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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."
I can now FINALLY ditch windows forever!
huh?
Time to dump far too many Windows tools...no more loosing work to the BSOD!
ttyl
Farrell
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Great now I can record music in my home, and publish it on the internet, and get sued by the RIAA for not paying them for the privilege of making music.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
Finally, I'll be able to sleep at night knowing I'm not illegally using some of the Windows based audio software.
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Ardour is a professional-grade, low-latency, multi-track digital hard disk recording and mixing application
Wow, so I can actually record a hard disk with this program? What do I record it on? Another hard disk? Imagining an infinite loop of hard disks...
Now I just need to get my sound card working under Linux!
Think Shrek.
.. it has layers. .. it doesn't have layers.
Ardour is like Shrek
Audacity is like Doneky
What do you mean "lack of good music recording/processing software on Linux" ? It's built in the OS for crying out loud :
/dev/dsp > my_music.raw /dev/dsp
Recording : cat
Processing : dd if=my_music.wav of=my_shorter_music.raw bs=1k count=10
Playing : cat my_shorter_music.raw >
Just try to do that on Windows!
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Aww, poo baby, having to spend a couple grand on equipment to make money. What IS the world coming to? Oh wait, let's leave Musician Reality and enter Real World Reality.
Tools for automotive mechanics can cost thousands of dollars, and that's not including the computerized tools now practically required for most vehicles made since 1995 or so.
IT people spend housands of dollars on equipment, references like the Nutshell books, training, education, certification, and software.
Carpenters need vehicles, labourers, lots of tools, state license...don't forget the good ones have spend considerable time in an apprenticeship...then there's laying down the money for materials not knowing if you'll get paid...not to mention all the overhead of starting a new business...
Doctors spend HUNDREDS of thousands of dollars on education- then there's the intern period where you make shit $ for unbelievable hours. Then there's joining a practice, all THAT equipment(you think YOUR equipment is expensive?), malpractice insurance...oh, and your student loans.
Fact is that any profession requires money to aquire the knowledge, experience, and tools necessary to do the job; that's why those professionals make MONEY using those TOOLS, why their SERVICES are VALUED and people PAY what we real world people like to call MONEY for those SERVICES.
While I agree this free software package is great, you need to get your(or your husband's) artist-head out of the proverbial socialist-poet-filled coffeeshop and into reality- because one free software package is not going to turn your home office into a recording studio. You're forgetting about sound deadening, a nice recording microphone, mixers, wiring, maybe even electrical work(helloooo ground loop hum!)...
Please help metamoderate.