Ardour.org - The Digital Audio Solution

Ardour is a digital audio workstation that works with Linux, Mac OSX, FreeBSD, and Solaris. It’s freeware and offers everything you need to get the sound you want. With Ardour, you can edit the soundtrack to your annual family vacation, next blockbuster hit, or your new band’s latest single. Ardour is fully functional and offers a bevy of editing functions. For instance, you can apply fades in real time, you can also undo/redo edits to recapture different versions of a session. Ardour’s functionality is reminiscent of ProTools and aims to be a professional –grade audio editor. There’s multilanguage support, video-synced playback, and destructive track punching modes among other features. You can also use Ardour to record. Don’t forget, it’s completely free.

“Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.”

Ardour offers a good free alternative to costly editing tools like ProTools. It works for both amateurs and professionals and is constantly being upgraded and tweeked as per user feedback.

Is Ardour as good as the standard industry editors? Will it attract professionals? Or will they stick with what they know?