How To Install ardour on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ardour on Ubuntu 20.04. ardour is the digital audio workstation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ardour on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is ardour

ardour is:

Ardour is a multichannel hard disk recorder (HDR) and digital audio workstation (DAW). It can be used to control, record, edit and run complex audio setups.

Ardour supports pro-audio interfaces through the ALSA project, which provides high quality, well designed device drivers and API’s for audio I/O under Linux. Any interface supported by ALSA can be used with Ardour. This includes the all-digital 26 channel RME Hammerfall, the Midiman Delta 1010 and many others.

Ardour has support for 24 bit samples using floating point internally, non-linear editing with unlimited undo, a user-configurable mixer, MTC master/slave capabilities, MIDI hardware control surface compatibility.

It supports MIDI Machine Control, and so can be controlled from any MMC controller and many modern digital mixers.

Ardour contains a powerful multitrack audio editor/arranger that is completely non-destructive and capable of all standard non-linear editing operations (insert, replace, delete, move, trim, select, cut/copy/paste). The editor has unlimited undo/redo capabilities and can save independent “versions” of a track or an entire piece

Ardour’s editor supports the community-developed LADSPA plugin standard. Arbitrary chains of plugins can be attached to any portion of a track. Every mixer strip can have any number of inputs and outputs, not just mono, stereo or 5.1. An N-way panner is included, with support for various panning models. Pre- and post-fader sends exist, each with their own gain and pan controls. Every mixer strip acts as its own bus, and thus the bus count in Ardour is unlimited. You can submix any number of strips into another strip.

Ardour’s channel capacity is limited only by the number on your audio interface and the ability of your disk subsystem to stream the data back and forth.

JACK (the JACK Audio Connection Kit) is used for all audio I/O, permitting data to be exchanged in perfect samplesync with other applications and/or hardware audio interfaces.

Ardour is sample rate and size neutral - any hardware formats from 8 to 32 bits, and rates from 8kHz to 192kHz. Internal processing in 32/64 bit IEEE floating point format.

Further information can be found at http://ardour.org/. Task: ubuntustudio-audio

There are three methods to install ardour on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ardour Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ardour using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ardour

Install ardour Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ardour using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ardour

Install ardour Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ardour using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ardour

How To Uninstall ardour on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the ardour package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ardour

Uninstall ardour And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ardour and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ardour

Remove ardour Configurations and Data

To remove ardour configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ardour

Remove ardour configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ardour configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ardour

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ardour package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.