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I used 3.5 about a year ago for a few months, and it was pretty stable once I got my Jack setup stable. It seemed like most problems were with iffy drivers and plugins. Installing everything from Ubuntu Studio's apt repos seemed to produce pretty stable setup and it was also pretty fast (I used a VERY strong machine thuogh). Haven't tried 4.0 yet.

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I didn't had any problems with Jack or plugins - the problem with 3.x was Midi editing. Well it was introduced in this release, but I did some drum programming (our drummer was sick, so we've programmed drums to our music) and it sucked.

It was totally normal that Ardour crashed at least twice in the 1 or 2 hours when we were editing drums. And the devs knew that this problem existed, but they've basically told, that it should be fixed in 4.x.

I hardly did any midi with it, maybe that's why I didn't encounter that :)

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