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+class Ardour < Formula
+  desc "A digital audio workstation"
+  homepage "https://ardour.org/"
+  url "https://community.ardour.org/download"
+  version "8.1"
+  sha256 "9138fb9913f6ead7516ac58d24ca81c795c225b9"
+  head "https://github.com/Ardour/ardour.git"
+
+  depends_on "aubio"
+  depends_on "boost"
+  depends_on "fftw"
+  depends_on "glib"
+  depends_on "glibmm"
+  depends_on "jack"
+  depends_on "libarchive"
+  depends_on "liblo"
+  depends_on "libsndfile"
+  depends_on "libusb"
+  depends_on "lrdf"
+  depends_on "lv2"
+  depends_on "pangomm"
+  depends_on "pkg-config" => :build
+  depends_on "rubberband"
+  depends_on "serd"
+  depends_on "sord"
+  depends_on "sratom"
+  depends_on "gtkmm"
+  depends_on "lilv"
+  depends_on "taglib"
+  depends_on "vamp-plugin-sdk"
+
+  def install
+    system "./waf", "configure", "--prefix=#{prefix}", "--with-backends=jack"
+    system "./waf", "install"
+
+    cd "./tools/osx_packaging" do
+      system "./osx_build", "--help"
+    end
+  end
+
+  test do
+    # `test do` will create, run in and delete a temporary directory.
+    #
+    # This test will fail and we won't accept that! For Homebrew/homebrew-core
+    # this will need to be a test that verifies the functionality of the
+    # software. Run the test with `brew test ardour`. Options passed
+    # to `brew install` such as `--HEAD` also need to be provided to `brew test`.
+    #
+    # The installed folder is not in the path, so use the entire path to any
+    # executables being tested: `system "#{bin}/program", "do", "something"`.
+    system "false"
+  end
+end