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HOW TO IMPORT ONLY PLUG IN DATA FROM ANOTHER SESSION INTO YOUR CURRENT MIX with PRO TOOLS LE

Open up a session with all your plug ins and settings in place. This will be the session you import from.

CREATE TEMPLATE FILE
1. Choose “Save as” from the file menu and label it “mix template” (With a number or whatever after it so you know what it is later)

2. Select all your audio in the audio bin (click on any audio file in the regions list and press Shift-Cmd-A to select all regions). Remove all the audio regions from the session by pressing Shift-Cmd-B. Select “Remove regions from session”

—DON’T DELETE THE REGIONS!!—

* Option click on the “remove” button and you won’t have to go through a hundred or more warnings asking if you actually want to remove regions that are used in the session.

3. Delete extra playlists (To do this, click on the title of a track and select “delete unused” click on the top title, scroll to the bottom, and then while holding down the shift key, click on the last playlist title, then select delete)

4. Once your session is completely devoid of audio regions and extra playlists but still has all your plug in settings, label all the tracks (remove numbers at the end of track titles) so that it’s really obvious what the tracks are.

5. Save the session and close it.

6. Open up the new session that you want to import on to. (It’s always wise to do a “save as” in case you want to revert back to your previous stuff too, by the way)

7. Choose import session data and import all the tracks that you want to use plug ins from. Those tracks will then come in as empty tracks with all your plug-ins still functional.
8. Drag the playlists from your current tracks onto these new ones and erase the ones they were originally on. (or make them inactive if you feel weird erasing tracks.)