Introduction

What is Ardour? Ardour is a complete Digital Audio Workstation that is very similiar to Pro-Tools, Nuendo, and Logic. MIDI sequencing is planned for future release.

Features

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

Screenshots

Main window this is a screenshot of Ardours main application window

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

Plugin-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.

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.

External links

Ardour official website of the new digital audio workstation