The Session menu groups together everything related to the session and the file operations.
| New… | Creates a new session |
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| Open… | Opens an existing session |
| Recent… | Opens a list of recent sessions that can be opened |
| Close | Closes the current session (but not Ardour) |
| Save | Saves the current session |
| Save As… | Saves to a new session (with options) |
| Rename… | Changes the name of the session |
| Snapshot (& keep working on current version)… | Create a Snapshot but any subsequent change will be saved to this session |
| Snapshot (& switch to new version)… | Same thing, and any subsequent change will be saved to this new snapshot session |
| Save Template… | Saves the session as a template, without the audio |
| Archive… | Exports the session as a compressed file for archiving or sharing purposes, optionally compressing the audio to FLAC |
| Add Track, Bus or VCA… | Adds a new track/bus/VCA to the session, same as the Track > Add Track, Bus or VCA… |
| Import | Opens the Import windows, to add media to the session |
| Import PT session | Import a ProTools© session file. Not everything in the original session can be imported. |
| Open Video… | Imports a video file in the session |
| Remove Video | Removes the video part of the session (the video timeline disappears) |
| Loudness Assistant… | Shows the Loudness Analyzer and Normalizer, allowing an in-depth analysis of the master bus' volume for the final export |
| Export | |
| Quick Audio Export… | Export a selection or the entire session to audio with just a few settings |
| Export to Audio File(s)… | Export all or part of the session in audio form |
| Stem export… | Exports each track as its own audio file (for e.g. DAW interchange) |
| Export to Video File | Exports the session to a video file |
| □ Properties | Shows the Session Properties dialog, allowing to fine-tune the parameters of the current session |
| Monitor Section | |
| □ Use Monitor Section | Shortcut for the homonymous session property, adds a Monitor Section to the Mixer |
| □ Mute | Shortcut for the global monitor "Mute" control also available in the mixer's Monitor Section |
| □ Dim | Shortcut for the global monitor "Dim" control also available in the mixer's Monitor Section |
| □ Mono | Shortcut for the global monitor "Mono" control also available in the mixer's Monitor Section |
| Metadata | |
| Edit Metadata… | Opens the Metadata window, where information about the session can be saved |
| Import Metadata… | Creates the metadata by extracting them from another session |
| Clean-Up | |
| Bring all media into session folder | Copies all the media files imported from outside the session folder in that folder, see Cleaning up Sessions |
| Rebuild Peak Files | Reinitializes the buffered images representing the audio files |
| Clean-up Unused Sources… | Quarantines all the media files not used in the session to a specific sub-folder of the session |
| Clean-up Unused Regions… | Deletes the regions that are not used in the session |
| Flush Wastebasket | Deletes those quarantined files |
| Lock | Locks the session by showing an Unlock window that (until clicked) blocks every action on Ardour's window |
| Quit | Exits Ardour. Prompts for saving the session if it has been modified. |