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ranges</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/working-with-regions/ title="Working with regions" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/working-with-regions/>Working with regions</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/further-region-operations/ title="Further region operations" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/further-region-operations/>Further region operations</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/changing-edit-modes/ title="Changing edit modes" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/changing-edit-modes/>Changing edit modes</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/creating-looped-sections/ title="Creating looped sections" class=dd-item><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/creating-looped-sections/>Creating looped sections</a></li><li data-nav-id=/ardour-tutorial/en/editing-sessions/stretching-shrinking-regions/ 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<span class=links><a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/>Home</a> > <a href=/ardour-tutorial/en/exporting-sessions/>Exporting sessions</a> > Exporting regions</span></div><div class=progress><div class=wrapper><nav id=TableOfContents><ul><li><a href=#exporting-a-region>Exporting a Region</a></li><li><a href=#exporting-several-regions-at-once>Exporting Several Regions At Once</a></li><li><a href=#continuing>Continuing</a></li></ul></nav></div></div></div></div><div id=head-tags></div><div id=body-inner><h1>Exporting regions</h1><p>You may wish to export only a region of your session, perhaps to use as a
sample in another application, or to edit it in a different program. This
chapter shows you how to do that.</p><h2 id=exporting-a-region>Exporting a Region</h2><p>To export a region, select it in <em>Grab</em> mode and then right-click into the
sub-menu <em>Export</em>, or use the top menu: <code>Region > Export</code>.</p><p><img src=en/ardour7-export-region-in-right-click-menu.png alt="export region"></p><p>This will open up the same export dialog box explained in the
<a href=../exporting-a-session>Exporting Sessions</a> chapter. Choose your options and
click <strong>Export</strong>. Only the selected region will be exported.</p><div class="notices info"><p>Not all parameters and edits are taken into consideraton when exporting a
region. Trimmed, split, stretched and reversed regions can be exported, but
edits such as panning and automation are <em>not</em> exported.</p></div><p>Also, the volume of the audio track itself or the <em>Master</em> bus will not affect
the exported file. To export these edits, please see the chapters on exporting
a range and exporting a session.</p><h2 id=exporting-several-regions-at-once>Exporting Several Regions At Once</h2><p>If you are building a collection of samples to use later in another software,
and your samples are basically trimmed and edited regions, at the end of the
process you will need to export all of them. If the number is large, exporting
them manually can be tedious. Here&rsquo;s one way of exporting several regions at
once.</p><ol><li>In <em>Grab</em> mode (<strong>G</strong> shortcut), select all the regions you want to export. They do not need to be on the same track.</li></ol><p><img src=en/ardour7-export-multiple-regions-1.png alt="export region"></p><ol start=2><li>Go to the <code>Region > Ranges</code> menu and choose <em>Add Range Marker Per Region</em>.</li></ol><p><img src=en/ardour7-export-multiple-regions-2.png alt="export region"></p><ol start=3><li>Ardour has now just created range markers that fit exactly the beginning and ending of your selected regions (see the green rectangles in the range markers ruler):</li></ol><p><img src=en/ardour7-export-multiple-regions-3.png alt="export region"></p><ol start=4><li><p>Go to the <code>Session > Export</code> menu and choose <em>Export to Audio File(s)</em>
(<strong>Alt+E</strong>).</p></li><li><p>In the export dialog box, click on the <em>Time span</em> tab. You will see all the newly created ranges listed there. There is also a default range that stands for the entire session.</p></li><li><p>Under <em>Time Span</em>, click <strong>Select All</strong> and de-select the very first range (the &ldquo;session&rdquo; range). The reason is because we want to export the shorter ranges, not the whole session.</p></li></ol><p><img src=en/ardour7-export-multiple-regions-4.png alt="export region"></p><ol start=7><li>Go back to the main tab (<em>File format</em>) and click <strong>Export</strong>.</li></ol><p>Your regions have now been exported to single audio files.</p><div class="notices info"><p>This method exports <em>everything</em> that falls under each defined time range. In other words, if you have other regions in other tracks sounding simultaneously with the region(s) you want to export, they will be mixed together. Another way of looking at it is this: the export operation will export everything that <em>plays</em> under the defined time ranges. If that is not what you want, you can use solo or mute buttons on select tracks to ensure you export only what you want.</p></div><h2 id=continuing>Continuing</h2><p>Finally, the next chapter will discuss <em>Exporting Ranges</em> rather than just an
individual region. The last trick (exporting multiple regions at once) in fact
already involved using ranges, as you may have guessed.</p><p>Next: <a href=../exporting-a-range>EXPORTING A RANGE</a></p><footer class=footline></footer></div></div><div id=navigation></div></section><div style=left:-1000px;overflow:scroll;position:absolute;top:-1000px;border:none;box-sizing:content-box;height:200px;margin:0;padding:0;width:200px><div style=border:none;box-sizing:content-box;height:200px;margin:0;padding:0;width:200px></div></div><script src=/ardour-tutorial/js/clipboard.min.js?1650713734></script>
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