Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. Produce your own CDs. Mix video soundtracks. Experiment with new ideas about music and sound. Generate sound installations for 12 speaker gallery shows. Have Fun.

Ardour capabilities include:

• Multi-channel recording.
• Non-linear, non-destructive region based editing with unlimited undo/redo.
• Full automation support.
• A mixer whose capabilities rival high end hardware consoles.
• Lots of plugins to warp, shift and shape your music.
• Controllable from hardware control surfaces at the same time as it syncs to timecode.

New in v2.7

• Removed suggestion that users can save while disconnected from JACK.
• Corrected reversed handling of "show-editor-mixer" state on startup.
• Fixed crasher caused by changing gain with transport stopped & panner bypassed.
• Correct reverse logic for making h/w monitoring available given h/w capabilities.
• Fix confusing relabelling of plugin bypass button.
• Prevent double registration of ALSA sequencer ports.
• Correctly initialize JACK timeout parameter when starting JACK.
• Ignore triple-clicks on mute/solo/rec-enable button.
• Momentary solo/mute now works.
• Fix serious error when calculating interpolated Curve values (will cause tiny, almost certainly undetectable changes in automation and fade curves, but may also remove clicks).
• Fix quoting in TOC files wrap PBD::Thread... signals in a mutex to avoid crashing during startup as multiple threads "emit" the signal.
• Make comboboxes a little bigger on X11.
• B|B|T clocks measuring duration now use zero-based values.
• New regions created by AudioFilters (Reverse/TimeFX/Transpose) inherit all relevant settings of their ancestor.
• Fix for incorrect reading of fade out curve under a few circumstances.
• Catch exceptions while loading AudioUnits.
• Correct some glitches with playhead motion when looping/reversing.
• Fix failure when opening a session by double-clicking the session file icon (OS X).
• Fix loss of "current dialog" tracking when exiting a dialog via a button (could cause crash on next Ctrl-w).
• Detect no-installed-JACK on OS X to avoid silent crashes for new users.