[LAU] Ardour 3 and reusing sessions

[Hakan Koseoglu]

Hi all,

In Ardour2, I used to copy my existing session into a new directory, 
hack the ardour files to change the directory names and then drop in the 
recordings to make the podcast releases a lot easier.

In Ardour3 when I do the same trick, the session looks OK but the audio 
content is missing. The regions are visible but with no waveform (and 
audio when I hit the play button). I hacked the ardour file & the 
instant.xml file as well as the interchange contents. All that changes 
is the episode number (i.e., epXX to epXY so a quick search & replace 
used to work in Ardour 2).

Template only saves the tracks etc., not the audio files. I already have 
the intro & outro etc. with automation. All I want is the middle bit of 
the podcast replaced with the latest version. I don't want to reuse the 
existing session since I usually do a number of recordings and then 
prepare them, put it into the can and wait until it's time to upload. I 
might have to go back and redo something quickly so I'd rather have a 
pile of sessions sitting on disk.

How does this supposed to work? :-)

Cheers,
Hakan