From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Deathknell for Ardour, if SAE is backing it.

Their schools turn out tons of non-functioning recording engineers, who
mostly are "Bob Clearmountain" (top engineer) wana-be's.  With a
hugely shrinking studio business, just what we need, MORE engineers who
know very little, but think they know it all.

Ardour is a good tool though, I've yet to play with it, but the development
group is a good bunch of folks.  It also runs on multiple OS's, so it's
very "agnostic" in that regards.

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Glenn M.
"mike"  wrote in message
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> This looks interesting...
> http://www.ardour.org/
>
> ===
> Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit
> and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video
> soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.
>
> Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive
> editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful
> mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and
> hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If
> you've been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or
> Sequoia, you might have found it.
>
> Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This
> means implementing all the "hard stuff" that other DAWs ( even some
> leading commercial apps ) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a
> completely flexible "anything to anywhere" routing system, and will
> allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports
> a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback
> and pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features
> such as "persistent undo", multi-language support, and
destructive track
> punching modes that aren't available on other platforms....
>
>
>
> 15.5.2007 - London, UK - SAE Institute, the leading worldwide college
> for audio engineering, has agreed to become a corporate sponsor of
> Ardour, the open source digital audio workstation project. This major
> 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 on donations from the public and the
> dedication of creator Paul Davis
>
> This new initiative will support the further development of Ardour to
> become a viable DAW alternative for home and professional studio users,
> freely available to anyone. ....
> ===
>
>
> /m

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