Import/Export Software with Ardour Support

Sometimes the simplest solution is not always the obvious (to some) :-)

Thanks Paul I will do that

Hmmm - correction

There is no windows version that I can see and I don't use a mac

Hmm - I'll check that out - in the meantime I certainly would take up that offer of a couple of xmls just so I can see what i'm up against

Thanks

The only one I know of is MixBus
http://www.harrisonconsoles.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=108&Itemid=42

But thats the whole point of a session translator to convert from say Open session format to Vegas or Audition or Samplitude etc etc.

There are numerous scenarios where this is important for some users/studios.

Client tracks at your studio or bedroom whatever and you use say Vegas but they want to take all their tracks, drop ins, etc away and mix it at another studio, bedroom etc using their software of choice.

Sure you can render down all the takes but that means you must make irreversible decisions right there and then.

This sort of software is not for everybody but if you have this problem then its a definite must.

In fact I had never heard of mixbus or this particular format before yesterday but if it helps someone bring in sessions from other formats or vice versa then thats a good thing.

Hopefully I'm not far off the mark :-)

Hey Paul,

Unfortunately I'm but a humble PC programmer with zero experience in having to worry about non PC environments. There are pieces of code written in pretty much standard C but they are things like converting SD2 to wav or splitting stereo wavs etc - none of the conversion code is portable without more effort than its worth.

I had planned on converting it to 'standard' C once I had everything bedded down but quite frankly the almost non existent profit for this project pails into insignificance against the 9 months of effort by 2.5 people :-)

So after dealing with PT session files & Cubase xml files I really have to balance time & effort against my sanity :-) I have a list of potential daws a mile long that someone wants me to try and address so anything that looks like a blocker generally moves to the back of the line. For example I have given up on Sonar for the time being as just too hard at this point, however, I'm still pursuing OMF2 (and that's hard enough).

What seemed like a simple idea of grabbing a few xmls and some (even scant) doco is turning out to be a little more challenging now that I realise this is essentially a non PC shop :-)

I may have even missed the mark in thinking that including this format in AATranslator is going to be of any use to this community and if thats the case then I must apologise for wasting everybody's time.

BTW as you know if someone wants to use this app (or even the demo) under OSX they just have to install Parallels & XP/Vista to get a virtual Win32 environment

Yes I know its been a while but I hadn't forgotten - its just that we have been really busy with OMF, FCP and arrange of other formats.
We finally got version 2.3 of AATranslator out a few days ago and we are just finalising testing and doco for v2.4 which I hope should go out maybe by the end of the week. We also have another bloke working with us on the OMF export function.

Anyway, bottom line is that I have started writing the code for the function to read Ardour session files and that shouldn't take too long before its ready for testing.

Just thought I'd give you an update.

Pretty sure that I have a good translation of the ardour session file - If I can get it tested in time then with a bit of luck it might make our next version. I'll worry about an export function for a later version.

Which means that as a first step Ardour sessions could be easily converted to Samplitude, Reaper, Audition, Logic, Vegas, Cubendo etc, etc.

Anyway I'll keep you informed.

Great if you could send me (via the AATranslator web site) a small Ardour file (dont need the media) then I will convert it to a Reaper RPP file. Then if you could check it to see how it goes I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Another update:-

Version 2.4 went out with lots of enhancements and we have been busy with more FCP & OMF as well as PT and Ardour.

So version 2.5 which should be released before the end of the month will have the ability to create native ProTools session files. This will make it possible to move your sessions between all the daws/formats we support including PT and OMF.

Unfortunately I haven't managed to get enough Ardour testing interest, so while I'm reasonably confident with the Ardour import function, unfortunately, I'm going to have to put an Ardour release on the backburner until I can some more testing carried out.

tbonedude has started some testing and all is looking pretty good for at least the import function to make the next release.

Thanks for the others who have offered.