[Ardour-Users] create ardour project in certain directory

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Peter Geirnaert
<peter.geirnaert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am wondering if it is possible to have the "new" project dialog box
>> default to a directory other than '~'?
>
>
> If you use an icon to click on , to start ardour, you can set the command
> assigned with that icon to ardour2 -n /path/to/yourdir/new.ardour. When you
> start ardour then, change the name of the 'new' project. (I'm not sure
> because I've no linuxbox to test it on right here. Might have to change
> something here and there.)
>
> It must be possible to write some script that asks for a new project name
> and then starts ardour with the -n option and the name you gave to the
> project.

Awesome. Thanks Peter.

One followup...

Is it possible to set the (default) template in similar fashion? (I've
checked ardour2 --help and didn't see anything.)

Thanks much!

-matt