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title = "Exporting a region"
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description = "How to export regions in Ardour"
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weight = 2
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You may wish to export only a region of your session, perhaps to use as a
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sample in another application, or to edit it in a different program. This
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chapter shows you how to do that.
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## Exporting a Region
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To export a region, select it in _Grab_ mode and then right-click into the
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sub-menu _Export_, or use the top menu: `Region > Export`.
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This will open up the same export dialog box explained in the
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[Exporting Sessions](../exporting-a-session) chapter. Choose your options and
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click **Export**. Only the selected region will be exported.
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{{% notice tip %}}
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Not all parameters and edits are taken into consideraton when exporting a
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region. Trimmed, split, stretched and reversed regions can be exported, but
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edits such as panning and automation are _not_ exported.
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{{% /notice %}}
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Also, the volume of the audio track itself or the _Master_ bus will not affect
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the exported file. To export these edits, please see the chapters on exporting
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a range and exporting a session.
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## Exporting Several Regions At Once
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If you are building a collection of samples to use later in another software,
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and your samples are basically trimmed and edited regions, at the end of the
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process you will need to export all of them. If the number is large, exporting
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them manually can be tedious. Here's one way of exporting several regions at
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once.
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1. In _Grab_ mode (**G** shortcut), select all the regions you want to export.
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They do not need to be on the same track.
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{{< figure alt="export region" src="en/ardour7-export-multiple-regions-1.png" >}}
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2. Go to the `Region > Ranges` menu and choose _Add Range Marker Per Region_.
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{{< figure alt="export region" src="en/ardour7-export-multiple-regions-2.png" >}}
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3. Ardour has now just created range markers that fit exactly the beginning and
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ending of your selected regions (see the green rectangles in the range markers
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ruler):
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{{< figure alt="export region" src="en/ardour7-export-multiple-regions-3.png" >}}
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4. Go to the `Session > Export` menu and choose _Export to Audio File(s)_
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(**Alt+E**).
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5. In the export dialog box, click on the _Time span_ tab. You will see all the
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newly created ranges listed there. There is also a default range that stands for
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the entire session.
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6. Under _Time Span_, click **Select All** and de-select the very first range
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(the "session" range). The reason is because we want to export the shorter
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ranges, not the whole session.
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{{< figure alt="export region" src="en/ardour7-export-multiple-regions-4.png" >}}
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7. Go back to the main tab (_File format_) and click **Export**.
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Your regions have now been exported to single audio files.
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{{% notice tip %}}
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This method exports *everything* that falls under each defined time range.
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In other words, if you have other regions in other tracks sounding
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simultaneously with the region(s) you want to export, they will be mixed
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together. Another way of looking at it is this: the export operation will
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export everything that *plays* under the defined time ranges. If that is not
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what you want, you can use solo or mute buttons on select tracks to ensure
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you export only what you want.
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{{% /notice %}}
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## Continuing
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Finally, the next chapter will discuss _Exporting Ranges_ rather than just an
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individual region. The last trick (exporting multiple regions at once) in fact
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already involved using ranges, as you may have guessed.
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Next: [EXPORTING A RANGE](../exporting-a-range)
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