Digital audio workstations
The digital audio workstation is to music editing what Photoshop is to graphic editing: an all-singing, all-dancing piece of software for recording, editing and mixing all sorts of audio. Traditionally DAWs have been complex, expensive and decidedly proprietary – think things like Pro Tools – but there are great Linux alternatives.
Ardour is an open source, collaborative effort of a worldwide team. Over the past few years it has has undergone quite a few changes, so we’ll be giving that primary focus. We’ll also look at Qtractor very briefly – if you would like to know more, see LXF242 for a proper rundown.
Although has plenty of MIDI capabilities, its MIDI editing prowess isn’t highly regarded, so we’ll just focus, and leave MIDI and some other areas to . ability to control group faders with one controller, Lua scripting, a new plug-in wiring system and at last, built-in plug-ins for basic effects.
