Ardour VS ZbigZ

Ardour Reviews

1. Guto Santana    

   Director at LAS Cons Art EIRELI | over 1 year 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.

ZbigZ Reviews

Ardour mentions (110)

• Ask HN: Is There a Blender for Music?

  Effects you can hear. [0] https://ardour.org/ [1[ https://cybershow.uk/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months 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 / 7 months 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 / 7 months ago

• Absolute beginner seeking advice

  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

• How to map multiple samples with linux-sampler?

  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

ZbigZ mentions (6)

• Filestream.me Down ?

  Disappointed to see them go. I switched to https://zbigz.com/. a week ago. $99.50/year for their premium. They have been around for awhile. In many ways they are better than filestream, and I have been with them for 6 years. Zbigz has unlimited file storage for unlimited time at unlimited length and can download as many as you like at one time. It is a great place to hold files before they get further... Source: over 1 year ago

• Seedr.cc is one of the best sites out there!

  PS: There is another site too Zbigz but seems like it does not work in my country without a VPN. Source: over 1 year ago

• Internet Download Manager Issues

  When you click 'Download' on the site(zbigz.com), it opens another tab, and this is where the built-in download manager takes over when it shouldn't. It interrupts the requests the tab was busy with, and shows the download dialog. If I close the dialog, and reload the page, then Internet Download Manager takes over properly. I think it has something to do with how browsing data is processed, which would explain... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Internet Download Manager Issues

  I am experiencing an issue where when a website(zbigz.com) initiates a download, the built in downlopad manager takes over the download, and not IDM. If I go over to private browsing, and the extension for IDM is enabled, the downloads are taken over by IDM. I've already triend disabling all my other extensions, I've tried removing vivaldi, and my profile and beginning fresh, and the issue persists. Only vivaldi... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is ZBIGZ Gone ?

  Zbigz.com seems too be down since yesterday ? Does it usually go down this long ? Source: about 2 years ago