NAME

       ardour - a digital audio workstation

SYNOPSIS

       ardour -b [-U file] [session]
       ardour --help

DESCRIPTION

       Ardour  is a multichannel hard disk recorder (HDR) and digital audio workstation (DAW).  It is capable of
       simultaneous recording 24 or more channels of 32 bit audio at 48kHz.  Ardour is intended to function as a
       "professional" HDR system, replacing dedicated hardware solutions such as the Mackie HDR, the Tascam 2424
       and more traditional tape systems like the Alesis ADAT series.  It is also intended to provide  the  same
       or  better functionality as software systems such as ProTools, Samplitude, Logic Audio, Nuendo and Cubase
       VST (we acknowledge these and all other names as trademarks of their  respective  owners).   It  supports
       MIDI  Machine Control, and so can be controlled from any MMC controller, such as the Mackie Digital 8 Bus
       mixer and many other modern digital mixers.

OPTIONS

       -b     Print all possible keyboard binding names.

       -U     Specify the path to the GTK RC file to use.  The provided one is called ardour_ui.rc and lives  in
              the  top  level Ardour source directory.  This file controls all color and font use within Ardour.
              Ardour will run without it, but its appearance is, uhm, ugly.

       --help Displays the help message.

FILES

       ardour.rc
              Defaults and startup settings for Ardour.

       ardour_ui.rc
              Definitions for the Ardour interface.

ENVIRONMENT

       ARDOUR_RC
              Path to ardour.rc.

       ARDOUR_SYSTEM_RC
              Path to the ardour_system.rc

       LADSPA_PATH
              Path to LADSPA plugins.

BUGS

       Yes.  http://ardour.org/mantis is the preferred bugtracker.

AUTHOR

       Paul Davis.  Do not contact him directly.  Instead, contact him  at  <ardour-dev@lists.ardour.org>.   You
       can subscribe here:
       http://lists.ardour.org/listinfo.cgi/ardour-dev-ardour.org

                                                   2002-12-29                                          ARDOUR(1)