Ardour 5 released
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Ardour 5 released
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#2Ardour and JACK are fantastic pieces of software, and the love children of core developer Paul Davis, and many contributors. Paul is trying to make a full-time living with it, but funding is still far away from even modest objectives (he blogged about it, see [1]). The donation sidebar currently says:
- August goal: US$6200 (US$74.4k/yr)
- Total till now: US$2923.52
If you're into Linux/OSX audio (and now Windows, with Ardour 5!) and can afford it, I encourage you to donate :) . See the "Ardour Finance" sidebar of the linked post.
Re: Ardour 5 released
#3Ardour and JACK are fantastic pieces of software, and the love children of core developer Paul Davis, and many contributors. Paul is trying to make a full-time living with it, but funding is still far away from even modest objectives (he blogged about it, see [1]). The donation sidebar currently says: - August goal: US$6200 (US$74.4k/yr) - Total till now: US$2923.52 If you're into Linux/OSX audio (and now Windows, wi…
I've purchased in the past just to support (and to keep going the illusion that I'll create some audio for /me/ in the future).
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#4Is there anyone on here who uses DAW's seriously, and has tried Ardour? Can it compete with the big boys?
Re: Ardour 5 released
#5Ardour and JACK are fantastic pieces of software, and the love children of core developer Paul Davis, and many contributors. Paul is trying to make a full-time living with it, but funding is still far away from even modest objectives (he blogged about it, see [1]). The donation sidebar currently says: - August goal: US$6200 (US$74.4k/yr) - Total till now: US$2923.52 If you're into Linux/OSX audio (and now Windows, wi…
That's not that much money, they need grants from OSS foundations, OSS like that need to get better at funding. How many millions the Mozilla foundation gave away this year ? and to only what, 8 projects ? The Gnome foundation could also help , instead of the financing dubious programs I won't name. But I guess it's better to waste money on hype rather than supporting well established projects.
Re: Ardour 5 released
#6Is there anyone on here who uses DAW's seriously, and has tried Ardour? Can it compete with the big boys?
> Is there anyone on here who uses DAW's seriously, and has tried Ardour? Can it compete with the big boys?
Can it compete? Yes, a DAW hardly decides what the final result sounds like. The problem is integration. Often controllers come with presets for Pro-tools,Logic, Cubase, Live so integration is seamless, there is virtually no need for configuration. Now Is Ardour popular ? right now not that much. But it's a great project non-less and perfectly capable.
Re: Ardour 5 released
#7Ardour and JACK are fantastic pieces of software, and the love children of core developer Paul Davis, and many contributors. Paul is trying to make a full-time living with it, but funding is still far away from even modest objectives (he blogged about it, see [1]). The donation sidebar currently says: - August goal: US$6200 (US$74.4k/yr) - Total till now: US$2923.52 If you're into Linux/OSX audio (and now Windows, wi…
That's not that much money, they need grants from OSS foundations, OSS like that need to get better at funding. How many millions the Mozilla foundation gave away this year ? and to only what, 8 projects ? The Gnome foundation could also help , instead of the financing dubious programs I won't name. But I guess it's better to waste money on hype rather than supporting well established projects.
Agreed, qualifying 75 k$/yr in the US as "not much money" is hyperbole for a developer with 20 years experience of multithreaded multiplatform C++.
As to funding from big OSS players, the problem is that Ardour is niche software, far away from the interests of those big OSS players. Regarding your examples,
- Mozilla has interest and invests into web/infrastructure tech (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11956234 ), Ardour doesn't fit in here.
- GNOME... can you name these dubious programs you are referring to? To my eyes, GNOME just tries to survive with limited funding.
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#8Is there anyone on here who uses DAW's seriously, and has tried Ardour? Can it compete with the big boys?
I'm not qualified to comment as a "serious" user (as would be, say, someone doing mix/production for a living), but as a hobbyist it has been a joy and powerhouse to use and produce two little homebrew albums.
Another popular alternative for that kind of audiences is http://reaper.fm/ , from Cockos from Justin Frankel & co from Nullsoft who made WinAMP.
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#9It disappoints me that that they charge for pre-built binaries... Yes I can go and build it from source but it just doesn't feel right to have an open source project distributed like this. Shame on them for flaunting what I think is the spirit of Open Source.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not that much money, they need grants from OSS foundations, OSS like that need to get better at funding. How many millions the Mozilla foundation gave away this year ? and to only what, 8 projects ? The Gnome foundation could also help , instead of the financing dubious programs I won't name. But I guess it's better to waste money on hype rather than supporting well established projects.
Agreed, qualifying 75 k$/yr in the US as "not much money" is hyperbole for a developer with 20 years experience of multithreaded multiplatform C++. As to funding from big OSS players, the problem is that Ardour is niche software, far away from the interests of those big OSS players. Regarding your examples, - Mozilla has interest and invests into web/infrastructure tech (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11956…
The GNOME program aims at getting more people involved in OSS projects:
https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/
Personally, I think it is awesome and appreciate the great contributors I've seen come in through the program.