Ardour 7.2 is out

Hey friends,

yesterday Paul Davis - lead developer of Jack and Ardour - announced the release of Ardour version 7.2, with links to its release notes and downloads section:

https://discourse.ardour.org/t/ardour-7-2-released/108051

I've tested it and wrote about it yesterday as well (with a few screenshots from my system):

https://wolfgang.lonien.de/2022/12/ardour-7-2-was-released/

Amongst other things it brings the possibility to extract lyrics out of MIDI files - I haven't heard about that before, but it seems to be a thing with Karaoke and for other use cases, they had a short video about it at Fosstodon lately:

https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/109/418/007/586/256/787/original/6ba7b88a8d5a13d4.mp4

Maybe we should write lyrics in MIDI? :D Would be cool to have them in the timeline...

Anyway, if you want to give it a try, Ardour is available for free in source code or embedded into some Linux distributions, and a compiled new version like now 7.2 for the platform and OS of your choice can be downloaded for a sum of your choice, starting with 1$ I think.

The project's home page is at https://ardour.org/ and the manual at https://manual.ardour.org/toc/

Have fun,
Wolfgang

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I haven't messed with Ardour in many years. I use Bitwig when on Linux and Ableton on Win and Mac. Your post serves as a reminder to try Ardour again. Thanks

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I don't know if Ardour is as good or as far as the commercial Bitwig and Ableton DAWs for a loop- and sample-based work concept, up to version 7.0 it was more of a linear DAW like ProTools.

But yes, trying is knowing, and it isn't too expensive for that IMO :) Have fun :)

P.S.: I'm neither "recommending" nor "promoting" or "endorsing" anything, except maybe the concept of free and open source software - and I hope that this also might be useful for those who can't even afford commercial software... :)

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