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Apple might have done OK, but they killed a technical specification that was already present in thousands (millions) of users' devices, and that hundreds of other companies had inv…

In the interest of truth-in-comment-threads, it looks as if 5.1 will be a bug fix release, without the Push 2 support. That will land in 5.2, probably. The majority of the work is …

all of the above.

That's actually not true. The "big boys" use tons of plugin synths. Hans Zimmer comes to mind (the entire soundtrack to Nolan's Batman series was done with U-he's Zebra2, which is …

Ardour session files are just text files. Scripts used within the session are saved as part of the session file, so that the session can be used on any Ardour installationg, withou…

The purely technical aspects of audio on Linux have always been better than Windows and OS X. Linux had lower latency than them more than a decade ago. The user experience is a dif…

I interact regularly with GTK+ developers, and have been a regular contributor to GTK+ on OS X. They don't want our patches - they are very specialized and intended to deal with ca…

The most common reason is that we ship our own version of the clearlooks theme engine to ensure that we control the appearance of GTK+ widgets, and we load our own GTK2 RC file to …

Do you seriously want me to list all the features that Ardour had for 10 years before they showed up in ProTools? This is a recent list of PT user's most-wanted features. http://ww…

That's all fair and correct. But why is there no Izotope on Linux? People gripe at free software developers for "not providing Izotope", when in reality that software represents ye…

There is no price "up front" because you get to define the price (the model is taken from Radiohead's release of "In Rainbows", actually). What non-sketchy model do you have for a …

Pianoteq ? U-he ? Distrho? Harrison Consoles ? These are all proprietary plugins for Linux, all of them excellent. PureData is a VERY VERY different program from Reaktor, capable o…

Ardour has builtin support for many hardware controllers. Our support for Mackie Control is as good as anything in the proprietary world, ditto for things like the FaderPort. Gener…

Every day, there are NEW DAW users who have no plugins. I think you're also not fully informed on the scale of existing plugin development on Linux. Several commercial developers n…

Thanks for digging up that link. I had forgotten I wrote that. Things have been better since it was written, but the project could still really use at least another 1/2 full time d…

Note that because distros build Ardour using their stock GTK+ stack, there are a few issues with their builds that are not present in the bundles from ardour.org. We (ardour.org) d…

@s_kilk: in random order: Roadmaps: http://tracker.ardour.org/roadmap_page.php http://ardour.org/development/post3.0 MIDI: those Atari apps you're thinking of didn't do audio. Gene…