Audience

Anyone interested in a solution to record, edit, mix and master audio and MIDI projects

About Ardour

Grab yourself a nice audio interface. Plug in a microphone or a keyboard. Add a track, press record, and you got it. Cut, move, stretch, copy, paste, delete, align, trim, crossfade, rename, snapshot, zoom, transpose, quantize, swing, drag, drop. Import audio or MIDI from your hard drive or the Freesound database. All with unlimited undo/redo. All in the same window. Mute, solo, fader, automate, EQ, dynamics, insert, send, pre-fader, post-fader, sync, monitor, isolate. Floating point fidelity, the most flexible mixer architecture in the industry, hundreds of plugins, and external control surfaces. Ardour's 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.

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Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5
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Founded: 2008
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Platforms Supported
Windows
Mac
Linux
Training
Documentation
Support
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Ardour Product Features

Audio Editing

Record Live Audio
Export Audio (Multiple File Types)
Record Multiple Simultaneous Tracks
Virtual Mixing
Virtual Instruments
Swappable Patches
Batch Processing
Scrub, Search, Bookmark
Audio Effects
Spectral Analysis / FFT
Speech Synthesis (TTS)
Voice Changer
Sound Editing Tools

Ardour Verified User Reviews

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  • An Ardour User
    Engineer
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 1 - 25
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    Ease
    Features
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    "Intuitive workflow, stable, powerful, customizable, open source"

    Posted 2025-11-11

    Pros: I really like the workflow and gui- very intuitive- signal flow mimics an analog mixing console. My primary usage is with Ubuntu (Linux) but I have used the Windows version also.

    Cons: Nothing significant comes to mind- I've not yet hit a roadblock or wtf moment after several years of use, releasing a handful of songs along the way.

    Overall: An excellent multi-platform open source DAW that is the foundation for the commercial software Harrison Mixbus

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