Pickup from: Copy and paste presets from the plugin into different instances of Ardour (in the channel strip)

#1

Hello everyone,
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I’m a bit embarrassed to come with this feature request for the third time. Sorry about that, guys! I really appreciate all the work you do here!
I push professional sound engineers to use Ardour because otherwise I wouldn’t pay them. I want to promote open source;

Right now we’re working on three songs recorded in the same studio with the same instruments, where we have about 100 channels to edit. With every song we work on we improve the sound. Afterwards we transfer the settings to the other (song) project. Generating channel-strip templates, importing them into the other project, then moving the audio files and deleting the old track afterwards is the fastest workflow we’ve managed so far. It would be much faster if the suggestions I’ve already made could be copied and pasted across different instances, or if you could save channel strips and paste/overwrite them into an existing channel (not creating a new one) — that would speed things up many times over. We lose an incredible number of hours because of this. Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic have such capabilities.

So again the questions:
Would it be possible to implement something like that in Ardour?
What would the conditions be?

I’m happy to pay for programming work to implement it. We also lose money because of these inefficiencies. I’d rather spend it on programmers.

Thanks once again to all of you. This is my last attempt with this feature. If we’re the only ones who find it useful, then we’ll just have to deal with these limitations.

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#2

Is there a reason that all the songs are not included in a single project? That would seem to be the most straight forward way to use the same plugin settings for all songs.

#3

That’s true—that could be one option. But for workflow purposes, I think it makes more sense to have each song in its own separate project. After all, they’re all different—with different balances and dynamics—even if they were recorded in the same studio. The fine-tuning is different for each one. We could handle everything with automation and place the tracks one after the other. With recorded concerts, we sometimes do it that way because there are like 15 songs and the workload just to much, but it’s not a clean solution. The quality of the individual songs suffers. It’s also pretty messy.

#4

In Ardour 9. Ardour Menu > Session > Mix tools > Import Mixer Strips.

You can select other sessions or templates as source and then

  • apply settings of that session to existing tracks in the current session
  • create new tracks in current sessions using setting of the selected session/template.

see also The Ardour Manual - Saving and Importing Mixer Strips

Note that this applies only mixer settings (no Editor timeline).

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#5

I’m speechless :smiling_face_with_tear:
Amazing! So we need to get rid of the 40 Calf plugins and update to 9 and test it… It will take a while… :sweat_smile:
btw: There is a broken link for the Template Manager.

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#6

PS. A short demo is shown in the Ardour 9 release video around 02:00:

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#7

Yes, definitely get v9.

And of course be sure to test this new functionality on smaller/inconsequential sessions to get a feel for how it works. ~You can already start experimenting in a gratis Demo copy of Ardour. :grimacing: :+1:

-J

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