Ardour

Ardour

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Open-source multiplatform DAW
Developer(s)	Paul Davis
Release information
Initial release	{{{released}}}
Stable release	0.99
Preview release	2.00b8
Compatibility
Operating system	Mac OS/X, Linux
Additional information
Use	Digital Audio Workstation
License	GPL
Website	http://www.ardour.org/

Introduction

What is Ardour? Ardour is a complete Digital Audio Workstation that is very similiar to Pro-Tools, Nuendo, and Logic.

Features

Common

• Designed to work with JACK, ALSA on Linux and Core Audio on OS X.
• Soundcards supported are: M-Audio, Hammerfall, Echo, Creative, Terratec and Yamaha.
• Sample data is maintained internally in 32-bit floating point format
• Multichannel recording and mixing
• Partial support for VSTi's
• Support for over thirty different audio codecs
• Utilization of custom audio file database manager

Mixing

• Mixing realies directly on the hardware and automated plugins

Editing

• Timeline layout with trimming, crossfading, time-stretching, and splitting

Mastering

• Integration with JACK makes mastering with tools like JAMin possible

Plug-ins

• LADSPA support for over 100 DSP effects including, simple filters, analog flangers, and multiband EQ's.

Compatibility

• Open-source nature allows the DAW to be ported to multiple platforms including OS X.

Screenshots

• Main window this is a screenshot of Ardours main application window

Development API

Getting Involved

Ardour is written entirely in C++. The GUI is written using the gtkmm C++ wrapper. The application contains 160,000 lines of code, including 3rd party development efforts. Ardour makes heavy use of libsigc++ as a way to provide anonymous coupling between various application components.

MIDI Support

There is major talk of developing and implementing MIDI timestamp codes, etc into Ardour for sequencing.

http://www.ardour.org/node/335

External links

• Ardour official website of the new digital audio workstation