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