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Verified User in Entertainment
UE
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Tricky But It Works"
What do you like best about Ardour?

First, it's donationware. So you'll need to pay something, but it could be as low as $1 to get all updates for one version (or ~$40 for lifetime updates). And there's a lot of power and upgrade potential here with all these add-ons. Plus, it's a multitrack audio editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ardour?

There are TOOOOO many options for plug-ins. It feels like there's thousands, and I feel like I can barely wrap my head around most of them. Luckily, I can get by with just some basics, but still - it's difficult to not feel intimidated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MH
Sound Designer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Ardour is great"
What do you like best about Ardour?

It's great for mixing audio files and multitrack recording different music genres. I use this software on my MacBook Pro. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ardour?

To be honest I have no dislikes about this program/applications. There's no glitches and works fine for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alondra J.
AJ
Software Quality Assurance Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"A Digital Work Station for Audio Mixing, Editing and Recording"
What do you like best about Ardour?

It helps in recording, editing and mixing by using macOS, Windows and Linux operating systems. With its record feature, we can record easily by simply plugging in a keyboard or a microphone with it. It helps in importing audio from your hard drive. Its editing feature helps in cutting, trimming, stretching, moving, dragging, dropping, transposing, zooming, renaming, aligning and deleting audio easily through it easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ardour?

If you want to use this program you must have to buy any recording device for it which will be expensive and increase your cost. Most of its features are not understandable for a new user or for those who are not having knowledge of audio editing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy Recording and Sound editing with Ardour"
What do you like best about Ardour?

It is a user-friendly program that enables one to record and edit a soundtrack with ease. It is easy to learn compared to other programs like Adobe Audition.

It has other simple features which make editing easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ardour?

It will take you more time to learn if you are green in audio editing knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Media Production
UM
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Pay $1 for an Amazing Editor"
What do you like best about Ardour?

This is the smoothest my multi track editing experience has gone. What took me a year to learn for Adobe Audition, I learned in two weeks. And the cost! Either a single version purchase for $1 or more, or you can get every update for life for $45.

Upon booting up, you’ll see a drop down that says “Slide”. This is my favorite tool: it changes how the tracks respond to your edits: Ripple allows you to have trimmed content move forward automatically when you delete or move material in the same track, Slide lets you move pieces of a track without affecting the rest of the material on the track, and Lock? Best one of all: it will keep all material in place, and prevent it from moving around when you delete or change anything. That single thing by itself sped up my editing my a ton, especially since I don’t have to worry about messing up as much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ardour?

The program is split into two portions of the same window: Editor and Mixer. Editor is what I’ve been praising endlessly. Mixer is harder to work with. Mixer lets you add effects like EQ balancing and leveling, compressing and normalizing. And there are lots of options.

But most of them aren’t free - and there are WAY too many options. This is going to take me a while to get used to as a result. But it’s not all bad: I tend to use Audacity to normalize and level tracks, but use Ardour for the stability and ease of the rest of the editing.

So not too bad, honestly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
UH
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"A decent recording software that has many applications, but can be difficult to utilize."
What do you like best about Ardour?

I like how some of the simpler features of recording are easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ardour?

I dislike how that even though the software has great potential for many uses, it can be difficult to navigate and use those added applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matias H.
MH
Dr Matias Homar
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great Music Production Software"
What do you like best about Ardour?

It's a powerful DAW open coded. It's versatile and has plenty of plugin options. Under Linux distros it's a free option and as I said powerful. It uses Jack Control for audio and with the live performance kernels it's a perfect match. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ardour?

The Interface could be tweak a little bit. There are a few things about the inserts and sends that can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Photography
UP
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Feature-rich audio editing software"
What do you like best about Ardour?

Deep feature set that allows mixing and editing audio tracks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ardour?

Complicated interface for a beginner like me. Needs a program like JackPilot to be running to function on a Mac. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AS
Owner
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"An Amatuer's Review"
What do you like best about Ardour?

As one who has only slightly dabbled in audio recording, mixing, and production, I found it geared toward professionals--and fully featured, as a consequence. Now, this is exactly what I expected and wanted. Ardour was fun to learn, and the user interface is relatively pleasant to work with, especially for more technical software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ardour?

In the past I've had some platform incompatibilities that prevented me from using certain features of Ardour, but I'm surprised I didn't see more issues considering how often I have changed (and sometimes made unstable) the systems on which I run it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Heten D.
HD
CG Lead
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Awesome DAW at an awesome price."
What do you like best about Ardour?

Ardour is a very competant DAW in the open source world, and free. The fact that it can handle a wide number of commercially available VST, Ladspa and lv2 plugins is a big plus and its ability to connect to the jack server, OSC and midi controllers to stay synced with other applications and hardware is a big big plus however it can be run without the need of jack server, It allows for very complex mixer routings with multiple send effects and bus tracks, its ability to create and play virtual midi instruments is great. It's a complete daw with no bits and pieces missing, and at an absolutely rock bottom price. The companion Ardroid App on android seves as a good remote control app with OSC standard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ardour?

Lack of a virtual Midi Keyboard built into the application, the alternative note editor doesn't quite compensate for it. The installation comes with no Demo Songs, or pre-installed samples or virtual synths or effects of any kind and is quite bare bone as a standalone application without external plugins. It's windows port is unsupported. It's free as in free speech, however the free as in free beer version lacks the ability to save plugin presets while saving project files, to gain that functionality a one time payment has to be made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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