ardour project. Ardour is probably one of the best digital audio workstations ever made. Sad thing is that Ardour is such niche software that it doesn't get as much monetary support as it should.
https://ardour.org/ https://ardour.org/
- j45 8y agoWow. Am I missing something or is Ardour a more capable kind of Audacity?
- dvirsky 8y agoIt's light years beyond it, it's a full fledged digital audio workstation capable of high quality studio recordings and mixing. A good analogy would be Paint vs. Photoshop. EDIT: Not to downplay Audacity which is also awesome, it's just not meant for the same use case.
- j45 8y agoNice, and free. I think my podcasting friends may like this.
- aaronarduino 8y agoArdour is an NLE(Non-linear editing) Audacity is not. Also, Ardour's plugins act in realtime. Ardour is used for recording and mixing music, film, and other things. Audacity is mainly an audio editing program.
- koala_man 8y agoAudacity never required me to save over existing files or magnetic tape. Why do you say it's a linear editor?
- dvirsky 8y agoIndeed. I make an automatic small monthly contribution of a few dollars to the project (they make it super easy to do it). BTW since Harrison Consoles have a commercial version of it (MixBus/MixBus32C) and are actively contributing to Ardour, I wonder if they are also supporting it financially.
- aaronarduino 8y agoI hope so! I think the MixBus team has contributed some code back to Ardour.
- dvirsky 8y agoAFAIK they have, I wonder if they're also donating. BTW I've switched from plain Ardour to MixBus a few months ago, and I'm not sure why but it produces much better results for me.
- aaronarduino 8y agoI sure hope they are donating. That would be fantastic for the future of the project. The better results are probably due to Harrison's EQ and console bus emulation.
- BoysenberryPi 8y agoI looked into Ardour when looking for a linux DAW but the lack of a piano roll makes it immediately no go for me
- tribidi 8y agoThere is a piano roll, you just need to vertically expand a MIDI track in order to see it.
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- sincerely 8y agohow does ardour compare to ableton?