Ardour
Ardour is a powerful
digital audio workstation that gives you everything you need to record,
edit, mix, and arrange professional audio. It is similar to other
software like ProTools, Nuendo, Sonar
and Logic, and capable of replacing analog or digital tape
systems.
Specifically, Ardour is a multichannel hard disk
recorder (HDR) and digital audio workstation (DAW). It can be used to
control, record, edit and run and complex audio setups.
Ardour supports pro-audio interfaces through the ALSA project,
which provides high quality, well design device drivers and API's for
audio I/O under Linux. Any interface supported by ALSA can be used with
Ardour. This includes the all-digital 26 channel RME Hammerfall, the
Midiman Delta 1010 and many others.
Ardour has support for 24 bit samples using floating point
internally, non-linear editing with unlimited undo, a user-configurable
mixer, MTC master/slave capabilities, MIDI hardware control surface
compatibility. It supports MIDI Machine Control, and so can be
controlled from any MMC
controller and many modern digital mixers.
Ardour contains a powerful multitrack audio editor / arranger
that is completely non-destructive and capable of all standard
non-linear editing operations (insert, replace, delete, move, trim,
select, cut / copy / paste). The editor has unlimited undo / redo
capacity and can save independent "versions" of a track or entire piece.
Ardour's editor supports the community-developed LADSPA plugin
standard. Arbitrary chains of plugins can be attached to any portion of
a track. Every mixer strip can have any number of inputs and outputs,
not just mono, stereo or 5.1. An N-way panner is included, with support
for various panning models. Pre- and post-fader sends exist, each with
their own gain and pan controls. Every mixer strip acts as its own bus,
and thus the bus count in Ardour is unlimited. You can submix any
number of strips into another strip.
Ardour's channel capacity is limited only by the number on
your audio interface and the ability of your disk subsystem to stream
the data back and forth.
JACK (the JACK Audio Connection Kit) is used for all audio
I/O, permitting data to be exchanged in perfect samplesync with other
applications and/or hardware audio interfaces.
Ardour is sample rate and size neutral - any hardware formats
from 8 to 32 bits, rates from 8kHz to 192kHz. Internal processing in
32/64 bit IEEE floating point format.
Features include:
- Unlimited audio tracks and buses
- Multichannel recording
- Non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo
- Adjust
everything about your session and its timeline layout
- Trim regions, crossfade by dragging,
timestretch useful samples, split and regroup audio, move
non-contiguous selections around, identify and use song chunks
- Full automation support
- Automatic track delay
compensation
- Sample accurate automation
- Powerful mixer
- 32
bit floating point mixer offers endless headroom and guaranteed
bit-for-bit fidelity for 24 bit samples
- Mix any
number of tracks that your hardware can handle, and you can use both
MMC and generic MIDI control surfaces to manage the mix
- Unlimited tracks/busses/plugins
- Timecode synchronization
- Hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control
Universal
- Relies on plugins to enable many features from FX
processing
to dynamics control
- Supports the LADSPA
plugin API
- More than 200 LADSPA & LV2 plugins freely
available
- Runs with any hardware supported by JACK
- Supports a wide range of audio-for-video
features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample
rates
- Standard file formats (BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF, CAF
& more ...)
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