Every Noice at Once Reviews

Ardour Reviews

1. Guto Santana

   | Director at LAS Cons Art EIRELI | almost 2 years ago
   Great for the poor man. Still needs A LOT of improvements, specially on midi editing.

   Copy Yes, you can start a project from scratch and end up with a great sounding track using Ardour. Specially if you use mostly audio. For those like me who use both audio and midi editing, it may easily drive you to a real nightmare. The DAW doesn't behave as you would expect. The "share regions" will get you good as you edit one region and it "magically" ruins the original one. Oh, just use copy instead of share, like they say right? Nope. It still bugs you to the bone. So you have to go manually "unlinking" every single region. Some regions may be a single note, for example, and you can miss that. Oh, so I will consolidate all regions before unlinking! Nope, there is not such thing here. Another example: You want to keep only a certain midi note on your midi track, the C3 that is you Drum Kick. You cannot do it, unless if you go deleting every single other note, one by one! Terrible isn't it? No, you cannot copy a single note through the entire track. Sometimes I managed to select a note through the track and delete it. So I took note how I did it and... Next time it's a negative! With so many different selections of tools, smart, playhead, etc, it appears the DAW confuses itself and do not respond appropriately. So... my advice to you is not to fall for what I did, which is believing Ardour can do everything it says it does, cause it doesn't. Keep simple with audio recording and editing. Do your midi stuff elsewhere and run from the nightmare I got myself into. Nevertheless, it is great cost/benefit DAW. Worthy a try. Yes, you can start a project from scratch and end up with a great sounding track using Ardour. Specially if you use mostly audio. For those like me who use both audio and MIDI editing, it may easily drive you into a real nightmare. The DAW doesn't behave as you would expect. The "share regions" will get you good as you edit one region and it "magically" ruins the original one. Oh, just use copy instead of share, like they say right? Nope. It still bugs you to the bone. So you have to go manually "unlinking" every single region. Some regions may be a single note, for example, and you can miss that. Oh, so I will consolidate all regions before unlinking! Nope, there is not such thing here. Another example: You want to keep only a certain midi note on your midi track, the C3 that is you Drum Kick. You cannot do it, unless if you go deleting every single other note, one by one! Terrible isn't it? No, you cannot copy a single note through the entire track. Sometimes I managed to select a note through the track and delete it. So I took note how I did it and... Next time it's a negative! With so many different selections of tools, smart, playhead, etc, it appears the DAW confuses itself and do not respond appropriately. So... my advice to you is not to fall for what I did, which is believing Ardour can do everything it says it does, cause it doesn't. Keep simple with audio recording and editing. Do your midi stuff elsewhere and run from the nightmare I got myself into. Nevertheless, it is great cost/benefit DAW. Worthy a try.

Every Noice at Once mentions (422)

• When do we stop finding new music?

  I see this in https://everynoise.com/#updates > 2024-01-05 status update: With my layoff from Spotify on 2023-12-04, I lost the internal data-access required for ongoing updates to many parts of this site. Most of this, as a result, is now a static snapshot of what, for now, will be the final state from the site's 10-year history and evolution, hosted on my own server. Some pieces may get disabled and reenabled... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts

  Anyone aware of a similar feature for foobar2000? I have an extensive library mostly tagged from Discogs, including release IDs. In theory, this should be sufficient to cluster music by genres, pull similar releases from Discogs "similar" feature and correlate data from https://everynoise.com. Obviously, in case of album mixed genres things will mix up, but I'm not sure there's a model that can correlate existing... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Displaying Content as a Graph

  The article mentions Glenn McDonald's musical genre page (https://everynoise.com/, no longer refreshing with new Spotify data) as an example of a flexible graph-like exploration format, without being burdened by explicit connections. The author also has a thorough description of pros and cons of the general concept. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• The Beginning of the Past

  This is from Glenn McDonald's blog, founder of "Every Noise at Once". He was laid off from Spotify (discussed here briefly [0]) --- https://everynoise.com/ is now in "archival copy" mode [1][2]. Super sad to read / see this. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38650917 [2] https://twitter.com/EveryNoise/status/1736086849339244935. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• [OC] Exploring my world of music in 7 years of listening data

  Data exported using: https://benjaminbenben.com/lastfm-to-csv/ Album art compiled using: https://www.neverendingchartrendering.org/ Genre data compiled using: http://organizeyourmusic.playlistmachinery.com/# https://everynoise.com/ https://www.tunemymusic.com/transfer Gender, year and country of origin information manually compiled using Last.fm and wikipedia. Data analysis done in excel and image created in GIMP. Source: 7 months ago

Ardour mentions (110)

• Ask HN: Is There a Blender for Music?

  Effects you can hear. [0] https://ardour.org/ [1[ https://cybershow.uk/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• What Is the Future of the DAW?

  I'm the lead author of Ardour [0], and I'd very much like to hear more about your frustrations, since over the next 1-2 years, paying attention to non-European musical culture is one of the things I hope to focus on during development. You can reach me via the email address in my profile, or maybe use our forums at discourse.ardour.org. Thanks. [0] https://ardour.org/ <= a cross-platform open source DAW that has... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Red Blob Games: Interactive visual explanations of math and algorithms

  One extra detail, something I've learned from 20 years of working on dragging all kinds of objects around the GUI of Ardour [0]: handle ALL button press and release events as drag events where there is no movement. [0] https://ardour.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Absolute beginner seeking advice

  I am aware of the 'Real Tone Cable' however I am curious if this is what I should be buying if I also intend on recording my playing in a software such as 'Ardour'. Source: 12 months ago

• How to map multiple samples with linux-sampler?

  I just loaded an instance of samplv https://samplv1.sourceforge.io/ into the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), Ardour https://ardour.org/ . Source: about 1 year ago