I haven't used Ardour in a while, but it's great seeing continued development and updates!
Came here to say this. I am planning on getting a new machine around tax return season though, so, will finally be able to play with it again.
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In the past couple of years they've really ramped up development of tools for creating electronic music, such as the clip launcher and beat grid. I have only really used it for pro-tools style recording, when I started using it there wasn't even any midi capability. I bet it'd be pretty good for electronic music now, given the right synth plugins.
My favourite thing about ardour is the work flow and the anywhere-to-anywhere audio routing.
I've been using it for 13 years and love it!
Here's some music I used to make with Ardour, Hydrogen and Renoise: https://on.soundcloud.com/QrxQw
Has anyone used the new beat mapping? That's one of the few things keeping me from using it full time.
Not yet, I'm keen to have a go as it looks very flexible
What is Ardour? Software or a Linux distribution?
It's software. Think of something like ProTools or Reaper but, Open-Source and Linux-native.