Renaming multiple selected regions at once

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#1

For instance, I have selected several regions (not necessarily on the same track), how do I rename all of them at once?
This is difficult to do one by one, when e.g. the regions (many of them) are also placed on top of each other, like in the Record mode SoundOnSound.

#2

There is no way to do that in the GUI. You’d need to use some Lua to do that.

But also, multiple regions with the same name is likely to cause confusion down the road …

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#3

@amir : does the Regions list help? (the one selected from a tab on the right side of the editor…)

You can sort the regions by the header columns and then edit the region names in a condensed list.

But yes, if you want to automatically rename ‘lots’ of regions with the same name, you’ll need to do it with a Lua script.

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#4

I have a script for that - ardour-scripts/A7/bulk rename regions.lua at master · davidhealey/ardour-scripts · GitHub

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