From: mike 

This looks interesting...
http://www.ardour.org/

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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. ....
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