Hobbyist game dev here. Getting into audio and music effects has been fun but I constantly feel overwhelmed. I chose Ardour as my DAW (digital audio workstation) and have been excitedly working on learning. I also bought the book “ Writing Interactive Music for Video Games: A Composer's Guide” which has been very helpful at understanding high level vocabulary.

It’s a lot of work. I slightly enjoy it but boooooy is getting into audio and music pretty challenging. It’ll be good if I ever need to know what I’m talking about when working with others… in the future where I can dedicate myself full time to game dev… One day one day…

I don’t really have a point here. If anyone has any resources, tips, or recommendations on this subject let me know.

Edit: Congrats on the new 9.0 release!

Happy to answer any questions about this release, and/or the future of Ardour.

Not familiar with the software, clicked the link, thought the pianoroll screen was a Gantt chart. Thinking "not another project management solution ..." until I realized I was wrong lol.

Very nice looking UI! Powered by forked GTK+ 2 [1]. (First release almost 24 years ago [2]).

[1] https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/tree/9.0/libs/tk/ytk

[2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2002-March/msg00136...

Ardour is very good and needs more attentions. My respects to the developers, I use it every day, and I am very happy with it and its community. I also like the paying / open source model, and I wouldn’t change it for a proprietary DAW 99% of the musicians use.

Is this similar to Ableton? Wanted to "create" music as a hobby, but don't really wanna pay for Ableton. I tried once https://lmms.io/ but didn't stick. Never heard of Ardour.

Very cool, I have not given Ardour a try in many years but the UI looks quite nice. Will give it a go

I'll take this as an opportunity to thank the Ardour developers for making a truly great product. Its really really good.

Off topic but is there a linux DAW which focuses on live loop recording? Something like what the LoopyPro app does on iOS ?

I just setup my first little Linux home studio and Ardour is a large part of that. It's a great piece of software with an admittedly high learning curve for a novice like myself, but it's been incredibly fun learning.

As no small feat, this release is on the HN front page at the same time as Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex. Big day, big names, congrats!