Ardour is an open source, collaborative effort of a worldwide team including musicians, programmers, and professional recording engineers. Development is transparent — anyone …

But if you're hoping to modify Ardour or get involved in our development process, or don't want to or cannot pay for our pre-built versions, this is where to start.

Discover all the features of Ardour for recording, composing, editing, mixing, and mastering

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 on Windows (2021) Ardour runs on Windows. You can download it from the regular download area. It runs identically to the Linux and macOS versions. Currently, we support …

Ardour (and all advanced digital audio software) will work better if you use a professional or semi-professional audio interface that is capable of simultaneous playback and recording.

As part of work on features that will be exposed in version 9.0, Ardour now features parallelized disk I/O (reading and writing audio & MIDI to storage). This lets us use those extra cores in …

Welcome to the Ardour Community Below (and above) you'll find several links that will take you to different parts of the site to allow you to download the program, talk to developers or other …

Ardour is "libre" software, with a bit of the "gratis" thrown in. If you want the convenience of using our ready-to-run version and/or for support from Ardour developers and experienced users, we …

Ardour Table of Contents Part I: About Ardour 🔗 Ch. 1: About Ardour's documentation Ch. 2: Ardour Overview Ch. 3: Why is it called Ardour? Ch. 4: Why Write a DAW for Linux? Ch. 5: …