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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: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