Professional music production with Ardour
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Version 4.4 of the free Ardour digital audio workstation impresses with optimum stability and well-conceived, functional extensions.
The Ardour project introduced version 4 of its music production suite in April 2015. As is often the case with version jumps, the software experienced several inconsistencies and errors, as well as many new capabilities. Version 4.4 [1], which was released in mid-October 2015, has been tidied up; it features new developments (Figure 1) and is even leaner and more stable than its predecessor.
You can now complete many tasks more easily than before without having to forego tried and tested complex methods. For example, Ardour 4.4 is immediately ready for use on a system without a JACK audio server – it just uses ALSA as an interface. Of course, the performance of this combination is greatly inferior to a setup with JACK.
If you then install the JACK Audio Connection Kit and fire it up before starting Ardour, you'll get not only the full performance you're used to with Adour 3, you'll get even more. (See also the "Ardour Anywhere – Even Without JACK" box.)
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