#Ardour software professional#

It includes a crossfade editor and beat detection, unlimited undo/redo, and a “snapshot” feature for saving the current state of a session to a file. Editing Īrdour supports dragging, trimming, splitting and time-stretching recorded regions with sample-level resolution, and supports layer regions. All sample data is mixed and maintained internally in 32-bit floating point format. All gain, panning and plug-in parameters can be automated. Mixing Īrdour supports an arbitrary number of tracks and buses through an “anything to anywhere” routing system. Using the JACK audio, Ardour can record concurrently from both the audio card and compatible software. Self-monitoring makes it possible to apply plug-in effects while recording. Monitoring options include self-monitoring, external hardware support (dependent on sound card support), and specialized hardware support (e.g. When recording on top of existing media, it can perform latency compensation, positioning recorded material where it was intended to be when recording it. Features Recording Īrdour’s recording abilities are limited by only the hardware it is run on there are no built-in limits in its capabilities. It is free software, released under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later.

#Ardour software professional#

It is intended as a digital audio workstation suitable for professional use. Its primary author is Paul Davis, who was also responsible for the JACK Audio Connection Kit. Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application that runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows.