002 - Paul Davis on the deep rewrite of Ardour DAW by LibreArts published on 2020-06-06T20:55:46Z This is the first part of a long interview with Paul Davis, founder and lead developer of Ardour, free/libre digital audio workstation. We covered many subjects throught the interview: how much sense the source code freedom has for end-users vs. extensibility via scripts a-la Reaper, how happy Paul is with the outcome of the long Ardour rewrite, how well the project is doing financially, why Ardour continues dropping GTK for UI toolkit, and whether there's usability testing on the horizon for the project. 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:50 Greetings 00:02:55 Free and open source vs. deep extensibility 00:06:14 Using FAUST for DSP 00:08:59 The 2.5 years long rewrite outcome 00:17:16 Pressure from users during the rewrite 00:20:50 Project financials 00:23:31 The GTK exodus 00:34:19 Best technology stack for a DAW in 2020 00:38:22 Usability testing 00:41:43 Outro Edited transcription is available at http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/podcast-ep-002-paul-davis-on-the-deep-rewrite-of-ardour-daw You can support me on Patreon, Liberapay, or do a one-time donation: http://libregraphicsworld.org/donate Genre Technology Comment by Paranoid Factoid Speaking of feature requests, I'd really like to see support for xenharmonic / nonstandard scales and non-traditional microtonal midi instruments. 2020-06-08T19:31:33Z Comment by adamspiers Many thanks for this, and especially for the transcription which saved me LOTS of time! I've sent you a donation. 2020-06-08T16:22:31Z
