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Ardour Manual

Copyright © 2007 ardour Foundation

Abstract

This is the manual for ardour, a digital audio workstation for Linux and MacOSX. This manual is jointly created and edited by the ardour community. It may be published in paper format at some time in the future.

1. Introduction
1.1. Formatting Conventions
1.2. Midi Configuration
1.3. Mouse and Keyboard Bindings
1.4. Interface Basics
1.5. What's Different about Ardour
1.6. Why is it called "Ardour" and other questions
2. Ardour Basics
2.1. Sessions
2.2. Getting Audio In, Out and Around Your Computer
2.3. Windows
2.4. The Editor
2.5. The Mixer
2.6. Tracks and Busses
2.7. Clocks
2.8. Other Windows
3. Using Existing Audio
3.1. Importing and Embedding
3.2. Supported External Audio File Formats
3.3. Using audio files as tracks or regions?
3.4. How to import/embed
3.5. Working with Tags
3.6. Searching Freesound for soundfiles (optional)
4. Basic Editing
4.1. Editing Concepts
4.2. Working with Playlists
4.3. Working with Ranges
4.4. Working with Regions
5. Advanced Editing
5.1. Working with Crossfades
5.2. Working with layers
6. Exporting
6.1. Exporting to CD
7. Mixing
7.1. Automation
7.2. Using Plugins
7.3. Using VST Plugins
8. Recording
8.1. Basic Recording
8.2. Monitoring
8.3. Setting Up To Record
9. Synchronization
9.1. Synchronization Concepts
9.2. Video Synchronization via MTC
10. Using Control Surfaces
10.1. Behringer DDX3216
10.2. Using a BCF2000
10.3. Using a Frontier Design Tranzport
10.4. Using a Generic MIDI control surface
10.5. Configuring USB device access (Linux only)
10.6. Using the Mackie driver for MCU and BCF2000
11. Problems, Bugs and Known Issues
11.1. Known Issues
Ardour Glossary
A. Contributing to the Manual
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