LabDAWg

LabDAWg is a fork of Ardour — a professional, open-source digital audio workstation — extended with an AI assistant interface.

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License / Modifications

This project is based on Ardour, licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPL-2.0). A full copy of the license is included in the COPYING file.

Modifications made by Apollo AI Lab, Inc. include:

• A new LuaBridge WebSocket control surface (libs/surfaces/luabridge/) that allows an external AI agent to execute Lua commands inside a live Ardour session.
• A new MCP HTTP control surface (libs/surfaces/mcp_http/) that exposes Ardour session control as an MCP server over HTTP, allowing any MCP-compatible AI client to control a live session.
• A bundled chat UI frontend (share/chat_ui/) for in-DAW AI assistant interaction.
• Modifications to gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui_access_web.cc to launch the Python AI agent from within the Ardour process on Windows and macOS.
• Modifications to gtk2_ardour/bundle_env_cocoa.cc and bundle_env_mingw.cc for custom font registration and rendering on macOS and Windows respectively.
• A minor fix to gtk2_ardour/midi_region_view.cc for MIDI region label rendering.
• LabDAWg branding: application name, icons, splash screen, and custom color themes.
• Minor modifications to gtk2_ardour/editor.cc/.h, about.cc, build scripts, and platform metadata files to integrate the above.

All modified and newly added files are marked with a notice in their header. Original Ardour files are unmodified and retain their original copyright headers.

See CHANGELOG.md for a detailed record of all changes from upstream.

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Building

See BUILD_AND_RUN.md for platform-specific build instructions.

For general Ardour build documentation, see the Ardour build guide.

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Upstream

Ardour source: https://github.com/Ardour/ardour