Ardour 8.10 is now available for Linux, Windows and macOS. As with the last several releases, 8.9 turned out to have at least a couple of new major issues that required a hot-fix. We believe that we have corrected issues with performance caused by scheduling of disk input/output threads (these problems tended to be system dependent, but were very real on systems where they occured). Importing SMF (MIDI) via drag-n-drop now uses the file name once again. Content-slipping a region correctly causes...

Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for people who want to record, edit, mix and master audio and MIDI projects. When you need complete control over your tools, when the limitations of other designs get in the way, when you plan to spend hours or days working on a session, Ardour is there to make things work the way you want them to.

  • slst@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    Bitwig is by far the best option on linux rn. Ardour is too barebones and focused on recording rather than midi

    • penquin@lemm.ee
      1·
      9 months ago

      He mentions something about the software he uses on windows and how he has purchased a ton of “plugins” which, again, I have no idea what they are.

        • penquin@lemm.ee
          1·
          9 months ago

          Which I assume is a pain to make work on Linux?

          • slst@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            3·
            9 months ago

            I mean it works pretty flawlessly for me and I make music all the time. Some plugins don’t work the best but most of them are working well