Ardour

What is Ardour?

Ardour is a comprehensive digital audio workstation application designed for professional use. It is an open-source, collaborative effort developed by a team of musicians, programmers, and recording engineers. Ardour runs on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, providing businesses with a centralized platform to upload, edit, and manage audio content

Highlights

• Supports various input monitoring options and layered or non-layered recording modes to combine master records and individual tracks
• Allows users to undo/redo edits and identify overlapping regions across tracks using the vertical stacking mode
• Enables users to extract soundtracks from imported videos, route multichannel tracks to separate mixer strips, and view the frame-to-frame timeline of the video
• Offers a "stop and forget" feature that allows users to cancel a recording pass and quickly recover disk space
• Allows users to add blank frames in videos and lock audio and MIDI regions to the video for maintaining video-frame granularity
• Supports recording automation data and utilizing the mix groups functionality to control the basic properties of soundtracks, such as record enable, solo, or mute