ARDOUR(1)

📦 version 7.5.0, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ ARDOUR(1) — bestie's guide to the manual page ✨

okay so this is the man page for Ardour, and it lives in the User Commands section of the manual. Welcome, pull up a chair, we're doing this together. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

Ardour — a digital audio workstation. that's the whole name section, short and iconic, she said what she said 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

the vibe check on how you actually run this thing:

ardour [ OPTIONS ] [ SESSION-NAME ]

so it's ardour, then optionally some OPTIONS, then optionally a SESSION-NAME. that's it. that's the shape of it. 🌈

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Ardour is a multichannel hard disk recorder (HDR for short, iykyk) and a digital audio workstation (that one's DAW). Two icons in one program. main character energy fr fr 🔥

💖 OPTIONS 💖

here's every single flag, no skips, no cuts, all of them, periodt ✨

  • -a, --no-announcements — do not go contacting the website for announcements. she's staying offline, she's in her introvert era 🙈
  • -A, --actions — print all possible menu action names. literally every action name that exists. a whole list. 👑
  • -b, --bindings — display all current key bindings. so you can see what key does what, no guessing 💜
  • -B, --bypass-plugins — bypass all plugins in an existing session. all of them. every last one. 🌸
  • -c, --name <name> — use a specific backend client name. the default is ardour, in case you were wondering, and you were 🎀
  • -d, --disable-plugins — disable all plugins. this is safe mode bestie, keep that in your pocket for when everything is on fire 💀
  • -D, --debug <options> — set debug flags. and listen, use -D list to see the available options, don't just freestyle it 🦋
  • -h, --help — print this message. the classic. the "help me please" button 🫶
  • -k, --keybindings <file> — path to the key bindings file to load. give her the file, she'll load it 💅
  • -m, --menus file — use file to define menus. that's the literal word file doing the work here, cute ✨
  • -n, --no-splash — do not show the splash screen. no intro, straight to the content, she's efficient like that ⭐
  • -N, --new session-name — create a new session straight from the command line. no GUI clicking required, we love a shortcut 🌈
  • -O, --no-hw-optimizations — disable hardware specific optimizations. hardware, she said no thank you today 🙅
  • -P, --no-connect-ports — do not connect any ports at startup. zero ports. none. ✋
  • -S, --sync — draw the GUI synchronously. it's giving patience, it's giving one thing at a time 🧚
  • -T, --template <name> — use the given template for a new session. pick your template, live your truth 🎀
  • -v, --version — print version and exit. in and out, quick lil queen 👑

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? (and you will, we all do, it's fine, breathe 🫶) report it to:

https://tracker.ardour.org

and the website in general is:

https://ardour.org
bestie please actually report the bugs instead of just yelling into the void. the void does not have a bug tracker. 💜

🌟 cute lil sign-off 🌟

this whole thing is for ardour 6, and it's dated July 2020, and it belongs to the ARDOUR(1) corner of the manual. ty for coming to my ted talk, go make some music, ily 💖✨🎀🦋

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