Ardour Nightly Builds

There is no support whatsoever for these builds.
See ardour.org for official releases.

!!! ATTENTION !!!

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THESE VERSIONS TO USE ON ACTUAL SESSIONS.
The main branch of Ardour, which is used to build the versions available on this site, has entered a development phase that makes it unsuitable for actual work.

We have tagged it as a new version (7.0-pre0), and a warning will be displayed any time you use it. These versions (or your own self-builds of the main branch) should be considered experimental, unstable and untested. We are not interested in bug reports at this time. A notice will be posted here when the situation changes.

Operating System

GNU/Linux Windows MacOS

Linux builds are compatible with any platform GNU/Linux releases since circa 2016 (glibc ≥ 3.4.21). Builds are available for 64bit Intel systems, as well as ARM (32bit Raspberry Pi) and 64bit ARM systems. Requires X11.

Compatible with Windows 7 and any later version.

MacOS Intel builds are compatible with ≥ 10.10 (Yosemite and later), ARM64/M1 builds require ≥ macOS 11.0.

Architecture

64bit (x86_64) ARM64 ARM32 (RaspberryPi)

Debug Version

Debug Optimized

The debug version allows the creation of proper bugreports (backtraces). The main downside is that it's a larger download, slightly slower, and requires more space on disk to install.

Ardour is a complex piece of software with a small development team. We strive for robustness and stability but the road is long and edge-cases are plenty. The nightly builds exist for the purpose of testing and we value bug reports. Hence using a Debug build is highly recommended.

The optimized build disables internal sanity checks (assertions) and utilizes compiler optimizations. This results in a smaller download size requiring less disk space to install it.

Variant

Free/Demo Full-Version

The Free/Demo version is gratis. It is fully-featured except that after 10min it will periodically go silent.

Full-featured versions are available to subscribers (small monthly payment). Use your ardour.org credentials to identify yourself for download (see your user page to check subscription status).

Download

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Install Instructions and Notes

GNU/Linux: Download the .run installer and launch it.
One way to accomplish this is in a terminal: sh Ardour_<version>.run (substitute version).
The alternative is to use a file-browser, right-click on the downloaded file, select properties, checkbox: allow execution. Then double-click to run the installer [first time linux README].

Linux versions can be installed in parallel including alongside distribution packages. They are installed to /opt/Ardour-version/ (Note: The installer will ask to run an uninstaller, answer "no" if you wish to keep older versions alongside the new one ).

The Windows installer will replace the current version. (Note: If Ardour does not exit cleanly, uninstalling or replacing an existing installation will fail to replace font-files included with ardour. You can ignore this or fix it by rebooting the system).

Note: The application is not digitally signed. Right-click (or control + click) and select Open the first time to launch it. See also information how to disable the gatekeeper.
On BigSur, after download the application has to be released from quarantine. In a Terminal window run

xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/Ardour-*.dmg

See also: List of all available versions

Ardour is licensed in terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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