3 <dfn>Ardour</dfn> is a professional digital workstation for working with
7 <h2>Ardour is meant for…</h2>
9 <h3>Audio Engineers</h3>
12 Ardour's core user group: people who want to record, edit, mix and master
13 audio and MIDI projects. When you need complete control over your tools, when
14 the limitations of other designs get in the way, when you plan to spend hours
15 or days working on a session, Ardour is there to make things work the way you
22 Being the best tool to record talented performers on actual instruments has
23 always been a top priority for Ardour. Rather than being focused on
24 electronic and pop music idioms, Ardour steps out of the way to encourage the
25 creative process to remain where it always has been: a musician playing a
26 carefully designed and well built instrument.
29 <h3>Soundtrack Editors</h3>
32 Sample accurate sync and shared transport control with video playback tools
33 allows Ardour to provide a fast and natural environment for creating and
34 editing soundtracks for film and video projects.
40 Arrange audio and MIDI using the same tools and same workflow. Use external
41 hardware synthesizers or software instruments as sound sources. From sound
42 design to electro-acoustic composition to dense multitrack MIDI editing,
46 <h2>Ardour features…</h2>
48 <h3>Audio and MIDI Multi-Track Recording and Editing</h3>
51 Any number of tracks and busses. Non-linear editing. Non-destructive (and
52 destructive!) recording. Any bit depth, any sample rate. Dozens of file
56 <h3>Plugins with Full Sample Accurate Automation</h3>
59 AudioUnit, LV2, LinuxVST and LADSPA formats. FX plugins. Software
60 instruments. MIDI processors. Automate any parameters. Physically manipulate
61 them via control surfaces. Distribute processing across as many (or as few)
65 <h3>Transport Sync and External Control Surfaces</h3>
68 Best-in-industry sync to MIDI timecode and LTC. Send and receive MIDI Machine
69 Control. Sync with JACK transport and MIDI clock. Dedicated Mackie Control
70 protocol support, pre-defined mappings for many MIDI controllers plus dynamic
71 MIDI learn. Use OSC to drive almost any operation in Ardour.
74 <h3>Powerful Anywhere-to-Anywhere Signal Routing</h3>
77 Complex signal flows are simple and elegant. Inputs and outputs connect to
78 your hardware and/or other applications. Use sends, inserts and returns
79 freely. Connections can be one-to-many, many-to-one or many-to-many. Tap
80 signal flows at any point. If you can't connect in the way you want with
81 Ardour, it probably can't be done.
84 <h3>Video Timeline</h3>
87 Import a single video and optionally extract the soundtrack from it. Display
88 a frame-by-frame (thumbnail) timeline of the video. Use a Video-monitor
89 window, or full-screen display, of the imported video in sync with any of the
90 available ardour timecode sources. Lock audio-regions to the video: Move
91 audio-regions with the video at video-frame granularity. Export the video,
92 cut start/end, add blank frames and/or mux it with the soundtrack of the