Ardour 5.0 Open Source DAW Officially Released with Tabbed User Interface

Prominent new features of Ardour 5.0 include tabbed user interface, support for control masters (VCAs), support for tempo ramps, support for writing scripts in the Lua programming language, support for sidechaining and pin connections, plugin inline display, as well as new plugins, namely a-comp, a-reverb, a-eq, a-delay, and a-high/low pass. Additionally, Ardour 5.0 comes with Harrison’s high-quality commercial plugins, support for handling MIDI and audio to busses, Open Sound Control (OSC) support, five new color themes, a greatly improved GUI (Graphical User Interface) with lots of changes, new preferences and dialogs, better export functionality, and lots of updated plugins.