Don’t forget the cross-fade

A quick post about a little lesson I learned tonight whilst editing some audio: don't forget the cross-fade. I recorded some synth drum tracks to audio (so that I wouldn't have to open up the drum machine again), and then trimmed the tracks down so that they ended tidily at the end of the bar: … Continue reading Don’t forget the cross-fade →

Building Ardour on Windows with MSYS2

NOTE: This post was written for Ardour 4. There is at least one more dependency (liblua, possibly more). Since I wrote this article, I've mostly shifted my development environment to linux, hence I haven't kept this post up to date. So, caveat emptor, YMMV, and other suitable disclaimers. If you just want to use Ardour … Continue reading Building Ardour on Windows with MSYS2 →

Building Ardour on Ubuntu

[UPDATE] I've found that the instructions below cause jackd2 to be uninstalled, which causes some problems. Reinstalling the jackd2, libjack-jackd2-0, libjack-jackd2-dev and pulseaudio-module-jack packages should fix those issues[/UPDATE] I'm taking a journey into audio software, and I've been playing around on Linux because there's quite a good open-source audio community out there. The shining star (in … Continue reading Building Ardour on Ubuntu →