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infuzion ·
I was thinking about working together to extend the Preset Manager to include the copy+paste & cascading sub-preset-managers, but to have a centralized area to store presets. This will help when you want to share presets for something with many parameters that may be often used in different VSTs, like the MSE, or an filter configuration. Added features would be helpful, like morphing etc. To be universal, there needs to be a way to ensure parameters will be the same from one VST to another.
Thing is, if I release even my drafts publicly, I'd expect others to chip in. So, more ideas? Who will chip in please?
philter5 ·
i would love to chip in but i doubt that i can help you that much.at least the preset morph function would be nice to have,as you know i allready made a preset manager with this function some years ago
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and i have a lot of newer versions on my hdd, but it did not work well when i added too many knobs to my schematics.
maybe also add a undo function (that would be very easy to add )and a well working randomize function when using many controls? 😮
i would also add some hotkey functions for:
-Create New (Empty) Preset
-Quicksaving a preset (maybe with timestamp added to the filename?)
-Prev/next preset (via vKey,CC or Note Messages)
-direct select preset via vKey,Program Change OR CC Message
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Phil
trogluddite ·
I will certainly offer what help I can.
I've already made some systems that allow copy/paste of whole presets and 'sub-sections', and they will work between different plugin instances (and even sessions). They would need some adapting, as they are rather 'tailored' to their current schematics.
The one in my MIDI 'data-bender' is probably the most advanced that I've managed so far - take a look, and see if you think if you think it might be suitable (might be quicker to get the gist from the manual than mucking around with a VST export - it all works as advertised, I promise!)
The biggest problem that I encountered is that there is no simple access to the Manager prim's contents, so there is always a lot of HDD activity and tons of complex string parsing to do if you want to extract/insert only part of a preset. The key to a good system would be to somehow do this entirely within a single preset manager module (to make use of the cool two-way 'P' wireless connectors). That is easy enough for whole presets or banks, but much harder for 'sub-sections'. So far I have only succeeded by using multiple clunky wireless links back and forth to the controls - which is very messy to just 'drop-in' to an existing design.
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