Ardour

Ardour is Article description::a professional grade, multiplatform, Digital Audio Workstation, and hard disk recorder.

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Install Ardour:

Additional software
JACK is a good audio backend choice for working with Ardour. To use Ardour with JACK, maike sure JACK is properly installed and working.

See the article on music production for software to use in conjunction with Ardour.

Configuration
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Invocation
Ardour should be found in the desktop environment menu under "Multimedia". It may also be started with the command:

Creating a session
When starting Ardour, it will show a "Session Setup" dialog (this may be obstructed by the splash screen, use the taskbar to bring the dialog forward, or +click the window to move it). A session stores the Ardour state and Data for a project. Click the "New session" button at the top of the dialog to follow on with this article, otherwise a pre-existing session may be opened.

In the next dialog, select a session template depending on the work planned - to follow on with this article, select "Recording session". The session can be given a descriptive name, and the location to save the files can be chosen. Click "Open" once everything is correctly selected.

In the next dialog, configure the audio setup. To follow the rest of this article, select JACK, which is a good choice for audio quality, latency, and flexibility - JACK must be properly installed and configured, and the global "jack" USE flag should probably be set. Choose the sound device (with jack, all inputs and outputs necessary should be on the same device). Change any other parameters necessary, though the defaults will probably be fine. When done, click "Start" to launch JACK (if it is not already running, and if "Autostart" was left enabled), and open the main Ardour windows.

A dialog will pop up, proposing to create one or more new tracks.

Quick start to audio recording
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Quick start to MIDI recording
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Troubleshooting
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