PAPaulDavisThe1st·Nov 2, 2021
Ardour author here.
> it's also not truly FLOSS as it requires a paid license to download the binaries, (same for Ardour on non-Linux systems)).
This does not stop something being FLOSS. The GPL that we release Ardour under is 100% consistent with charging money for a ready-to-run version. And we even actively encourage people who have problems doing that to get a copy from a friend. There is nothing in any FLOSS license that requires gratis access to pre-built binaries; anyone is free to get the source and build it themselves, if they are up for the task. Most DAW users are not interested in this, and we chose to use it as a way to help fund the last 10+ years of what is now a 21 year old project.
> Ardour is okay, but only if you don't mess with MIDI.
There are plenty of people using Ardour's MIDI very successfully, even if it remains t
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rue that our MIDI workflow could use some significant improvements. Version 7 will hopefully see a great deal of changes in this area, and it will be a primary focus of the early 7.x release series.
> Third, my plan in regard to time signature is to abstract away all the logic into the `https://github.com/RustyDAW/rusty-daw-timeline` repo. It's sole purpose it to be a black-box that takes a function of musical time (f64 of beats) and returns sample time (represented as i64), and vice versa.
Good luck. This is likely to be much, much harder to get right than you currently imagine. I made a few notes about the "new" system in Ardour here: https://ardour.org/timing.html Although some other DAWs do use float representation for time, our experience has been that it's a terrible idea. Fixed point is much easier to deal with.
In some ways, it's always nice and even a little exciting to see a new FLOSS (or even non-FLOSS DAW) starting up. On the other, it is a bit frustrating knowing how much developer time and brain power will have to go into getting to where Ardour was (say) 10 years ago rather than pushing existing projects (like Ardour) forward. Good luck!