KVR Audio

fedexnman · Post by **fedexnman** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 6:27 pm

Just trying to be funny , typo in the thread title . It will work on Intel and AMD on Windows ,Mac and Hackintosh and Linux .

christianmusicmaker · Post by **christianmusicmaker** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 2:13 am

kurviak wrote:
christianmusicmaker wrote:For $12 ($1 minimum monthly) there is quite a lot on offer for the money. Might not sway users of other DAWS immediately (or anytime soon) but there appears to be plenty on offer here for a very small outlay. Not bad at all.
$12 ($1 monthly minimum) is for one year of upgrades. You can get the current full version any time for just $1 (minimum)

Nice

Lump · Post by **Lump** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 6:56 am

Hehe, I remember when Paul Davis (Main Dev) told me (years ago), that Ardour will never work in Windows because of Posix and he will eat his hat when it will do. Did the hat was delicious, Paul?

Ah and he told me many things about the advantage of JACK and the modularity of Unix apps... and that VST support will never be part of Ardour, because of the free, modular and pure architecture of this DAW .

Times changing

Maadfoo · Post by **Maadfoo** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 8:25 am

Lump wrote:Hehe, I remember when Paul Davis (Main Dev) told me (years ago), that Ardour will never work in Windows because of Posix and he will eat his hat when it will do. Did the hat was delicious, Paul?

Ah and he told me many things about the advantage of JACK and the modularity of Unix apps... and that VST support will never be part of Ardour, because of the free, modular and pure architecture of this DAW .

Times changing

Well: http://ardour.org/windows.html

Still not really supported.

Skorpius · Post by **Skorpius** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 8:55 am

pc999 wrote: Ardour now runs on GNU/Linux, OS X and for the first time, Windows.

I wonder why no specific Windows version can be downloaded from the website, even though the Windows compatibility is emphasized. All I can find on the website is a "Source Code for all platforms " version, which needs to be compiled, however. And even though my knowledge of IT and PCs is pretty good, I still wouldn't know how to compile a source code for my system.

Would it be asking too much from the Ardour support to simply place a few download-ready Windows versions (Vista, 7, 8 / 32 + 64 bits) in the download section?

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:08 am

Skorpius wrote:
pc999 wrote: Ardour now runs on GNU/Linux, OS X and for the first time, Windows.
I wonder why no specific Windows version can be downloaded from the website, even though the Windows compatibility is emphasized. All I can find on the website is a "Source Code for all platforms " version, which needs to be compiled, however. And even though my knowledge of IT and PCs is pretty good, I still wouldn't know how to compile a source code for my system.

Would it be asking too much from the Ardour support to simply place a few download-ready Windows versions (Vista, 7, 8 / 32 + 64 bits) in the download section?

http://ardour.org/windows.html

dawhead · Post by **dawhead** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 12:07 pm

Lump wrote:Hehe, I remember when Paul Davis (Main Dev) told me (years ago), that Ardour will never work in Windows because of Posix and he will eat his hat when it will do. Did the hat was delicious, Paul?

I said that about JACK, not Ardour.

Ah and he told me many things about the advantage of JACK and the modularity of Unix apps... and that VST support will never be part of Ardour, because of the free, modular and pure architecture of this DAW .

I may have revised my opinions about monolithic applications, but I never would have explained the lack of VST support in the past based on this reason. VST support was (and in some respects still is) a problem because of Steinberg's stupid licensing of the VST API.

dawhead · Post by **dawhead** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 12:10 pm

Skorpius wrote: Would it be asking too much from the Ardour support to simply place a few download-ready Windows versions (Vista, 7, 8 / 32 + 64 bits) in the download section?

Would it be asking people too much to simply scroll their browser window when they are reading http://ardour.org/download?

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 12:17 pm

dawhead wrote:VST support was (and in some respects still is) a problem because of Steinberg's stupid licensing of the VST API.

You mean like it collides with your open source license?

dawhead · Post by **dawhead** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 12:21 pm

chk071 wrote:
dawhead wrote:VST support was (and in some respects still is) a problem because of Steinberg's stupid licensing of the VST API.
You mean like it collides with your open source license?

It collides with the ability of anyone who wants to compile VST-enabled software without visiting the Steinberg web site, registering and downloading the SDK from there.

Why they don't simply allow redistribution of the header files without modification, I have no idea.

In the real world, the VST spec has now been reverse engineered by a "clean room" team, and so this is no longer a practical problem. But it is just pig-headed of Steinberg/Yamaha, and/or just the result of bureaucratic nonsense, since when I discussed it with them back in 2002 they were actually quite keen to change this. But they never did.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 12:29 pm

So, in other words, yes to my question?

dawhead · Post by **dawhead** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 12:31 pm

chk071 wrote:So, in other words, yes to my question?

Well, I guess if by "your open source license" you mean any and all open source licenses that require that redistribution includes everything needed to build, then .. yes. But that's more than just the GPL.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:15 pm

Alright, got it.

fedexnman · Post by **fedexnman** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:21 pm

Nice Job on Ardour 4 . Congrads . I may subscribe and try it out again .

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:33 pm

Does this mean Harrison Mixbus will be upgraded too?

Ardour 4.0 released (Linux, Mac and Windows)