Ardour is an open source, collaborative effort of a worldwide team including musicians, programmers, and professional recording engineers. Development is transparent — anyone can watch our work as …

Ardour is a free and open-source digital audio workstation and hard disk recorder that runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows. Its primary author is Paul Davis, who is also responsible …

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Jan 19, 2025 · Ardour is a comprehensive Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that has become a prominent open-source alternative to proprietary software like Cubase and Pro Tools.

As part of work on features that will be exposed in version 9.0, Ardour now features parallelized disk I/O (reading and writing audio & MIDI to storage). This lets us use those extra cores in modern …

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But if you're hoping to modify Ardour or get involved in our development process, or don't want to or cannot pay for our pre-built versions, this is where to start.

Ardour on Windows (2021) Ardour runs on Windows. You can download it from the regular download area. It runs identically to the Linux and macOS versions. Currently, we support VST2, VST3, LV2 …

Ardour Table of Contents Part I: About Ardour 🔗 Ch. 1: About Ardour's documentation Ch. 2: Ardour Overview Ch. 3: Why is it called Ardour? Ch. 4: Why Write a DAW for Linux? Ch. 5: Isn't This a …

Rather than being focused on electronic and pop music idioms, Ardour steps out of the way to encourage the creative process to remain where it always has been: a musician playing a carefully …