Ardour 7.0 Release Marks the end of 32-bit builds; Adds Clip Launching and Apple Silicon Support
Ardour is a popular open-source digital audio workstation software that audio professionals use.
Ardour 7.0 has been in development for a little more than a year since the release of 6.9 and has come a long way since Ardour 5.0.
Let's take a look at the highlights of this release.
UPDATE
Another one today:
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FOSS digital audio workstation Ardour reaches version 7 • The Register
Ardour, a free multi-platform digital audio workstation (DAW), has released version 7.
The upgrade comes nearly two and a half years after Ardour 6, which The Reg evaluated in 2020..
Ardor is developed by Paul Davis (formerly Paul Barton-Davis, once Amazon's fourth employee) and his company Linux Audio Systems, which also wrote the JACK low-latency sound server for Linux, used in Ubuntu Studio. (The less specialized editions of Ubuntu mostly use PulseAudio, and are in the process of moving to Pipewire.)
A DAW is a high-end sound editor. You might know podcasters' favorite Audacity, while old hands might remember the sometimes controversial Atari ST tool Cubase, which started out as a simpler MIDI controller and editor then evolved into a DAW. Apple offers two: the lower-end Garageband and high-end Logic Pro.
Another one 2 days later:
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Ardour 7.0 Released
Ardour 7.0 is now available, bringing many changes and additions to the popular open source digital audio workstation (DAW), reports Sourav Rudra.
Version 7 is a major release, and it marks the end of 32-bit builds, Rudra says.