Ardour is an open source, collaborative effort of a worldwide team including musicians, programmers, and professional recording engineers. Development is transparent — anyone can watch our work as it happens.
Ardour supports dragging, trimming, splitting and time-stretching recorded regions with sample-level resolution, and supports layer regions. It includes a crossfade editor and beat detection, unlimited undo/redo, and a "snapshot" feature for saving the current state of a session to a file.
ARDOUR definition: feelings of great intensity and warmth; fervour See examples of ardour used in a sentence.
n 1. feelings of great intensity and warmth; fervour 2. eagerness; zeal [C14: from Old French ardour, from Latin ārdor, from ārdēre to burn]
But if you're hoping to modify Ardour or get involved in our development process, or don't want to or cannot pay for our pre-built versions, this is where to start.
ardour Other forms: ardours Definitions of ardour noun feelings of great warmth and intensity synonyms: ardor, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire
Ardour is a strong, intense feeling of love or enthusiasm for someone or something.
Ardour now supports the concept of MIDI files and regions that are longer than their data would suggest (e.g. a 4-bar segment with the last note before the end of the 4th bar).
Ardour 9.2 released February 23rd 2026 We are pleased to announce the release of Ardour 9.2. This is primarily a hotfix release intended to correct a number of bugs in the 9.0 release.
Ardour on Windows (2021) Ardour runs on Windows. You can download it from the regular download area. It runs identically to the Linux and macOS versions. Currently, we support VST2, VST3, LV2 and LADSPA plugin formats on Windows.