Session File Management

Session Folders

Every session is stored on your disk as a folder. A session folder contains everything pertinent to the session: Audio files (or links to them), snapshot files, the waveform display cache, your exported mixes (unless the default location has been changed) and many other things. Deleting a session’s folder will completely remove the session and all of its recorded audio (if any).

* If you move the session folder to another location, Mixbus will no longer be able to find it, and it won’t show your session in the “Recently Opened” list. But you can navigate to the session folder and open one of the snapshots to re-add it to your history.

In the main menu “Session”, you will find several options to open a new session; or close, save and copy the currently open session.

New: Calls up the Session Setup dialog and allows a new session to be created. This will save and close any currently open session.

Open: Allows the user to open an already saved session. A navigation dialog will appear so that you can locate your session.

Recent: Contains a list of recently opened session that can be opened.

Close: Exits the current session. If any changes have been made to the session a dialog box will present a save option.

Save: Saves the current session

Save As: Saves the entire current session’s folder with a new name and/or new location

• Switch to newly-saved version: Closes the session you are currently working with and opens the new session.
• Copy media to new session: All files within the interchange folder (audiofiles, midifiles, and videofiles) will be copied to the new session/interchange folder. If this option is not checked Mixbus will refer back to the previously named session’s interchange folder.
• Copy external media into new session: Same as above but also moves any files that may be located in other directories or hard drives. See topic clean-up, sub topic real world example for similar functionality and why you may need it.
  

Rename: Renames the current session’s folder

Snapshot (& keep working on current version) …: Makes a copy of the opened session snapshot in its current state for later recall. ( See: Session Snapshots )

Snapshot (& switch to new version) …: Saves a copy of the opened session snapshot in its current state with a new name and/or location. ( See: Session Snapshots )

Save Template: Session templates are a fast way of recalling common session “layouts” such as hardware connections, plug-ins, and number of tracks. If you find your current session is a common one, you can save the it as a template (no audio will be saved).

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