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
"native" OS X support
no need for X11 anymore.
built using the GTK-OSX port of GTK to Quartz/Cocoa
to compile this on OSX, please read the guide
new import dialog
better auditioning
better presentation of options
resampling quality control
new JACK control dialog
if you don't want to use qjackctl and don't require and external JACK patcher (i.e. "Let me just run Ardour, dammit!") this dialog will allow you to configure JACK. It only appears (as a tab in the new session dialog) if JACK is not running when Ardour is started.
mouse scrubbing
switch to mouse audition mode
button1-press and drag
separate MMC device ID's for send & receive
range context menus modified for greater clarity and simplicity
crossfades involving transparent regions now work appropriately
click or drag in rulers works better
update click data when sample rate changes
provide limits to in-memory undo history depth
provide limits to saved undo history depth
optionally tie editor & mixer display order together
provide GUI control for timecode-slave-is-synced
make Ctrl-w close any dialog
generate peakfiles for embedded files asynchronously
metering now works more appropriately with no inputs
big clock is always on top
reduce memory usage during I/O from multichannel audio files
change window visibility during startup
use new translation domains, to avoid ardour 0.99 and ardour 2.X from colliding when installed in parallel
new option (only-copy-imports) to avoid creating sessions that reference external audio files (i.e. all audio is either native, copied or hard-linked into the session)
retain MIDI control information for plugin parameters
auto-reconnect ALSA sequencer MIDI ports at startup
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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