Ardour 6 Quickstart (recording, editing, mixing and exporting)
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2024
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--- TIMESTAMPS (contributed by Wepache):
0:00 Intro
0:42 Initial Configuration
2:47 Adding a Track
3:34 Track Inputs
4:40 Recording Audio
5:09 Importing Audio
6:07 Basic Audio Editing Intro
7:46 Moving Audio Regions
8:12 Cutting and Splitting
9:02 Delete a Region
9:23 Cropping a Region
10:16 Cross-Fades
11:28 Gain Automation
14:13 Audio Effects Intro
14:18 Adding Reverb
15:56 Adding a Compressor
17:53 Adding a MIDI Track
18:28 Recording MIDI
20:56 *
20:12 Muting an Audio Region
24:49 Exporting your Project
26:07 Adding a Limiter before Export
27:18 Exporting Continued
30:11 Outro
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Now go, make some music!
5:02 I love how he just did the coolest jazz solo with his mouth and just said "ok, now we have some basic audio"
I have been using Ardour for years. I don't think people realize the capabilities they have with Ardour. The fact that it's free and has all of these features is beyond great.
They have made it impossible to download for free now. What a crappy move.
The official binaries were paid for as long as I can remember. It costs $1/mo minimum to have access to the newest official builds and nightlies.
And if you won't/can't do that - on Linux every distribution packages Ardour. Though these unofficial builds sometimes give me some strange issues I can't reproduce in the official ones.
@@unfa00 that is pretty decent. $1 is affordable for a poor kid.
@@WarrenPostma You can also just do a one-time payment, and hold onto that binary you get. Ardour doesn't get updates that often nowadays. The next expected one is 7.0 that should fix some MIDI problems among other things. But we'll see.
@@WarrenPostma its free if your compile it yourself, but I don't think there's documentation for compiling on windows, and potentially mac
This is seriously mindblowing. I've been using Audacity for years, but didn't realise until now how good Ardour was and how easy it is to use. I've ordered a cheapish USB cardioid mic and am excited to try multitrack recording now. Thanks so much for this tutorial!
This has been incredibly useful, without any unnecessary bloat or annoying Ums & Ahs which so often blight these types of introductory/showcase explanatory videos. Very well done.
Thanks! I try to eliminate annoying non-verbal uncontrolled sounds. It's harder to do live. It's way easier to do when talking a bit slower, which also makes it easier to understand. But it's hard to do live, maybe because I'm always trying to do as much as possible in the limited time.
Unfa your content is always top tier. Ardour 6 is amazing.
@Juelz Davion unfa please delete those spam comments
@@luiggiibanez you have to report them
This is exactly the sort of "quick start" I was looking for to use Ardour for doing basic podcast editing, and was incredibly helpful. Thanks so much for doing this!
Awesome! I thought podcasters would really benefit from switching from Audacity (which as it seems they often use) to Ardour, but they usually struggle with figuring it out, so I made this to give such people an easy way in.
OMG, I think I'm in love with this DAW! It looks so really easier and intuitive for me after using FL Studio for 15 years till now. And no more need to run Windows as well. I think Ardour is a real pain relief I've been thinking of. That's what caught me up on the site. I'm truthfully inspired and will move onto it! I believe musicians are gonna feel what I mean. Thank you for the video, bro!
I've been studying this video in detail for weeks, reproducing all the stuff Unfa does. Just a very helpful leg-up into the world of Ardour. Great stuff!!
Thanks! I am glad I managed to pack so much in such a relatively short video :)
I think an issue with many of my earlier videos was that every time I'd start from the very basic things and that meant the videos were very long and it was difficult to get to "the good stuff". I think both tutorial types have their place. This was a quick start guide, so I had to avoid going into details and it was heavily scripted to make sure I don't go on tangents. The Ardour MIDI Masterclass is a different thing, as there's way, way more information and I do intend to cover all of it in a digestible manner. That one is probably material for months is study if one would want to get the maximum from it.
Recently switched to Linux and started using Ardour. This is an awesome tutorial! Thank you. I've subscribed.
My pleasure! I hope you'll like it - I'm working on a *huge* MIDI Tutorial for Ardour - so far I'm releasing chunks to Patreon supporters, but it's gonna go public once I've reached the end of the editing process.
Me too!
Hey, old school here (analog tape) Thanks so much , a good place to start. More than enough! Good job.
I'm honored to be helping people with such experience!
Not a musician, but this was exactly what I needed for sound-mixing for videos. Thanks!
I owe you a huge thanks, unfa. This tutorial put me on the right path to record a backing track from youtube, and mix it with an audio track recorded with my bass guitar. Meanwhile I managed to sync hydrogen drum machine with Ardour. In the end I mixed in Kdenlive the audio exported from Ardour with a videoclip recorded with an action cam. Without your help I was still pushing random buttons in ardour ui 😁
Glad I could help!
This should go on the Ardour UA-cam channel as well!
Thanks! Thought I think more people will see it here :D
Came across this channel after moving to Linux recently. I must say this is a life saver for people like me.
I just installed the program and this was first video I found in UA-cam. Dude you made really, really good tutorial video. Everything is so simple way explaned and I love the guide to quick buttons, cause I tend to use them all the time with windows and other programs. Awesome job 10/10!
Fantastic! That's exactly what I hope to deliver :)
Thank you!
Thanks Unfa, always interesting your videos and your clear and precise explanations. Greetings from Italy.
Thanks, just decided to try Ardour (as it comes installed on distro) and had no idea where to start. This should get me going. Nice work, sir!
You're the type of channel I subscribe by watching just one video. I already know everything else will be good.
Awesome tutorial, just what I needed!
I wish I had watched this before!!
Thank you so much!
Thanks for this intro.
I found your channel thanks to a post on reddit and I have to confirm that you explained Ardour in a very good way.
Thanks again and I hope you'll fix your current issues 🙏
Thanks! I am getting better :)
BTW - I'm curious - can you link me that post on Reddit?
Sorry @@unfa00 I answered to you, but probably because I put an URL in comments, it has been deleted.
Watched. I'm ready for Ardour 6. Thanks unfa!
Its amazing to see the FOSS ecosystem pickup with DAWs. Ardour is amazing. Please make more detailed tutorials for mixing & mastering with Ardour.
I watched the whole thing, it never got boring, I liked, and I subscribed.
Thank you so much for this informative video/tutorial. I never would have believed that Ardour is such a powerful - and free - software.
The best Ardour introduction tutorial, I always come back here.
Your videos are really helping me get started in music production. I am trying to learn piano all at the same time, so probably a little much, but I want to be able to record what I'm learning and make stuff at the same time, so oh well
I followed your setup guide for Manjaro and was like ”okay, I managed to record some awful audio through my webcam mic, but my computer won't actually play that sound.” and now I think I know why from this video, I never told ardour to output through my system audio.
Hey! I've made a video about initial Ardour configuration - it should help you get the audio back-end going: ua-cam.com/video/r0PUxbVj59M/v-deo.html
unfa I need this, because I'm still having an issue with getting audible sound when I have the jack server running. I'm sure it's very basic, like if I was video chatting with someone who knew what the were doing they could be like ”oh just do x and y” and I would be good to go but so far it's been frustrating lol. Ill check that video out tomorrow and see if it his with my current issues.
I just got a laptop with Lenux and I’m stoked to see everything it’s capable of! Thank you for helping me get up to speed with ardour!
I especially Love that it’s open source
I’ve been using Mac for a long time (GarageBand and logic) and most recently I’ve been producing on garage band and FL Studio Mobile on my phone and enjoying the portability tho it comes with some limitations when it comes to mixing and mastering.
it was the perfect thing for getting comfortable producing, super intuitive (highly recommended for beginners)
Within the last year I’ve been wanting to find a new program that ticks all the boxes because I compose, produce, sing, rap, mix, master and more and this seems to be the best option that incorporates it all into one (relatively) straight forward daw
It’s got all the bells and whistles of the industry standards with the joy of knowing it’s open source!
I’m lookin forward to learning more!
I’ll definitely be watching lots more of your videos and tutorials!! Thank you 🙏 Aloha
Thanks a lot! I just installed ardour and was fooling around with it yesterday. Did get some result but not quite what I hoped. This video is a shortcut for better recordings for me. So I don't have to spend several nights for some basics. I'm gonna check the others later.
Thanks man! I will explore your channel to the max. Very cool!
Big thanks for this helpful quickstart tour!
Yeah Dude, just the jumpstart I needed. Awesome!
My pleasure :D
Thank you for making this video
Just discovered Ardour…. Superb! Been using Adobe audition for years… thank you for these, I’ve learnt a huge amount….
YOU SAVE MY LIFE! Thanks for this awesome video!
This video DEFINITELY deserves a "like".
Thanks, Unfa!
great job !!! :)
Brilliant work - very cool.
Very great video - it helped me a lot. Thank you!
thanks for the great quickguide, it's really useful!
Your content is absolutely great!
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video!
Great video, unfa. Easy to grasp, entertaining and very helpful.
My pleasure! :)
I can't thank you enough! Until now i recorded all my drum covers with Audacity! I'm only 13 years but thanks to your Ardour videos including midi masterclass, I was able to get it work in Ardour and using a real DAW! And I already tried to start composing using your tutorials for midi with guitarix plugin an so on!!! Amazing! You're a real genius! 👌🤘👍So within the next weeks there will come drum covers recorded with Ardour 👍👌💪after I upload the already recorded ones 😉
Awesome! I'm really glad my work could help you on your musical journey!
If you're not already there - you may want to join my community chat - it's a good place to learn, get feedback and help with solving issues. You can even talk to the software developers there!
chat.unfa.xyz
I can tell I'm going to be back here. I had no idea such a FOSS DAW existed and I'm happy to know I'll have the benefit of your knowledge so thanks a lot for the video my dude 😁
My hero. Thank you!
Nicely done. Thank you very much. Some of your keystroke and mouse presses went by a little too quickly for me to absorb, so I had to re-watch. A small deficiency. This was a very good quick-start instruction. Again, thanks very much.
Nice one dude, this is really helping me along
This was really one of the best vids on Ardour starting out that I have seen. This is great. I am trying to use Ardour for voice processing and effects outputing to OBS. So this gave me some cool insights!
That was very useful. I shall have a look at some of your advanced stuff too. I want to know more about managing tempos with complex time signatures and also could use some guidance on using LADSPA / LV2 plugins - Compressors & Side chaining, EQ, Amp simulators & Distortion, Reverb, Delay and Pitch shifting each deserve a separate video.
Well done mate! Thank you! this is so helpful! I've subscribed.
Extremely useful! Thank you so much for this video.
Thanks! I'm glad it was helpful :)
Very well done. Thank you 👍
This is great, just trying to record a single track was pretty daunting when having zero experience from a DAW (except Audacious). Thank you for the video! I will check through much more of your content!
you are the main reason why I'm trying this DAW out. wonderful video!
My pleasure!
If you have questions or problems - feel free to hop into my community chat - there's lots of great people there, who can help you almost 24/7 :D
chat.unfa.xyz
Great video man, it's helping me a lot in my transition from lmms to ardour.
Great! I'm glad it's doing what it was supposed to do :)
You may want to join my community chat - there's lots of people you can learn from or ask for help on your journey :)
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I'm a new Ardour subscriber and found this very helpful. Thanks.
I'm glad I could help :)
If you want to get support, I can recommend joining my community chat on Discord and Rocket.Chat. Lots of Ardour users there who can help you with questions or issues: chat.unfa.xyz
The best beginner tutorial for Ardour!!! Really appreciate this Unfa!!! 🇵🇭
Thanks! It's great to know my work is useful, because that's the point :)
@@unfa00 Actually.... You're really awesome! 🤩 Thanks for guiding me in my Linux Journey. Keep safe always and more blessing Bro!
PS: Love to hear more of your music! ☺️
thanks good info got it up everything works great recorded a guitar track today i have pipewire jack alsa a interface and had issues yesterday had the inputs and outputs wrong on master and audio SO MANY jack connections I JUST HAD ONE TWO MANY CHECKED OFF going OUT on AUDIO found it wrote the right set ups down
very useful! Thanks much...I'm off to follow your suggestion and create my first Ardour project...
Awesome :) Good luck!
This tutorial was really helpful and elegant. Thank you.
Thanks!
Nice content bro! Your channel is amazing and very helpful for my productions, thank you very much. Long live open source!
Big thanks for the kind words :)
Wonderful Thanks so much for getting me started.
You're welcome!
Oh wow, this is exceptional well done 👏 As a kdenlive user I feel right at home with this 👍
Thank you very much. It was very helpful.
4:55 that hands sax tho!!! xDDD
David Lynch would be proud.
Thanks man, really great content
Great job, man. Thanks!
Thank you! Very helpful!
Thanks for the great tutorials !!!!
Very Useful!
Thanks
This was very helpful, thank you!
Awesome Thank you! I feel now ready to make remixes :-D
Excellent tutorial, thanks.
Nicely done, sir. I have been a SONAR power user for 20 years. My friend has turned me on to LINUX, and I'm not looking back.
Great tutorial many thanks.
[edit: solutions] : Okay for those who want to import unfa's session and get the error I mention below here is a solution to get the plugins at least on my distro which is PopOS but I guess it works on any Ubuntu-based distro:
1 - Make sure you do NOT install Ardour from Pop!_Shop or any other flatpak manager.. The plugin cannot be resolved by Ardour If you do this at least not without some tweaking with the sandboxing policy..
2 - To get the fast_lookahead_limiter plugin, simply install the "swh_plugins" package and you´ll get a ton of plugins including the one necessary for importing Unfa's session.
That's it... Works well on PopOs 20.10 and Ardour 6.5
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Error:
However, I get the following error in the log when I try to import the session in Ardour6: [ERROR]: Found a reference to a plugin ("gareus.org/oss/lv2/gmsynth") that is unknown.
Did anyone encountered the same issue ?
I've defined my LV2_PATH= $HOME/.lv2 even tried the system wide approach and placed the plugin in /usr/lib/lv2. Still not working.
For those who have the same error I reported an issue on github here: github.com/x42/gmsynth.lv2/issues/4#issue-802995529 if by any change the error is related.. :/
Do you have an idea what's wrong @unfa ?
I'm obviously missing something...
Great tutorial. Thanks brother.
It's an outstanding presentation. 00:11:28 I do suppose that gain automation is exactly that. I applied it as prescribed. There was some perceptible reduction in volume. But it didn't seem substantial. I could hear my vocal track. It wasn't overpowered by the music track. The thing is that just like your imported track it was a dual channel. But the automatic gain reduction tool appeared on both channels of the music track. I'm trying to figure that out. In the meantime, thank you for getting me started on using my first DAW - Will
Man what a sax beatbox : ).U are very talanted
Sweet tuto ! Clear and productive, thank you. I’m starting covers, and was looking for how to record MIDI with my e-drumkit, i’ve got a MIDI/USB cable and Ardour installed, one sweet sounding VST pack downloaded ^^ any tips ?
Lovely clear tutorial, Unfa! Loved the American announcer parody and the trumpet :D. After some research, I've decided to switch from Audacity to Ardour, mainly because I want to do some midi stuff. I'm hoping it'll run on Linux Mint and Windows 7. ...Liked & subscribed...
U r just so good in explaining, fabulous, thnx a lot, god bless u with more n more abilities
Thank you! God blesses me with the fantastic community that keeps my initiative alive :)
Awesome video, thanks man :)
Ardour jsem vůbec neznal a vypadá to parádně, možná to bude mnohem lepší než LMMS. Takže díky za tutoriál!
Thanks for the video, you explained everything really well :)
Thank you :)
to be really honest, I´ve invested a lot of time now to do the same like you on raspi 4 without any commercial software. Why? Because just time is boring, anyhow. Trying to just make a song. As maybe most people, I have a strong Background with building all my past releases or projects via ableton live and reason on a mac osx system. So back in the Linux world I am really still shocked how slow the whole community evolves and after all these years there is still now really cool and fine way to focus to creativity. Sorry for my hard words. Thank you for these great ardour tutorials. You may see the gaps for yourself. From my side. I lose the half day by configuring anything, trying to give live to a frankenstein. To make a final result. All these pieces for example with jack seem to be nice at first from the outside, but nothing is really fitting good together and all is imploding after system restart. You cannot easily recreate a project. There are tools, which try to achieve making a snapshot of your current work state, but lacking to load the main information in relevant tools when trying to reanimate. Lets say, I need a couple of clicks in Ableton to estabilsh a whole drum loop, this is still a mess on all linux applications, ending up in programming on the cli, wasting up a whole weekend with minimal results. So at the end of the day time is expensive and frustration is frustrating. Spending money for tools, which make it an ease to use is better and saves you from pulling out your hair.
Thanks for sharing this. I totally understand your point of view. Though I feel like you're not using the right tools for the job and that makes things much harder for you - of course the amount of software is large and it's hard to find out what works and what's a good starting point. That's why I keep making videos - to save people the years and years of exploring everything themselves in this libre audio ecosystem.
BTW: if you need any specific help, maybe join my community chat? chat.unfa.xyz
Very good thanks !
Thank you unfa!
You're welcome!
Très bien !
GREAT INFO! THANKS FOR UL!
this is the best!
amazing work, man! such a good job you did with your tutorials; I'm thinking about switching from OS to Linux so Ardour would be my DAW of choice!
That's great! If you want to get some help and community support, you can go to my community chat at a chat.unfa.xyz - I think it's a good idea to first test Linux without committing to an installation, to get yourself familiar before you deep-dive.
@@unfa00 thank u for being so helpful mate :) I've Linux Mint already installed on a pretty old pc which I only use for internet browsing; I've been making music with Ableton on my iMac but it's given up the ghost and I definitely can't afford a new one so I'll probably get myself a new os-free pc and have linux installed; I'll keep u posted ;)
NICE JOB UNFA
hey man thank you so much this helps so much. thanks!
You're welcome!
big thank you
gracias pibe!!!
I didn't know I needed the non destructive crossfade so badly. I struggled quite a bit in audacity.
Thanks bro!
Awesome, thank you for this. I've been rapping and mixing on Audacity and this will help me take it to a new level. This was a great introduction.
Thank you. Good luck with your raps! :)
Great video, very informative for a first time Ardour6 user.
Also why is no one talking about that amazing trumpet impression this man des at the 5min mark???
Im a 21 kid in music , make music
In fl studio Mobile ,
You are my teacher❤️
Dziękuję, unfa :)
Do usług :)