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title: Interchange with other DAWs
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<p>
  It has never been particularly easy to move sessions or projects from one
  <abbr title="Digital Audio Workstation">DAW</abbr> to another. There are two 
  <dfn>interchange standards</dfn> that have reasonably widespread support:</p>
<ul>
  <li>OMF (Open Media Framwwork), also known as OMFI. Developed and controlled 
  by Avid, never standardized</li>
  <li>AAF (Advanced Authoring Format). Developed by a consortium of media-related 
  corporations.</li>
</ul>
<p>
  In practice both of these standards have such complex and/or incomplete 
  specifications that different DAWs support them only partially,
  differently, or not at all.
</p>
<h2>Moving an Ardour session to another DAW</h2>
<p>To move an Ardour session to another DAW, you have 3 basic choices:</p>
<ul>
  <li>Stem exports</li>
  <li>Copy the interchange folder</li>
  <li>Use AATranslator</li>
</ul>
<h3>Moving another DAW session to Ardour</h3>
<p>To move a session from another DAW to Ardour, you have 2 basic choices:</p>
<ul>
<li>Stem exports</li>
<li>Use AATranslator</li>
</ul>

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