About Ardour¶ About Ardour’s documentation Conventions Used In This Manual Keyboards and Modifiers Mouse Buttons Mouse Click Modifiers Mouse Wheel Context-click “The Pointer” Other User Input Menu Items OSC Messages Preference/Dialog Options 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 Plugins with Full Sample Accurate Automation Transport Sync and External Control Surfaces Powerful Anywhere-to-Anywhere 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 Stage 2: Creating and Importing Audio and MIDI Data Stage 3: Editing and Arranging Stage 4: Mixing and Adding Effects Stage 5: Exporting Additional Resources