.TH ARDOUR 1 2002-12-29
.SH NAME
ardour \- a digital audio workstation
.SH SYNOPSIS
ardour
.B \-b
.RB [ \-U
.IR file ]
.RI [ session ]
.br
ardour
.B \-\-help
.SH DESCRIPTION
Ardour is a multichannel hard disk recorder (HDR) and digital audio 
workstation (DAW).
It is capable of simultaneous recording 24 or more channels of 32 bit audio at
48kHz.
Ardour is intended to function as a "professional" HDR system, replacing
dedicated hardware solutions such as the Mackie HDR, the Tascam 2424 and more
traditional tape systems like the Alesis ADAT series.
It is also intended to provide the same or better functionality as software 
systems such as ProTools, Samplitude, Logic Audio, Nuendo and Cubase VST (we 
acknowledge these and all other names as trademarks of their respective 
owners).
It supports MIDI Machine Control, and so can be controlled from any MMC
controller, such as the Mackie Digital 8 Bus mixer and many other modern
digital mixers. 
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-a
do not contact ardour.org at program startup to check for announcements
.TP
.B \-b
Print all possible keyboard binding names.
.TP
.B \-U
Specify the path to the GTK RC file to use.
The provided one is called
.B ardour_ui.rc
and lives in the top level Ardour source directory.
This file controls all color and font use within Ardour.
Ardour will run without it, but its appearance is, uhm, ugly.
.TP
.B \-\-help
Displays the help message.
.SH FILES
.TP
.B ardour.rc
Defaults and startup settings for Ardour.
.TP
.B ardour_ui.rc
Definitions for the Ardour interface.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
.B ARDOUR_RC
Path to ardour.rc.
.TP
.B ARDOUR_SYSTEM_RC
Path to the ardour_system.rc
.TP
.B LADSPA_PATH
Path to LADSPA plugins.
.SH BUGS
Yes.
http://tracker.ardour.org/ is the preferred bugtracker.
.SH AUTHOR
Paul Davis.
Do
.I not
contact him directly.
Instead,
contact him at <ardour-dev@lists.ardour.org>.
You can subscribe here:
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http://lists.ardour.org/listinfo.cgi/ardour-dev-ardour.org