I have admired and been impressed by Paul since 64studio. Back then, utube?... Always wanted to hear 'from the horses mouth'. Wondered how he felt about open source, making a living, etc. After a while, I would recommend it. I hate long video "sessions". .... BUT... THIS has been the most informative broadcast I have EVER seen! (I used to admin a web conferencing service) Unfa - WELL DONE. I've loved watching your stuff! ! So, my admiration for you all, and the community, has exploded. I also usually hate subscription fees. BUT.... I will HAPPILY have one for Ardour! YOU GUYS ROCK!
Listened to 2 hours and need to go do other things but will come back for the rest. Thanks for doing this, all three of you! Learning Ardour's workflows has opened up vast new realms of possible mistakes to make in composing, sequencing, and mixing! Not that I was not making mistakes in Logic or in, say, AUM; working things from just slightly different angles makes many of them so much easier to see. Open source has become my only reliable route to producing finished work since I cannot afford to keep up with market forces as an aging, disabled musician (in the US, where disabled people do not really exist in the political/economic order..), and Ardour is one of the Linux tools that has made this transition easier. Pro audio on Linux has improved by orders of magnitude in the last decade and I really appreciate all the work and thought that has made that happen--and will, as I can see, continue to make creative work possible for many who would otherwise have no access to well-crafted software. The only thing I will allow myself to say about the impact of technology on the social aspect of music: I think that given the complexity of the technological changes we are living through, it is practically impossible to predict the consequences of providing this or that new digital method of making pretty much anything. Despite the staunch individualism of many of my fellow USians, it remains true that we are deeply social animals, and most anything you throw into the stew is going to end up in one social context or another. I cannot easily imagine a scenario where digital audio development could easily do great harm in this regard. Most of the affirmed introverts I know, myself included, still thrive on interaction with other artists, and will seek it out no matter how awesome we can make our (possibly untrained and under-rehearsed) vocals sound in the comfort of our own spaces. I don't think any amount of autotune or timestretching can kill that. Myself, I'm much more concerned with certain bad-faith political actors.. Whoops. Kept writing. One million thanks!
First, thank you and everyone involved for Ardour. Then, I'm glad to know that you're improving/simplifying the midi edition process. I'm looking forward for this release. Thanks again.
Great interview with Paul. Thanks for sharing. I'm working in a recording studio and have a few little pet audio software projects on the go, which I hope to make open source some time next year. It's a great inspiration hearing Pauls success with Ardour and love of the whole open source movement.
Paul Davis and the team's Ardour has made a huge impact in my life. I do all my work on Linux, including audio and video. Ardour is key. Nowadays I often use MixBus instead, which also is a lot of Ardour. (Unfortunately there are some very platform dependend tools, for which I use Win10 in VirtualBox mostly… such as Blackmagic Atem Control.)
Thank you for developing the program. I hope that in the near future it will become a very efficient and stable tool for music production, especially with the use of midi
A pleasure to hear from Paul. I would love to contribute in the development. As a junior c++ algorithm/machine learning and SDL/"gamedev" programmer, I want to delve deeper into audio programming. My first foray into the field, a few years ago, was finding and changing the Linux kernel code for my interface. The latency was hard coded to max out at 5000 ms. Probably due to issues with faster latencies. Still weird. That was changed in later kernel versions but it made my life hard when trying to fully switch to Linux, including music recording. I would love to be a torch bearer for Ardour in a pretty sizeable community of guitar players. Excellent interview. Thank you.
@@unfa00 I don't want to promise anything I can't deliver but where there is a will, there is a way, right? I too really love free and open source software and ideologies. Ardour, Paul, you (and DrumGizmo) have really impressed me. Thanks for the stream.
Very cool to hear his thoughts on Pipewire. The big draw for the Pipewire API, as opposed to just using pipewire-jack, is the video routing. If Ardour is going to push more into video, then it could be worth implementing.
Concerning Pipewire… point taken, however kxStudio does most of it already by wiring Pulse and ALSA Loopback back into Jack. So Jack is the boss and the rest is subordinate to it, which works well for me. (The only one trap is that PulseAudio by default uses the worst sample rate conversion ever, which you must change in the config file. But this is also true if you use Pulse with ALSA directly, it messes up your audio entirely if you've got pro ears.) For me, this construction is essential since I'm (among other interfaces) using a RME FireFace 400 (via adaptors to Thunderbolt 3) and the ALSA driver of this still has issues, while the Jack firewire backend handles it well. So it can't be used without Jack.
I really am not a fan of when features are overlooked because they're already well implemented in another program, the number one goal of any software should be catering to my ability to get work done faster and with less hassle. Ableton did it best, everything at arms reach in a single window, with only plugins and preferences appearing in floating windows. I approve whatever changes could be made to ardour to make it as easy to work with as ableton. ( Stated with love, naturally. There's really not any open source DAWs that come close to ardour yet )
also, I don't think software alone is responsible for the loss of communal music, there is good reason to be anxious about it but undermining the usefulness of a software will probably ensure that less music gets made rather than making more people come together.
I'm not sure you understood the point about features as I did. I see it as there is no need to reinvent the wheel for some very complex very specific things, that are well served with another tool. I think that if a missing feature is breaking the workflow and making software much less usable than that should be rectified. I think it's about about drawing the line in the right place
Replying to myself... Besides the demonstration of the wonderful new features, I am learning all sorts of incidental things on this video! e.g. around 3:18:57 - the fact that you check can which parameters of a plug-in are "automatable" by looking at the "generic controls" view of the plugin. 😀
Ah, yes :) That's because the generic GUI contains all the controls that the plugin exposes to the host. And all of these are possible to automate (unless they are something weird like a file path).
The warmup ends at 30:11
Thanks for Ardour Paul. Thanks for staying Libre Software. Thanks UnFa for great interview. Hack The World!
100%. Thank you Paul! And what a wonderful interview.
Thx Paul Davis for the hard work. And thx to unfa to realize this interview.
Thanks! It was lots of work, but I am really happy how it turned out.
WOOOOOOOW!!!🤩 It's freaking Paul Davis!!! 🤯 WooooooooooooooooooWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!🥳🤠🤓😎
Ardour rocks! 😆 Thanks so much Paul!!!🤭🤗🥴
I have admired and been impressed by Paul since 64studio. Back then, utube?... Always wanted to hear 'from the horses mouth'. Wondered how he felt about open source, making a living, etc. After a while, I would recommend it. I hate long video "sessions". .... BUT... THIS has been the most informative broadcast I have EVER seen! (I used to admin a web conferencing service) Unfa - WELL DONE. I've loved watching your stuff! ! So, my admiration for you all, and the community, has exploded. I also usually hate subscription fees. BUT.... I will HAPPILY have one for Ardour! YOU GUYS ROCK!
Mixbus has a superb sound and supports Ardour as I do myself. Can now put a face to his name. Great podcast.
Listened to 2 hours and need to go do other things but will come back for the rest. Thanks for doing this, all three of you! Learning Ardour's workflows has opened up vast new realms of possible mistakes to make in composing, sequencing, and mixing! Not that I was not making mistakes in Logic or in, say, AUM; working things from just slightly different angles makes many of them so much easier to see.
Open source has become my only reliable route to producing finished work since I cannot afford to keep up with market forces as an aging, disabled musician (in the US, where disabled people do not really exist in the political/economic order..), and Ardour is one of the Linux tools that has made this transition easier. Pro audio on Linux has improved by orders of magnitude in the last decade and I really appreciate all the work and thought that has made that happen--and will, as I can see, continue to make creative work possible for many who would otherwise have no access to well-crafted software.
The only thing I will allow myself to say about the impact of technology on the social aspect of music: I think that given the complexity of the technological changes we are living through, it is practically impossible to predict the consequences of providing this or that new digital method of making pretty much anything. Despite the staunch individualism of many of my fellow USians, it remains true that we are deeply social animals, and most anything you throw into the stew is going to end up in one social context or another. I cannot easily imagine a scenario where digital audio development could easily do great harm in this regard. Most of the affirmed introverts I know, myself included, still thrive on interaction with other artists, and will seek it out no matter how awesome we can make our (possibly untrained and under-rehearsed) vocals sound in the comfort of our own spaces.
I don't think any amount of autotune or timestretching can kill that. Myself, I'm much more concerned with certain bad-faith political actors..
Whoops. Kept writing.
One million thanks!
Nice comment! I'd like to hear some of your music.
"10th & Juniper" 🤔 Are you based in Atlanta?
As always writing a comment to support the channel
Ah, forgot to tune in! Will watch very soon.
Note to self: starts proper at around 30:00 :-)
First, thank you and everyone involved for Ardour. Then, I'm glad to know that you're improving/simplifying the midi edition process. I'm looking forward for this release. Thanks again.
Wonderful content. Thanks to all involved!
Thank you!
I just finished watching the interview, I'm very grateful. Paul is a wonderful person. thanks unfa and john
Free software is the way
Oh noes. I missed it! Thanks for this talk - will watch it ASAP! :)
Great interview with Paul. Thanks for sharing. I'm working in a recording studio and have a few little pet audio software projects on the go, which I hope to make open source some time next year. It's a great inspiration hearing Pauls success with Ardour and love of the whole open source movement.
this was pretty cool, im excited to try version 7.
Paul Davis and the team's Ardour has made a huge impact in my life. I do all my work on Linux, including audio and video. Ardour is key. Nowadays I often use MixBus instead, which also is a lot of Ardour. (Unfortunately there are some very platform dependend tools, for which I use Win10 in VirtualBox mostly… such as Blackmagic Atem Control.)
Just discovered your channel, great discovery!
Thank you for developing the program. I hope that in the near future it will become a very efficient and stable tool for music production, especially with the use of midi
Thank You!
Spoiler alert: unfa synthesises a kickdrum in this stream too 😁
Hehehe!
Noooooooooooooooo!!
A pleasure to hear from Paul. I would love to contribute in the development. As a junior c++ algorithm/machine learning and SDL/"gamedev" programmer, I want to delve deeper into audio programming. My first foray into the field, a few years ago, was finding and changing the Linux kernel code for my interface. The latency was hard coded to max out at 5000 ms. Probably due to issues with faster latencies. Still weird. That was changed in later kernel versions but it made my life hard when trying to fully switch to Linux, including music recording.
I would love to be a torch bearer for Ardour in a pretty sizeable community of guitar players.
Excellent interview. Thank you.
Fantastic! You should get in touch through my community chat and we can help you help us all :D
chat.unfa.xyz
@@unfa00 I don't want to promise anything I can't deliver but where there is a will, there is a way, right? I too really love free and open source software and ideologies. Ardour, Paul, you (and DrumGizmo) have really impressed me. Thanks for the stream.
Ardour 7.1 keeps me feeling comfortable with MIDI 😎 And that Xcolors theme rocks 🎉
The giants! love from Norway!
absolutely thanks
Very cool to hear his thoughts on Pipewire. The big draw for the Pipewire API, as opposed to just using pipewire-jack, is the video routing. If Ardour is going to push more into video, then it could be worth implementing.
this video was great !!! ♥
Thanks! I'm glad you've enjoyed it :)
This is just awesome!!
Concerning Pipewire… point taken, however kxStudio does most of it already by wiring Pulse and ALSA Loopback back into Jack. So Jack is the boss and the rest is subordinate to it, which works well for me. (The only one trap is that PulseAudio by default uses the worst sample rate conversion ever, which you must change in the config file. But this is also true if you use Pulse with ALSA directly, it messes up your audio entirely if you've got pro ears.) For me, this construction is essential since I'm (among other interfaces) using a RME FireFace 400 (via adaptors to Thunderbolt 3) and the ALSA driver of this still has issues, while the Jack firewire backend handles it well. So it can't be used without Jack.
are you going to make a video about all of versions 7 new features when it comes out?
I'd love to, but unfortunately I might not be able to due to personal issues. I'll try to do something though to let everybody know it's out!
I just installed Ardour 7.0 RC1. now i have new bugs in my existing Ardour 5.12 and 6.8
Paul Davis - Cool NIghts
Is Paul going on a hike somewhere?
Paul did go on a hike. The photo is from 2019, when I walked the Cape Wrath Trail (230 miles) in Scotland with my brother.
That's better ...
I really am not a fan of when features are overlooked because they're already well implemented in another program, the number one goal of any software should be catering to my ability to get work done faster and with less hassle. Ableton did it best, everything at arms reach in a single window, with only plugins and preferences appearing in floating windows. I approve whatever changes could be made to ardour to make it as easy to work with as ableton. ( Stated with love, naturally. There's really not any open source DAWs that come close to ardour yet )
also, I don't think software alone is responsible for the loss of communal music, there is good reason to be anxious about it but undermining the usefulness of a software will probably ensure that less music gets made rather than making more people come together.
I'm not sure you understood the point about features as I did. I see it as there is no need to reinvent the wheel for some very complex very specific things, that are well served with another tool. I think that if a missing feature is breaking the workflow and making software much less usable than that should be rectified. I think it's about about drawing the line in the right place
@@unfa00 your're probably right, was a late night comment
Great content but this mechanical keyboard and mouse clicking is killing me! Thanks for the work!
I blame John :D
2:40:49 How casually he farts during the explanation 😂😂😂
He did it again at 3:28:12 😂
New lingo = "Bounce to Trigger Slot"! 😀
Replying to myself...
Besides the demonstration of the wonderful new features, I am learning all sorts of incidental things on this video!
e.g. around 3:18:57 - the fact that you check can which parameters of a plug-in are "automatable" by looking at the "generic controls" view of the plugin.
😀
Ah, yes :) That's because the generic GUI contains all the controls that the plugin exposes to the host. And all of these are possible to automate (unless they are something weird like a file path).