Ardour Reviews

1. Guto Santana

   · Director at LAS Cons Art EIRELI · almost 4 years ago
   Great for the poor man. Still needs A LOT of improvements, specially on midi editing.

   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.

0xProcessing Reviews

1. MarkB

   · Chief operating office at Ashford freight solutions · 16 days ago
   Faster carrier payouts, stronger capacity

   We run a mid-size logistics company, and our biggest headache was paying independent freight carriers scattered across a dozen countries. Every payout meant currency conversion fees, multi day delays, and carriers threatening to drop us for slower paying brokers. Since switching a chunk of our payouts to 0xProcessing, carriers get paid within the hour instead of within the week, and the automatic conversion means our finance team locks in costs without babysitting exchange rates. It's made us the broker carriers actually want to work with, which in an industry where capacity is everything, has quietly become one of our biggest competitive advantages.

   Competitors: BitPay, CoinPayments, CoinGate

   Pros:    Automatic conversion locks in costs without manual exchange rate monitoring

   Cons:    Requires carriers willing to accept crypto payouts
2. Barrie Grubb

   · Branch Manager at J & W Carpets · 2 months ago
   Easy to fit into our existing process

   We were looking for a way to accept crypto payments with no changes to the rest of our workflow. After reviewing payment gateways, 0xProcessing was deemed more feasible than others. The setup was simple and once it ran, never required day-to-day attention. The ability to create payment requests is hassle-free and clear for daily transaction uses; hence, there is no confusion.

   Competitors: CoinGate, RIZON

   Pros:    Quick to get started|Supports multiple cryptocurrencies|Simple payment request|Clear transaction status

   Cons:    More detailed reporting would be useful|Dashboard customization is limited
3. Cimin Cohen

   · Founder and CEO at Idea Peddler · 3 months ago
   The goal is to move BitPay in order to utilize it globally.

   Following numerous payment drops and unexpected compliance holds with BitPay, we switched our primary checkout flow to 0xProcessing. Our global clients rely on cross-border technology, services, and products. We needed a payment gateway that is used to handling payment processing and won’t raise flags about something this usual. Actually the onboarding as merchant was quite easy. The API integration into Vettrack’s custom billing stack has taken the dev team the best part of about two afternoons and the docs don’t leave much to the imagination.

   To run its day-to-day operations, Stable is used. We rely heavily on this payment links feature, which is completely automated. The VRCS feature converts incoming volatile assets to stablecoins automatically. The latter aspect alone has given adequate protection to our margins during the dips which get tied up in the afternoon. The 18 supported networks includes nearly everything our clients use. The processing time in so minimal, and we have still yet to have our first chargeback or false fraud flag since we started using it. The interface is effective but has glitches.

   Competitors: BitPay, CoinGate, RIZON, Coinbase

   Pros:    Vrcs effectively mitigates market volatility risk|Supports a wide range of native tokens and|Transparent fee structure with no hidden billing surprises

   Cons:    Ui dashboard feels overly basic for complex financial analysis|No native fiat payout options available

Ardour mentions (112)

• 24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense

  > Ok dude, you obviously never recorded anything. https://ardour.org/ is my website. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Ardour 9.0 Released

  Or get involved with the community at - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: Is There a Blender for Music?

  Effects you can hear. [0] https://ardour.org/ [1[ https://cybershow.uk/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• What Is the Future of the DAW?

  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 / almost 3 years ago

• Red Blob Games: Interactive visual explanations of math and algorithms

  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 / almost 3 years ago

0xProcessing mentions (0)