Ardour and the Pi

I was able to compile (waf) ardour4 on the Raspberry Pi3 and it works fine with the Cirrus Logic Audio Card.  I can record and play back in stereo using the onboard microphones and headphone output.  I will have to try my preamp and AKG condenser microphone and confirm the line in WORKS but I have confidence.

Compiling ardour is not for the fainthearted.  The dependency list is extensive and it took a while on the Pi3 but nothing seemed out of the ordinary for a project of this complexity.

If you are really interested, see http://ardour.org/current_dependencies.html for the dependencies and http://ardour.org/building_linux.html for the procedure.

I had to build a few of the dependencies:

• atkmm-2.22.7
• libart_lgpl-2.3.21
• liblrdf-0.5.0
• pangomm-2.28.4

 but raspbian has a working jack daemon and it runs fine.
Time to try some plugins and see if the whole system can handle signal processing.

Thanks to all the Ardour and Linux Audio developers who have made this possible!