Ardour

RATING:

4.7

(3)
Overview

About Ardour

Ardour is an on-premise open source solution that helps businesses upload, record, and edit audio clips on Linux, MacOS and Windows devices. Editors can extract soundtracks from imported videos, add blank frames, and route multichannel tracks to separate mixer strips. Ardour allows organizations to combine master records and individual tracks, undo/redo edits and maintain video-frame granularity across tracks. Managers can view the frame-to-frame timeline of the video and utilize the stop and forget feature to cancel a recording pass and recover disk spaces. Using Ardour’s mix groups functionality, businesses can control the basic properties of soundtracks, such as solo, record enable, or mute according to requirements. Support is extended via email and other online ...

Ardour Pricing

Ardour is an open-source and free software

Free trial: 

Not Available

Free version: 

Available

Ardour audio editing

Ardour Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4

Value for money

5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Ardour

3 Reviews

Anonymous

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2022

Great for Live performance

Perfect tool for live performance and keeps updating and upgrading.

PROS

I recently started using Ardour for live performances and have been really impressed with the cue function. It allows me to set up and trigger audio clips and sequences on the fly, without interrupting the flow of the performance. Setting up audio clips and sequences is straightforward - I can import audio files or create MIDI sequences within the program and then arrange them on specific tracks or busses. The cue function is also great for triggering automation events like changes in volume, panning, or effects processing by creating automation curves for specific tracks or busses. Additionally, I have found the clip sidebar feature to be incredibly useful. It's a dedicated panel that displays all the audio clips and sequences I've imported or created in a project, along with information about their length, color, and location within the project. I really appreciate being able to quickly and easily access and trigger audio clips and sequences during a live performance by simply clicking on them in the clip sidebar. And the ability to create folders and assign colors to audio clips and sequences within the clip sidebar makes it easy to keep track of and distinguish different elements of my live performance.

CONS

Ardour is a great DAW with regular updates. It has been a great alternative to expensive DAWs for live performance and the user interface is easy to work with. I don’t have any complaints and most of the issues I encountered have not been a deal breaker yet and there is a lot of tutorials online.

Reasons for switching to Ardour

a very good alternative for live perfomance. very easy to use

User Profile

Andry

Verified reviewer

Internet, 1 employee

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed September 2023

ARDOUR, un DAW open source professionnel

Ardour est un logiciel DAW open source polyvalent et puissant qui offre une gamme complète d'outils pour l'enregistrement, l'édition, le mixage et la production audio. Il offre la possibilité de synchroniser le son avec la vidéo.

PROS

Ardour offre une large gamme de fonctionnalités pour l'enregistrement, l'édition et le mixages de divers formats de fichiers audio, ce qui facilite l'intégration avec d'autres logiciels et matériel audio. Il peut être utilisé avec des instruments virtuels, des effets externes et des contrôleurs matériels. Il prend en charge aussi la synchronisation vidéo pour la post-production sonore.

CONS

Par rapport aux DAW commerciales, Ardour possède une sélection plus limitée de plugins inclus de base. La configuration et l'intégration de matériel audio externe peuvent-être plus complexes surtout pour ceux qui débute.

Reasons for switching to Ardour

En raison de ses nombreuses fonctionnalités, la prise en main de Ardour pourrait-être rude pour les nouveaux utilisateurs, en particulier s'ils ne sont pas familiers avec les DAW.

Damien

Music, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 2021

Missing information

PROS

This software had all of the 10 features in the comparison. There are a lot of help resources due to the very large community of developers and users, and lot of tutorials. this software has no limit of the number of tracks and the number of channels.

CONS

The timestretching algorithm (rubberband i think) )is a little less efficient than protool's for example