Hi, I have try to install Ardour in Windows, but does not work. Suggestion?
Paul Weinstock
Windows has enough DAWs to open a museum with.
-Protools
-Nuendo/Cubase
-Soundforge
-Audacity (primarily a linux program)
Just to name a few. There are still many others like Melodyne Studio 3 which supports up to 8 tracks. But I only use it to fix vocals (many times we find ourselves having to salvage a song instead of aiding in the creative process, eh?).
ā¦or simply 'cause Ardour IS NOT multiplatform.
Then I must suggest you to switch away:
Marco Ravich
Because it doesnāt work. Because, in some ways, we donāt want it to work. Please read this (which also appears as a link on the systems requirements page) to understand some of the issues we have with the idea of a Windows port.
that was a very well written pieceā¦ and hell we (myself included when I was a linux noob) in the linux and mac communities have given Paul et al. enough hell in the past without inviting a bunch of whindows usersā¦ (can we call them whingers) who are even less likely to contribute in some wayā¦
in what sense can you say that ardour is not multiplatform? it runs on linux, OS X and windows. we choose not to release the windows version. what is your point?
in what sense can you say that ardour is not multiplatform?
WikiPediaās multi-platform page
Anyway Ardour is *nix oriented, so itās simply NOT multiplatform.
You have a Windows version ? Then (if you donāt release it) do you mean that Ardour is āNOT SOā open source too ?
I always believed that the community could help to solve problemsā¦
BTW Ardour approach is very very strange, IMHO.
Switch away (if you donāt use *nix OSes).
Marco Ravich
man, from the wikipedia link you posted, a can read in the end of the second part of the artical:
āA cross-platform application may run on as many as all existing platforms, or on as few as two platforms.ā
it seems ardour IS multiplatform and as i understood some older threads on this issue, ardour (and jack) needs for proper running a posix system, which windows is not.
just my two centsā¦
cheers,
doc
ardour (and jack) needs for proper running a posix system
Well then, whereās the Haiku port ?
No man, Ardour is Linux only so itās NOT multiplatform.
Marco Ravich
No man, Ardour is Linux only so itās NOT multiplatform.
uh ā¦ no, OSX is not linux! far from it ā¦
Now, ardourās approach is strange ? thatās a very relative point of view. On the contrary, I find ardour very normal. So whoās right ? :lol:
Sorry for my very bad english,
I want use Ardour with linux, but my audio cards (MARIAN Marc A) doesnāt work with Linux, and my Powercore i think.
If ARDOUR work with Windows I buy immediatly !!!
Itās bad Ardour not work with Windowsā¦ I hope is changeā¦
OSX is not linux!
Since Mac OS X is POSIX compliant, many software packages written for the *BSDs or Linux can be recompiled to run on it.
But hey, Haiku is POSIX too ! So, again, isnāt more simple to port it on Haiku instead of Windows/ReactOS ?
Why the dev team is - wrongly - uninterested in other platforms than linux/osx, then ?
Ardour devs have unclear believes about the open source phylosophy (the bazaar approach) i thinkā¦
Marco Ravich
Itās bad Ardour not work with Windowsā¦
Forget it and switch to Traverso: http://www.traverso-daw.org/
note: please read the whole 3ad before postā¦
Marco Ravich
Marco Ravich, I donāt want to be rude Dude but switching to Traverso is not really an āIdea for Ardourā, which is the main subject of this discussion thread. Either you follow your own advice or you come up with ideas for ardour. The rest looks more like trolling.
Regarding the windows port, if you know some devs that would gladly join and do it, thatād be great. But until then, I donāt see any reason anyone would bitch about the lack of a windows port. I think you are missing how difficult Ardour devs daily life is, considering the complexity of Ardour who also happen to develop the Jack audio server, and most of the time for free. You can always donate, and the larger the donation, the better chance it will get done 
Posted by Thorgal - Sun, 2009-01-11 16:37
" Regarding the windows port, if you know some devs that would gladly join and do it, thatād be great. But until then, I donāt see any reason anyone would bitch about the lack of a windows port. "
No real needā¦ FWIW Iāve had Ardour running under Windows since about last November (well more correctly, under Cygwin). I use it for single-step debugging which Iāve never managed to get working in Linux (at least, not for a multi-threaded app). The only thing I needed to disable was MIDI (and that was only because I didnāt have the time to fix it). The rest of Ardour works fine.
Whether or not Iād inflict it on the rest of the world is a different question. Cygwin, to be fair, is a lot easier to install than Linux but itās still way too difficult for the average Windows user. Also, Cygwinās version of āXā leaves a lot to be desired. Resizing windows is very flickery and although it supports multiple monitors, it doesnāt support them very elegantly. Also, everything needs to be launched from a bash terminal which soon becomes hugely annoying. Cygwin also seems to stop working on a regular basis, requiring me ārebaseā the DLLās, which is something Iāve never needed to do on anything else. The limitations are fine for my occasional debugging needs but theyād drive me nuts if I was a regular user. To its credit though, Ardour itself works exceptionally well under Cygwin. Everything else is a PITA though.
thorgal, I wouldnāt waste your time responding to Marco Ravich. Heās a complete troll. I donāt believe thereās a single post of his on this entire forum which isnāt trying to plug traverso. He doesnāt realise that Ardour isnāt being ported to Haiku because the developers donāt use it and arenāt interested and heās obviously not interested in porting it himself (one has to wonder why, if itās so easy).
Whilst I think Java is a great language, I donāt think itās DAW material. Enterprise apps? Sure. Professional Audio Apps? No.
excellent I wonder if the bots can critique our mixes and tell us what needs to be fixed for that elusive perfect recording??
Good heavens! This bots are getting smarter and healthier than we real people now. Even tell us what teas too drink when certain bad things happen to us.
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I am sorry. I forgot to mention that I did read the article and that my point is that I disagree with some of the things said in the article. I do not agree that a bigger community is bad for an open source project. I do agree that supporting an extra Os is a lot of unwanted work. Creating install packages and distribution is some of the most boring things a developer can do. And I do agree that your average windows user is less interested in helping a project or even understand why he should help a project but still I do not agree that excluding them will help the project.
I fully and totally understand that the current developers has enough to do already and do not want the huge amount of extra boring work of supporting another Os. And that asking them to do so is almost an insult.
I got an idea last night about creating an unofficial windows build and putting it on another web page just to see if it catches on and if we could attract some windows developers who was willing to put in the time of supporting it. If we cant and it doesnāt work then we just drop it. What do you guys think about this idea?
One last word is that I am sorry if it seemed like I attacked anyone. It was not my intention.