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We've just tagged the second release candidate of Ardour 9.0 and announced strings freeze, so that translators can start their work safely. Please use

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to download and test. Since Ardour 9.0 is not yet ready for production use, please do not package it for Linux distributions. We expect to tag at least one more release candidate.

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Development update: 9.0-rc2 tagged (+ string freeze)

We’ve just tagged the current code as 9.0-rc2- this is the second release candidate for 9.0. Notably, we are also announcing a string freeze, wh...

New in development: hold Shift, then click and drag to brush-paint notes at global quantization. Works in both the inline editor, the bottom editor panel, and the pianoroll window. Coming in Ardour 9.0 whenever it's ready. Patch by @npub10wtl...mp63

Mastering for different media requires extra work. Major streaming platforms have different ideas about what the perceived loudness of your music should be, and expect you to conform to them. With Ardour, you don’t have to make all these adjustments manually every time you need to export a project. Instead, you can export multiple variations of a mix from presets. Let’s learn how to do that!

Earlier this year, @Robin Gareus gave a talk at Linux Audio Conference 2025 about Lua scripting in Ardour. Here is the video of that talk

Complex sessions need organization to be manageable. You can organize tracks with color-coding and groups, but time-wise, your best tools are location markers and region markers. Here is how you can create and edit the latter

Paul Davis has just published an overview of what's likely coming in Ardour v9.0: UI rearrangement, pianoroll windows, recording in Cue, region FX, a real-time analyzer, and more

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What's coming in Ardour 9.0

Although we did a couple of hot-fix releases, it’s been quite a long time since the last planned release of Ardour. We’ve also not been respond...

We've just released v8.12 with two fixes: 1. The fix for region lengths from v8.11 was incorrect, we implemented it differently this time. 2. Translation file packaging on macOS is now correct; localization should work again on that platform. Download:

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We have just re-released Ardour 8.11 to fix a nasty UI localization bug. If you are interested in the arcane details, here is a write-up:

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Abstraction Leakage

(This post is geekery of, if not the highest order, then fairly high order. It doesn’t contain any useful information about Ardour itself, but mi...

Otherwise, if you are on Linux/macOS and use translated UI, head over to

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to re-download

When you record the same instrument in the same studio and process it more or less the same way, you can avoid doing all the configuration over and over again. All you have to do to save time is create and then use a track template. Here is how you do it

Ardour 8.11 is out with a fix for a critical workflow-blocking bug, see here for the explanation:

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Ardour 8.11 released

Ardour 8.11 is a hotfix release that contains a fix for a critical workflow-blocking bug. All users of 8.10 and all Linux distributions should upgr...

We highly recommend upgrading:

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