UV#26 Installing Ardour and Zyn-Fusion for free!

I see a lot of confusion about this. Ardour and Zyn-Fusion are both fully open-source, but  the official binaries are not free of charge. Ardour gives you full access for as little as $1/mo of PayPal subscription, while Zyn-Fusion binaries cost a minimum amount of $45 (+ VAT).

For the time being the only alternative for the less wealthy among us was to try and build these from source. But that's not a trivial task and may require lots of research, trial and error.

However - there is another way. It only work for Linux so far, but you can legally get both Ardour 5.12 and Zyn-Fusion binaries for free - using the KX Studio repositories. In this video I explaining what and why, as well as guide you through the process of doing all that, using a fresh installation of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as an example system.

I am also releasing the Ardour session for the background music. The track is titled "Iridescent" and it was conceived in UV#22 - however I have greatly extended it since then, so enjoy!

PS: I'm really glad I managed to release this video before my wedding (due in 2^3 days). I am very happy and excited for it, thought it means the next video will probably not arrive until October. I might do a livestream before that though, as that is much less work to do. Expect wedding photos soon though!

PPS: I want to thank all my patrons, who support me each month. In the following months I hope to get 1 day off of work each month to focus solely on making  videos. As you support grows - I'll be able to afford shifting my focus more and more towards that, and away from my current full-time job as a graphic designer. I know it's an ambitious goal, but for such a small audience I have (2343 followers on YouTube so far) - you guys are giving me a tremendous amount of support, and that shows me that what I do is much needed and unique.

PPPS: in case you are Christian - me and my fiancée will be thankful for even a smallest prayer in the following days :)