Talk:Ardour (audio processor)

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Contents 1 Cleanup 2 Naming 3 Confusing 4 cross-platform? 5 Very precise ;P

[edit] Cleanup

Feh. I'll clean it up later. I'm too lazy right now. Cernen 10:25, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Naming

The name Ardour is probably derived from the acronym ARDAW (A Realtime Digital Audio Workstation), which sounds like the phrase 'our DAW' - an oblique reference to the GPL, which in turn sounds like the word 'ardour'. The reference to 'realtime' is due to the way in which Ardour is designed.

Is this just speculation? If you cite an official source, then feel free to put this back in. --Avochelm 05:13, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[1] says it comes from "HDR" (hard disk recorder) and their struggle to pronounce the acronym. The 'our DAW' retroactive etymology appears to be at least partially right. Not sure about the ARDAW thing though. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 17:29, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Confusing

What does it mean that support for Steinberg's VST plugin standard with Wine is a "compile time option"? --Bensin (talk) 21:09, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree it's confusing. I take it to mean you have to specify an argument when compiling Ardour to support VST, but I dunno how/why Wine is used --157.203.42.132 (talk) 15:38, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

I clarified this in the last edit. Hopefully this is clear enough now. Feel free to mark it confusing again if it isn't clear enough. SaBerG (talk) 12:40, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] cross-platform?

AFAIK Ardour works only on POSIX-compliant OS, but I can be wrong. --15:55, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Very precise ;P

"as well as input and output in a number of different file formats." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sasq777 (talk • contribs) 19:13, 23 January 2008 (UTC)