3 The list of audio file formats that Ardour can understand is quite long.
4 It is based on the functionality offered by <dfn>libsndfile</dfn>, an excellent and
5 widely used software library by Australian programmer Erik de Castro Lopo.
6 As libsndfile's capabilities expand, so will Ardour's abilities to import
7 (and export) new formats. Ardour supports all common audio file formats,
8 including WAV, AIFF, AIFC, CAF, W64 and BWF, with all typical sample formats
9 (8-, 16-, 24-, 32-bit integer, floating point, and more).
12 A full list of libsndfile's supported formats is available on the
13 <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/#Features">libsndfile website</a>.
16 For MIDI import, Ardour will read any Standard MIDI Format (SMF) file.