Ardour

Weekly recap — 30 October 2023

GIMP is getting pen pressure smoothing, FreeCAD's sketching is undergoing a revamp

Weekly-ish recap — 22 October 2023

New releases of OSPRay and Ardour, the FPA is surveying FreeCAD educators

Weekly-ish recap — 16 October 2023

Krita 5.2 and Ardour 8.0 released, integrated assembly workbench in FreeCAD starts solving

Weekly recap — 3 September 2023

Major BlenderBIM update, exciting changes in Inkscape, FreeCAD, and Ardour

Weekly recap — 28 August 2023

Kdenlive and LSP plugins get major updates. Olive's future is increasingly uncertain

Weekly recap — 21 August 2023

Inkscape + CMYK PDF = ❤️, FreeCAD has updated start screen, VCV Rack 2.4.0 is out

Weekly recap — 7 August 2023

FreeCAD 0.21 released, Inkscape to get CMYK PDF exporting in v1.4

Weekly recap — 10 July 2023

New releases of GIMP, Godot and Armory3D, Ardour gets freehand automation drawing

Weekly recap — 3 July 2023

Major releases of darktable and Blender, Ardour gets tempo mapping to performance

Weekly recap — 28 May 2023

Major update of Intel's image denoiser, new open movie by Blender Studio coming

Weekly recap — 14 May 2023

Further steps towards non-destructive editing in GIMP, new OpenToonz release

Weekly recap — 7 May 2023

GSoC 2023 projects announced, MoonRay and BlenderBIM get updates

Weekly recap — 30 April 2023

Kdenlive 23.04 gets nested sequences, Audacity 3.3.0 introduces musical time

Weekly recap — 2 April 2023

Blender 3.5 released with new hair system and GPU-side compositing

Weekly recap — 26 February 2023

New experimental blending modes in Krita, Blender changes release schedule

Weekly recap — 19 February 2023

New releases of KiCad, CAD Sketcher, Glaxnimate, and Ardour

Weekly recap — 12 February 2023

Inkscape gets improved PDF importing with layers and ICC profiles

Weekly recap — 5 February 2023

New features in GIMP, Inkscape, Penpot, and Ardour

Weekly recap — 29 January 2023

Massive open-source releases from Autodesk and DNEG

Weekly recap — 22 January 2023

New releases of OBS Studio, Pinta, and Synfig

2023 in preview

What's coming this year across the entire stack of free software for creatives

Weekly recap — 18 December 2022

MuseScore 4.0 is out, and so are... oh, so many more releases

Weekly-ish recap — 11 December 2022

Blender, Inkscape, and OpenShot all get updates

Weekly-ish recap — 7 December 2022

RawTherapee is back on track with a new massive release

Weekly-ish recap — 30 November 2022

New GIMP dev release, massive open-source release party at Amazon and AMD

Weekly-ish recap — 9 November 2022

Major changes in GIMP, new Ardour release, fun with Olive

Weekly-ish recap — 26 October 2022

Massive Ardour update, MuseScore 4 beta released

Weekly-ish recap — 4 May 2022

Basic CMYK features are landing to GIMP, Kdenlive is getting 10-bit support

Weekly-ish recap — 28 February 2022

Inkscape team to hire project coordinator, FreeCAD 0.20 coming soon

Weekly-ish recap — 7 February 2022

Inkscape 1.2 goes alpha, Weston gets essential color management support

Weekly-ish recap — 26 January 2022

Surge XT and ZynAddSubFX softsynths get much anticipated updates

Weekly-ish recap — 31 October 2021

Apple joins Blender Dev Fund, Ardour gets clip launching as part of future live looping features

Weekly-ish recap — 17 August 2021

Both Synfig and Glaxnimate animation tools get new releases, Audacity ships the first corporate-backed release

Weekly-ish recap — 9 June 2021

New Inkscape, Penpot, BlenderBIM and Ardour releases, development fund for Krita, Audacity shenanigans

Week recap — 25 January 2021

New releases of Zrythm and Guitarix, new features in Krita, darktable, Siril, Blender

This is 2021: what's coming in free/libre software

A look across the full spectrum of digital content creation software

Multi-week recap — 25 November 2020

New releases of GIMP, Scribus, FontForge, Synfig, Tahoma2D, LibreDWG, Giada, Ardour

Week recap — 18 August 2020

LibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta

Week recap — 13 July 2020

First virtual reality code lands to Blender

Podcast ep. 003 - Paul Davis on fixing big Linux audio issues

This is a the second part of the interview with Paul Davis. It's time to talk about some big stuff that is relevant to virtually every user of Linux audio applications for music-making.

Podcast ep. 002 - Paul Davis on the deep rewrite of Ardour

This is the first part of a long interview with Paul Davis, founder and lead developer of Ardour, free/libre digital audio workstation.

Week recap — 24 March 2020

First virtual reality code lands to Blender

Week recap — 29 December 2019

darktable 3.0.0 release and beta release of MyPaint 2.0, major updates of Kdenlive and FlowBlade

Week recap — 10 December 2019

OpenTimelineIO is getting a Kdenlive adapter

The making of tubeAmp: don’t moan, write code

Interview with Oleg Kapitonov, developer of the free guitar amp simulator for Linux

Week recap — 25 February 2019

Inkscape is getting a new visual live path effects selector

Week recap — 9 December 2018

NVidia publishes PhysX SDK physics engine as an open source project

Week recap — 25 November 2018

Stalled development of Natron gets prime-time attention

2018 in perspective

Let's see what this year is bringing us

Ardour 4 released

New version of the free/libre DAW brings sleeker UI, new editing tools, native CoreAudio/ASIO support

Libre Music Production project launched

Libre Music Production is collaboration between Staffan Melin, Gabriel Nordeborn, and Conor McCormack. Essentially, it's a project by musicians for musicians.

Ordinary Day Montage album released, produced with Ardour3

Gabriel Nordeborn (zthmusic) released a new album that he composed, recorded, mixed and mastered mostly with free software on Linux. It's also licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Ardour 3.2 makes it easy to create soundtracks

The new version of Ardour, a free DAW for Linux and Mac, is now available and features a few major improvements to the workflow.

Cronopios and Famas animation trailer released

This is the first trailer of Cronopios and Famas, an animation movie based on a short story anthology by Argentine author Julio Cortázar.

Ardour 3 gets simplified crossfading and SSL Nucleus support

Yesterday Paul Davis released another beta of Ardour 3, a free digital audio workstation for Linux and Mac. The new version got some kickass new features.

First beta of Ardour 3 released

A few days ago Paul Davis released first beta of Ardour 3, a free DAW for Linux and Mac, with 3 months worth of work.

Ardour 2.8.12 released, A3 gets Linux VST support

Linux DAWs are buzzing

Few days ago three digital audio workstations (DAW) for Linux were released within 24 hours — an interesting coincidence, especially since all three releases represent various stages of completeness.

Ardour 3 enters alpha phase

Ardour, THE free digital audio workstation (DAW), has finally entered alpha phase after several years of development.

What’s up with free multimedia production tools in 2010

It's about time to draw a line between 2010 and 2011 and have a look at what was happening to the multimedia production stack of free apps this year.