Compatibility
Ardour attempts to adhere to industry standards, such as SMPTE/MTC, Broadcast WAVE, MIDI Machine Control and XML.
Ardour has been tested and runs on the GNU/Linux operating system, on the x86-64, x86, PPC architectures, Sun Solaris, Mac OS X on Intel and PowerPC, and FreeBSD. It takes advantage of multiprocessor and multicore SMP and realtime features of these operating systems. Support is limited on operating systems other than Linux and OS X, however.
Attempts have been made, and continue to be made, to port to Windows, although Ardour's lead developer has expressed reluctance to encourage those efforts.
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