3 There is no point in pretending that Ardour is a simple, easy to use program.
4 The development group has worked hard to try to make simple things reasonably
5 easy, common tasks quick, and hard and/or uncommon things possible. There is
6 no doubt that there is more to do in this area, as well as polishing the user
7 interface to improve its intuitiveness and work flow characteristics.
11 At the same time, multi-track, multi-channel, non-linear, non-destructive
12 audio editing is a far from simple process. Doing it right requires not only
13 a good ear, but a solid appreciation of basic audio concepts and a robust
14 mental model/metaphor of what one is doing. Ardour is not a simple "audio
15 recorder"—it can certainly be used to record stereo (or even mono)
16 material in a single track, but the program has been designed around much
17 richer capabilities than this.
21 Some people complain that Ardour is not "intuitive" to use—its
23 <a href="https://community.ardour.org/node/3322">some thoughts on that</a>.