ardour (1)





NAME

       ardour - a digital audio workstation


SYNOPSIS

       ardour -b [-U file] [session]
       ardour --help


DESCRIPTION

       Ardour  is  a  multichannel  hard disk recorder (HDR) and digital audio
       workstation (DAW).  It is capable of simultaneous recording 24 or  more
       channels of 32 bit audio at 48kHz.  Ardour is intended to function as a
       "professional" HDR system, replacing dedicated hardware solutions  such
       as  the  Mackie  HDR, the Tascam 2424 and more traditional tape systems
       like the Alesis ADAT series.  It is also intended to provide  the  same
       or  better  functionality as software systems such as ProTools, Sampli-
       tude, Logic Audio, Nuendo and Cubase VST (we acknowledge these and  all
       other  names  as  trademarks  of their respective owners).  It supports
       MIDI Machine Control, and so can be controlled from any MMC controller,
       such  as  the  Mackie Digital 8 Bus mixer and many other modern digital
       mixers.


OPTIONS

       -b     Print all possible keyboard binding names.

       -U     Specify the path to the GTK RC file to use.  The provided one is
              called  ardour_ui.rc  and  lives  in the top level Ardour source
              directory.  This file controls all color  and  font  use  within
              Ardour.  Ardour will run without it, but its appearance is, uhm,
              ugly.

       --help Displays the help message.


FILES

       ardour.rc
              Defaults and startup settings for Ardour.

       ardour_ui.rc
              Definitions for the Ardour interface.


ENVIRONMENT

       ARDOUR_RC
              Path to ardour.rc.

       ARDOUR_SYSTEM_RC
              Path to the ardour_system.rc

       LADSPA_PATH
              Path to LADSPA plugins.


BUGS

       Yes.


AUTHOR

       Paul Davis.  Do not contact him  directly.   Instead,  contact  him  at
       <ardour-dev@lists.sourceforge.net>.  You can subscribe here: