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Donationware Audio Workstation: Ardour 2.0 Released

May 02, 2007
Ardour 2.0

Ardour is one of the most advanced DAW enviroments developed in the Linux OS. Today version 2.0 was released with a bevy of fixes and feature upgrades. Gearwire will be bringing some tutorials on Ardour 2.0 in the coming weeks so stay tuned in for that.

Like some previous versions Ardour 2.0 will run under Mac OSX 10.4 and up, but requires some additional utilities. The X11 utillity as well as the Jack OSX driver server will cover you there.

Here is what the new version will be offering over the last stable version (0.99):

  • new user interface featuring:
    • more accessible menus
    • improved overall GUI design
    • instant accelerator key rebinding direct from menus
  • destructive recording ("dubbing") capabilities (as used by the new Harrison Xdubber)
  • undo/redo across program startup/shutdown
  • redesigned and more stable support for VST
  • support for 24 bit integer native files in addition to 32 bit float as in 0.99
  • modular support for hardware control surfaces, including the Frontier Designs Tranzport and Mackie Control Protocol devices
More info can be found at the official Ardour website

Dan Agosto is a media producer for Gearwire

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I think it looks very nice!

By: Ben
I think it looks very nice! Good to see the Linux based DAW is progressing as well, even though I am not really a linux user myself, you never know what the future brings. I mean who knows.. Linux might be the next best platform. Very stable, customizable.. (is that a word?) and not bound to follish limitations Vista offers under the hood. For now it's Windows or Mac, mainly. I would love to see an alternative, as a Mac is - for me- quite expensive and Windows is aiming more and more towards security rather than towards functionnality. Just my 2cts...
Wed, 2007-05-02 16:33

Oh and one more

By: Ben
Oh and one more thing: "undo/redo across program startup/shutdown" This is brilliant! I hope Steinberg goes along with those kind of upgrades to the total recall plan.
Wed, 2007-05-02 16:36

umm, hold on

By: dagosto
So I downloaded it and got it to work after figuring out JackOSX and getting X11 installed. Can't say I was very impressed. I futzed around with it for a little bit. It is a bit wonky but it may just be I need to get used to it. I got it to record and exprt a file after a little while but then it crashed and I gave it up. Perhaps I'll get back to it in the future but right now it's Logic on the mac for me.
Thu, 2007-05-03 13:48

Logic?

By: chris
I thought you were a Sonar guy Dan?
Fri, 2007-05-04 05:18

yeah at home. In the office

By: dagosto
yeah at home. In the office we use macs
Fri, 2007-05-04 08:36

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