[Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.5 released

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 01/25/2010 03:43 AM, Joe Hartley wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:30:30 -0500
> Paul Davis<paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Anybody can get Ardour without paying a penny for it. If they want me
>> to continue working on it, then they'd better pay *something*. They
>> can pay $1, and that still counts (in fact, if everyone who downloaded
>> it paid a dollar for it I'd probably be hiring). Access to software:
>> FREE Continued development of software: NOT FREE. Users can decide.
>>      
> I ignored the original rant, because anyone can have a bad day and get
> their knickers in a twist.  If you go back far enough, one of my original
> posts to this list was a whiny rant that was spurred by a problem I was
> having with an early release.
>
> But I feel I need to stand up and point to the above paragraph and say
> "THIS."  Ardour's one of the best pieces of audio software I've ever used,
> and I'm amazed at the accessibility of the developers.  I'm more than
> happy to have a subscription through the website so that development can
> continue.
>
>    


FWIW, I just spent the past two days recording my efforts with ams, 
hydrogen, jackeq.

I was able to capture almost 10 hours of perfectly recorded data without 
any dropouts and not one single crash from ardour even though I managed 
to crash ams at least 50 times from my tweaking adventures. I couldn't 
be happier with the experience. I am now moving on to editing all my new 
tracks and looking forward to the unlimited audio tracks, busses, sends 
and inserts unlike almost all the other crippled paid software options 
that are comparable.

Ardour is definitely worth supporting financially and IMO it should be 
made *more* obvious with donation facilites built directly into the 
interface so people who only use it from a precompiled repo package are 
still aware of the community expectations for financial support.

In fact I donated some money right now just for the hell or it ;-) Got 
10 bucks out of me. 1 for every hour I recorded.

BTW, it's looking like another good month for donations this month. 
Congratulations!

Things seem to be significantly better financially than this time last 
year. That painful discussion in Jan 2009 was worth it I guess.






Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd