unfa🇺🇦 | Paul Davis, the creator of Ardour (unfa live interview 2022-10-02) @unfa00 | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
--- LINKS:

- Ardour 7 pre-release changelog (will go down in the future):
ardour.org/whatsnew7.html

- Ardour's latest release changelog (as of writing poins to Ardour 6.9 release):
ardour.org/whatsnew

- This interview on PeerTube (thanks to falkTX fro hosting!):
https://peertube.kx.studio/w/7us4th2nWfirURq7C9wvYh

--- TIMESTAMPS (contributed by Olli - thank you!):

00:00 Warmup
30:10 Introduction
38:00 Opensource and Funding ... is the Ardour model effective?
41:50 Who long does it take to code Ardour till it was in a working state?
45:00 Why Ardour? (in comparesant to StudioOne) (general talk about DAWs)
49:05 Workflows in DAWs
51:30 Ardour7 development history compared to Ardour6
58:10 Motivation to commit to an opensource model
1:03:00 Pauls favourite Linux distro
1:03:40 Tips for beginning audio programming
1:08:00 About Zrythm
1:09:10 Opensource programmers like to reinvent things
1:10:25 Why Paul wrote Ardour in the first place
1:12:50 What engine components of Ardour are written in Assembly?
1:15:10 What midi workflow changes would you like to implement in the future? (concerns also dedicated midi editing window requests as well as velocity lollipops and Ardour7 tweaks)
1:24:35 Mix template for Ardour that is like Mixbus32
1:25:55 LV2 and the inline displays in Ardour
1:28:15 Do all popular DAWs including Ardour provide the same audio quality on recording and playback?
1:32:10 What is Paul's opinion about Pipewire?
1:38:10 Do Paul has any issues with Pipewire lately ?
1:42:05 About a media manager in Ardour
1:49:40 Are there any new stock plugins in Ardour7?
1:50:00 About Elastic Audio and timing corrections and Paul's opinion about the possibilities in modern DAWs for correcting bad play and music making/recording as an social activity and the impact of modern technology
2:07:00 Pauls answers whether he considered to work for a commercial DAW company?
2:12:00 More about the collaboration with Harrison
2:19:00 Ardour7 changelog walkthrough
2:19:30 Clip launching in Ardour7 - test
2:31:45 Clip launching in Ardour7 - options at the bottom of the cue view
2:41:50 Content Downloader in Ardour7
2:47:30 Cue Markers in Ardour7
2:55:30 Bounce parts into a trigger slot or to the clip library
3:03:10 Internal time representation in Ardour7
3:04:50 Ripple modes/editing in Ardour7
3:15:30 curved automation in Ardour ... is it possible yet?
3:16:20 Mixer scenes in Ardour7
3:20:45 about MIDI editing in Ardour7
3:23:20 MIDI stem export in Ardour7
3:24:15 Freesound import in Ardour7
3:26:55 I/O Plugins in Ardour7 (Control Surfaces of Ardour7)
3:30:30 Final words and thanks to Paul

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archlinux.org (operating system)
kde.org/plasma-desktop (desktop environment)
olivevideoeditor.org (v. 0.1.2; video editing)
obsproject.com (video capture / streaming)
maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder (additional screen capture)
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CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
GPU: AMD Radeon 6800XT 16 GB
Mobo: Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE V2
Audio I/F: PreSonus Studio24C
Mics: Behringer B-1 (condenser); Shure SM57 (dynamic) + A2WS; Boya BY-M1 (lavalier)
Main cam: Panasonic Lumix GH5
Top cam: Logitech C920
Aux cam: OnePlus 5T

MIDI controller: M-Audio Oxygen 49 MKIV
Coffee machine: DeLonghi ECP33.21
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