>do you think you - or somebody else - will be able to tweak >ardour to be usable with, say, 2 el cheapo soundcards ? >(just ditch the sync problems for now...) Ardour uses a C++ object named ALSA::MultiChannelDevice. If you can write the code to use multiple devices and still present the API offered by this object, it will work. >the cvs and library stuff required frightened me a bit. when >can us mortals expect first ftp'able versions ? Not for some time. I see no point in spending my time dealing with patch creation etc. when I can just tell people "update from CVS". And believe me, there's patches coming thick and fast on this thing. --p