Trinity Audio Group has introduced Indamixx, a hand-held audio studio designed to let you record, edit, mix, DJ and publish songs or sound files on the go.
The Indamixx touchscreen allows hands-on fader control with group-based automation in the Ardour DAW, as well as beatmixing and pitch adjustment in Mixxx, the digital DJ application.
Indamixx ships with [...]

Ardour 2.4, the latest version of the free digital audio workstation for Linux & OS X, is finally released. 
Features

on OS X, direct support for import of all file types supported by CoreAudio, including MP3 and AAC. Linux users can take comfort: there is ongoing work to offer similar capabilities on their platform.
per-track faders in editor [...]

Software manufacturers continue adding support for the AlphaTrack DAW controller from Frontier Design Group. Now you can use AlphaTrack with Mackie’s Tracktion 3 and with Cakewalk’s Guitar Tracks Pro 3.
With AlphaTrack’s touch-sensitive jog/shuttle strip, LCD display, three touch-sensitive encoder knobs, standard transport buttons, user-definable buttons, and 100mm touch-sensitive fader, you have everything you need right [...]

The School of Audio Engineering (SAE) has announced that it will become a corporate sponsor of Ardour, an open source digital audio workstation project. The sponsorship ensures continual development of Ardour as a free, community-based audio recording and production software.
Ardour has previously received corporate support from Solid State Logic and Harrison, but has primarily relied [...]

Solid State Logic has announced its involvement with the Ardour workstation and is contributing to its development by employing Paul Davis, the founder of Ardour and its key developer.
Paul is working on an agreed set of development objectives and is also co-ordinating the efforts of other Ardour developers. Our aim is to develop associated software [...]