Ardour
Weekly recap — 30 October 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineGIMP is getting pen pressure smoothing, FreeCAD's sketching is undergoing a revamp
![](https://librearts.org/2023/10/week-recap-30-oct-2023/art-blender-jakub-kazmierczak-meeting.webp)
Weekly-ish recap — 22 October 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of OSPRay and Ardour, the FPA is surveying FreeCAD educators
![](https://librearts.org/2023/10/week-recap-22-oct-2023/art-blender-soheil-mahmoudi-winter-last-sight.webp)
Weekly-ish recap — 16 October 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineKrita 5.2 and Ardour 8.0 released, integrated assembly workbench in FreeCAD starts solving
![](https://librearts.org/2023/10/week-recap-16-oct-2023/art-krita-lidia-goryachewa-fourth.webp)
Weekly recap — 3 September 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineMajor BlenderBIM update, exciting changes in Inkscape, FreeCAD, and Ardour
![](https://librearts.org/2023/09/week-recap-3-sep-2023/art-blender-lcz-small-town-by-the-sea.webp)
Weekly recap — 28 August 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineKdenlive and LSP plugins get major updates. Olive's future is increasingly uncertain
![](https://librearts.org/2023/08/week-recap-28-aug-2023/art-blender-robert-vajda-tribal-shrine.webp)
Weekly recap — 21 August 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape + CMYK PDF = ❤️, FreeCAD has updated start screen, VCV Rack 2.4.0 is out
![](https://librearts.org/2023/08/week-recap-21-aug-2023/art-blender-tumanidze-cybermax.webp)
Weekly recap — 7 August 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineFreeCAD 0.21 released, Inkscape to get CMYK PDF exporting in v1.4
![](https://librearts.org/2023/08/week-recap-7-aug-2023/art-krita-sylvia-ritter-mantic-minotaur.webp)
Weekly recap — 10 July 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of GIMP, Godot and Armory3D, Ardour gets freehand automation drawing
![](https://librearts.org/2023/07/week-recap-10-jul-2023/art-blender-travis-yee-osborne.webp)
Weekly recap — 3 July 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineMajor releases of darktable and Blender, Ardour gets tempo mapping to performance
![](https://librearts.org/2023/07/week-recap-3-jul-2023/art-krita-sylvia-ritter-speedpainting-01072023.jpg)
Weekly recap — 28 May 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineMajor update of Intel's image denoiser, new open movie by Blender Studio coming
![](https://librearts.org/2023/05/week-recap-28-may-2023/sw-blender-project-gold-announcement.webp)
Weekly recap — 14 May 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineFurther steps towards non-destructive editing in GIMP, new OpenToonz release
![](https://librearts.org/2023/05/week-recap-14-may-2023/art-blender-morgan-marcadet-robot-in-the-forest.webp)
Weekly recap — 7 May 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineGSoC 2023 projects announced, MoonRay and BlenderBIM get updates
![](https://librearts.org/2023/05/week-recap-7-may-2023/art-blender-jan-rozanski-may4.webp)
Weekly recap — 30 April 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineKdenlive 23.04 gets nested sequences, Audacity 3.3.0 introduces musical time
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Weekly recap — 2 April 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineBlender 3.5 released with new hair system and GPU-side compositing
![](https://librearts.org/2023/04/week-recap-2-apr-2023/art-blender-sebastian-thiel-take-a-bath.webp)
Weekly recap — 26 February 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew experimental blending modes in Krita, Blender changes release schedule
![](https://librearts.org/2023/02/week-recap-26-feb-2023/art-krita-sylvia-ritter-speedpainting-15012023.webp)
Weekly recap — 19 February 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of KiCad, CAD Sketcher, Glaxnimate, and Ardour
![](https://librearts.org/2023/02/week-recap-19-feb-2023/art-blender-gimp-jorge-jimenez-lost-temple.webp)
Weekly recap — 12 February 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape gets improved PDF importing with layers and ICC profiles
![](https://librearts.org/2023/02/week-recap-12-feb-2023/art-krita-somartist-mountain-side.webp)
Weekly recap — 5 February 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew features in GIMP, Inkscape, Penpot, and Ardour
![](https://librearts.org/2023/02/week-recap-5-feb-2023/art-blender-nick-nathanson-cenotaph.webp)
Weekly recap — 29 January 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineMassive open-source releases from Autodesk and DNEG
![](https://librearts.org/2023/01/week-recap-29-jan-2023/art-blender-devnalim-robot.webp)
Weekly recap — 22 January 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of OBS Studio, Pinta, and Synfig
![](https://librearts.org/2023/01/week-recap-22-jan-2023/art-krita-sylvia-ritter-speedpainting-20012023.webp)
2023 in preview
by Alexandre ProkoudineWhat's coming this year across the entire stack of free software for creatives
![](https://librearts.org/2023/01/year-in-preview/art-krita-david-revoy-2023.webp)
Weekly recap — 18 December 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineMuseScore 4.0 is out, and so are... oh, so many more releases
![](https://librearts.org/2022/12/week-recap-18-dec-2022/art-krita-david-revoy-rain-city.webp)
Weekly-ish recap — 11 December 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineBlender, Inkscape, and OpenShot all get updates
![](https://librearts.org/2022/12/week-recap-11-dec-2022/art-blender-pietro-canals-of-utrecht.webp)
Weekly-ish recap — 7 December 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineRawTherapee is back on track with a new massive release
![](https://librearts.org/2022/12/week-recap-7-dec-2022/art-krita-sooz-w-b.webp)
Weekly-ish recap — 30 November 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew GIMP dev release, massive open-source release party at Amazon and AMD
![](https://librearts.org/2022/11/week-recap-30-nov-2022/art-krita-sad-tea-golden-fall.webp)
Weekly-ish recap — 9 November 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineMajor changes in GIMP, new Ardour release, fun with Olive
![](https://librearts.org/2022/11/week-recap-9-nov-2022/art-krita-philipp-urlich-there-is-always-hope.webp)
Weekly-ish recap — 26 October 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineMassive Ardour update, MuseScore 4 beta released
![](https://librearts.org/2022/10/week-recap-26-oct-2022/art-blender-taku-tsukishiro-retired-robot.webp)
Weekly-ish recap — 4 May 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineBasic CMYK features are landing to GIMP, Kdenlive is getting 10-bit support
![](https://librearts.org/2022/05/week-recap-4-may-2022/art-krita-sylvia-ritter-skullship-robo-repair.webp)
Weekly-ish recap — 28 February 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape team to hire project coordinator, FreeCAD 0.20 coming soon
![](https://librearts.org/2022/02/week-recap-28-feb-2021/art-krita-philipp-urlich-shiat.webp)
Weekly-ish recap — 7 February 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape 1.2 goes alpha, Weston gets essential color management support
![](https://librearts.org/2022/02/week-recap-7-feb-2021/weekly-2022-02-07-featured.webp)
Weekly-ish recap — 26 January 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineSurge XT and ZynAddSubFX softsynths get much anticipated updates
![](https://librearts.org/2022/01/week-recap-26-jan-2022/art-krita-nevena-jevtic-skate-wide-3artstat.webp)
Weekly-ish recap — 31 October 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineApple joins Blender Dev Fund, Ardour gets clip launching as part of future live looping features
![](https://librearts.org/2021/10/week-recap-31-oct-2021/art-blender-protyanik-hazra-dying-of-light.webp)
Weekly-ish recap — 17 August 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineBoth Synfig and Glaxnimate animation tools get new releases, Audacity ships the first corporate-backed release
![](https://librearts.org/2021/08/week-recap-17-aug-2021/art-blender-brellias-hopeful.webp)
Weekly-ish recap — 9 June 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew Inkscape, Penpot, BlenderBIM and Ardour releases, development fund for Krita, Audacity shenanigans
![](https://librearts.org/2021/06/week-recap-9-jun-2021/2021-06-09_weekly_hero_image_philipp_urlich.jpg)
Week recap — 25 January 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of Zrythm and Guitarix, new features in Krita, darktable, Siril, Blender
![](https://librearts.org/2021/01/week-recap-25-jan-2021/art-blender-juan-hernandez-sloth.webp)
This is 2021: what's coming in free/libre software
by Alexandre ProkoudineA look across the full spectrum of digital content creation software
![](https://librearts.org/2021/01/foss-in-2021-preview/2012-preview.webp)
Multi-week recap — 25 November 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of GIMP, Scribus, FontForge, Synfig, Tahoma2D, LibreDWG, Giada, Ardour
![](https://librearts.org/2020/11/week-recap-25-nov-2020/art-krita-philipp-a-urlich-cpncept270-small.webp)
Week recap — 18 August 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineLibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta
![](https://librearts.org/2020/08/week-recap-18-aug-2020/art-blender-olivier-pautot-crowds-2.jpg)
Week recap — 13 July 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineFirst virtual reality code lands to Blender
![](https://librearts.org/2020/07/week-recap-13-jul-2020/art-krita-philipp-urlich-twitch-landscape.jpg)
Podcast ep. 003 - Paul Davis on fixing big Linux audio issues
by Alexandre ProkoudineThis 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.
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Podcast ep. 002 - Paul Davis on the deep rewrite of Ardour
by Alexandre ProkoudineThis is the first part of a long interview with Paul Davis, founder and lead developer of Ardour, free/libre digital audio workstation.
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Week recap — 24 March 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineFirst virtual reality code lands to Blender
![](https://librearts.org/2020/03/week-recap-24-mar-2020/art-blender-artfromrachel-sci-fi.jpg)
Week recap — 29 December 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudinedarktable 3.0.0 release and beta release of MyPaint 2.0, major updates of Kdenlive and FlowBlade
![](https://librearts.org/2019/12/week-recap-29-dec-2019/art-blender-mohamed-chahin-meseeks.jpg)
Week recap — 10 December 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineOpenTimelineIO is getting a Kdenlive adapter
![](https://librearts.org/2019/12/week-recap-10-dec-2019/art-krita-urlich-the-great-wall.jpg)
The making of tubeAmp: don’t moan, write code
by Alexandre ProkoudineInterview with Oleg Kapitonov, developer of the free guitar amp simulator for Linux
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Week recap — 25 February 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape is getting a new visual live path effects selector
![](https://librearts.org/2019/02/week-recap-25-february-2019/art-krita-sylvia-ritter-disco-dingo.webp)
Week recap — 9 December 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineNVidia publishes PhysX SDK physics engine as an open source project
![](https://librearts.org/2018/12/week-recap-9-december-2018/edu-blender-mohamed-shahin-northern-lights.jpg)
Week recap — 25 November 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineStalled development of Natron gets prime-time attention
![](https://librearts.org/2018/11/week-recap-25-november-2018/yaroslav-chyzhevskyi-river-landscape-gimp.jpg)
2018 in perspective
by Alexandre ProkoudineLet's see what this year is bringing us
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Ardour 4 released
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew version of the free/libre DAW brings sleeker UI, new editing tools, native CoreAudio/ASIO support
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Libre Music Production project launched
by Alexandre ProkoudineLibre Music Production is collaboration between Staffan Melin, Gabriel Nordeborn, and Conor McCormack. Essentially, it's a project by musicians for musicians.
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Ordinary Day Montage album released, produced with Ardour3
by Alexandre ProkoudineGabriel 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.
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Ardour 3.2 makes it easy to create soundtracks
by Alexandre ProkoudineThe new version of Ardour, a free DAW for Linux and Mac, is now available and features a few major improvements to the workflow.
![](https://librearts.org/2013/06/ardour-3-2-makes-it-easy-to-create-soundtracks/ardour-3-2-timeline-monitor-tracks.png)
Cronopios and Famas animation trailer released
by Alexandre ProkoudineThis is the first trailer of Cronopios and Famas, an animation movie based on a short story anthology by Argentine author Julio Cortázar.
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Ardour 3 gets simplified crossfading and SSL Nucleus support
by Alexandre ProkoudineYesterday 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.
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First beta of Ardour 3 released
by Alexandre ProkoudineA few days ago Paul Davis released first beta of Ardour 3, a free DAW for Linux and Mac, with 3 months worth of work.
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Ardour 2.8.12 released, A3 gets Linux VST support
by Alexandre Prokoudine
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Linux DAWs are buzzing
by Alexandre ProkoudineFew 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.
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Ardour 3 enters alpha phase
by Alexandre ProkoudineArdour, THE free digital audio workstation (DAW), has finally entered alpha phase after several years of development.
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What’s up with free multimedia production tools in 2010
by Alexandre ProkoudineIt'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.
![](https://librearts.org/2010/12/what-is-up-with-free-multimedia-production-tools-in-2010/ibx4DRO3CQ3Czp.jpg)