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Ardour 8.0

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Re: Ardour 8.0

#91

I really like the UI in the sound production software. It's neat, has good colors and keep being eye candy even given the number of controls and information it provides. Is it some sort of standardized style guide for this kind of UI or everyone just takes inspiration by some industry leader products?

https://juce.com

Maybe that's what you want?

Re: Ardour 8.0

#92

I miss the "Beat Maker" interface from FL Studio. It is like Bread and Butter.

FL Studio is a very, very different DAW from most others. If you get used to it, then most other DAWs are going to feel as if they are lacking something (though they will typically have something that FL Studio doesn't have, too).

Yes, it is. It is why I still run FL Studio 10 via Wine. Never managed to replace it with anything else, and 12 just does not feel right.

Re: Ardour 8.0

#93
Congratulations Paul. For those who don't know, the creator of Ardour is active here and was (historically) very active and helpful on Linux audio lists. I learnt a lot from dicussions on there on the intracies of audio programming. While my work has shifted from Linux audio to Max/MSP these days (I wrote Scheme for Max), in the mid 2000s linux audio hacking was my gateway to the world of programming, eventually leading to a very productive career in tech. Ardour was always a huge "hacker inspiration" to me, it's a truly shining example of how much one smart and dedicated programmer can do. I'm very glad to see it still going strong.

Re: Ardour 8.0

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Looks to be a extensive update with lots of new and useful features, thanks as always PaulDavisThe1st :) Especially Arrangement and Quick Groups will be good time savers for me! > For several years, people downloading Ardour for macOS have had to deal with various kinds of messages (from Apple) saying things like "This program comes from an untrusted source" to "The file is damaged". As of Ardour 8, macOS users downl…

I don't think macOS users have any more or less responsibility paying for this software than Linux users. $100 compared to the development resources that went into this is nothing, and the developers realised that, too.

> I don't think macOS users have any more or less responsibility paying for this software than Linux users

I don't think that either, it's only a hope from my side. A hope that they recognize that the binary they are using cost someone money to generate only because of restrictions put forward by Apple.

Re: Ardour 8.0

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FL Studio is a very, very different sort of DAW than, well, just about every other DAW (including Ardour). If you were moving from Cubase, Logic, Studio One, ProTools, Digital Performer etc., then I'd say you would miss very little by switching to Ardour other than some of the builtin plugins for those DAWs. But if you have become used to the FL Studio workflow, Ardour (and the list of DAWs above) are likely to feel…

Good to know, I didn't mind Cubase's workflow per se, it's just that Cubase was 1) super buggy and unstable, and 2) ridiculously expensive, and updates cost a lot. That also factored into leaving. I'll give Ardour a try, thanks for the response and congrats on the release!

FWIW, I would absolutely recommend learning a regular linear DAW in addition to FL Studio. I'm not an FL user, I'm a heavy Ableton Live user (entirely because of Max for Live), and it is also "non-standard". There are a lot of things that are much, much faster in DAWs from the pro-tools oriented lineage and it is well worth the few seconds it takes to copy audio from one to the other at times.

Re: Ardour 8.0

#97

As usual, the lead developer (c'est moi) is happy to answer any questions.

This looks absolutely amazing. Thank you!

Totally minor feedback in case you value this kind of feedback: the website’s layout is freaking out on my iOS Safari. I can scroll sideways like four page widths and then see nothing at all. Same with the front page.

A short video if it helps: https://youtube.com/shorts/2dItDk_FtkI?si=WSsM2fgWR91IR7wU

Re: Ardour 8.0

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It is not really a commercial product, rather it follows an old, but somewhat rare, tradition of making usage slightly more difficult in order to raise funds. OpenBSD used to do the same and not provide pre-built images to raise funds via CD sales from those that could not be bothered to learn how to build images from the source code. You can certainly object to this, but I do find it reasonable as there are few good…

It's also just packaged in Debian which means any distro based on it likely have it.

"Give your stuff away for free to devs" is a pretty good idea for both free and nonfree software. (And Linux users are, for now, still likely to be developer type people than not).

Re: Ardour 8.0

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Then the binary does who knows what so in any case you are kind of bound to your trust in the vendor.

Plugins themselves never require admin access to run, the installer does.

Unless you are running your plugins in a sandbox or have different profiles for different usages, this doesn't make any difference as what is more important, your personal data is accessible from your main user.

Anyone producing music from qubesOS?

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