Bownie

Bownie.com has set up a very good "ground up" guide to recording music. It's really for the musician (like me) that wants to be able to record himself without paying $25-$50 an hour. Take a look through it to get the basics.

Ardour?

Ardour has been "close" to 1.0 for almost a year now. The last release was April 17th with a beta that works great--but isn't quite there. The 0.99 release was expect on May 10th, 2005. I don't fault the guys for taking their time and getting it done. It's free-as-in-beer and free-as-in-speech style goodness for us audio geeks, but it's frustrating to not have any new information!

We begin recording our next album this week. It should be fun. Let's hope the improvements to Ardour come quickly!