specifications that different DAWs support them only partially,
differently, or not at all.
</p>
-<h2>Moving an Ardour session to another DAW</h2>
-<p>To move an Ardour session to another DAW, you have 3 basic choices:</p>
+
+<h2>Transferring an Ardour session from / to another DAW</h2>
+
+<p>
+ To move a session from another DAW to Ardour, or from Ardour to another DAW,
+ there are two basic choices:
+</p>
<ul>
- <li>Stem exports</li>
- <li>Copy the interchange folder</li>
- <li>Use AATranslator</li>
+ <li><a href="@@stem-exports">Stem exports</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#using-aatranslator">Using AATranslator</a></li>
</ul>
-<h3>Moving another DAW session to Ardour</h3>
-<p>To move a session from another DAW to Ardour, you have 2 basic choices:</p>
+
+<h2>Importing ProTools® files</h2>
+<p>
+ Ardour provides a basic import tool for ProTools® sessions, in the
+ <kbd class="menu">Session > Import PT Session</kbd> menu.
+</p>
+<p>
+ Though incomplete, this import is intended for ptf and ptx files.
+ Protools® 5, 8, 9, 10, 11 have been tested with varying degrees of success.
+ (versions 6 and 7 are not supported).
+</p>
+<p>
+ The elements of the files that are imported are:
+</p>
<ul>
-<li>Stem exports</li>
-<li>Use AATranslator</li>
+ <li>Audio regions data & position</li>
+ <li>MIDI notes (fused to a unique region).</li>
</ul>
+<h2 id="using-aatranslator">Using AATranslator</h2>
+
+<p>
+ <dfn>AATranslator</dfn> is a Windows application that can convert
+ sessions/projects from many different DAWs into other formats. At the present
+ time (December 2016), it can read and write Ardour 2.X sessions, and can read
+ Ardour 3 sessions.
+</p>
+
+<p> The program runs very well on Linux using <a href="http://www.winehq.org/">Wine</a>
+ (a Windows environment for Linux). There are equivalent solutions for running
+ Windows applications on OS X, but we have no experience with them at this time.
+ Ardour users have reported great results using AATranslator on Ardour 2.X
+ sessions.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ The <a href="http://www.aatranslator.com.au/">AATranslator website</a> has
+ full details on supported formats and DAWs. The list includes ProTools, Live,
+ Reaper, OMF, AAF and many more.
+</p>
+
+<p class="warning">
+ AATranslator is closed-source, non-free software (as of this writing, June 2017,
+ the cost is 59 USD for the "Standard" version, and 199 USD for the "Enhanced"
+ version).
+</p>
+