Converting from Reaper

sciurius · January 25, 2020, 1:55pm

I’ve been handed over a couple of Reaper projects for further processing.
Years ago there was a tool that could convert at least parts of a Reaper project to Ardour2.

Does anything similar exist for current Reaper and Ardour?

DHealey · January 25, 2020, 3:23pm

I would love a solution to do this, I’ve been rebuilding projects in Ardour manually.

seablade · January 25, 2020, 4:17pm

You are probably thinking of this…
https://www.aatranslator.com.au/

I suspect would still get the job done, as I believe A5 can open A2 and A3 projects easily.

      Seablade

DHealey · January 25, 2020, 4:49pm

So the process would be open the A5 project in A2/3, save, then convert the A2/3 project with AAT? Is AAT free software?

x42 · January 25, 2020, 6:08pm

The opposite: Load Reaper Project in AATranslator, save as Ardour2/3 session. Open in Ardour 5.

x42 · January 25, 2020, 6:12pm

It is commercial, proprietary software for Windows. On GNU/Linux and Mac it works with emulators or wine.

DHealey · January 25, 2020, 10:02pm

The opposite: Load Reaper Project in AATranslator, save as Ardour2/3 session. Open in Ardour 5.

Oh yeah, duh. My brain farted.

It is commercial, proprietary software for Windows. On GNU/Linux and Mac it works with emulators or wine.

Uh, I might have a go at writing a converter myself.

calimerox · January 26, 2020, 12:44pm

aatranslator is written by a really nice guy, makes sense supporting him for this sometimes invaluable piece of software. but yeah , if you can write one yourself, even better

DHealey · January 26, 2020, 2:11pm

I have no problem supporting him, but I want to avoid proprietary software.