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The name <dfn>"Ardour"</dfn> came from considerations of how to pronounce the
acronym <abbr title="Hard Disk Recorder">HDR</abbr>. The most obvious attempt
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sounds like a vowel-less "harder" and it was then a short step to an
unrelated but slightly homophonic word:
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<dfn>ardour</dfn> <em>n</em> 1: a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in
favor of a person or cause); "they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor";
"he felt a kind of religious zeal" [syn: ardor, elan, zeal]<br>
2: intense feeling of love [syn: ardor]<br>
3: feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor" [syn:
ardor, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness]
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Given the work required to develop Ardour, and the personality of its primary
author, the name seemed appropriate even without the vague relationship to
HDR.
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Years later, another interpretation of "Ardour" appeared, this time based on
listening to non-native English speakers attempt to pronounce the word.
Rather than "Ardour", it became "Our DAW", which seemed poetically fitting
for a Digital Audio Workstation whose source code and design belongs to a
group of collaborators.
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