ARDOUR(1)						      General Commands Manual							 ARDOUR(1)

NAME

       ardour - a digital audio workstation

SYNOPSIS

       ardour -b [-U file] [session]
       ardour --help

DESCRIPTION

       Ardour  is a multichannel hard disk recorder (HDR) and digital audio workstation (DAW).	It is capable of simultaneous recording 24 or more
       channels of 32 bit audio at 48kHz.  Ardour is intended to function as a "professional" HDR system, replacing dedicated  hardware  solutions
       such  as the Mackie HDR, the Tascam 2424 and more traditional tape systems like the Alesis ADAT series.	It is also intended to provide the
       same or better functionality as software systems such as ProTools, Samplitude, Logic Audio, Nuendo and Cubase VST (we acknowledge these and
       all  other  names  as trademarks of their respective owners).  It supports MIDI Machine Control, and so can be controlled from any MMC con-
       troller, such as the Mackie Digital 8 Bus mixer and many other modern digital mixers.

OPTIONS

       -b     Print all possible keyboard binding names.

       -U     Specify the path to the GTK RC file to use.  The provided one is called ardour_ui.rc and lives in the top level Ardour source direc-
	      tory.  This file controls all color and font use within Ardour.  Ardour will run without it, but its appearance is, uhm, ugly.

       --help Displays the help message.

FILES

       ardour.rc
	      Defaults and startup settings for Ardour.

       ardour_ui.rc
	      Definitions for the Ardour interface.

ENVIRONMENT

       ARDOUR_RC
	      Path to ardour.rc.

       ARDOUR_SYSTEM_RC
	      Path to the ardour_system.rc

       LADSPA_PATH
	      Path to LADSPA plugins.

BUGS

       Yes.  http://ardour.org/mantis is the preferred bugtracker.

AUTHOR

       Paul Davis.  Do not contact him directly.  Instead, contact him at <ardour-dev@lists.ardour.org>.  You can subscribe here:
       http://lists.ardour.org/listinfo.cgi/ardour-dev-ardour.org

								    2002-12-29								 ARDOUR(1)