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DESCRIPTION
Ardour is a digital audio workstation that runs natively on OS X. 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...
Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you've been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it.
Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means implementing all the "hard stuff" that other DAWs (even some leading commercial apps) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a completely flexible "anything to anywhere" routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as "persistent undo", multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren't available on other platforms.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.8: Release notes unavailable at the time this listing was updated.
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| Ardour User Reviews (6 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 22 2008 |
BIGDAVE56 Will Audio Hijack or wireTap Studio work in place of Jack?
(Version 2.7.4225) | |
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| Dec 6 2008 |
THE VALRUS Read the replies to the comment immediately preceding yours.
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| Mar 23 2008 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN I doubt it, but the place to check would be the developer's site, of course.
(Version 2.3.1) | |
| Mar 23 2008 |
ARVIDTP no. Ardour actually uses jack as its audio engine - not just as another core audio interface. Ardour wil not work without jack. On linux Jack is more than just a way to send audio around - it also is an audio engine and a way to send timecode around to sync applications simialr to rewire. Its just that there are not many mac apps that support jack natively. PD is one I can think of that can.
(Version 2.3.1) | |
| Sep 27 2005 |
BUZZ This has come a long way - a whole host of fixes. Remember it's sttill Beta. And you need to download and install 'Jack' for OS X first. Then install Ardour. Make sure 'Jack' is running then launch Ardour. Look forward to more enhancements and fixes - we need stuff like this on a Mac.
(Version 0.9b3) | |
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 | Aug 11 2005 |
ANDREW got it working. the cross-fade has some real interesting aspects. also, the time stretch is cool. still waiting to see if it can handle real multi-track editing (i.e. 16 to 32 channel in one 3 minute piece with lots of editing per track.... garage band sucks for this, tho, they wouldn't let you know... i am talking on 867 that is...) one question: anyone know how to get it to read LADSPA plug-ins (btw, it won't work with VST plug-ins... you know what happened with Audacity and Steinberg!)? I downloaded LADSPA plug-in package vis-a-vis Fink and though Fink deposited them nicely in /SW/Lib/Ladspa Ardour is not looking there...???!!! ... Anyone have any ideas on how to get Ardour to see them? Thanks, Andrew
(Version 0.9b28) | |
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| Mar 23 2008 |
ARVIDTP dont know, but the ardour supplies some packages of plugins that they compiled themselves - these installers should put the plugins in a place where Ardour will look for them. Also I think Audiounit support is in the cards for future development.
(Version 2.3.1) | |
| Mar 8 2005 |
ANONYMOUS important: put ardour application in standard folder Applications. Do not use folder names containing spaces or special chars great app!
(Version 0.9b27) | |
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| Feb 23 2005 |
NICOLA PANDINI iBook G4 933 with mac OS 10.3.8 I installed in order X11, Jack 0.6 and Ardour works well, I tried to record some short tracks and apply pan and volume automations and only one time the application was killed. For a beta version is enough.
(Version 0.9) | |
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