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Paul Davis
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
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
What's New
Version 3.5.308:
Additions and Changes:
- add visualization of signal flow within tracks and busses
- Various improvements to panning
- add stereo-balance panner
- right click on panner to select a different (compatible) paner
- major overhaul to VBAP panner so that it works
- panner GUI tweaks
- Sends now have their own panner
- Send panner may be (un)linked with the main panner via the context menu of the send. If linked, the send's panning follows the main panner.
- Various improvements to import and auditioning
- Add MIDI auditioning (using Ardour's builtin "reasonableSynth")
- Consider all tracks in a MIDI (SMF) file
- allow auditioning via the monitor section to work (and make it the default when using a monitor section)
- add a seek/locate slider to the import auditioner
- auditioning now uses sample rate conversion when necessary, so that auditioned files are always played back at the correct pitch/speed
- do not lock audio to video when extracting only the audio from a video file
- re-enable export file tagging and fix export format dialog inconsistency
- fix audio cross-talk between tracks that occured when using 1in/2out tracks.
- fix the "replicate missing channels from regions" option
- fix text "bleeding" in various buttons
- provide some level of compatibility with aubio 0.4. Ardour should still be built using aubio 3.2.
- improve rendering of faders
- add M-Audio 2496 to the list of devices recognized to have a "control app"
- fix behaviour of plugin parameter sliders for ranges [0..]
- new MIDNAM files for Moog MF-104M and MF-108M
- add support for MIDNAM controller labels
- document MIDNAM controller values for Moog Minitaur
- fix display isues with editor mixer strip
- fix 32 bit export
- fix crash when adding processors which change overall track I/O configuration
- fix deadlock when removing monitor section
- ignore additional channels during AFL/PFL (if the track/bus has more channels than the monitor section, ignore the additional channels)
- fix output metering for Sends
- new MIDI binding map for Roland V-Studio 20
- new very basic MIDI binding map for M-Audio Oxygen-25
- fix display of pan automation and MIDI fader automation
- working support for VST "timeinfo" delivery to plugins (Windows VST and Linux VST)
- fix crash when instrument plugins fail to load
- fix potential for duplicate Send IDs
- auto connect preferences now respected for MIDI tracks
- use all outputs of VST plugins, not just the input count
Version 3.5.308:
Additions and Changes:
- add visualization of signal flow within tracks and busses
- Various improvements to panning
- add stereo-balance panner
- right click on panner to select a different (compatible) paner
- major overhaul to VBAP panner so that it works
- panner GUI tweaks
- Sends more...
Requirements
- Intel
- OS X 10.7 or later
- Jack OS X installed
- You must read the OS X information page before attempting to run Ardour.
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| Downloads:33,532 |
| Version Downloads:232 |
| Type:Multimedia Design : Audio |
| License:Demo |
| Date:02 Mar 2014 |
| Platform:Intel 64 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price: $1.00 |
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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.
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.
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"Do not prevent transport operations after an export (and potentially at other times)"
2.8.11 came out in July 2010. On more recent news, an alpha release of version 3 will be available soon.
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I can understand your frustration. I don't know if they had this in place before:
"Consider becoming a subscriber
If you became a subscriber then this download and all updates for the duration of your subscription would be available to you for free."
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Smarter decision making when deciding which in/out configuration to choose when handling an AU plugin that has several.
When exporting/bouncing/consolidating, tell AU plugins the new processing blocksize so they will actually run during the process. Yes, that means what you think it means.
Remove use of std::locale() which is utterly and completely broken on OS X, and causes a program to crash if used with any actual national locale.
Don't reconfigure I/O of AU plugins when they already have the correct I/O configuration
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Anonymous reviewed on 27 Sep 2005
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Anonymous reviewed on 11 Aug 2005
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
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Anonymous reviewed on 08 Mar 2005
Do not use folder names containing spaces or special chars
great app!
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It seems to me that I have lost my money.
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You didn't buy anything. That was a donation. There is no Lite version. The full Ardour is a GPL product.
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If you want to download the full version, you need to pay a "donation" (suggested US $65), otherwise you will not be able to arrive to the full version download WEB page. But if you pay that "donation", and your download process fail, as it is not uncommon in a 100 MB download, to re-intent the download process you need to pay another "donation" again for every new download attempt until you succeed with the download.
I don't know if the GPL License allows these tricks, but it seems to me that the Ardour developers should have allowed a period of time (24 hours?) to re-intent and successfully end the download process.