I've been struggling to build an all linux dedicated recording box which theoretically should be the finest possible machine for such service. I am a longtime user of Linux preferring Slackware and compiling from source and, in fact, I first installed Ardour years ago when there was absolutely no help understandably I think due to the author's desire to not be slammed with help requests.
#Ardour 2.5 for free
It's not that I am unaware or not thankful for what appears to be such an outright GIFT as polished and powerful as Ardour seems to be,and for free no less, and I respect and prefer labours of love over merely money motivated endeavors, but does it have to be so difficult to just get started? Or am I missing some stash of tutorials or user-specific help forums somewhere? Or has it been newly improved in this regard? Thanks Jimmyįirst of all mad props to dawhead for authoring Ardour. Maybe it's that I respond well to tutorials available in other DAWs to get the jump start to start working right away to fuel my desire to keep exploring, or maybe it's that I got turned off somewhat by such an early version.
#Ardour 2.5 install
Unless this has somehow changed Ardour, I have to say that regrettably and despite my willingness to work at software, I found Ardour a bit daunting, not to install but rather to use.
#Ardour 2.5 mac
Admittedly I have not tried Ardour on a Mac which despite it's other (and considerable) restrictions, has a reputation for being user friendly, even intuitive. If one calculates the cost difference vs/ the time investment required it should be obvious it would be worth the effort to learn Linux, or hire someone that does, especially considering that distros are now available that are way less geeky than in the past and even 'test runnable' via LiveCDs. Aside from the perception that 'Linux is too geeky' it seems to me that the customizabilty, extreme low latancy, and low or no cost begs to be implemented/exploited by anyone who has more brains than money and/or desires the most finely tuned equipment possible.
#Ardour 2.5 software
This screams compromise while the alternative of Linux combines the (theoretical) total freedom of hardware choice (other than some sound cards) with the software ability to not only design and/or modify the software to do a very specific job optimally (including kernel modding at the most fundamental and effective level) and eliminare altogether all the unneeded kruft so that the machine can become a finely tuned highly focused device absolutely suitable for a wide variety of types of audio recording/editing. It is painfully obvious, at least to me, how restrictive both windows and macs are due to their proprietary nature combined with their need and design standard to basically do everything for everybody. it will be in the 2.5 release.įirst of all mad props to dawhead for authoring Ardour.
LADSPA) will probably have a lot installed and use only a few. I also added "favorites" to plugin management, since anyone using free plugins (e.g.
#Ardour 2.5 code
the ardour svn code repository now contains the option to do it either the Logic way or the Ardour. click on it, which loads the plugin (not bypassed) and opens the GUI for you click on an insert slot, which gives a pulldown menu with all available plugins (organised by manufacturer in a tree structure) doubleclick on the plugin in the mixer to open the GUI then click 'Insert plugin(s)' on bottom right of this window, which will put the plugin onto the mixer, in bypass and without opening the plugin GUI. click on pluginname, then click on add (or simply double click), which adds the plugin to the list on the bottom of this window scroll and/or search a long list of plugins till you find the plugin you want leftclick on "New Plugin.", which opens a Plugin section window rightclick in plugin field in mixer, which opens a plugin/insert/send menu
AudioUnits do work now, tho I found 2 issues related to them, which I reported on mantis.
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