> > > > I am trying to make my son use ardour for his recording and mixing. > > I strongly suggest you start with Audacity 1.0, then move to Audacity > 1.2.0 when it comes out. It's a far better program for beginners - > I've found even people with no computer experience at all can start > using it quickly. > > Cheers > > Daniel I agree completely. Audacity or Rezound would be much better choices until the system is well understood. I found this interesting and maybe topical. Last night I built the latest Ardour from a Gentoo ebuild. Turns out it's the only Jack program I've found so far that requires me to be logged in as root to connect to the Jack server. All the others (admittedly not that many) allow me to connect as a user. Assuming this is not just something strange about my setup, do you really want a new user logged on as root learning Ardour? I wouldn't... Just a thought. - Mark
