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Ardour is one of my favorite open source projects, and it's especially admirable considering that it's not a developer and/or server admin tool. It's rare to see people hack away for years on open source desktop software and constantly improving it.
I just downloaded Ardour (after trying it out a while back and somewhat giving up) and it's a pretty fantastic application. What prompted me to get into it again was that I wanted to combine it with Hydrogen ( http://hydrogen-music.org/hcms/ ) using JACK ( http://www.jackaudio.org/ ). I can _immediately_ see the power of JACK, but I just can't get my immediate use to work, which is when I hit play/pause in one applic…
I have been very pleased with Ardour - only took me a few minutes to have my XLR mic go through a compressor / limiter / expander virtual rack effects setup for better screencasting.
I've used it for recording music, combining some MIDI tracks with many audio tracks and samples. Once the audio system was set up and stable, working with Ardour was a pleasure and results were very good. The main problem was getting high quality effects/plugins, paid or free. There are a couple, but in general life is much easier in this sense outside of Linux. That was 2-3 years ago, and hopefully things have impro…
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I've used it for recording music, combining some MIDI tracks with many audio tracks and samples. Once the audio system was set up and stable, working with Ardour was a pleasure and results were very good. The main problem was getting high quality effects/plugins, paid or free. There are a couple, but in general life is much easier in this sense outside of Linux. That was 2-3 years ago, and hopefully things have impro…
The CALF Plugins are pretty excellent, for the most part. Those are free (as in beer and as in speech, IIRC). http://calf-studio-gear.org/
The Calf compressor and bass enhancer were very good. I'm seeing that a lot of plugins have been added in the time since I last worked with Ardour. Makes me want to start making music again :)
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The CALF Plugins are pretty excellent, for the most part. Those are free (as in beer and as in speech, IIRC). http://calf-studio-gear.org/
Those were the main ones I worked with, plus another commercial package, I forgot its name, which was decent. The Calf compressor and bass enhancer were very good. I'm seeing that a lot of plugins have been added in the time since I last worked with Ardour. Makes me want to start making music again :)
See "Finance" sidebar at https://community.ardour.org/community
Ardour if fantastic. Its mixer is better and more usable than pretty much any other DAW I've tried. They are competing with software that costs hundreds of dollars and winning in many aspects. They should be an example.
I just downloaded Ardour (after trying it out a while back and somewhat giving up) and it's a pretty fantastic application. What prompted me to get into it again was that I wanted to combine it with Hydrogen ( http://hydrogen-music.org/hcms/ ) using JACK ( http://www.jackaudio.org/ ). I can _immediately_ see the power of JACK, but I just can't get my immediate use to work, which is when I hit play/pause in one applic…
Is this the problem you are trying to avoid, or what you are trying to achieve? Assuming you want the play button in Hydrogen to start the other apps, you need to use the "J-TRANS" and "J-MASTER" buttons at the top of Hydrogen. In Ardour there is a toggle button for "Internal" or "JACK" and you need to set it to JACK.