Ardour vs.pro tools11/3/2022 ![]() ![]() #Ardour vs.pro tools trial#Reaper’s trial is even more permissive, IIRCīitwig is the clear winner, by miles, all day every day, for me. TLDR: I would recommend trying some for yourself - Bitwig has a non-expiring save-disabled trial with all functionality. So dear wizzards and gentle Rack folks, what would be your suggestion? Appreciate your time! Also using the odd VST for mixing and mastering, and checking out a couple of nice VST synths and effects. Needs to have some automation to orchestrate those pieces. My needs of a DAW is to record multitrack pieces combined from Rack-VST, my eurorack through the ES-9 and my Roland Juno-Di keyboard through my Focusrite 2i2. I’m on macOS Sierra although I anticipate upgrading to Catalina by necessity in the near future. I value stability, reliability, good UX and a UI that’s not more cluttered than it needs to be. I’ve never been a DAW user, outside of the occasional, casual use of Audacity, but I feel fairly proficient with Rack, MIDI and audio. #Ardour vs.pro tools free#Or should I try the free and Open Source Ardour, or is that hopelessly behind in necessary features? Ableton is out because of the silly MIDI shortcomings that people mention here. People say very nice things about these around these parts. I’m aware that you’ll now list every DAW known to man, but it seems to me like the major contenders are Reaper or Bitwig. Checking various settings to see if they influenced results took around 1 hour.So, what should be my first DAW to go with VCV Rack Pro?.Processing the results and writing the article took around 30 minutes.Testing Ardour was pleasant and took approximately 16 minutes.This puts Ardour firmly in the “Excellent result” camp at buffers lower than 128 samples.64 samples performs excellent, slightly more at 256, significantly more at 1024. Ardour’s total latency is good at lower buffer sizes, but becomes exponentially worse with larger buffer sizes.A reader pointed out that this is possibly a round/floor issue after some division when determining which sample a MIDI event aligns with.Like Ableton Live - Ardour has about 4 samples of constant jitter at all settings (including what’s not displayed here).Ardour has near-zero MIDI input jitter.Here is a csv of all the data, including the config files used to plot it using deltafinder. Your browser does not support the video tag. Do the tests yourself, or at least double check my data. Reminder, don’t trust dweebs on the internet. I thoroughly enjoyed using Ardour in every aspect of setting up this test. This is an important setting that nearly every other DAW: doesn’t let you set, doesn’t automatically set correctly, or has a test function that gives incorrect results. ![]() Unrelated to this test, but Ardour/Mixbus’s Audio Calibration system is the best in any DAW. I suspect the difference between the test results and Audio->Audio result is the MIDI subsystem and/or the device MIDI latency.
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