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<dfn>Ardour</dfn> is a professional digital workstation for working with
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audio and MIDI.
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<h2>Ardour is meant for…</h2>
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<h3>Audio Engineers</h3>
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Ardour's core user group: people who want to record, edit, mix and master
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audio and MIDI projects. When you need complete control over your tools, when
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the limitations of other designs get in the way, when you plan to spend hours
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or days working on a session, Ardour is there to make things work the way you
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want them to.
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<h3>Musicians</h3>
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Being the best tool to record talented performers on actual instruments has
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always been a top priority for Ardour. Rather than being focused on
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electronic and pop music idioms, Ardour steps out of the way to encourage the
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creative process to remain where it always has been: a musician playing a
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carefully designed and well built instrument.
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<h3>Soundtrack Editors</h3>
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Sample accurate sync and shared transport control with video playback tools
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allows Ardour to provide a fast and natural environment for creating and
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editing soundtracks for film and video projects.
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<h3>Composers</h3>
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Arrange audio and MIDI using the same tools and same workflow. Use external
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hardware synthesizers or software instruments as sound sources. From sound
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design to electro-acoustic composition to dense multitrack MIDI editing,
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Ardour can help.
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<h2>Ardour features…</h2>
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<h3>Audio and MIDI Multi-Track Recording and Editing</h3>
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Any number of tracks and busses. Non-linear editing. Non-destructive (and
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destructive!) recording. Any bit depth, any sample rate. Dozens of file
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formats.
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<h3>Plugins with Full Sample Accurate Automation</h3>
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AudioUnit, LV2, LinuxVST and LADSPA formats. FX plugins. Software
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instruments. MIDI processors. Automate any parameters. Physically manipulate
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them via control surfaces. Distribute processing across as many (or as few)
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cores as you want.
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<h3>Transport Sync and External Control Surfaces</h3>
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Best-in-industry sync to MIDI timecode and LTC. Send and receive MIDI Machine
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Control. Sync with JACK transport and MIDI clock. Dedicated Mackie Control
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protocol support, pre-defined mappings for many MIDI controllers plus dynamic
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MIDI learn. Use OSC to drive almost any operation in Ardour.
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<h3>Powerful Anywhere-to-Anywhere Signal Routing</h3>
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Complex signal flows are simple and elegant. Inputs and outputs connect to
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your hardware and/or other applications. Use sends, inserts and returns
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freely. Connections can be one-to-many, many-to-one or many-to-many. Tap
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signal flows at any point. If you can't connect in the way you want with
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Ardour, it probably can't be done.
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<h3>Video Timeline</h3>
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Import a single video and optionally extract the soundtrack from it. Display
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a frame-by-frame (thumbnail) timeline of the video. Use a Video-monitor
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window, or full-screen display, of the imported video in sync with any of the
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available ardour timecode sources. Lock audio-regions to the video: Move
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audio-regions with the video at video-frame granularity. Export the video,
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cut start/end, add blank frames and/or mux it with the soundtrack of the
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current-session.
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