Ardour 6.0 Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation Brings Huge Engineering Changes | Linux Today

Ardour 6.0 Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation Brings Huge Engineering Changes

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Marius Nestor
May 28, 2020

Highlights include full latency compensation that works everywhere, no matter the routed signals, global varispeed through a new a high-quality resampling engine, which also lays the groundwork for making Ardoud sample-rate agnostic, as well as cue monitoring, which lets musicians listen to the input signal and hear themselves performing at the same time. Ardour 6.0 also brings a wet recording feature that lets you record audio from any position in a Channel’s signal flow, new Snap and Grid features that are now standalone, a new pin management system to enable support of arbitrary connections between plugins, along with the ability to categorize and add metadata to plugins, and a more friendlier Plugin Manager dialog.

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Marius Nestor

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