Ardour
Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation (DAW) application. It runs on Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows.
Features
Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows. Its primary author is Paul Davis, who is also responsible for the JACK Audio Connection Kit. Ardour is intended to be digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use.
Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version two or any later version), Ardour is free software. Users who download from the project’s website are asked to pay at least $1 for downloading prebuilt binaries of Ardour; those users then have the right to obtain minor updates until the next major release. Another option is to subscribe, paying $1, $4 or $10 per month. Subscribers can download prebuilt binaries of all updates during the subscription period. (This makes Ardour an example of commercial free-libre software.) Without paying, users can download the full source code for all platforms, or a prebuilt demo binary which ceases playback after various time periods. Several Linux distributions also provide prebuilt binaries, free of any software restrictions, as part of their repositories.
System Requirements
- Version ↓
| # | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 400mhz Intel Pentium equivalent CPU | 1-3GHz Processor, Athlons dual CPU system |
| 2 | 1GB RAM | 2GB RAM or more |
| 3 | JACK Audio Connection Kit | qjackctl |
| 4 | 350MB for linux & 600MB for macOS of disk storage available | |
| 5 | Any of the audio cards based on the ICE1712 or ICE1724 chipsets will work well (Terratec and M-Audio use these, as well as the EZ8), and the Ensoniq cards and onboard chipsets | The RME Hammerfall series and the M-Audio Delta series audio interface |
| 6 | M-Audio Delta 44, 66 or 2496; 2-12 channelsM-Audio Delta 1010 | RME HDSP, RME HDSPe; more than 26 channelsRME MADI |
Developer
Paul Davis, David Robillard, Robin Gareus, Nick Mainsbridge, Colin Fletcher, Ben Loftis, Tim Mayberry, Other contributors
Written in
C++, C, Python, Lua, Shell, GTK+
Initial Release
23 September 2005
License
GPL v2
Categories
Alternatives
Digital Audio Workstation
LMMS
Notes
- System Requirements in detail can be seen here & here
- Ardour is an ‘unsigned application’, so OS X and later might ask for extra confirmation the first time you run it.
This page was last updated with commit: Following: - Fixed: missing sources for features now added - Removed: Google Analytics Async (deprecated) - Added: missing aria-labels to input elements - Updated: partials/seo.html code for new data structure - Fixed: changed aria-label to title for span and divs - Fixed: color of status icon on softpages not appearing correctly (5221a6e)