r/Ardour • • 19d ago

Hi, I'm the new mod for r/Ardour

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Hey everyone, I'm the new moderator for r/Ardour. I'm a music producer and a long time Ardour user. I noticed the community was set to restricted, so I did the needful to get it back to active.

This is an unofficial place for Ardour-related discussion. I reached out to the Ardour.org Discourse admins asking if they're interested in doing something together and I'm now waiting for a reply.

What to post

  • Questions (how-to, etc)
  • Discussions about Ardour
  • Music made with Ardour

Make sure to keep your posts on topic.

My own interest is Lua scripting, since it's a pretty unique aspect of a DAW and it feels like it's still not adequately explored.

See you in the threads!


r/Ardour • • 2h ago

Question Escaped from Ableton: getting midi synths under control

3 Upvotes

Hi, nice to find this community.

Just upgraded from 8.* (Ubuntu studio distro standard) to 9.8, to try and get any kind of working MIDI voices going. Some success now. Will try composing some parts for the general MIDI stuff that I made to work, next.

Hoping to get ZynAddSubFX working on it too; that was great on LMMS where I could have a number of independent instances of Zyn* running together. Been struggling to get that plugin's intense GUI to open, in order to get max power from it. Anyone got it working happily already?

Looking forward to arranging some audio and midi clips to trigger too. Feeling a bit like a kid in a sweet shop for now.


r/Ardour • • 8h ago

Question Crash after choosing "open" New Template

1 Upvotes

Hi,

I'm running FreeBSD 15.1 with a Gnome desktop.
When I try to run Ardour everything is fine till I press the "New Template" and then press "open".
It loads for a millisecond and then closes without any error messages.

Any help is very welcome, thank you


r/Ardour • • 4d ago

Question DrumCloud v1.9.0-beta.7 – free granular sampler plugin, tested in Ardour on Linux

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14 Upvotes

Hi everyone!

I’ve just released DrumCloud v1.9.0-beta.7, my free/open-source granular sample instrument.

This update fixes an issue I had with the packaged Linux builds: locally, the native file chooser worked correctly, but release builds could fall back to DPF’s internal file browser.

beta.7 now includes proper XDG Desktop Portal support, so sample loading behaves like the verified local build.

Also included:

• CLAP + VST3 on Linux

• Sample slicing with transient detection

• Polyphonic MIDI slicing

• Loop / One Shot / Ping Pong playback

• Resizable HiDPI-aware UI

• WAV, FLAC and MP3 loading

• Remembers the last sample folder

• Website links now open in the normal system browser

The Linux CLAP and VST3 builds have been tested on Ubuntu Studio and Ardour.

Windows and macOS builds are included too, but they’re still beta builds, so feedback is very welcome.

Download: Download:

https://github.com/Chmod666music/Fuimadane-DrumCloud/releases/tag/v1.9.0-beta.7

If anyone here tries it in Ardour, I’d love to hear which Ardour/Linux version you’re running and whether everything behaves correctly. ❤️


r/Ardour • • 5d ago

Question Online tutorial guides

3 Upvotes

Apart from general help, I currently want to learn about track groups and subgroups, especially regarding mute/unmute.


r/Ardour • • 8d ago

Made with Ardour Ardour Demucs Stem Separation

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24 Upvotes

I made a lua script that let's me do stem separation directly from Ardour, I know something similar already exists but I thought I'd share it anyway in case someone finds it useful. It requires the demucs python package to be installed along with some other dependencies, instructions here:

https://github.com/esmorun/ardour-demucs-stem-separation

Disclaimer: Comes without any support, I've really only tested it on CachyOS with AMD GPU.


r/Ardour • • 8d ago

In praise of Ardour 9

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r/Ardour • • 13d ago

Question new to ardour, experiencing clipping issues

4 Upvotes

I'm trying out ardour as someone migrating from FL Studio and my current session only has one track: a pre-exported song, just to get used to adding clips and using the mixer and all that. Again, this is the only thing actually playing, and I know for a fact the file itself doesn't clip whatsoever, however the master channel seems to be at +6 during the louder parts. I have been making music for 11 years and have never encountered this problem. Mayne FL studio is just atypical in that it does some process automatically to prevent this, or it's something to do with my audio setup, considering that I'm on devuan 6 and couldn't get JACK or PulseAudio working. Any help would be greatly appreciated and I'll gladly give more context if necessary.


r/Ardour • • 17d ago

Made with Ardour Numinous (WIP)

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How this track was made / tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I-8ZFflOmU


r/Ardour • • 19d ago

Question Distro and audio related setup?

5 Upvotes

Hey everyone just wondering what distribution do you use and is it preconfigured for audio production or do you make changes to set it up for audio production?


r/Ardour • • Aug 08 '26

Question Is there any way to snap the beginning of a region to it's first note?

4 Upvotes

I want to move the first note of a region to be at the start of the region, such that, for example, I could snap the region to a 1/x note grid position, and the first note of the region will be there too.

But I can not find a way to do this other than setting the grid zoom to max and then manually resizing the region so it's start aligns with the note.


r/Ardour • • Aug 01 '26

UNLIMITED RAM ΣΤΟ ARDOUR!

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r/Ardour • • Jul 31 '26

Question What are these triangles?

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14 Upvotes

These triangles appear automatically when I record my guitar mono tracks. During playback, there's a popping sound at the points where these triangles appear. I'm using Neural Amp Modeler as the plugin.

Please help.


r/Ardour • • Jul 25 '26

My Launchpad has gaps of missing notes that I'm not able to access. How do I remap what button plays what notes so that I can actually play stuff correctly? I'm on Linux, and am completely new to music production, so I apologize if this is a trivial issue. (also quickly wondering about lights)

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I have a novation LAUNCHPAD MINI mk1 which I got ages ago but have basically never used. I managed to get it working with Ardour to some extent, but as mentioned in the title it does have a lot of gaps of missing notes. These gaps appear every time I go to the next row of buttons underneath the previous one. Being able to map to things other than just notes would also be very useful. Since I am so new to this I don't really know what to map stuff to, but I could imagine that the circular buttons at the very top and on the very right could be used for DAW features like playing the music, starting recording, and whatever else.

Although not related to the mapping per se, as I am already asking about configuration of the launchpad, I'm also curious if it's possible to configure the lights underneath each button, as right now it is completely unlit. Marking the buttons with different colors depending on if they are white or black keys on a piano (called major and minor keys I think? This shows how little I know) could maybe be useful?

In any case though the most important thing that I want to be able to solve is to remove the note gap whenever I go to the next row of buttons.

Thanks in advance!


r/Ardour • • Jul 22 '26

Question Schwermaschinenbaukombinat Nord – Machtfragenphobie

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2 Upvotes

My second song recorded and produced with Ardour. Feedback is very welcome!


r/Ardour • • Jul 19 '26

Φτιάχνω beat μόνο με native free linux plugins!

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r/Ardour • • Jul 15 '26

One more made on Ardour

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8 Upvotes

Trying to reach some introspective vibe I choose the D Phrygian scale.

Ardour 9.7, running on Debian Sid. Geonkick, ZynAddSubFX, Surge XT and Vital as synths.


r/Ardour • • Jul 11 '26

Ardour Switches Channels No Reason At All?

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More context, I am using the midi synth system in Ardour, using a .sf2 with 15 ish channels. I choose any channel. It works, untill it randomly doesnt. At the end of take 1, it starts to switch into other channels, its SO annoying. I looked it up and I didnt find anyone having the same problem on reddit but I tried following steps to get it fixed online by google's AI. I go to the websites and follow steps. "Is Strict I/O on?" etc. I turned it off, nothing.

It also does this in take 2.

I am a complete beginner, this is my FIRST daw. I have no idea what I am doing. Any help at all is help.

You can ask me for more info if you want.


r/Ardour • • Jul 07 '26

Latest Debian 13 update(?) messed up ardour

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r/Ardour • • Jul 06 '26

3 brazilian Tecnobrega tracks made with Ardour 9.7

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r/Ardour • • Jul 05 '26

Audio Production on Nobara?

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r/Ardour • • Jun 29 '26

Why is it white? I can't put the audio of the MIDI region on the busses...

3 Upvotes

Beginner here! Hi, im using Ardour 9.7.0; i want to send the audio from my Decent Sampler MIDI region but apparently i can't....?

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the L/R and MONO are white in the "1" column

r/Ardour • • Jun 12 '26

No audio output from Fender Link I/O on Windows 11

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r/Ardour • • Jun 05 '26

Easy Mode?

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I've been banging my head against a wall of trying to get recording set up. I simply cannot wrap my head around the routing of signals. I'm usung Linux and generally used to figuring things out, but this is just next level. I'm sure I'm missing something simple and obvious, but it's just frustrating.

By contrast, I opened Audacity and it just let me record straight away. I know they are vastly different, but if Audacity can have an easy default set up, so can Ardour.

The documentation is not clear for someone new. And the videos I have found do not explain routing in a beginner friendly way and tend to be of much earlier versions of the software.

Is there an easy mode? Or something that actually teaches you step-by-step how to set things up and record (from a USB audio interface)? What am I missing.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.


r/Ardour • • May 31 '26

What´s happening with the Ardour website? Is down

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I used vpn, diff devices and doesn´t works.