How do I copy/paste drum fill to different project?

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#1

Hi Gang – what is the easiest/best way to copy a drum fill I’ve painstakingly created in one Ardour project into a different project? I thought this would be easy by selecting the 6 bars of the midi drums, and then doing right mouse button/selected regions/export,

but as far as I can tell this only copies one of the selected bars (they are each a separate region).

Thanks

#2

For some reason it works for me to select multiple regions and export them the way you described.

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#4

Perhaps one option for you is “bounce to clip library” instead of exporting them. That is how i would do it, depending on the use case.
You a) select the regions in grab mode b) right click and go in the popup-menu to “bounce without processing” you c) give the regions a prefix and make sure to tick the “clib library” box, then you d) bounce it.
You can then see the bounced regions in the editor list (shortcut “shift +l”) and then simply drag and drop them from the editor-list to a new track, either same session or new session.
path to clib-library per default is ~/.local/share/sounds/clips (on linux, else i don’t know).

For me it is not that easy to explain it, i made a short video, it might help, it might confuse matters even more
Good luck, i hope this might help as an idea.

I was in a hurry, but now decided to upload the video to a youtube channel, cause the former link is temporary, in case someone finds this thread in a year or such :slight_smile:
bounce-to-clips-youtube

Edit: As the other link to the video was only tmp for 2 days, i removed it.

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#5

Wow! Thank you, @n4dir. Much appreciated!

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