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The Fix Is In: Ardour Set For Summer Release

Posted by timothy on from the young-man's-thoughts-turn-to dept.

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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  1. Binary = stable in some many people's eyes by mao+che+minh · · Score: 5, Informative
    Because a stable binary release means that it will be taken more seriously by the "every man", and major distributions will be less apprehensive about including it with their distro (binary installs are easier to upgrade and manage in todays apt-get, RPM, ports world of open source operating systems).

    A potential Linux user that doesn't have the luxury of a hand-holding-Linux-guru friend to help them install their desired software would view an easy to install binary application as a "big plus".

  2. Re:Solid audio software is the breaking point by jdkincad · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'll second that. A musician buddy of mine is really interested in trying Linux, but until there's a replacement for Cool Edit Pro there's no point in him switching. Atfer all, what's the use of an OS that doesn't have the apps that caused you to get a computer in the first place?

    --
    The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you.
  3. Re:Audacity, Freshmeat by Wumpus · · Score: 4, Informative

    How does this software compare to Audacity?

    It doesn't. Or hardly doesn't, at least. Ardour is a full featured professional recording application, designed to tackle any audio recording task you can throw at it. Have two studio quality sound cards, giving you a total of 20 cannels in/out, at 96Khz/24bit? Want to record a rock show, with live drums, backing vocals, and enough microphone cables to make AOL's server room look tidy? Ardour can handle it, and then some.

    Want to take that 20 track show, and overdub the guitars in the studio, while the whole mess is mixed in real time? It can do that, too.

    Ardour is the open source equivalent of Pro Tools (mentioned on slashodot a few days ago). Audacity isn't.

    Now, if you're not interested in any of these things, Ardour is probably overkill for you.

    And if anyone deserves the marketing here, it's Paul. Ardour is a massive piece of code, that took years of uncompensated full time work to get to its current state. It's well designed and well coded. No corners were cut in the making of this piece of software. Go get it, and pay for it.

  4. Re:Audacity, Freshmeat by groomed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ardour is a bit overkill for my needs, and Audacity is too slow for my taste, so I wrote GNUsound. You might want to give it a try.

  5. Re:ardour still not a "big boy" by theno23 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Errr... you must be thinking of something else, ardour doesn't have a phase vocoder.

    FWIW I've also supplied a few patches to ardour and have written several phase vocoders for Linux.

    - Steve