Maybe some kind of lobbying in the words quoted by Paul in the beginning of this post?

Or maybe not, but who cares in LAU ecosystem?!!!

As mentionned up here by zettberlin and AFAIK, no other DAW provides routing as Ardour does. Of course this comes directly from Jackd, so thanks to the man who conceptualized this universal virtual patchbay (any source to any destination).

Eye candy is at its right place in Ardour (out of here!) because it’s not a painting stuff : it’s an audio production tool, and it JUST does this work as user decide, +1dB is nothing more or less than +1dB, e.g…

If you’re used with hardware audio boards, tapes & FX: as said alexthebassist you don’t need to read a lot of manuals to start working with Ardour, all you need is {something like AVLinux OR the ability to set an audio PC, and} the shortkeys’ sheet & the mouse options summary. Oh, that’s a real question here: where can one find the (last update of) those users’ facilitatings???

If you’re not used with hardware audio boards, tapes & FX: you’ve got to understand that it’s a real hard work to record, mix and publish audio. Many people on earth who try do that doesn’t eat in gold plates… At this moment, no one has never discovered the magic button in any DAW that makes it possible in one clic to produce a world hit… (and it might be a good thing, on the creative side)

One of the most existential question is included in the words quoted by Paul up here :

HOW can some code lines BE FRIENDLY?

Meant, there’s just a software. It will never felt or provide any feeling, just tools to do something the way the user decide.

User friendly, what does it means? Something able to be understood by a 4 years old child? If say yes to this, you’ve got to realize that none record was rec-mixed by a child & published.

Ardour is not a toy, but a professionnal DAW.

It’s free, as in mind.

And we are 2368 human beings today to be happy to sponsor Pauls’ couple trip in GB,

because we like & trust in what he’s doing, at least with Ardour,

because it’s nice to know (and be a small part of) that some of us can live freely,

because… (:P)

Happy new year to Ardour devs & users, and as suggested in the original post: everyone is welcomed!

Just my 2 humble cents…