Thanks to the amazing hardwork of Robin Gareus and funding from Harrison Consoles, ardour.org now has nightly builds of the development version of Ardour available. Read more details below. read more

Thanks to several years of slow and steady work, Ardour now compiles and runs on all versions of the Windows operating system. For several months, we've offered ready-to-run versions via our nightly build site . We're almost ready to release Ardour 4.0, which will make it the first major release of the program that could run on Windows. We'd love to see Ardour running on Windows more and more. BUT ... read more

The Ardour project is pleased to announce the release of Ardour 4.0. This release brings many technical improvements, as well as new features and over a thousand bug fixes. The biggest changes in this release: Better cross platform support. Ardour now runs on GNU/Linux, OS X and for the first time, Windows. JACK is no longer required, making it easier than ever for new users to get Ardour up and running (though JACK is still usable with Ardour). The user interface has seen a thorough overhaul, leading to a more modern and polished experience. Read more below for a more detailed summary of the changes ... read more

There are a number of recurrent questions about subscriptions to Ardour that come up. This article tries to collect them all and provide a coherent set of answers. read more

Several users have reported that the GUI (graphical user interface) of Ardour 4.x is slow on their systems. We know that this is caused by a combination of video interfaces and the driver for the video interface, but we don't know which video interfaces or which drivers are to blame. By default Ardour 4.x tries to get the video hardware to accelerate drawing, which may or may not happen depending on the card and driver. We could use your help in trying to understand what is happening and where. read more

Conor McCormack just posted another amazingly good tutorial for Ardour over at Libre Music Production, this time on using hardware inserts. Read the whole thing: http://libremusicproduction.com/tutorials/how-use-outboard-gear-ardour.

The Ardour project is pleased to announce the release of 4.1 with a great line-up of new features such as input gain control, Save As for projects, click-free changes to processor order and meter position, relative snapping, faster waveform rendering, Hi-DPI/Retina support and more! As usual, quite a few bugs have been mercilessly slayed. Encouragingly, we also have one of our longest ever contributor lists for this release. read more

The Ardour project is pleased to announce the release of 4.2. This is primarily a bug fix release, but the list of fixes is long, and we've also replaced the audio/MIDI IO backend for Windows with completely new code which we think will address some of the issues faced on that platform. This release also sees the return of downloads for Apple PowerPC platforms. There are other exciting changes waiting in the wings for 4.3, but we're already slightly off our monthly release schedule, and this long list of fixes merits a release of its own. read more

Did you know that with Wikispaces Private Label you can force all your wikis to use SSL or prevent your users from changing their usernames? Force All Wikis to Use SSL Encryption As site administrator for your company’s Private Label site, you want to ensure that all of the content on your intranet is secure. You’ve set your site permissions to private and now you want to go that extra step and make sure that all traffic between your computers and our servers is encrypted. You can do this by forcing all wikis on your site to use SSL encryption. To get started, you need to first enable SSL encryption on your site. You can do this by purchasing a wildcard SSL certificate. For more information, go to "Site Administration," the "Settings" tab, and then "Advanced Tools," or send us an e-mail. Once you have SSL set up, return to the "Advanced Tools" page and set "Force SSL" to "Yes." All traffic between your site and our servers will then automatically be encrypted. Prevent User Renames As the Private Label site administrator at your K-12 school, you want to easily manage your thousands of student accounts. This might mean maintaining usernames based on grade level and classroom, and preventing students from renaming their accounts. You can do this by going to "Site Administration," the "Settings" tab, and then "Users and Privacy." Here you simply deselect "Allow User Account Renaming." With this new setting, only administrators will be able to change usernames on the site. Try out these features and let us know what you think. And if you ever have suggestions for other security or control features you’d like to see, please e-mail us at help@wikispaces.com.

This month, we encourage you to check out three award-winning educational wikis on Wikispaces. These wikis have been used to interact with schools from around the world, share classroom activity, and turn online class notes into end-of-year exams. They’re great examples of how wikis can be used to create engaging learning experiences. Below are the winner and runners-up of the Edublogs Best Educational Wikis of 2009: Greetings From The World Arjana Blazic’s wiki bridges different cultures and continents by allowing educators and students to share their stories and cultures with others. Using tools like Glogster, students from around the world interact with their peers through images, videos, and text. Arjana loves using Wikispaces for this project: "Of all the Web 2.0 tools that I’ve learned about, I love Wikispaces the most because it conveys the true essence of Web 2.0 - collaboration! It’s amazing how easily we can work with students and teachers from all parts of the world…What’s more, even teachers that aren’t tech-savvy can easily use it and keep it running smoothly." Soar 2 New Heights Katie Heissenbuttel created this wiki for her fourth grade classroom. Over the past year, Katie has enjoyed watching her students’ discussions develop. Initially, students only answered Katie’s questions on the wiki but they soon began to comment and respond to their peers’ postings. As you visit the wiki, you’ll find student podcasts covering recent news events and individual pages showcasing each student’s work. Katie’s students are always excited to share their latest projects with their parents and parents really love the page of upcoming homework assignments. It’s a great example of how a wiki can transform learning into a community process. HUMS3001: Censorship and Responsibility Ben Miller, a teacher at the University of New South Wales, wanted his students to build learning materials for his course. He decided a wiki was the best platform to capture the group’s work over the semester. Ben chose to create his wiki on UNSW’s Wikispaces Private Label site as it gave his students a university-branded environment for their academic work. Students loved the wiki and after several weeks, were building most of the content for the site - summarizing theories on free speech, arguing their viewpoints, and highlighting censorship cases that they wanted to further explore. The final product was a rich body of knowledge that helped the students prepare for their end-of-year exam. We encourage you to check out this wiki and listen to Ben’s discussion about his wiki project.