LOOK! LOOK!! I’m assigning a VCA to a VCA. It’s become somewhat of a joke during this review (in my discussions with other folks) that I really prefer the ability to assign a VCA to another VCA. A drumkit is a single instrument that has many single instruments that may be recorded with multiple microphones.This workflow is fantastic when you’re working with instruments that contain multiple tracks of single instruments. A choir is another single ‘instrument’ with multiple multi-miced “instruments”.I will often want to automate the drums as a whole kit, but need to control multiple snare tracks (2-3 mics on a snare) as well. Sometimes I’ll have the whole choir, a soloist section, and each solist individually miced. There’s other examples that I’ve encountered, but I think that is sufficient to get my point across.Īrdour also allows having a track being controlled by multiple VCAs like Mixbus. Overall the setup is much better in Ardour I feel. NightliesĪ big difference between Ardour and Mixbus is the mixer. Metering point is more flexible - A meter point can be setup and put pre/post fader or at any point in the plugin signal flow as desired.Pan is movement is editable - You can bias the pan to one direction or the other if necesseary.Channels can be made narrow on a per-track basis.I/O, Monitoring and polarity inversion is always visible.Obviously mixbus comes with its own setup as I described before.Īrdour in my view has some benefits though. Meter ballistics are configurable per-channel.Stereo controls on master - The master channel has equal power stereo controls (for collapsing to mono or anything between), or to adjust the balance of the stereo spread.That is to say that Ardour provides stereo balance and true stereo panning. Ardour does not require a master channel in the project.The master channel has an additional trim, channel polarity inversion and.Extra settings for routing, Mixbus always uses the “strict I/O” setting.Ardour supports n-channel (2+) tracks and master channels. The editor and surrounding functionality differs in Ardour as well. Audio + Midi tracks - very useful feature when using plugins that accept audio+midi explicitly.Extended zoom controls as GUI elements.Zoom center - Ardour allows setting the zoom center to mouse, playhead, left/right/center of edit view, or the edit point.Ardour’s default time read-outs are an “ugly green” (thanks to a member of the Mixbus team for pointing this out, though the colour is easily changed)Īrdour is pretty awesome for your average recordist. I don’t think I could definitively say that I prefer Ardour over Mixbus or Mixbus over Ardour, but they both offer clear advantages.Īrdour has most of the advantages I covered with Mixbus, including the amazing team of people working on it, but minus the Harrison DSP additions. It also has many of the disadvantages, such as the relatively basic MIDI support. Ardour also does not come with a plethora of demos for you to ponder spending your money on. You’re on your own in the wild world of LV2, VST and possibly AU to find products to supplement your software use. That said though, for a very reasonable price, Ardour is an excellent option in today’s world of a million DAWs. Once they deal with the MIDI and arrangement deficits, it will easy compare with other big-name DAWs costing $600. Until then, for most users, it’s a fantastic option especially if you work primarily with audio.
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