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-<p>Ardour is a professional tool for working with audio and MIDI.</p>
+<p>
+<dfn>Ardour</dfn> is a professional digital workstation for working with
+audio and MIDI.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Ardour is meant for...</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...</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>
 
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