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  <p>Ardour splits preferences into two categories:</p>
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<li>Settings that should logically apply to all sessions, because they are based on user workflow or system configuration
</li>
<li>Settings that are per session, because they depend or reflect session content or design
</li>
</ul>
<p>There are two separate (but similarly designed) dialogs, one under <code>Edit &gt; Preferences</code> for the first category of preferences and <code>Session &gt; Properties</code> for the second. Each window uses tabs to group a set of preferences</p>
<p>This chapter covers the following:</p>
  


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