- Under <dfn>Advanced Options</dfn>, you can select whether you wish to create
- a Master Bus, or a Control Bus, and how many channels you wish either to have.
- You can also decide whether you want Ardour to automatically connect all inputs
- to the physical ports of your hardware. Ardour will do so
- sequentially and in round-robin fashion, connecting the first track's
- input to the first input of your hardware and so on. When Ardour has used
- all available hardware inputs, it will begin again with the first physical
- input.
- You can limit the number of channels on your physical hardware that Ardour
- uses.
+ The different templates, both the "factory" ones and the ones created by the user,
+ are easily available on the left-side panel. Depending on the chosen template,
+ a specific Template Settings window may be shown, allowing the user to fine-tune
+ the details of the template and/or choose between the different options of the
+ template.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ Templates can be huge time savers when working on similar projects, or on
+ usual projects, as they allow to preset and tweak a lot of the <a
+ href="@@session-properties-dialog">session properties</a>, (like the
+ availability of a <a href="@@monitor-section">monitoring section</a>,
+ connection to a Master Bus, etc.), and handle the creation of <a
+ href="@@adding-tracks-busses-and-vcas">tracks</a> of any kind.
+</p>
+<p>
+ The <kbd class="menu">Empty Template</kbd> preset allows to create a session
+ "from scratch". Everything a session template does can be done manually
+ —albeit more tediously— and the resulting sessions will not differ
+ whatsoever.
+</p>
+<p>
+ As of Ardour 5.12, which introduced the new template dialog, the factory templates are:
+</p>
+
+<table class="dl">
+ <tr><th><kbd class="menu">Empty Template</kbd></th>
+ <td>Creates an empty session with no tracks and no monitoring. A stereo Master Bus is created, and any track created defaults to output on this bus.</td></tr>
+ <tr><th><kbd class="menu">Advanced Session</kbd></th>
+ <td>Like the Empty Template, but adds the ability to easily manage the Master bus (channels, hardware connection, and track autoconnection), and the creation of a monitoring section.</td></tr>
+ <tr><th><kbd class="menu">Recording Session</kbd></th>
+ <td>Like the Empty Template, but allows the fast creation of a number of tracks, optionnaly ready to record.</td></tr>
+ <tr><th><kbd class="menu">Live Band</kbd></th>
+ <td>Fast tracks the creation of usual tracks for a band setup (vocals, guitars, piano, ...), and optionnaly adds usual effects on these tracks.</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+ Selecting a template will display its description in the right-side pannel, while
+ hovering over a template name will show a tooltip indicating if it is a factory
+ template, or, if it is a user-created one, which version of Ardour was used to
+ create it.