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If you often go through the motions of setting up the same information
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in each new Session you create, such as the number of input and output
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Channels, the number and names of Tracks or Busses, or the Routing, then
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you may wish to create a Template of that information instead.
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With a **Template**, you can save the state of a currently open Session
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*without* all the Region information files. Templates are useful if, for
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example, you're doing extensive Routing on Tracks and Buses and want to
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save the Editor Window's state for use in other Sessions. An example
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might be a Template to record Tracks of drums, bass, guitar and vocals,
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each with their own input on the soundcard, which you might use as a
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basis for each Session you created in that situation.
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## Save a Template
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You can save a new Template from the Main Menu: *Session > Save Template*. You are asked to give the new Template a name:
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## Load a Template
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When creating a new Session, you can load up a previously saved Template:
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In summary: Session Templates are a way to store the setup of a session for future use. They do not store any audio data but can store:
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* The number of tracks and busses, along with their names.
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* The plugins present on each track or bus (if any).
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* All I/O connections.
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## Conclusion
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Congratulations, you have reached the end of this introduction to Ardour! We hope that this tutorial has been useful for you to learn the key functions of Ardour.
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In the following section, the **Appendices**, we have included some
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extra information we thought would be useful to new users of Ardour,
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including how to get [**Further Help**](../further-help), a [**Glossary**](../glossary) of technical terms
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used in this manual, some [**Links**](../links) to further information about Ardour
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on the Internet and, last but not least, the [**Credits**](../credits) of those
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involved in creating this Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Manual.
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Thanks for reading, and if you have some knowledge about Ardour that is
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not included here, please feel free to propose changes (more info on how to do it: [**How to Contribute**](../how-to-contribute-0/). Also, this manual itself is fully open source and lives at [https://github.com/brunoruviaro/ardour4-tutorial](https://github.com/brunoruviaro/ardour4-tutorial). You can even fork it and create your own customized version of it!
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**Appendices:**
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[FURTHER HELP](../further-help) ||
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[GLOSSARY](../glossary) ||
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[LINKS](../links) ||
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[CREDITS](../credits)
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