I'm here late but wanted to mention what I consider to be Ardour's "younger sibling" (functionality-wise): Audacity.
It's usually enough to do what I need, clipping & cropping existing audio.
Ardour 5.9 released
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#32Now that the MP3 patents are expired, it'd be nice if Ardour added MP3 import / export. I understand why they didn't in the past, but it's been a showstopper for times when I wanted to recommend a FOSS audio editor to non-technical friends. Here's the latest discussion I saw on it: https://community.ardour.org/node/14616
Export works for me in 5.8.
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#33I'd love an open source DAW that was easy to use and didn't slavishly follow the UI constraints of a physical mixer (which works great on a physical mixer, but not so great when you're trying to control it with a mouse). Is there one?
Not sure if this fits the bill, but this was recently showed on HN: https://github.com/peterrudenko/helio-workstation
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#34If you are curious about Ardour (or creative software for Linux in general) I highly recommend back issues of the Linux Voice magazine (RIP) which often reviews and explains such software: https://www.linuxvoice.com/creative-commons-issues/ For example issue 24 reviewed Ardour 4.6 and some plugins. (no affiliation. the issues are under CC BY-SA )
Worth mentioning: http://libremusicproduction.com/
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#35I bought Ableton years ago after trying really hard to tame JACK, Ardour, Hydrogen, and a handful of associated utilities unsuccessfully. It makes me REALLY happy to see this community still going. I know it takes time but the results are usually well worth-it, to get open software ecosystems thriving.
There are some Linux distros, like AVLinux[1], which do all the heavy lifting for you.
Just boot in to them and you've got Ardour, JACK, Hydrogen, and a whole ton of other music apps all ready to use.
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#36I'd love an open source DAW that was easy to use and didn't slavishly follow the UI constraints of a physical mixer (which works great on a physical mixer, but not so great when you're trying to control it with a mouse). Is there one?
What exactly would a mixer with a better ui look like?
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#37Ardour 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.
Another thing I like is the routing grid. So flexible. Along with Jack, this does add some complexity and sometimes extra manual configuration, but the expanded possibilities are worth it for me. I have yet to encounter a patching scenario I can't handle with Ardour and Jack. Including things like playing an Ardour session over Skype to a music teacher while doing real time effects processing on my guitar all while r…
Absolutely. Another added bonus: it is really easy to use Ardour as a mixer and effects plugin host for experimental synthesis software like Supercollider or PureData
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#38In time for the Linux Audio Conference in Saint-Etienne, which starts this Thursday. ( http://musinf.univ-st-etienne.fr/lac2017GB.html )
For anyone going, I highly recommend checking out the printing museum in the wonderful twisted wooden building that is the old city hall of Lyon (50km away).
Re: Ardour 5.9 released
#39If you like Ardour, consider a monthly donation! As other mentioned, it's a longtime work of Paul Davis and a close-knit community. Paul works full-time on Ardour thanks to these donations. See "Finance" sidebar at https://community.ardour.org/community
Didn't Ardour use to sell binaries? I was looking at it a while ago for inspiration on how to make money for Octave. Have they switched to a monthly subscription donation service?
If you follow the "Ready-to-Run Program" prompts on the official download page[1] as an anonymous or unsubscribed user, you will reach a page that explains their method/philosophy.
I'm sure Paul would be happy to speak to you on IRC (#ardour on Freenode) about successes/failures but of course I can't say this for sure.
Also, I am awaiting a stream of Paul's upcoming talk (as I can't get to France for LAC2017[2]) "20 years of Open Source Audio: Success, Failure and The In-Between"[3]. I hope part of the talk will address the financial aspects that are of interest to you.
[1] https://community.ardour.org/download [2] http://musinf.univ-st-etienne.fr/lac2017GB.html [3] http://musinf.univ-st-etienne.fr/lac2017/lacProgramGB.html
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#40I 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…
Things are slowly getting better if you want to run Windows VSTs under Linux. I found this very interesting as a overview of some of the current possibilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsZnSg4DKDU
It is a demonstration for a proprietary DAW, Bitwig, but he does talk a lot about Windows plugins under Linux that I imagine applies to Ardour as well.