all I do is store my patches in M1’s user bank, and Cantabile saves everything for me (user patches seem to be part of the plugin state)
Ah Ha! That helps. I know Forte has a BLOB it uses to keep track of VST plug-in states. It was a little less than reliable from time to time (I think Mike has it working now) and I learned not to trust it. Yes, C3 seems to remember the USER presets for M1 without resorting to the M1 ALL DATA trick. If anyone wants to read about it, it’s discussed on the KVR site here:
This WOULD be helpful if you wanted to save your patches for Reaper Cubase, etc. But within C3, it seems to remember them for M1. Much easier. But, I did learn that you can’t cut and paste patches from factory “cards” into the user data space; you have to use File/Write to get them in. Once they are in there, C3 will remember them. If you want to go outside of C3, then you have to do the ALL DATA trick. M1 doesn’t save anything to disk until you do that.