Ardour 5.9 released
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Ardour 5.9 released
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#2In time for the Linux Audio Conference in Saint-Etienne, which starts this Thursday. (http://musinf.univ-st-etienne.fr/lac2017GB.html)
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#3Ardour 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.
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#4I 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.
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#5I 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.
For people without any audio knowledge (potentially: Just me..), can you expand what you're trying to do with your microphone and how Ardour helps?
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#6If 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 )
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#7I 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.
For people without any audio knowledge (potentially: Just me..), can you expand what you're trying to do with your microphone and how Ardour helps?
He's trying to make his audio easier to listen to by using various effects provided by Ardour. The most significant of what he listed is the compressor, which is great for spoken podcasts. It will take any sound that is over a certain threshold and start to to reduce it's volume (eg. compress it), so if he's talking really quietly and then yells something really loud, the person listening isn't subjected to as large of a volume range in their ears.
The limiter just limits the maximum volume, and I'm not sure why he's using an expander.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
For people without any audio knowledge (potentially: Just me..), can you expand what you're trying to do with your microphone and how Ardour helps?
He's trying to make his audio easier to listen to by using various effects provided by Ardour. The most significant of what he listed is the compressor, which is great for spoken podcasts. It will take any sound that is over a certain threshold and start to to reduce it's volume (eg. compress it), so if he's talking really quietly and then yells something really loud, the person listening isn't subjected to as large…
After comp/limit, a little expander can make the audio less dull sounding.
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#9I 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 application, the other starts as well.
In general though the potential in JACK just seems awesome, it's almost as intuitive as just routing patch cables in meatspace and I can't wait to get into it more. It also seems like something that'd be brilliant for a touch-screen.
I'm considering setting up another partition just for audio work.
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#10I 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 improved since.