Ardour AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Audio Editors

The best Audio Editor alternative to Ardour is FL Studio. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Cakewalk or Bespoke Synth. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Ardour and loads of them are Audio Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Audio Editor alternatives to Ardour are Ableton Live, Adobe Audition, Bitwig Studio and Logic Pro.

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  1. FL Studio icon
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    A complete digital audio workstation featuring professional music creation tools for mixing, mastering, editing, and sequencing. It includes a responsive piano roll sequencer, lifetime license updates, visualizer plugins for video creation, and multi-touch support for advanced graphical interface navigation.

    95 FL Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
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    • iPad
     
  2. Ableton Live icon
     212 likes

    Music software facilitating idea creation, editing, and performance with Arrangement and Session Views. Enhanced interfaces, improved waveforms, and great EQs provide intuitive and detailed music-making for studio and stage experiences.

    87 Ableton Live alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. Adobe Audition icon
     186 likes

    A comprehensive audio editing suite designed for commercial use with features like post-production refinement, video and podcast editing capabilities, minus composition tools. Equipped with Waveform and Multitrack modes for recording and editing, with new Clip and Session Markers.

    95 Adobe Audition alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  4. Bitwig Studio icon
     94 likes

    Bitwig Studio is a multi-platform music-creation system for production, performance and DJing, with a focus on flexible editing tools and a super-fast workflow.

    55 Bitwig Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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    Bitwig Studio vs Ardour Comments
    Ranogard
    Positive
    0

    Much more stable. Only the audio engine sometimes crashes, which is its own separate process and that can be easily restarted after it crashed, so it's not a big deal. Ardour on the other hand just dies completely regularly.

    • Bitwig Studio is Paid and ProprietaryArdour is Paid and Open Source
  5. Cakewalk icon
     75 likes

    Cakewalk, formerly SONAR, is a comprehensive audio software for music composition, audio recording, editing, mixing and mastering. It features a full suite of high quality audio and MIDI effects and instruments and composition tools ranging from drum sequencer and piano roll...

    117 Cakewalk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Logic Pro icon
     120 likes

    Comprehensive studio app offering advanced DAW and MIDI tools, a creative interface, powerful software instruments, plugins like Beat Breaker, full mixer capabilities, and seamless integration with Mac and iPad for professional-sounding mixes.

    81 Logic Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPad
     
  7. Qtractor icon
     52 likes

    Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is GNU/Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures for...

    78 Qtractor alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  8. Avid Pro Tools icon
     57 likes

    Pro Tools makes music creation fast and fluid, providing a complete set of tools to create, record, edit, and mix audio. Get inspired and start making music with a massive collection of plugins, instruments, and sounds.

    93 Avid Pro Tools alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  9. Studio One icon
     48 likes

    Studio One is an advanced digital audio workstation for Mac and Windows featuring a bevy of powerful composition, editing, mixing and mastering tools on top of standard multi-track DAW features. Highly praised for its intuitive chord track that lets users drag and drop both...

    56 Studio One alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Studio One vs Ardour Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Is lightweight and more or less simple

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Studio One is Paid and ProprietaryArdour is Paid and Open Source
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