Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. Produce your own CD's. Mix video soundtracks. Experiment with new ideas about music and sound. Generate sound installations for 12 speaker gallery shows. Have Fun.
Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-linear, non-destructive region based editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a mixer whose capabilities rival high end hardware consoles, lots of plugins to warp, shift and shape your music, and controllable from hardware control surfaces at the same time as it syncs to timecode. If you've been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Cubase SX, Digital Performer, Samplitude or Sequoia, you might have found it.
What's new in this version
Features - on OS X, direct support for import of all file types supported by CoreAudio, including MP3 and AAC. Linux users can take comfort: there is ongoing work to offer similar capabilities on their platform.
- per-track faders in editor window
- Freesound integration (direct searching and download of samples from Freesound) via the Import dialog.
- Vertical auto-scrolling (if you drag a region off the top or bottom of the editor, the editor "canvas" will scroll just as it does now with left/right scrolling)
- AU GUIs basically working (issues remain with SmartElectronix plugins but we're working them to fix the situation)
- AU automation working
- New option to create xrun markers on the location markerbar
- Tape Machine monitoring mode ( description)
- Rubberbanding Snaps to Grid (self explanitory I hope, defaults to off)
- Per-track gain faders in the editor window (when the track height is large enough)
- dynamic discovery & loading of keybindings
- Locked Edit mode disallows sliding regions in time. Override by holding 3rd mouse button
- Font size scaler in Windows -> Preferences -> Misc
- MIDI auto-rebinding patch (the first N controllers always control the first N tracks in the mixer, no matter which tracks they are)
Improvements - Updated French translation
- Newly added audio (recorded/imported/embedded) is not analyzed by default (an option exists to control this). if you use "split at percussive onsets" frequently, you may want to turn the option on to avoid having to do the analysis on demand.
- New menu arrangement (less clutter, more logical for the most part)
- Enforce unique names for playlists, busses and tracks
- Pop up warning dialog for massive split operations
- Try to make adding lots of regions (e.g. from split-at-points) scale a bit better
- Splash screen displays startup/progress messages
- New grabber mouse edit point cursor used when edit point is set to mouse and the mouse is in object mode
- Allow ardour to use the (hard) maximum number of open files
Make import GUI report if you are importing a file of a name that already exists in the session.
- super-optimize meter drawing
- Remove beat entry from meter dialog (beats are not allowed in API)
- Notably speed up startup time by deferring track display untl the GUI is idle
- Put focus in plugin search entry when plugin selector is shown
- New FREEDESKTOP scons option installs desktop MIME entry and .desktop file. Also uses fd.o standard names and locations for icons.
- Minimize clock redrawing
- Rearrange icons/presets on xfade editor to be symmetric
- Add CAF to list of likely audio file suffixes
- Add a quick file type icon.
- Improvements on the FFT analysis tool:
Enable FFT analysis by default
FFT graph is now drawn using Cairo
The window is now a window instead of a dialog
Analysis window can be resized
The view can be switched between normalized and an absolute value
The minimum and maximum values for a graph can be shown
- Enable icon-start-from-.ardour-file to work on OS X
- Ignore dbl-clicks on mute/solo/rec-enable buttons since they make the user-experience feel inconsistent
Fixes - AU plugins work on PPC
- copy-n-paste of AU plugins working
- fix problem where peakfile is slightly older than audio data even though it is ready
- prevent flush_pending() calls from "top menu" items on OS X from locking the GUI
- fix splashscreen crash
- fix problems with files being needlessly re-analysed at startup
- Fix bug which caused the current import logic to select existing file name as target file when importing. This caused the newly imported file to be concatenated after the original data.
- fixed uninitialized variable that made ardour scrub at the wrong times
- fix deadlock in playlist::partition();
- fix up meter thread management when JACK client starts/stops/is halted
- fix Playlist::partition_internal() to avoid acting on regions that should not be operated on given the range provided ;
- fix locate-play-locate
- make AudioRegion::master_read() obey length limit of (first) master source, not the region length
- fixes from chris cannam for rb_effect bugs
- fix up BWF creation
- fix silly error in removing channels from audio_diskstream
- (OS X native: don't write dynamic pango.rc into app.bundle)
- use Glib::get_home_dir() rather than HOME for user_ardour_path
- make feature lines (rhythm ferret etc) scale with zoom and hide them whenever RF hides
- properly install apple event handlers
- change plugin add logic to avoid asking for stream counts before they would be configured
- fix up new session dialog to not use manage(), and thus not throw away widgets when their page is hidden (by removal) in the tabbed browser
- fix untranslated string comparison of import mode names when comparing with whatever the user selected
- fix dragging that involves locked regions
stop crash occuring when carrying out playlist partitions in empty playlists
Requirements
Mac PowerPC or Intel
MacOS X 10.4 or more (A version
that also runs on Panther is also available on ardour.org)
X11
Jack 0.73 or more
)
Freeware
MacOS X UB
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