The Fix Is In: Ardour Set For Summer Release

uprightcitizen writes "Good news for the open source audio recording world! Ardour creator Paul Davis has announced a feature-freeze and has set a binary release date for the now-famous GPL multitrack audio recording application. Ardour has recently been featured in Sound on Sound and has been mentioned on Slashdot many times (here(1), here(2), etc..). The feature freeze is effective as of May 4 and the binary release date is set for sometime in July or August. Good Job Paul!"

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Nowhere close to ProTools

[smilinggoat]

Sure, Ardour does 24-bit, 96kHz recordings but that does not mean the sound is uncoloured. Hi-Fi recordings sound different on ProTools than they do on DAT than they do on Digital Performer than they do on Cubase. The algorhythms matter.

Plus plug-in support is huge. I use Cubase for the awesome VST support. ProTools is all about Audio Suite. How many recordings are made with Antares plugins (Mic Modeler, AutoTune)? Almost everything you hear from a major label these days. Until someone comes up with VST, MAS, DirectX, and RTAS wrappers (or what have you) for linux, Ardour won't be too significant.

Sure this is good for the home user, but what are you even going to record from? I tried getting my M-Audio Delta 44 audio interface to work with RedHat, but couldn't get a single bleep out of it. Hardware support is key.

Yes this is a great step forward for Open Source. But anyone doing mission-critical professional work on this versus something tried and true would be crazy.