Ardour, free and open-source digital audio workstation | Ardour DAW Ardour is an open source, collaborative effort of a worldwide team including musicians, programmers, and professional recording engineers Development is transparent — anyone can watch our work as it happens
Ardour 8. 12 — Whats new | Ardour DAW The open-source cross-platform digital audio workstation What's new in the latest release of Ardour Features; Download; What's New; Learn; FAQ; Community; Ardour 8 12 released March 11th, 2025 Ardour 8 12 is a hotfix release that contains an improved (hopefully correct this time) fix for a critical workflow-blocking bug
Features - Ardour DAW VST plugin support on Windows allows access to hundreds or thousands of plugins from dozens of manufacturers Linux VST support provides access to High quality proprietary plugins on Linux from Loomer, Pianoteq Modartt Excellent open source plugins from Distrho and others
Ardour Community Ardour - the open source, cross-platform DAW Below (and above) you'll find several links that will take you to different parts of the site to allow you to download the program, talk to developers or other users, file bug reports and more
Best places to get open source plugins instruments? What are the best sites that offer open source VST instruments and effects that will work on Windows 10? Also if in the future I decide to buy them will the Native Instruments plugins work from within Ardour? Sorry for the newbie questions but I’ve never used a DAW before
ARA is now Open Source - Ideas for Ardour - Ardour Celemony put ARA on GitHub It’s now OS (Apache V2) :slight_smile: → GitHub - Celemony ARA_SDK: Umbrella installer for all ARA SDK submodules Will there be an integration on Ardour MB any time? :blush:
Ardour Support - Ardour Community If the issue is not mentioned, open a new Bug and state how you think Ardour could become better (remember to use clear language; be specific and verbose in you description - we have a hard time reading minds) Please read our guide for writing good bugs reports
OpenSource - PlugIn Base stack - Ardour This is why Audio Distros exist… taking the DAWs and adding all the required special configs, curated Plugins and helper applications This is not the job for the DAW developers, especially Ardour, they have enough on their plates for all of the reasons mentioned above