I recently made a demo video showing how to use snapshots, and just a few days later I realized that I had made a mistake.
I had claimed that the ‘default’ session was the one Ardour creates when you name a new session, and that it has the same name as the containing session folder (with the .ardour extension added). I mistakenly thought that this default session was the one that opens when you don’t choose a specific snapshot within the ‘open’ or ‘open recent’ window. Now I realize that Ardour actually remembers the snapshot you had open most recently and opens it when you don’t specify a snapshot. (Glad I caught my bad assumption, since I was working on the wrong snapshot for my mix.)
I will correct my video, but I want to make sure I understand a bit more. Once you begin working with snapshots in a given session, is there anything special about the session with the same name as the containing folder?
First post for me. 10 days old with AV Linux and Ardour. Can you help me find your original video? New to this forum as well. I’m mostly setting up live “practice” sessions, not recording yet. But for the moment I use a new template for each keyboard/style. 1st was a 25 key controller with organ/leslie. So it needed the velocity plugin set to behave more like a organ (on/off). Then my next template was for 76 key Yamaha DGX-230, another velocity plugin to boost +20 to get the piano to “feel” right.
So I’m looking forward to seeing how others “organize” (pun likely intended) this in “live” practice workflows. I know that I’m hyjacking your post but it seems like a related question.
btw: moved to AV Linux for the low latency. Not just to learn new software.
Welcome to the Ardour community. My video is about session snapshots, not templates. But Ardour is quite capable of creating session templates, as well. For your case, you can also look into saving and importing mixer strips. That’s super helpful for similar new sessions.
Also, since you’re new to Ardour, I highly recommend watching Robin’s presentation ‘50 things you did not know you could do with Ardour’. It has tons of great info.
