Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. Produce your own CDs. Mix video soundtracks. Experiment with new ideas about music and sound. Generate sound installations for 12 speaker gallery shows. Have Fun.

Ardour capabilities include:

• Multi-channel recording.
• Non-linear, non-destructive region based editing with unlimited undo/redo.
• Full automation support.
• A mixer whose capabilities rival high end hardware consoles.
• Lots of plugins to warp, shift and shape your music.
• Controllable from hardware control surfaces at the same time as it syncs to timecode.

New in v2.5

• New Features: Plugin selection via menu (per plugin "manufacturer")
• New Features: Plugin "favorites"
• New Features: Dynamic track resizing with the mouse
• New Features: Rhythm Ferret now has note onset detection as an alternative to percussion onsets.
• New Features: Make track faders display automation-driven changes
• New Features: Add "Consolidate Range" which writes a new audio file and uses it to replace whatever was in the playlist within the range
• New Features: Add "make range to next marker" and "export range" context menu items for range markers
• New Features: All GUI menu items/actions can now be activated using OSC
• New Features: New "name-new-markers-at-creation" option
• New Features: Zoom-to-region (on one or both axes)
• New Features: Fit-tracks (selected tracks sized to vertically fill editor window)
• New Features: Insert-time operation to add "silence" to the timeline
• New Features: 12 saved "view states" that save zoom levels and timeline positions
• New Features: Working latency compensation and I/O configuration for AU plugins
• New Features: Goto-wall-clock command
• At least 20 crashing bugs fixed
• Use latest version of libsigc++ (potential bug fixes)
• Use version 1.2 of RubberBand for speed & quality improvements and potential patent avoidance
• Online (and available) manual updated, including correct key binding tables
• Editor GUI is now 100% 64-bit for audio timeline values
• Never save keybindings to user's ardour directory unless they change them
• Allow keybindings to use arrow keys (GTK doesn't permit this)
• Fix for plugins-do-not-work-on-all-channels bug
• Fix track selection sensitivity botch for Import action, should have been toggle-waveform-visible instead
• Support FFT for multi channel tracks and fix analysis for tape track regions.
• Fix mix group problems caused by recursive loop when modifying gain/gui
• Make big clock stay on top even in broken desktop environments
• Fixes to correct the results of running time/pitch shifting multiple times on the same region
• Updated swedish translation
• Don't double-call JackStartFreewheeling if we're already freewheeling
• Small changes to export code to hopefully fix some bugs with range export(s)
• Minor UI fixes for clocks and Locations dialog. Prevent tape tracks from skewing the session extents
• Major fix for computing plugin I/O configuration when using mono/stereo plugins in stereo/mono tracks/busses
• Fix up scaling problems with cleanup caused by redisplaying all regions every time a file is removed
• Fix for illegal audio device selection in audio setup dialog
• Fix for plugins being shown twice in the automation menus
• Make generation of new region names scale properly rather than being O(N2)
• Reset meter peaks when meter point is reset
• Editor faders now insensitive to unmodified scroll wheel events (Alt-scroll does the same thing)
• Shange the step size for scroll-driven resizing
• Make region context menu items always operate on well-defined and reasonably obvious region selection
• Ctrl-w shortcut ("close dialog") works on plugin editors
• Make bounce range and bounce region work properly (wrong boundaries before)
• Prevent periodic auto-save from causing GUI deadlock during export-ranges
• Improve horizontal scrolling. When the playhead is moved past the end marker, the canvas will alter its boundaries as needed. The Zoom to Session button will now reset the canvas size to start-2-end plus a little extra after end, so the end marker is visible.
• Move the Enable Track Meters option to Metering menu section
• Removing sends now cleans up fully, preventing problems when adding sends again later
• Check both whole-file and part-file regions when adding to the visible region list, and do not show regions that are region list equivalent with existing entries
• Fix up checks for whether the track height is too small for the name highlight. Fixes irritating issue with 31 pixel height tracks having small waveforms but no name highlight.
• Make "feature lines" always be the right height as tracks resize
• Nudge clock now has a default value of 5 seconds, not zero
• What used to be the pink recording rectangle is now blended into the recording regions so that they appear to be the same thing. Then recording specific colors are added so the waveform and region base when recording are all various shades of red during recording. *** Open Theme Manager and click Restore Defaults for these changes to apply ***