Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Now in Beta

croddy writes "The first beta of the Ardour digital audio workstation has been released. A tarball is available at the Ardour project page on Sourceforge. Packagers are currently preparing binary releases for several major Linux distributions. Ardour is a professional-grade, low-latency, multi-track digital hard disk recording and mixing application designed to replace dedicated HDR systems, and software systems such as ProTools and Samplitude. It supports audio processing plugins via LADSPA. Although it is still a beta, the years of work and dedication by the Ardour development team are very much visible in this release."

Comments

Ardour?

[Bame Flait]

I can only assume that this name is a hastily composed contraction for "Are Dour," to reflect the state of the programmer's faces as they realize they've spent years coding a worthless product for a worthless OS. If they means Ardor, then send this news back across the pond where it belongs.

common

[odyrithm]

enough with the software updates, its nice yeah when something pops up that your interested in which has been the case for many myself many times I admit, but really they should be left for freshmeat.net.. wouldnt you agree?

Im sure theres many more interesting news submissions coming in than software updates..

Re:OSX

[Computer!]

I was correcting my spelling, crackhead.

You don't want "freedom."

[SlashChick]

You're not interested in "freedom" per se. You're interested in not having to pay $500+ for professional-level audio software. You're also interested in having the open-source community do a lot of work (100,000+ lines of code doesn't come out of nowhere) just so you can get a free version of ProTools.

Don't spout off about "Freedom" when you make it quite clear that you're only interested in getting a professional-level product free of charge.