Organizing my files in another project?

[calimerox]

I m always getting in trouble on longer projects with organizing my material I import into ardour for editing. for example i work on a film score and import audio for a scene, edit it, and then maybe 3 scenes later, I would like to re use the material and find the bits and pieces and paste it into the new scene… or i have very long takes of music i want to edit into little pieces in the project and then spread it over different places in the project. The regions section is pretty much unreadable and handable for me. so i thought and here comes the question: Is it possible to run two ardour sessions at the same time, and copy regions from one to the other?

then i could organize and edit material in one session and assemble in another… thanks for input and other ideas!

[GhostsonAcid]

… 7 years later… O___o

Out of curiosity, I’m going through posts on the forum that have/had 0 replies. Most I won’t reply to. But for your question I actually have a satisfactory answer, if you even care or are still around…

This:

@calimerox

Is it possible to run two ardour sessions at the same time, and copy regions from one to the other?

Yes, this is now possible for stereo and mono audio regions at least.
Here’s my post about it (July, 2025):

AudioClipboard (v1.0) | A standalone Lua script for copying & pasting audio regions between projects/snapshots

Hello fellow Ardour people Since April I’ve been working on a bit of a pet project: a standalone Lua script for Ardour (8.12+) that would allow me to copy and paste audio regions between project sessions/snapshots. I greatly desired this functionality because I wanted to merge song fragments (projects) into larger, more-complete song-projects (-and can now do so thanks to getting a much more powerful computer). As with most of my projects, it started pretty minimally (-and naively …

~Just FYI.

-J

[kenzel]

Ghosts,
So appreciative of that great plugin. i was using it in 8.12 but have not used it yet in 9. it was so great to help me move stuff around. Just a shout out to say again thanks.

[GhostsonAcid]

Great! I’m very happy to hear((read)) it!

So far for me it’s basically been rock-solid.*

But please let me know if you encounter any bugs with it!
-Or if a new feature or two might benefit you/your workflow.

Thanks,
-J

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[FYI: *Except for some reason on very-large projects (~hundreds of tracks, ~1000+ regions) if you try to run AudioClipboard via a set key-command (as opposed to clicking its shortcut button in which case it’s 100% fine), then using/finalizing manual file selection (during Pre-Paste) will crash Ardour… -which I think has something to do with some dangling/invalid region references that don’t exist anymore… -but not sure. (I’ll have to bother @x42 about this when he gets back from vacation. )]