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It has never been particularly easy to move sessions or projects from one - DAW to another. There are two + DAW to another. There are two interchange standards that have reasonably widespread support:
- In practice both of these standards have such complex and/or incomplete + In practice both of these standards have such complex and/or incomplete specifications that different DAWs support them only partially, differently, or not at all.
-To move an Ardour session to another DAW, you have 3 basic choices:
+ ++ To move a session from another DAW to Ardour, or from Ardour to another DAW, + there are two basic choices: +
To move a session from another DAW to Ardour, you have 2 basic choices:
+ ++ Ardour provides a basic import tool for ProTools® sessions, in the + Session > Import PT Session menu. +
++ 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). +
++ The elements of the files that are imported are: +
+ AATranslator 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. +
+ +The program runs very well on Linux using Wine + (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. +
+ ++ The AATranslator website has + full details on supported formats and DAWs. The list includes ProTools, Live, + Reaper, OMF, AAF and many more. +
+ ++ 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). +