Ardour DAW

Free/libre digital audio workstation. Record, edit, and mix on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Website: https://ardour.org

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2026-08-19 10:23:25 UTC

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That wouldn't be entirely correct. Donations do play a part for Ardour, but much of the income arrives from subscriptions. So we actually do have a business model of sorts
~~Alex

2026-06-05 16:38:25 UTC

We've just released Ardour 9.7 with further MIDI editing improvements, a more convenient way to enable control surfaces, a brand-new vertical summary/scrollbar, and important bugfixes
Please see here for the full release notes:
https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

2026-05-21 22:24:29 UTC

Vertical summary was just a tad too late for inclusion into v9.5, but the next version will have this more visual vertical scrollbar for navigating the session
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/614/904/332/063/068/original/7f8800d22a036f41.png

2026-05-20 22:56:31 UTC

Now that we have a MIDI inspector with chords and quantization in pianoroll interfaces, why not have it in the editor? :)
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/609/365/269/151/472/original/57ce3c30595afc17.png

2026-04-13 23:10:36 UTC

The upcoming Ardour v9.3 release is going to feature easy chord insertion in pianoroll windows. You can help us improve this feature by naming & adding chords. Please see here for the background information:
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/help-ardour-by-naming-adding-chords/113178

2026-04-07 06:57:42 UTC

Something's cooking in @npub10wt…mp63's kitchen... :)
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/362/119/128/158/832/original/c5b5274477a33a92.png

2026-03-15 17:14:01 UTC

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That's the kind of feedback we'd use on a landing page if we ever had one, thanks! 😆

2026-02-06 18:00:44 UTC

If you missed our v9.0 release yesterday, here is the overview of the major changes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEFFplnYbxA

2026-02-06 00:12:02 UTC

We've just released Ardour 9.0 with pianoroll windows, cue recording and editing, region effects, a realtime perceptual analyzer, mixer strips importing and exporting, various quality-of-life improvements, and many more changes
Check out the full release notes: https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

2025-12-20 00:00:49 UTC

We've just tagged the second release candidate of Ardour 9.0 and announced strings freeze, so that translators can start their work safely.
Please use https://nightly.ardour.org/ to download and test. Since Ardour 9.0 is not yet ready for production use, please do not package it for Linux distributions.
We expect to tag at least one more release candidate.
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/development-update-9-0-rc2-tagged-string-freeze/112696/1

2025-11-02 05:38:46 UTC

New in development: hold Shift, then click and drag to brush-paint notes at global quantization. Works in both the inline editor, the bottom editor panel, and the pianoroll window. Coming in Ardour 9.0 whenever it's ready. Patch by @npub10wt…mp63
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/115/478/482/357/485/616/original/1686876d9eea74c7.mp4

2025-09-04 15:13:20 UTC

Mastering for different media requires extra work. Major streaming platforms have different ideas about what the perceived loudness of your music should be, and expect you to conform to them.
With Ardour, you don’t have to make all these adjustments manually every time you need to export a project. Instead, you can export multiple variations of a mix from presets. Let’s learn how to do that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GY5xMNT7Ls

2025-08-22 23:26:41 UTC

Earlier this year, @npub19qa…j9ad gave a talk at Linux Audio Conference 2025 about Lua scripting in Ardour. Here is the video of that talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Seg5rbvF1C8

2025-05-30 14:08:34 UTC

Complex sessions need organization to be manageable. You can organize tracks with color-coding and groups, but time-wise, your best tools are location markers and region markers. Here is how you can create and edit the latter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCQXPiiZ5eo

2025-04-06 23:01:11 UTC

Paul Davis has just published an overview of what's likely coming in Ardour v9.0: UI rearrangement, pianoroll windows, recording in Cue, region FX, a real-time analyzer, and more
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/whats-coming-in-ardour-9-0/111645

2025-03-11 23:27:04 UTC

We've just released v8.12 with two fixes:
1. The fix for region lengths from v8.11 was incorrect, we implemented it differently this time.
2. Translation file packaging on macOS is now correct; localization should work again on that platform.
Download: https://community.ardour.org/download

2025-02-06 16:46:50 UTC

We have just re-released Ardour 8.11 to fix a nasty UI localization bug. If you are interested in the arcane details, here is a write-up: https://discourse.ardour.org/t/abstraction-leakage/111341
Otherwise, if you are on Linux/macOS and use translated UI, head over to https://community.ardour.org/download to re-download

2025-02-05 17:08:11 UTC

When you record the same instrument in the same studio and process it more or less the same way, you can avoid doing all the configuration over and over again. All you have to do to save time is create and then use a track template. Here is how you do it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wae-H1gNrBQ

2025-02-03 16:54:51 UTC

Ardour 8.11 is out with a fix for a critical workflow-blocking bug, see here for the explanation: https://discourse.ardour.org/t/ardour-8-11-released/111325
We highly recommend upgrading: https://community.ardour.org/download

2025-01-29 16:03:41 UTC

You can get quick access to a small selection of hundreds of plugins easily by adding them to your favorites. Here is how you do that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMJogG9r6Gc

2025-01-22 17:09:59 UTC

Complex plugins can display tens and even hundreds of controls. You might just want quick access to a couple of them to tweak while working. That's where inline mixer controls come in handy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKl__4hJ-SY

2025-01-19 02:24:26 UTC

We will ship an updated General MIDI soundfont in Ardour 9 (whenever it's ready for release). It will sound better, but it may also sound different in some cases. Please test it and tell us what you think!
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/general-midi-synth-update/111245

2025-01-11 02:13:54 UTC

Pianoroll windows and other stories from frozen hell, by @npub10wt…mp63
Thread: https://discourse.ardour.org/t/for-all-the-pianoroll-freaks/111216/3
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/807/139/030/286/949/original/d8b8c4440a3986bd.png

2024-10-17 17:58:08 UTC

We've just released Ardour 8.10 with a few more bugfixes. The main development branch is now switching for v9.0 development
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/ardour-8-10-released/110856

2024-10-09 18:52:58 UTC

We've just released Ardour 8.9 with a couple of major bug fixes. Upgrading is highly recommended.
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/ardour-8-9-released/110830

2024-10-03 21:54:52 UTC

We've just released Ardour 8.8, a bugfix update to v8.7 with additional minor improvements
https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

2024-09-25 16:33:52 UTC

SInce v7, Ardour has the sound-on-sound recording mode, so here is a quick explainer for the three modes available
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNK3ket5tIk

2024-09-14 16:14:33 UTC

We've just released an updated build of Ardour 8.7 for macOS with a fix for greyed-out menus
https://community.ardour.org/download

2024-09-12 17:13:48 UTC

We've just released Ardour 8.7 with track dragging, combined rulers, MIDI Scene markers, parallelized disk I/O, Novation Launchkey MK4 support, and a lot of fixes
https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/125/701/878/459/973/original/22ec4664213ecb01.png

2024-08-30 14:19:50 UTC

To all the people excited about Novation Launchkey mk4, we got you covered :) Coming in the next release of Ardour with some extended support of the keyboards' features
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/051/407/306/803/990/original/687b47612fb81fbd.png

2024-08-16 14:50:39 UTC

You can control Ardour over MIDI: roll and stop transport, arm for recording, change gain/pan in tracks and busses, and do other things. Ardour ships with 50+ MIDI maps, mostly for some of the MIDI keyboards by AKAI, M-Audio, Novation, and Arturia. If there is no ready-to-use MIDI map for your particular device yet, you can create your own. Here is how you do that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9t-ZubUGHM

2024-08-06 21:03:58 UTC

Ardour ships with 50+ ready-to-use MIDI maps. So if you have a supported device, you can control basic things like transport in the program from a MIDI keyboard, and it works very nearly out of the box. Here's how you can do it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56BDrtZNhY0