Ardour Windows

[Alexia Borson]

Ardours 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.

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.

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.

Ardour's source-list makes it easy to organize and navigate even large amounts of clips and tape. Multiple ripple-modes make editing both simple two-mic episodes and tape-heavy features a breeze. The integrated freesound.org search provides for easy access to thousands of clips and jingles.

AudioUnit, LV2, VST (v2 & v3) 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.

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.

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.

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.

This openness forces a kind of integrity on the project that is hard to find in proprietary software, and helps us to focus on issues and features that matter to our users rather than stuff that just looks good in advertisements.

These are automatic builds of the Ardour Digital Audio Workstation (latest git developer version) intended for testing only.They are created every 24 hours, usually in the early morning UTC but the actual time varies.See Ardour Git Log for recent changes.

Compatible with Windows 7 and any later version.

The Windows installer will replace the current version.

Note: The application is not digitally signed. If you are running Windows 11 and receive a message about "Ardour is not commonly downloaded", please read these instructions.

Note: If Ardour did not exit cleanly, uninstalling or replacing an existing installation willfail to replace font-files included with ardour. You can ignore this or fix it by rebooting the system.

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I have so far installed ardour5 from both testing and community, and ardour6-git from AUR. All behave the same on my system: I see some initialization logging in console. That's it. Process doesn't end, resources aren't used excessively, no error log, no GUI. Here is the console output

When the on-screen Redux keyboard keys are clicked, they show as such by becoming grey and a sound is made. When the computer keyboard is used, the corresponding on-screen key becomes grey, but no sound is heard. Seems (sounds) like a bug. Redux demo version, Linux Mint 17, Redux used as a plugin for Ardour. External MIDI keyboard works fine.

So far the keystroke is received by Redux since the hexagonal on-screen key responds. It is not clear that after receiving it, a desktop manager would prevent subsequent handling within the Redux application. Any idea how this could be ?

Just a thought. As a quick (only partial, as phrases would have to be edited with the mouse) side step around that unimplemented function for the moment. It may be possible to use VMPK (which turns your QWERTY into a piano keyboard) to send midi notes into ardour and then ultimately Redux

Hello,

in a JUCE plugin i have a secondary juce::DocumentWindow. Is there a way that this window stay on the top?

My problem is when i use it with the DAW Linux Ardour, if i clic on Ardour main window, then Ardour window goes on the front of it, so my DocumentWindow disappears on the back of it (the main plugin window stays in front).

This problem does not occur with MacOS Ardour or LogicPro.

May be is it a problem with Ardour on Linux?

Thanks,

Frdric.

In general, having secondary windows detached from the main plug-in UI causes this kind of issues sooner or later, it depends on several factors (OS, DAW, etc.) and, unless you test on all those combinations, you can never be sure it works the intended way. And even then, an update may come out that breaks something, and you have to start over.

In JUCE, the plug-in developer controls the size of the UI by calling setSize() on the main editor component. You can do so for example on the click of a button like in the case of BREVERB 2, toggling between two sizes. Obviously, when you change the size of the plug-in, you should also update the UI by adding/removing/rearranging the Components as you see fit.

Maybe it has something to do with this: -browser-windows-not-opening-in-plugins/107663. If I understand correctly, Ardour blocks the file browser because it is not realtime save. However, a workaround is also described there.

Hi,

I want to use pianoteq on my linux sistem with ardour or lmms.

With vestige under lmms I'm unable to load pianoteq because I cant't find the VST lib file.

How I can use pianoteq under that software?

Is it possible or pianoteq is only a standalone software?

With lmms you can only use the linux vst version. You to not use vestige which is use when working with Windows VSTs which is not required because Pianoteq and a native linux VST. You need to set the VST directory in LMMS in the Edit->Setting->Path to point to the directory where you have installed the Pianoteq plugin. In linux systems linux VSTs are commonly installed to /usr/lib/vst, but this may vary by distribution. Also, if you rename the Pianoteq vst plugin to "Pianoteq_2chan.so" then Pianoteq will create a 2-channel plugin, rather the default 5-channel plugin.

Thanks for the reply.

I tryed to configure ardour but I don't find the correct feature for select external vst or lv2.

For lmms, I copied Pianoteq.so under the vst plugin but how I select this vst from the interface?

There are some how-to?

I do not know much about LMMS so I cannot help you there. As for Ardour a basic intro is here:

Look at the "Using Plugins" section - you need to create a midi track and insert the Pianoteq plugin. Ardour looks for LV2 plugins in the directories defined in environment variable LV2_PATH. Typically, this might be /usr/lib/lv2. You need to install the Pianoteq lv2 plugin to this directory. There are lots of Ardour tutorials on youtube.

Best latency is obtained using Ardour and Jack server: sudo apt-get install ardour will install both. No need to change the kernel but the file /etc/security/limits.conf must be edited as root: run sudo gedit /etc/security/limits.conf in a terminal and add these 3 lines at the end:

You must be in the audio group. Check using the id command and if needed run sudo adduser $USER audio or if you prefer, install users and group management): click advanced for your user then select "use audio device" to be in audio group then reboot .

Note2: "audio configuration" tab in "Session windows" is displayed when you first launch Ardour: it can be used to set jack parameters (buffer, latency, real time). When you rerun ardour, it is not displayed until you kill jackd (command: killall jackd). But you have the same setting for latency in the jack menu in the main Ardour window or in qjackctl (another application to control and set jack parameters outside Ardour)

When starting Ardour, it will show a "Session Setup" dialog (this may be obstructed by the splash screen, use the taskbar to bring the dialog forward, or Alt+click the window to move it). A session stores the Ardour state and Data for a project. Click the "New session" button at the top of the dialog to follow on with this article, otherwise a pre-existing session may be opened.

In the next "Session setup" dialog, select a session template depending on the work planned - to follow on with this article, select "Recording session". The session can be given a descriptive name, and the location to save the files can be chosen. Click "Open" once everything is correctly selected.

In the next ("Audio/MIDI setup") dialog, configure the audio setup. To follow the rest of this article, select JACK, which is a good choice for audio quality, latency, and flexibility - JACK must be properly installed and configured, and the global "jack" USE flag should probably be set. Choose the sound device (with jack, all inputs and outputs necessary should be on the same device). Change any other parameters necessary, though the defaults will probably be fine. When done, click "Start" to launch JACK (if it is not already running, and if "Autostart" was left enabled), and open the main Ardour windows.

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