Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It runs on Linux, OS X and FreeBSD. Its primary author is Paul Davis, who is also responsible for the JACK Audio Connection Kit. Ardour's intention is to provide digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardour_%28software%29
Huh. I didn't know Paul Davis also had a hand in JACK. Educational. Had to nab the little blurb/quote from Wiki instead of the main site, Ardour can't say things simply and shortly but it sure makes for impressive salesmanship. Just reading their home page makes you want to be a professional musician/producer even if you've got no idea how to go about it XD.
Ardour3
ArdourVST3
Click for fullsize as usual... those VSTs aren't included by the way... just showing they can be used.
Hmmm, looks much better than the old Ardour2 but I still give more points to LMMS for vast improvement in the eyecandy section. One thing I really like is how there are now graphical plugin analysis for the default high pass/low pass filters. Haven't played around enough to see the major difference other than graphical. While I'm griping, I will say I wish ardour3 and ardourvst3 were compatible like in Ardour2. Maybe they are but I missed the compile option but I can't combine them into one package without getting errors for one or the other. It's a shame because now I have to upload 2 SFSs with the same dependencies only difference being the version specific Ardour libraries.
Download ardour3.5.389.sfs
Size: 43.6 MB
MD5: db21c76dd4a5aa66353039c38ba7efcc
Download ardourVST3.5.389.sfs
Size: 43.3 MB
MD5: 8054a50f31fae4b072e6055aac93e86c
Download ardour_NLS-3.5.389.pet
ardour3.5.389.sfs comes with Linux VST support, but not Windows VST support. ardourVST3.5.389.sfs comes with Linux VST support, and Windows VST support, but you'll need to install Wine to be able to run it at all. I didn't include Wine, because people might have their own Wine setup going on and I wouldn't want to mess with that.
ardour3.5.389 dependencies included in SFS
ardour3.5.389
atkmm-2.22.6
aubio-0.3.2
cairomm-1.10.0
fftw-3.3.2
glibmm-2.32.1
gtkmm-2.24.2
jack-audio-connection-kit-0.124.1
libgnomecanvasmm-2.26.0
liblo-0.26
libsamplerate-0.1.8
lilv-0.18.0
LRDF-git
lv2-1.8.0
pangomm-2.28.4
raptor2-2.0.8
serd-0.18.2
sord-0.12.0
sratom-0.4.4
suil-0.8.0
ardourVST3.5.389 dependencies included in SFS
Does not come with Wine! It was compiled with 1.5.28 but will be fine with different versions.
ardourVST3.5.389
atkmm-2.22.6
aubio-0.3.2
cairomm-1.10.0
fftw-3.3.2
glibmm-2.32.1
gtkmm-2.24.2
jack-audio-connection-kit-0.124.1
libgnomecanvasmm-2.26.0
liblo-0.26
libsamplerate-0.1.8
lilv-0.18.0
LRDF-git
lv2-1.8.0
pangomm-2.28.4
raptor2-2.0.8
serd-0.18.2
sord-0.12.0
sratom-0.4.4
suil-0.8.0
See how annoying that is? Exactly the same except for the actual Ardour package.
Anyway, I'll shut up now in case there really was an option I missed.Some comments
If you need firewire support, FFADO drivers are here.
Yup, I didn't included any plugins... go forth and find them
Actually here's the standard swh plugins, comes with GVerb (Reverb plugin if you couldn't have guessed
) and a host of other useful free plugins. People complain about Gverb's lack of presets, but I've grown quite fond of it. It's not like you can't save the presets found here.Download swh-plugins-0.4.15.pet
I also compiled CAPS when I was looking for some good guitar distortion effects, but ended up using the Juicy VST instead, but CAPS is here if you want to give it a go.
Download caps-0.9.23.pet
If you have any plugin pets laying around, feel free to toss them my way and I'll stick them up here so we can all share and share alike
