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Ardour is an open source application for recording and composing music. It can work A with audio tracks such as recordings of instruments and it can also handle MIDI tracks, which are notes on a grid that trigger plugins. Speaking of plugins, it can handle all the major plugin formats both for instruments and effects. In the final stage of the process, it can output a finished audio file in a format such as WAV, MP3 or FLAC. It’s mainly seen as a music program, but it can also handle other types of audio projects, such as podcast recording and editing.
Ardour is capable of a lot, but it’s a complex piece of software. We’re going to take you through a few common workflows. And as we do, we’ll shine a light on some of the features that were introduced in Ardour 7.
Launching Ardour
Every time you launch Ardour, you are presented with the Session Startup dialog. From here, you can select a session to load, choose from a list of recent sessions or create a new session. Click on New Session to create a blank session. The next dialog gives the project a
