diff --git a/content/exporting-sessions/exporting-a-session/en/ardour7-edit-exporting-format.png b/content/exporting-sessions/exporting-a-session/en/ardour7-edit-exporting-format.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..490c4f0 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/exporting-sessions/exporting-a-session/en/ardour7-edit-exporting-format.png differ diff --git a/content/exporting-sessions/exporting-a-session/index.en.md b/content/exporting-sessions/exporting-a-session/index.en.md index 6253ea4..846f9da 100644 --- a/content/exporting-sessions/exporting-a-session/index.en.md +++ b/content/exporting-sessions/exporting-a-session/index.en.md @@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ If your _end_ marker is too far after the end of your piece, click and drag it t ## Export it! -To export a session, use the top menu: `Session > Export > Export to Audio File(s)...`. This will open up a dialogue box with a number of options. +To export a session, use the top menu: `Session > Export > Export to Audio File(s)...`. This will open up a dialog box with a number of options. -![export session dialog](en/ardour7-exporting-settings.png) +![Export Session dialog](en/ardour7-exporting-settings.png) **Preset** : This is *NOT* where you write the file name. Don't worry about this field now. @@ -77,9 +77,28 @@ individual edits made to the regions as well. If any of the tracks have the **Mute** or **Solo** buttons engaged, this will also affect which tracks will be heard in the exported file. {{% /notice %}} -## Advanced Options +## Normalization -Click on the tabs _Time span_ and _Channels_ in case you need to access advanced exporting options. +Sometimes the rendered audio is either too loud or too quiet to match demands imposed by various popular streaming services like YouTube or Spotify. Ardour +provides a tool called _Loudness Assistant_ to help with that. + +In layman terms, it analyzes everything that goes through the _Master_ bus, +estimates how loud the signal is, and then suggests correcting it upwards or +downwards so that overall loudness would be just about right for this or that +popular streaming service. + +While you can apply loudness (gain) correction directly to the _Master_ bus's +output and benefit from having more manual control over the result, the most +convenient way is to apply normalization at the exporting stage. You can do +that two ways: + +1. Just pick a popular service in the drop-down list under _Formats_. Ardour has presets for Apple Music, Deezer, Spotify, YouTube etc. + +2. If the service is not listed in the presets, click the **Edit** button to +open a dialog with advanced exporting settings, enable _Normalize_, choose +_Loudness_ rather than _Peak_, and then set the desired LUFS value. + +{{< figure src="en/ardour7-edit-exporting-format.png" alt="Edit the exporting format" >}} ## Continuing