AATranslator now has Ardour support : compatibility with other DAWs arrives!

Submitted by paul on Wed, 2010-06-09 16:47
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AATranslator is a Windows program that converts sessions created in one DAW (or video editor) into formats understood by others. It supports session formats used by ProTools, Nuendo, Cubase, PreSonus Studio One, Vegas, Reaper, Wavelab, Pyramix, AMS Audiofile, Fairlight, Waveframe, DAR, N-Track, Sadie, and more. Soundscape.

We heard today that its support for Ardour is now complete (for the moment), meaning that it can both import and export to/from Ardour, and converts the following items:

  • Tracks and regions, all placed exactly as they were in the original session.
  • Gain
  • Pan
  • Envelope Gain automation
  • track pan automation
  • fades in and out
  • Crossfades

Here's what it doesn't convert:

  • track gain automation
  • bus/sends (every track gets routed into the Master inputs)
  • plugins/plugin settings

AATranslator's developer(s) will soon be adding track gain automation, when support for this feature is added for all the other DAW's that AATranslator supports.

Ardour and AATranslator user "tbonedude", has tested AAT extensively, and reports that the program works perfectly in WINE (crossover pro 9 and WINE 1.2) that is packaged with Ubuntu. We imagine this will run fine on any recent version of WINE including those for OS X as well.

Although I do not like recommending Windows applications to solve problems faced by Ardour users, and although it would be nice if there was an open source solution for handling session file formats, AATranslator is nevertheless an established and general purpose tool that provides solutions to users of all the DAWs it supports. It is reasonably priced (US$59), and will allow Ardour users to have good session cross-compatiblity with just about any other DAW (ProTools included).

Find out more at http://www.aatranslator.com.au/. And let us know of your experience if you use it.

Comments

Submitted by thorgal on Thu, 2010-06-10 03:28.

interesting :)

Just a small correction: "runaway" is the AAT dev, "tbonedude" is the tester for ardour :)

Submitted by vervelover on Thu, 2010-06-10 07:57.

That's great news!

Submitted by philip8888 on Thu, 2010-06-10 13:03.

Really cool. Thanks Paul for the news.

Submitted by lokki on Fri, 2010-06-11 04:40.

@thorgal:

maybe that's why it says: and AATranslator USER "tbonedude"...:-)

Submitted by thorgal on Fri, 2010-06-11 06:07.

@lokki

ah damned! Paul corrected the article without notice ;)

Submitted by Ricardus on Fri, 2010-06-11 13:50.

Very useful tool at a fair price.

Submitted by lundberg on Sat, 2010-06-12 08:33.

Too bad it can't convert Sonar files to Ardour ones. Got lot's of them on old backup CD's...

Submitted by runaway on Sun, 2010-06-13 03:33.

@lundberg: As I recall most versions of Sonar will export an OMF which AATranslator will read & convert to ardour
If you cant send me an omf then send me one of your sonar session files and I will see what I can do for you

Submitted by runaway on Mon, 2010-06-14 09:18.

A quick update:

Just added track gain automation for both import & export so testing on that should commence shortly.

Submitted by lundberg on Mon, 2010-06-14 16:53.

runaway: I'll get back to you as soon as possible! Would instantly buy this program if it could convert my sonar files...

Submitted by runaway on Fri, 2010-06-25 22:59.

Version 3.2 is now finally available

Lots of improvements across the board but mainly improved Ardour support.