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What is the original story behind Ardour's creation? What motivated you writing such complicated application? P.S.: I have the GUI layout and I don't care wha

• PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
  I wanted a DAW to record my own fledging attempts at electronic music. I took a vow in the 80s to never use Windows, Apple systems seemed overpriced, and I had years of *nix experience, including a bit of Linux. In the late 90s there was a Linux app called "Multitrack" which seemed capable on the surface, but it turned out not to be. I called Digidesign to ask them if I could port ProTools to Linux for them (for free), and they laughed. So I thought "how hard could it be to just write my own?" ... 22+ years later, here I am. A longer version is here: https://discourse.ardour.org/t/ardour-20th-birthday/102333 https://discourse.ardour.org/t/ardour-20th-birthday/102333
  • meatsock 4y ago
    > my own fledging attempts at electronic music. i'd like to hear more about that.
  • protomikron 4y ago
    That's a cool story. Ardour is awesome and shows that specialized niche software can compete or even out-compete commercial proprietary software (like QGIS in the GIS space). I hope it will be around for a long time and it's a nice piece of software, thx Paul.
• frankzander 4y ago
  you might find this interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZndTAbjPqm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZndTAbjPqm0 - I think Paul talks a bit about the background of Ardour and it's history
• stefanos82 4y ago
  Thank you for your reply, that's quite an interesting story! Don't ask me why my fingers typed "have" instead of "love" lol, I have no idea! O.o