I started using Ardour in 2007 and quickly transitioned our studio to it in a big move to Linux for audio production. I'll be excited to reacquaint myself with

I started using Ardour in 2007 and quickly transitioned our studio to it in a big move to Linux for audio production. I'll be excited to reacquaint myself with it later this year on the first analog restoration I've accepted in almost a decade. The extent of its wonders escapes me now, but I recall with jack+ardour, the new lowlatency/preempt kernel, and some tcp/ip stack fun, we were able to get 40ms network audio latency on commodity hardware, vastly expanding our field processing workflows. Sort of how you can walk out of any venue today and immediately purchase an SD card of the event, we could produce MP3, CDs, and live webcasts of events, ready within minutes of closing with nothing more than a laptop, usb sound card, mics, and the internet. I also had a little trick for transcription; shorthand with macros! Eventually, I could type them all one handed. Today, you can just pipe through whisper and have subs in every format and language. What an incredible time to be alive. My lessons learned have been that free, open source software is amazing, and if you don't know something is supposed to be "hard", it can't stop you. Don't let greed or pride make you withhold from yourself.