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Ardour
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Copy Yes, you can start a project from scratch and end up with a great sounding track using Ardour. Specially if you use mostly audio. For those like me who use both audio and midi editing, it may easily drive you to a real nightmare. The DAW doesn't behave as you would expect. The "share regions" will get you good as you edit one region and it "magically" ruins the original one. Oh, just use copy instead of share, like they say right? Nope. It still bugs you to the bone. So you have to go manually "unlinking" every single region. Some regions may be a single note, for example, and you can miss that. Oh, so I will consolidate all regions before unlinking! Nope, there is not such thing here. Another example: You want to keep only a certain midi note on your midi track, the C3 that is you Drum Kick. You cannot do it, unless if you go deleting every single other note, one by one! Terrible isn't it? No, you cannot copy a single note through the entire track. Sometimes I managed to select a note through the track and delete it. So I took note how I did it and... Next time it's a negative! With so many different selections of tools, smart, playhead, etc, it appears the DAW confuses itself and do not respond appropriately. So... my advice to you is not to fall for what I did, which is believing Ardour can do everything it says it does, cause it doesn't. Keep simple with audio recording and editing. Do your midi stuff elsewhere and run from the nightmare I got myself into. Nevertheless, it is great cost/benefit DAW. Worthy a try. Yes, you can start a project from scratch and end up with a great sounding track using Ardour. Specially if you use mostly audio. For those like me who use both audio and MIDI editing, it may easily drive you into a real nightmare. The DAW doesn't behave as you would expect. The "share regions" will get you good as you edit one region and it "magically" ruins the original one. Oh, just use copy instead of share, like they say right? Nope. It still bugs you to the bone. So you have to go manually "unlinking" every single region. Some regions may be a single note, for example, and you can miss that. Oh, so I will consolidate all regions before unlinking! Nope, there is not such thing here. Another example: You want to keep only a certain midi note on your midi track, the C3 that is you Drum Kick. You cannot do it, unless if you go deleting every single other note, one by one! Terrible isn't it? No, you cannot copy a single note through the entire track. Sometimes I managed to select a note through the track and delete it. So I took note how I did it and... Next time it's a negative! With so many different selections of tools, smart, playhead, etc, it appears the DAW confuses itself and do not respond appropriately. So... my advice to you is not to fall for what I did, which is believing Ardour can do everything it says it does, cause it doesn't. Keep simple with audio recording and editing. Do your midi stuff elsewhere and run from the nightmare I got myself into. Nevertheless, it is great cost/benefit DAW. Worthy a try.
Effects you can hear. [0] https://ardour.org/ [1[ https://cybershow.uk/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
I'm the lead author of Ardour [0], and I'd very much like to hear more about your frustrations, since over the next 1-2 years, paying attention to non-European musical culture is one of the things I hope to focus on during development. You can reach me via the email address in my profile, or maybe use our forums at discourse.ardour.org. Thanks. [0] https://ardour.org/ <= a cross-platform open source DAW that has... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
One extra detail, something I've learned from 20 years of working on dragging all kinds of objects around the GUI of Ardour [0]: handle ALL button press and release events as drag events where there is no movement. [0] https://ardour.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
I am aware of the 'Real Tone Cable' however I am curious if this is what I should be buying if I also intend on recording my playing in a software such as 'Ardour'. Source: 10 months ago
I just loaded an instance of samplv https://samplv1.sourceforge.io/ into the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), Ardour https://ardour.org/ . Source: 10 months ago
If you produce music using a DAW, my preferred is Linux's Ardour: Http://ardour.org. Source: 10 months ago
Ardour is a free DAW that recently added a clip launcher. I've never tried it. Source: 11 months ago
If you installed a Sfizz lv2 plugin you need an lv2 host to execute Sfizz. Ardour https://ardour.org/ and Carla are https://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Applications:Carla are lv2 plugin hosts. Source: 11 months ago
Music and sound provide depth and development to science fiction worlds. Open source music production software like Ardour and LMMS provide aspiring composers and sound designers with professional-grade tools to create atmospheric and futuristic soundscapes. The TV show The Expanse uses open source soundscaping tools to create realistic soundscapes of space travel. The soundscape helps to immerse the viewer in the... - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago
Ardour (http://ardour.org/) is probably the most fleshed out one, but it's still pretty bad compared to popular commercial options. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
Self-employed. Responsible for the cross-platform DAW Ardour (https://ardour.org/) ... Work from home in Galisteo. Actually looking for a part time person, but the skills are challenging (realtime C++ plus GUI plus multithreading plus audio plus ...). Source: about 1 year ago
I personally use Ardour which is totally free but it took some time to learn how to configure and use it, and it doesn’t have any good built-in piano sounds so I had to download and configure those separately. Source: about 1 year ago
BTW: If you want to make your own multi-track recordings, check out Ardour. This is a low cost alternative to more expensive DAW software such as Cubase (which I now use). Source: about 1 year ago
I use Ardour, it's free and open-source just like Audacity, but has much better features for editing a podcast IMO. Just to name a few:. Source: about 1 year ago
[Ardour](https://ardour.org] works great for me. Source: about 1 year ago
I haven't tried EZ Drummer yet, but I might. I'm a computer nerd, so I've put together a laptop with Ubuntu Studio, and I'm in the process of getting Jack configured to reduce the Midi latency. I want to have ultimate control over everything, and may eventually write some custom plug-ins once I have it all set up to work with something like Ardour or Hydrogen. (Open-source FTW.). Source: about 1 year ago
You are looking for a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). Google is your friend. There are a few soft like ardour fully open source You will be able to import samples, write music and apply effects. They are not really good at score editing but the produced audio can be orefessiinnal grade...if you know how to use all the effect and do the mastering. Source: about 1 year ago
More or less, but the ecosystem would be quite different for someone into music production. For example there is Ardour but it's definitely not the same as Logic. Source: about 1 year ago
I'd add in a vote for Ardour. To my mind, it's the best free software DAW bar none, and great for multi-track recording: https://ardour.org/. Source: about 1 year ago
There are open source apps that are paid , for example Ardour you can compile it yourself but you need to pay for binaries and support. Source: about 1 year ago
I use, and recommend, Ardour https://ardour.org/ as a DAW. Source: about 1 year ago
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