The Non Session Manager is a graphical interface to the NSM Daemon (nsmd) in Linux audio.

Ardour Guide Professional Tool for Working with Audio and MIDI: Introduction. -  Ardour is a full-featured, free and open-source hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation program suitable for professional use. It features unlimited audio tracks and buses, non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo, and anything-to-anywhere signal routing. It supports standard file formats, such as BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF and CAF, and it can use LADSPA, LV2, VST and AudioUnit plugin formats.   Ardour runs on Linux and Mac OS X, and uses the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) to interface with the computer's sound card, as well as with other audio applications running on the same system.   Creating Music with Ardour. Ardour can be used in many different ways, from extremely simple to extremely complex. Many projects will be handled using the following kind of workflow.   Stage 1: Creating Your Project. The first step is to create a new session, or open an existing one. A session consists of a folder containing a session file that defines all the...(ubuntulandblogspot)

Ardour Guide Professional Tool for Working with Audio and MIDI: Using More Than One Audio Device. -  Ardour is a full-featured, free and open-source hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation program suitable for professional use. It features unlimited audio tracks and buses, non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo, and anything-to-anywhere signal routing. It supports standard file formats, such as BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF and CAF, and it can use LADSPA, LV2, VST and AudioUnit plugin formats.   Ardour runs on Linux and Mac OS X, and uses the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) to interface with the computer's sound card, as well as with other audio applications running on the same system.   Using More Than One Audio Device. Ardour will only use a single interface. If you want to use more than one interface you have two choices: If you want to use Ardour to start JACK (which handles all audio I/O) you will need to create a "fake" audio device on your computer the represents all the multiple devices you wish to use. How to do this is...(ubuntulandblogspot)

Ardour Guide Professional Tool for Working with Audio and MIDI: Understanding Basic Concepts and... -  Ardour is a full-featured, free and open-source hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation program suitable for professional use. It features unlimited audio tracks and buses, non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo, and anything-to-anywhere signal routing. It supports standard file formats, such as BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF and CAF, and it can use LADSPA, LV2, VST and AudioUnit plugin formats.   Ardour runs on Linux and Mac OS X, and uses the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) to interface with the computer's sound card, as well as with other audio applications running on the same system.   Understanding Basic Concepts and Terminology. This section will help you get acquainted with the basic terminology and concepts associated with Ardour. More detailed information on each aspect of the program is provided in later chapters.   Sessions. An Ardour session is a container for an entire project. A session may contain an arbitrary number of...(ubuntulandblogspot)

Ardour Guide Professional Tool for Working with Audio and MIDI: Setting up your System. -  Ardour is a full-featured, free and open-source hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation program suitable for professional use. It features unlimited audio tracks and buses, non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo, and anything-to-anywhere signal routing. It supports standard file formats, such as BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF and CAF, and it can use LADSPA, LV2, VST and AudioUnit plugin formats.   Ardour runs on Linux and Mac OS X, and uses the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) to interface with the computer's sound card, as well as with other audio applications running on the same system.   The Right Computer System for Digital Audio. It would be nice to think that you could just go and buy any computer, install a bit of software on it and start using it to record and create music. This idea isn't wrong, but there some important details that it misses.   Any computer that you can buy today (somewhere around the end of 2012) is capable of...(ubuntulandblogspot)

Ardour Guide Professional Tool for Working with Audio and MIDI: The Mouse and Setting up MIDI. -  Ardour is a full-featured, free and open-source hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation program suitable for professional use. It features unlimited audio tracks and buses, non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo, and anything-to-anywhere signal routing. It supports standard file formats, such as BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF and CAF, and it can use LADSPA, LV2, VST and AudioUnit plugin formats.   Ardour runs on Linux and Mac OS X, and uses the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) to interface with the computer's sound card, as well as with other audio applications running on the same system.   The Mouse. Ardour is designed to work best with a 3 button mouse equipped with a scroll wheel. It can be used with a 2 button mouse or touchpad, but at least 2 key operations will not (easily) be available to you: time-constrained region copying MIDI bindings created by "learning" them from incoming MIDI You are strongly encouraged to invest in...(ubuntulandblogspot)