Ardour 8.0 Open Source DAW Now Available, Here’s What’s New

Ardour 8.0 – a major update to the open source DAW for Linux, macOS & Windows – is now available.

Here’s what’s new in Ardour 8.0:

  • “Quick groups” – most mix-related controls now operate on all the selected tracks & busses
  • Manage sections of a song with arrangement markers. Define your verses, chorus, and bridge. Then rearrange or copy them as you wish.
  • Create persistent region groups in the editor window, to make multi-region editing easier.
  • Edit velocity easily on a dedicated automation lane whether it’s a single note or a chord.
  • Draw automation freely for any controller or press Control (Command) key to enable line-drawing mode. You can also combine free and line segments as you draw just by pressing and releasing the Ctrl/Cmd key.
  • Fit the tempo map to a human performance, with a new dedicated tool.
  • If (e.g. drum) note names are available for a plugin instrument or external device (via a MIDNAM file), see those names in the all-new MIDI track header.
  • Use Novation Launchpad Pro in DAW/Session mode (along with the standalone Sequencer, Note and Chord modes).
  • Create new interesting progressions with arpeggiator plugins.

Availability:

Ardour 8 is available now to download, as both a ready-to-run program and as source code.

14 thoughts on “Ardour 8.0 Open Source DAW Now Available, Here’s What’s New”

  1. Feature rich with more new ones than in Reaper, but… I tried V7 several moths ago on Windows. Unfortunately, two crashes. After that it wouldn’t want to open it’s own project file created 10 minutes ago.

      1. allow me to help with a more professional tone – Hi there, we appreciate your feedback, we would love to look more into this to try to help if you could provide us with more details at this address.

      2. tone is everything when running a company – allow me to help you, Paul = “hi, could you tell us more about this issue so that we may take a look at it for you. kindly reach us at the following address [email protected] ” (much more professional)

        1. Indeed, tone matters. I’m going to assume you haven’t received crap “bug” reports for years and years.

          Lots of kids still learn how to format/write “proper” letters in school. That should be replaced with how to write “proper” bug reports in this day and age. If engineers had been reading good bug reports for the last 30 years, we’d probably have the flying car by now. So much wasted time.

    2. Thats not what happend, i was there with you when we installed ardour. you accidentally spilled Borscht all over the studio which made it crash’N’burn.

    3. It has been observed that my response makes it sound as if I am irritated, and I should instead have said this:

      Hi, could you tell us more about this issue so that we may take a look at it for you. kindly reach us at the following address [email protected] we would be happy to look into it.

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