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Ardour 8.1 released - Linux DAW for audio and music production

Ardour 8.1 is released

https://discourse.ardour.org/t/ardour-8-1-is-released/109359

Hot on the heels of 8.0, we are happy to bring you a mostly-hotfixes 8.1 release. There’s a couple of tasty new features also. The full notes for 8.0 and 8.1 are in the usual place, with the new stuff & fixes for 8.1 also listed below. Download as usual. MIDI port names for the Novation Launchpad Pro fixed, and believed to work on all platforms, and with all versions of ALSA on Linux. Earlier versions would fail to connect to the device in most cases. Varispeed dialog now all...

7 comments

scytale

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I haven't used Ardour in a while, but it's great seeing continued development and updates!

nickwitha_k

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Came here to say this. I am planning on getting a new machine around tax return season though, so, will finally be able to play with it again.

Whisp

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christophski

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In the past couple of years they've really ramped up development of tools for creating electronic music, such as the clip launcher and beat grid. I have only really used it for pro-tools style recording, when I started using it there wasn't even any midi capability. I bet it'd be pretty good for electronic music now, given the right synth plugins.

My favourite thing about ardour is the work flow and the anywhere-to-anywhere audio routing.

I've been using it for 13 years and love it!

Here's some music I used to make with Ardour, Hydrogen and Renoise: https://on.soundcloud.com/QrxQw

blindbunny

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Has anyone used the new beat mapping? That's one of the few things keeping me from using it full time.

christophski

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Not yet, I'm keen to have a go as it looks very flexible

MisterD

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What is Ardour? Software or a Linux distribution?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardour_(software)

nickwitha_k

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It's software. Think of something like ProTools or Reaper but, Open-Source and Linux-native.