Hi all,
new to the forum.
I was wondering, to populate “missing” concepts in Ardour documentation,
what other DAW is Ardour envisioned to be conceptually similar?
Say I have a reference manual for another DAW I would like to use in combination with the Ardour manual, would I be better using Pro Tools manual or Logic manual.
I’m talking about general workflow concepts, not details and features.
Welcome!
All of them, which applies to all other DAWs as well. 
The concepts of recording and mixing have not changed since a very long time.
In the modern digital world Ardour equally pioneered as many features as it catches up to.
Keep in mind that the Ardour manual is a reference manual. General workflow concepts don’t belong in there. The tutorial would be a good place for those though.
IMHO Pyramix v12 manual is very well organized. But’s also a DAW reference manual, not a lot of concepts in there.
The edit view seems to give a hybrid of Logic/Pro Tools type of vibe. Where the Cue view (clip launching) gives a more Ableton like vibe.
I love the Cue.
Thanks to all devs out there. It’s a heaven’s sent.
By the way, I built 8.11 on Fedora, and this thing is picking up pace.
Totally usable. Considering either subscribing, or developing stuff.
I’d like to see, and this is what I’m missing in ALL the software except Logic (and Ableton, but we’re talking nix here) => realtime quantize.
Essentially, MIDI options in context menu for MIDI region/clips should also be a strip in the Edit view.
I’m also using REAPER, but I don’t want Ardour to become that. REAPER is a little bit self-absorbent, if not the greatest thing that happened to nix world in a long time. Closed source tho.
Ardour has a philosophy and discipline and mantraistic approach. Feeling it.
By the way, another contester in the nix world is Fairlight’s DaVinci… Audio only I think, but it seems they got their head straight.
If you want to learn about Ardour philosophy, I would recommend podcasts featuring @paul talk about it.
2018, interview by the late Darwin Grosse, who worked at Cycling 74, which is today mostly known as max4live:
Here, from 2021. Funny pairing with Pete Brown from Microsoft (Who is advocating for the audio community at M$ and partially responsible for the new, open source, midi system. I still hate windows for all the ads and history. Pete seems nice though)
Paul also made his own podcast, him interviewing folks such as Justin Franklin, the father of REAPER. But I can’t find that rn. Maybe someone else can post a link
And as stated by @x42 , tutorials are for the flow questions. There is a lot on the Ardour YouTube channel.