Ardour

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Introduction

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

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
  • Support for over thirty different audio codecs
  • Utilization of custom audio file database manager

Mixing

  • Mixing realies directly on the hardware and automatated 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.

External links

  • Ardour official website of the new digital audio workstation
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