yovoice
A local audio studio for speech synthesis, voice cloning, AI-generated songs and multi-track MIDI scores.GetApache-2.0
Ardour
A professional digital audio workstation for recording, editing and mixing audio and MIDI.
GPL-2.0+ · Downloads from community.ardour.org
- License
- GPL-2.0-or-later
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- Ardour
- Verified
- 2026
About Ardour
Ardour is a long-running open-source DAW for multitrack recording, non-destructive editing, MIDI sequencing and mixing, with support for audio plugins and control surfaces. It suits musicians, podcasters and engineers who want a full studio workflow without proprietary software.
Ready-to-run macOS builds are offered from the official site for a payment, while the source code stays freely available under the GPL; building it yourself is possible but unsupported by the project. The GitHub repository is the project's official mirror.
Information
- Source code
- Ardour/ardour
- License
- GPL-2.0-or-later
- Website
- ardour.org
- Download
- community.ardour.org
- Category
- Media
- Evidence checked
- Tags
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/Ardour/ardour
- github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/COPYING
- community.ardour.org/download
- github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/gtk2_ardour/main.cc
- icon.png: Paul Davis and the Ardour community. GPL-2.0-or-later; upstream project asset, trademarks retained.
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