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Ardour 9.0 Audio Workstation Released With Multi-Touch GUI, Many New Features

Written by Michael Larabel in Multimedia on 5 February 2026 at 02:10 PM EST. 13 Comments
Ardour 9.0 is out today as the latest major feature release to this leading open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software for musicians, recording engineers, and other audio editing needs.

Ardour 9.0 ships many new features including piano-roll windows, GUI editing for the contents of MIDI cues/clips, support for directly recording into cue slots, a dedicated real-time perceptual analyzer window, keyboard-driven automation editing, and a lot of other UI/UX improvements. Ardour 9.0 on Windows and Linux also now supports multi-touch interactions.

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Ardour 9.0 also ships plug-in enhancements, new Lua scripting capabilities, and other changes for advancing the open-source DAW world.

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Ardour 9.0 downloads for Linux / Windows / macOS and more details via Ardour.org.

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