About Ardour¶ About Ardour’s documentation Conventions Used In This Manual {#conventions} Keyboards and Modifiers Mouse Buttons Mouse Click Modifiers Mouse Wheel Context-click “The Pointer” Other User Input Menu Items OSC Messages Preference/Dialog Options {#dialog-options} User Input {#user=input} Program Output Notes Warnings Ardour Overview Ardour is meant for… Audio Engineers Musicians Soundtrack Editors Composers Ardour features… Audio and MIDI Multi-Track Recording and Editing {#multitrack-recording} Plugins with Full Sample Accurate Automation {#plugins} Transport Sync and External Control Surfaces {#transport-and-control-surfaces} Powerful Anywhere-to-Anywhere Signal Routing {#signal-routing} Video Timeline Why is it called Ardour? Why Write a DAW for Linux? Isn’t This a Really Complicated Program? Creating Music with Ardour Stage 1: Creating The Project {#creating-the-project} Stage 2: Creating and Importing Audio and MIDI Data {#creating-and-importing-audio-midi} Stage 3: Editing and Arranging {#editing-arranging} Stage 4: Mixing and Adding Effects {#mixing-effects} Stage 5: Exporting {#exporting} Additional Resources