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Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Now in Beta

Posted by michael on from the love-of-music dept.

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."

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  1. Hmmm by stanmann · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  2. Awesome! by Luveno · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I just need to get my sound card working under Linux!

  3. Re:Ardour vs. Audacity by naelurec · · Score: 4, Funny

    Think Shrek.

    Ardour is like Shrek .. it has layers.
    Audacity is like Doneky .. it doesn't have layers.

  4. Re:My final reasons for staying on Windows are gon by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do you mean "lack of good music recording/processing software on Linux" ? It's built in the OS for crying out loud :

    Recording : cat /dev/dsp > my_music.raw
    Processing : dd if=my_music.wav of=my_shorter_music.raw bs=1k count=10
    Playing : cat my_shorter_music.raw > /dev/dsp

    Just try to do that on Windows!

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