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title: Why write another DAW?
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<p>
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There are already a number of excellent digital audio workstations. To
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mention just a few: ProTools, Nuendo, Samplitude, Digital Performer, Logic,
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Cubase (SX), Sonar, along with several less well known systems such as
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SADIE, SAWStudio and others.<br />
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Each of these programs has its strengths and weaknesses, although over the
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last few years most of them have converged on a very similar set of core
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features. However, each of them suffers from two problems when seen from the
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perspective of Ardour's development group:
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<ul>
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<li>they do not run natively on Linux</li>
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<li>they are not available in source code form, making modifications,
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improvements, bugfixes by technically inclined users or their friends
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or consultants impossible.</li>
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</ul>
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